E-Books Spark Battle inside the Publishing Industry
Zinc Blinked
https://www.sfwa.org/2010/01/31/why-my-books-are-no-longer-available-on-amazon-com/
The End of the World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)
Publish or Perish
Charlie's Diary: Why the Commercial Ebook Market Is Broken
Priced to Sell
Going Rogue, Now Unavailable on Kindle: The Publishing Conspiracy That’s Blocking an Electronic Version of Palin’s Memoir
https://www.amazon.com/Homer-Langley-Novel-E-L-Doctorow/dp/B006G8670M/
https://www.amazon.com/Good-Plenty-Creative-Successes-American/dp/0691146268/
The Creativity Post
Collectors Who Spend Thousands on Artist's Ideas
Woman Pays $10,000 For 'Non-Visible' Work Of Art
https://web.archive.org/web/20121120040212/http://www.onehundredjobs.ca/2011/06/rise-of-social-media-art.html
File Sharing and Copyright
File-Sharing Has Weakened Copyright-And Helped Society: After Making Waves With a Famous P2P Paper in 2007, Academics Felix Oberholzer...
Human Accomplishment
https://oll.libertyfund.org/titles/hume-essays-moral-political-literary-lf-ed#383--27--89795__383--72--89840
Designing Organizations for an Information-Rich World
One in Four Read No Books Last Year
The Sad, Beautiful Fact That We'Re All Going To Miss Almost Everything
The Year of Reading Differently
The Melancholy of Subculture Society
Fantasy and Reality: Substitutes or Complements?
https://www.amazon.com/Video-Learning-Literacy-Second-Edition/dp/1403984530/
Formal Theory of Creativity & Fun & Intrinsic Motivation (1990–2010)
https://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/18/opinion/sunday/the-neuroscience-of-your-brain-on-fiction.html
https://hal.science/file/index/docid/363128/filename/Article_JOCN.pdf
The Neural Bases of Social Cognition and Story Comprehension
Bookworms versus Nerds: Exposure to Fiction versus Non-Fiction, Divergent Associations With Social Ability, and the Simulation of Fictional Social Worlds
Exploring the Link between Reading Fiction and Empathy: Ruling out Individual Differences and Examining Outcomes
The Function of Fiction Is the Abstraction and Simulation of Social Experience
Exposure to Media and Theory-Of-Mind Development in Preschoolers
Title: Reading Fiction Improves Theory of Mind and Reduces Intergroup Bias
Does Reading a Single Passage of Literary Fiction Really Improve Theory of Mind? An Attempt at Replication
Dual n-Back FAQ
Why Fiction Lies
https://www.overcomingbias.com/p/new-data-on-fictionhtml
Hierarchy in the library: Egalitarian dynamics in Victorian novels
The Effects of Education, Personality, and IQ on Earnings of High-Ability Men
Interview With Robert Ghrist
IMDb Top 250 Movies
https://web.archive.org/web/20161222124411/https://www.nytimes.com/ref/movies/1000best.html
https://www.imdb.com/year/
Press Room
2008-imdb-moviesbygenrebyyear.txt
Observations on Film Art : Pandora’s Digital Box: Pix and Pixels
The Reversal Test: Eliminating Status Quo Bias in Applied Ethics
Weird and Wonderful Movies That You'Ll Never Get to See
https://www.amazon.com/Graphs-Maps-Trees-Abstract-Literary/dp/1844671852/
Watching TV Makes You Smarter
Your Attention Is Cheap: $2.50/per Hour
https://www.amazon.com/The-Seven-League-Crutches-Randall-Jarrell/dp/B000OKLJNI/
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2011/06/20/poetry-magazine-well-versed-in-criticism-2/
Vast Bookstore Opens As Famed Library Runs out of Space
https://web.archive.org/web/20190130210352/http://www.bowkerinfo.com/pubtrack/AnnualBookProduction2010/ISBN_Output_2002-2010.pdf
https://web.archive.org/web/20110716073604/http://www.bowker.com/index.php/press-releases/633-print-isnt-dead-says-bowkers-annual-book-production-report
Inside Google Books: Books of the World, Stand up and Be Counted! All 129,864,880 of You.
The Shape of Things - Hey, Answerman
The Transcript of a Donald Knuth Interview in 2006
Great Scott! Over 35 Hours of Video Uploaded Every Minute to YouTube
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2006-07-02/the-myth-of-creativity
Essays of Schopenhauer, by Arthur Schopenhauer
Bad Poets
https://www.amazon.com/Poetry-Age-Randall-Jarrell/dp/0813021081/
https://web.archive.org/web/20121204074732/https://www.wired.com/entertainment/hollywood/news/2008/01/sleep_dealer
The Sword of Achilles
https://web.archive.org/web/20180312104812/http://worldpolicy.org/2011/09/27/innovation-starvation/
https://web.archive.org/web/20110825175035/https://www.wired.com/beyond_the_beyond/2011/08/design-fiction-nasa-inspired-works-of-fiction/
‘NASA-Inspired Works of Fiction’: the Masses Speak!
This Doesn‘t Have to Be the World You Live In. Neil Gaiman on 'Why Fiction Is Dangerous’
William Gibson, The Art of Fiction No. 211; Interviewed by David Wallace-Wells
Fable of The Born-Blind-People
Biases of Science Fiction
https://www.overcomingbias.com/p/what-insight-lihtml
Disagreement Is Near-Far Bias
Beware Detached Detail
BSG Is Detached Detail
https://www.overcomingbias.com/p/against-propagandahtml
Science Fiction As Foresight
https://www.amazon.com/Crisis-Zefra-Karl-Schroeder/dp/0662406435/
Value-Affirmative and Value-Protective Processing of Alcohol Education Messages That Include Statistical Evidence or Anecdotes
2010-lee.pdf
Do We Believe Everything We'Re Told?
Reality Is Unrealistic
The Sword of Good
J. R. R. Tolkien—Enemy of Progress: The Lord of the Rings Is Lovingly Crafted, Seductive—And Profoundly Backward-Looking. Why Not Look at Things through the Dark Lord’s Eye for a Change?
Star Wars on Trial
Unbelieving the Unbelievable: Some Problems in the Rejection of False Information
You Can't Not Believe Everything You Read
2005-hasson.pdf
You don’t have to believe everything you read: Background knowledge permits fast and efficient validation of information
Consumers’ Beliefs about Product Benefits: The Effect of Obviously Irrelevant Product Information
Incorporating the irrelevant: Anchors in judgments of belief and value
Nonconscious and Contaminative Effects of Hypothetical Questions on Subsequent Decision Making
2013-laham.pdf
Experimental Evidence of Massive-Scale Emotional Contagion through Social Networks
Priming and Contamination
When Dreaming Is Believing: The (Motivated) Interpretation of Dreams
The Role of Transportation in the Persuasiveness of Public Narratives
Fictional Narratives Cultivate Just-World Beliefs
Does Narrative Information Bias Individual’s Decision Making? A Systematic Review
The Effects of Television Consumption on Social Perceptions: The Use of Priming Procedures to Investigate Psychological Processes
The Role of Television in the Construction of Consumer Reality
Jcom_17 235..252
Parasocial Break-Up from Favorite Television Characters: The Role of Attachment Styles and Relationship Intensity
Love Makes You Real: Favorite Television Characters Are Perceived as ‘Real’ in a Social Facilitation Paradigm
World Leaders As Movie Characters? Perceptions of George W. Bush, Tony Blair, Osama Bin Laden, and Saddam Hussein
Batman to the Rescue! The Protective Effects of Parasocial Relationships With Muscular Superheroes on Men’s Body Image
The Skinny on Celebrities: Parasocial Relationships Moderate the Effects of Thin Media Figures on Women’s Body Image
Social Surrogacy: How Favored Television Programs Provide the Experience of Belonging
Watching Alone: Relational Goods, Television and Happiness
https://edoc.unibas.ch/12113/2/20180226134529_5a9401696917e.pdf
Television Viewing, Satisfaction and Happiness: Facts and Fiction
Soap Operas and Fertility: Evidence from Brazil
2014-kearney.pdf
Changing Beliefs and Behavior Through Experience-Taking
https://uberty.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Norbert_Wiener_Cybernetics.pdf
The Logical Fallacy of Generalization from Fictional Evidence
St. Athanasius:The Incarnation of the Word of God.
1935-eliot.pdf
https://web.archive.org/web/20111130183707/https://mangans.blogspot.com/2009/07/scientific-impact-of-nations.html
https://people.cs.umass.edu/~wallach/workshops/nips2010css/papers/ramage.pdf
ProQuest
Why Most Published Research Findings Are False
https://www.unqualified-reservations.org/2007/08/whats-wrong-with-cs-research/
The Rise and Fall of Uncitedness
Gridlock In The Labs
Literary Research: Costs and Impact
https://www.chronicle.com/article/the-research-bust/
2005-vandalen.pdf
How Popular is Your Paper? An Empirical Study of the Citation Distribution
https://repub.eur.nl/pub/6875/2001-0221.pdf
On the Behavior of Journal Impact Factor Rank-Order Distribution
College Costs Are Rising Amid a Prestige Chase
Lost in Publication: How Measurement Harms Science
https://www.chronicle.com/article/we-must-stop-the-avalanche-of-low-quality-research/
http://www.emeraldinsight.com/journals.htm?articleid=1796008&show=abstract
https://blogs.library.duke.edu/scholcomm/files/2012/09/Berstein-report-on-Elsevier.pdf
University Presses: Balancing Academic and Market Values
Reflections on University Press Publishing
http://alex-reid.net/
http://www.alex-reid.net/2011/03/on-the-value-of-academic-blogging.html
What If Culture Froze and Had to Be Recycled?
https://greatpenformances.com/2009/01/05/1959-bestselling-novels/
The Score: The End of Music
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/8347178.stm
Quantitative Patterns of Stylistic Influence in the Evolution of Literature
Bill James, Solid Fool's Gold: Why Can We Develop Athletes and Not Writers?
https://www.amazon.com/Solid-Fools-Gold-Detours-Conventional/dp/0879464593/
Urban Dictionary: Snape Killed Dumbledore
Aeris Dies
https://www.csus.edu/indiv/m/merlinos/pdf/psychological%20science-2011-leavitt-1152-4.pdf
Spoiler Alert: Consequences of Narrative Spoilers for Dimensions of Enjoyment, Appreciation, and Transportation
Why does attention to web articles fall with time?
When Do We Stop Being Interested in New Things? What Can This Teach Us about Happiness?
The Temporal and Focal Dynamics of Volitional Reconsumption: A Phenomenological Investigation of Repeated Hedonic Experiences
https://web.archive.org/web/20140701183048/http://experimentalphilosophy.typepad.com/experimental_philosophy/2011/10/mere-exposure-to-bad-art-experiment-results.html
The Sizzling Sound of Music
Some New Evidence That Generation Y May Prefer Accurate Sound Reproduction
Observations on Film Art : Pandora’s Digital Box: From Films to Files
Overview of the Edison Diamond Discs Recordings by Genre (1912–1929)
Marketing Actions Can Modulate Neural Representations of Experienced Pleasantness
https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/human-neuroscience/articles/10.3389/fnhum.2011.00134/full
How Does the Brain Perceive Art?
https://www.princeton.edu/~mjs3/salganik_dodds_watts06_full.pdf
Web-Based Experiments for the Study of Collective Social Dynamics in Cultural Markets
Leading the Herd Astray: An Experimental Study of Self-Fulfilling Prophecies in an Artificial Cultural Market
https://web.archive.org/web/20090619081956/https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2009/06/16/ethics
A neural predictor of cultural popularity
Discourse on the Method/Part 2
E Unibus Pluram: Television and U.S. Fiction
Culture Is Not about Aesthetics. Punk Rock Is Now Enforced by Law
The Art of Literature/On Authorship
Connoisseur
Crazy Straws
Reading Every Book
Every Noise at Once
From Charred Death to Deep Filthstep: the 1,264 Genres That Make Modern Music
Why Read New Books?
A Story With Zombies
Three Thousand Reasons to Choose Your Reading Carefully Fiction
The Creative Apocalypse That Wasn’t
A Storm Of Stories
Why Is Art Expensive?
[Transcript] Tyler Cowen on Stories
Let’s Ditch the Dangerous Idea That Life Is a Story
Net Wisdom
The Secret of Taste: Why We like What We Like
The Slaughterhouse of Literature
http://www.denisdutton.com/universals.htm
America’s Cultural Offensive throughout the World (1955)
Too Much Music: A Failed Experiment In Dedicated Listening
Here Are the Biggest Fiction Bestsellers of the Last 100 Years
Avoid News: Towards a Healthy News Diet
https://spectrum.ieee.org/the-lost-picture-show-hollywood-archivists-cant-outpace-obsolescence
The universal decay of collective memory and attention
Why Most Narrative History Is Wrong
Strike With the Band
Why We Fight Over Fiction
Is Old Music Killing New Music?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8611544
https://www.reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex/comments/5f91ms/culture_is_not_about_esthetics_gwern/
Against Gwern On Stories
Hotel Concierge
The Last Psychiatrist: Are Chinese Mothers Superior To American Mothers?
The Last Psychiatrist
Why Is It So Hard for New Musical Instruments to Catch On?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3309192
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3309370
Full Disclaimer: I'M a Sophomore at Yale, My Adviser Last Year Was an Admissions...
https://web.archive.org/web/20110218181233/http://www.willwilkinson.net/flybottle/2011/01/20/amy-chua/
Will Wilkinson
http://tigersophia.blogspot.com/2011/04/q-elves-dirtand-michelangelo.html
Ask a Korean!: Confucianism and Korea - Part V: What Can Confucianism Do For America?
Sticker Shock over Shell Shock
Agony and Ecstasy
For Some Troops, Powerful Drug Cocktails Have Deadly Results
More Troops Lost to Suicide
https://www.rand.org/commentary/2011/05/29/ND.html
The War Within: Preventing Suicide in the U.S. Military
The Second Least Glamorous Job in Showbiz
Yuja Wang and Kirill Gerstein Lead a New Piano Generation
https://web.archive.org/web/20120122034345/http://www.animenews.biz/unofficial-higurashi-doujin-opera-in-japan-on-march-13th-3824/
https://higurashiopera.web.fc2.com/
https://web.archive.org/web/20150211224758/http://m.tsurupeta.info/content/higurashi-douijn-opera
Higurashi Doujin Opera—Club Activities Scene
Category:Music
https://web.archive.org/web/20200211051856/http://cardcaptor.moekaku.com/?p=112
https://web.archive.org/web/20200211051856/http://cardcaptor.moekaku.com/?p=112#touhou-popularity-in-nico-nico-douga
Crowning Music
https://www.nyaa.eu/?page=torrentinfo&tid=255825
https://www.reddit.com/r/TOUHOUMUSIC/search?q=author%3A%27gwern%27&restrict_sr=on
http://www.circle-wave.net/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xhDNC12hWKc
https://www.amazon.com/The-Cultural-Cold-War-Letters/dp/1565846648
https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/collection/doctor-zhivago
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0307908003/
During Cold War, CIA Used Doctor Zhivago As a Tool to Undermine Soviet Union
Essays on Political Economy/That Which Is Seen, and That Which Is Not Seen
https://www.amazon.com/The-Dream-Deal-Federal-1935-1943/dp/0815604157/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1360809031&sr=8-1&keywords=The+Dream+and+the+Deal%3A+The+Federal+Writer%27s+Project
https://www.amazon.com/American-Foundations-An-Investigative-History/dp/0262541416/
https://www.amazon.com/Nonprofit-Sector-France-Johns-Hopkins/dp/0719049032/
https://shs.hal.science/halshs-00118626/document
1985-clotfelter.pdf
https://www.amazon.com/Muses-Markets-Explorations-Economics-Arts/dp/0631148825/
https://www.amazon.com/Whos-Pay-Arts-International-Research/dp/091540074X/
https://nces.ed.gov/pubs2005/2005356.pdf
https://www.amazon.com/Landscape-Figures-History-Dealing-United/dp/019513673X/
https://www.amazon.com/Rise-Arts-American-Campus-Morrison/dp/0070100551/
https://www.amazon.com/Casanova-Was-Book-Lover-Provocative/dp/0807125547/
Arts Groups And Artists Find Angels: Universities
https://www.amazon.com/Shaping-American-Higher-Education-Contemporary/dp/0470480068/
https://www.amazon.com/Higher-Learning-America-1980-2000-Arthur/dp/080184861X/
https://www.amazon.com/What-Government-Can-Inequality-Political/dp/0226644820/
https://www.amazon.com/Challenges-Research-Universities-Wesley-Cohen/dp/0815715099/
Smithsonian Institution
The Organization
http://jfk.hood.edu/Collection/Weisberg%20Subject%20Index%20Files/C%20Disk/CIA%20Reporters%20New%20York%20Times%20Series%2012-25-77/Item%2007.pdf
https://newcriterion.com/issues/1990/1/what-was-the-congress-for-cultural-freedom
Modern Art Was CIA 'Weapon'
Exclusive: The Paris Review, the Cold War and the CIA
Finding the Time Classics
https://www.amazon.com/Riding-the-Bullet-ebook/dp/B000FC0TGS/
Learning to E-Read