Publishing News
diaries, digital books, feminism, gaming, Jennifer Weiner, print books, Steam, World War I
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The Incredible Eccentricities of 20 Great Writers – After you’ve checked out the writers who liked to write in the nude, you’ll get a kick out of this list of unusual writerly habits. From Balzac, who drank approximately 50 cups… more
Publishing News
Fifty Shades, mystery, SF, Simon & Schuster, Sylvia Day, Unbridled Books
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S&S Launching New SF Imprint, Simon451 – Senior Editor Sarah Knight is heading the new imprint, which will be digital first, even though the publisher says they will deal in both print and digital. The first books will be released… more
Publishing News
Barnes & Noble, Book-club, broadband access, FCC, Hunger Games, James-Frey, maps, medieval, net neutrality
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Appeals court strikes down FCC’s Net neutrality rules – In this long-awaited — and some say disastrous — ruling on a case filed by Verizon against the FCC, the federal appeals court has ruled that the FCC does not have… more
Publishing News
big data, fashion, Goodreads, Kickstarter, Leafmarks, Royalties, To Kill a Mockingbird
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Publishing Projects Find Success on Kickstarter – I’m not sure how I feel about this, frankly, but apparently Kickstarter has become quite the launching pad for book projects. The article provides a list of some of the standouts, but in… more
Letters of Opinion
censorship, Free Speech, Goodreads, moderation, online community
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Way back in September, I wrote a post on free speech and included a question about what everyone’s ideal online book community looked like. There were a number of interesting responses to the question, including, Liz: On the one hand,… more
Publishing News
academic publishing, Amazon, copyright, detective fiction, Japan, Newspapers, open access, poetry
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Retail in Seattle: In the Shadow of Amazon – If any book selling market seems like it would suffer because of Amazon’s presence, it’s Seattle. And yet, this article suggests that is far from the case; in fact, despite the… more
Publishing News
Book Reviews, copyright, digital publishing, First-Amendment, intellectual property, Libraries, Self-publishing
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GF Newman on self-publishing: ‘There are huge changes coming’ – Beyond the giddy optimism some traditionally published authors bring to self-publishing, I think it’s interesting to see how different authors approach the business of becoming their own publisher. GF Newman,… more
Publishing News
Ebooks, gender bias, marketing, smartphones, wattpad
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Wattpad Year in Review – 2013 – Wattpad had an impressive year. If converted to paper, they claim the totality of Wattpad stories in 2013 would weigh more than 1,000 elephants. Among the amazingness, they report that 7,544,914 pieces of… more
Publishing News
Apple, children's lit, dialect, digital book settlement, Fifty Shades, Libraries, YA
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Is Apple’s E-Book Fight Worth the Trouble? – Apple, Apple, Apple. A succinct summary of the various ways in which Apple has stalled, obstructed, resisted, and otherwise refused to cooperate with the Justice Department investigation and the price fixing suit…. more
Publishing News
Bookish, China, Comics, Cookstr, detective fiction, Macmillan, Marvel, Zola
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Marvel to Publish ‘Star Wars’ Comics in 2015 – Marvel Comics, which released the first Star Wars comic book in 1977, has received the rights back to publish comic books and graphic novels for the franchise. What I think is… more
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book reviewing, digital publishing, kensington, Literary Criticism, Lyrical Press, Movies, top ten list, Yumi Sakugawa
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Comic Artist Yumi Sakugawa On Friend-Love, Identity And Art – Although not publishing news, per se, this is a really lovely interview with Yumi Sakugawa, whose work investigates, among other things, the kinds of relationships we have with people who… more
Publishing News
Barnes & Noble, digital publishing, Galaxy Note, Goodreads, handcrafted books, iPad, Kindle Fire
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Interview: Lucy Lethbridge, Author Of ‘Servants’ – For those who found the article yesterday on below-stairs servants interesting, here is an interview with Lucy Lethbridge, whose new book looks to be interesting and informative. “I read a lot of butlers’… more
Publishing News
Alice in Wonderland, Authors Guild, best of list, body image, Ebooks, films, Google, HathiTrust, Longbourn, Pride-and-Prejudice, Virginia Woolf
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Authors Guild Appeals Google Decision – The Authors Guild provided notice that it is appealing Judge Chin’s dismissal of the Guild’s suit against Google. They did not file a brief, but their notice was filed in the Second Circuit, where the Author’s… more
Publishing News
Baidu, crossword puzzle, Marvel Comics, reader feedback, Walter Isaacson
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Google doodles a crossword puzzle for 100th anniversary – So apparently the crossword puzzle made the century mark on December 20th, and Google created an interactive crossword puzzle to celebrate (there’s a link in the post). Publisher’s Weekly has a… more
Letters of Opinion
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As some of you already know, I lost my mom several weeks ago – suddenly and unexpectedly – right around the time of my last opinion post at Dear Author, Isn’t It Romantic?. I’m not telling you this for sympathy… more