Publishing News
FCC, Libraries, net neutrality, Science Fiction
GOING TO THE LIBRARY CAN MAKE YOU AS HAPPY AS A PAY RAISE, STUDY CLAIMS – According to a new study sponsored by the UK Commission for Culture, Media, and Sport, going to the library brings happiness commensurate with a… more
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Amazon, book art, dictionaries, digital publishing, Ebooks, HBO, Shakespeare, video
Shakespeare’s Dictionary? Skepticism Abounds. – Count me in on the side of the skeptics. Two booksellers buy a 1580 four-language dictionary on eBay (eBay!!) in 2008, and now claim that it’s Shakespeare’s personal dictionary. If you want to know about… more
Publishing News
Amazon, cable, canon, children's literature, digital media, gender, genre critique, Kindle, Smartphone
Note from Jane: We’ve been having a number of server issues for the past few months related to spambots. At the advice of our host, I’ve installed a simple math captcha. If you want to bypass the captcha, you can… more
Publishing News
Amazon, book list, bromance, Fantasy, Hugo Award, parody, Science Fiction, Tencent
Announcing the 2014 Hugo Award Nominees – So the Hugo Award nominees have been announced. First of all, a HUGE congratulations to The Book Smugglers, which has been nominated for Best Fanzine. So well deserved! It’s also interesting to see… more
Publishing News
Ballantine, Latin America, Literary fiction, magic realism, Mark Twain, mass market paperback, Penguin, Pocket, publishing history
Writer Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Who Gave Voice To Latin America, Dies – Gabriel Garcia Marquez, author of One Hundred Years of Solitude and Love in the Time of Cholera, winner of the Nobel Prize for literature, and innovator of the… more
Publishing News
Amazon, diversity, fandom, historical romance, privacy, publicity
The (Unintentional) Amazon Guide to Dealing Drugs – For those of you who routinely give the side eye to Amazon’s algorithms, here’s a true story that is both absurd and frightening. It seems that a pattern of purchases for a… more
Publishing News
Apple, Big 5 publishers, children's lit, Galaxy, gender, iPhone, Literary fiction, Samsung, Star Wars
Internal Apple presentation on the iPhone: ‘Consumers want what we don’t have’ – A very interesting post, based on Apple’s internal slides from the Samsung-Apple legal morass, which shows that the market spot that the iPhone controls is basically outside… more
Publishing News
Comics, dictionaries, digital journalism, Libraries, news, OED, Shakespeare
Oxford University Press Gives You Free Access to Books, Dictionaries & More During National Library Week – So while you can’t access Oxford academic journals, in honor of National Library Week, Oxford University Press is offering free access to a… more
Letters of Opinion
genre critique, Publishers, rape fantasy, tropes, warning labels
As some of you may know, Riptide author Amelia Gormley recently stirred some controversy on her blog regarding book warnings. Her dubcon f**ck or die m/m erotica (or erotic Romance, depending on your confidence in publisher tagging), Strain, is the… more
Publishing News
book-covers, class, Literary fiction, literary prizes, marriage, Pulitzer
Guardian and Washington Post win Pulitzer prize for NSA revelations – A full list of finalists and winners can be found here. While the fiction prizes are always of interest, this year the spotlight is definitely on the journalism awards,… more
Publishing News
Authors Guild, copyright, digital books, digital lending, digital publishing, Fair Use, Google, Libraries, Self-publishing
Authors Guild asks court to rule against Google – From the files of ‘give it up already,’ the Authors Guild has filed an appeal with the 2nd Circuit, obviously unhappy with Judge Chin’s dismissal of their suit against Google. The… more
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Amazon, Comics, Hewlett Packard, literary award, Literary fiction, weddings
Hewlett-Packard Admits to International Bribery and Money Laundering Schemes – Okay, let’s start with the bad news. If this were April Fools’ Day, I’d say this has got to be a joke. Sadly (or for those reading The Will, alas),… more
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antitrust, Archie, Comcast, Comics, digital books, diversity, Kobo, net neutrality, poetry, Self-publishing, Time Warner
Comic book icon Archie to ‘die heroically’ – I have to admit that this is pretty clever, although I’m guessing it’s going to make some readers feel manipulated. Although the Archie comics that continue to feature Archie, Veronica, and Betty… more
Publishing News
Amazon, children's literature, gender, Hulu, Netflix diversity, streaming media
Peter Matthiessen, Co-Founder Of The Paris Review, Dies At 86 – Peter Matthiessen died last week of acute myeloid leukemia. He may be best remembered for the writing he did in the wake of his world traveling, but Matthiessen was… more
Publishing News
digital lending, e-commerce, Libraries, sex tips, Simon and Schuster
A Growing Number of E-Commerce Sites Are Moving Into Print – I have to say that one of my guilty pleasures is the Vermont Country Store print catalogue. It’s old-fashioned goodness is so much better in print than digital —… more