August 12, 2016

Friday News: Streaming Star Trek, Australia’s census woes, diversity in book marketing, and cool photo of Valentijn De Hingh

JanetPublishing NewsAustralia / book marketing / cybersecurity / diversity / LGBTQ rights / on-demand viewing / online census / Star Trek2 Comments

Hey, Sailor, Wanna See the New Star Trek? CBS All Access Has Your Ticket. – While CBS has always drawn viewers to their paid online Big Brother live feeds, the network’s “All Access” service is now more of a Netflix-style service, limited, of course, to CBS shows, past and present. For about ... more >

August 11, 2016

Thursday News: pinning down science, how people write, literal puzzle book, and viral male mentorship video

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Publisher Tweaks ‘Gene’ Book After New Yorker Article Uproar – An excerpt in the New Yorker of the new book by Columbia University’s Siddhartha Mukherjee raised some controversy among other scientists. So Scribner, the book’s publisher, had Mukherjee edit the book to “clarify” some of the issues around epigenetics, the aspect of the book that ... more >

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Gawker, Daily Mail in ‘Final Stages’ of Settling Defamation Suit – Although I’ve never been the biggest Gawker fan, there are some chilling lessons in its current situation, especially in the fact that one person – Paypal co-founder and CEO Peter Thiel – funded the $140 million Hulk Hogan suit against ... more >

August 9, 2016

Tuesday News: Wal-Mart buys Jet.com, Women in Translation month, WTF NBC, and book/staircase

JanetPublishing NewsAmazon / bookstores / Jet.com / NBC / Olympics / sexism / Wal-mart / women in translation month13 Comments

Wal-Mart to Acquire Jet.com for $3.3 Billion in Cash, Stock – In the largest acquisition of a US-based e-commerce startup, Wal-Mart is purchasing Jet.com with the hope of competing more effectively with Amazon. It is unclear how this deal will affect Walmart’s book inventory and sales, if at all. There are also questions ... more >

August 8, 2016

Monday News: Google & bad marketing, what free speech?, comic book films, and mid-air wedding

JanetPublishing Newsbloggers / comic book movies / Free Speech / Google / marketing / proposal / wedding5 Comments

How Google Analytics ruined marketing – Even if you aren’t in the business of marketing a product, Samuel Scott’s article on how Google Analytics changed marketing is worth a read. Not only does Scott argue that Google shifted the landscape to favor online rather than offline marketing, but he also claims ... more >

August 5, 2016

Friday News: Publishing post-Brexit, making book trailers, dangerous reading, and the history of exhaustion

JanetPublishing Newsbook trailers / Brexit / cultural history / exhaustion / law / publishing / surveillanceNo Comments

Publishers ‘committed’ to investment following Brexit – Along with a sense of chagrin, there is still a lot of uncertainty around the likely consequences of Brexit, but at this point publishers foresee the opportunity of more and cheaper exports, but are also concerned about the impact of Brexit on academic publishing ... more >