Apr 1 2013
Updated: the new commenting policy is explicitly stated above the comment box and an elaboration can be found here. The comments to this post are closed. If you have concerns or isssues with the commenting policy, please address them on the new Commeting Policy page this way the concerns and issues can be centralized in(…)
Oct 19 2012
Publishing Dealmaking: Romance On The Rise – RT had a nice summarization (and chart) that breaks down the deals reported at Publishers Marketplace. Details of interest to our crowd: Children’s sales, including Young Adult and middle grade books, have slowed considerably. While mystery stories are not selling as well as in previous years, science fiction/fantasy(…)
Oct 11 2012
Yesterday around 3-4 pm CST, Amazon engaged in some weird pricing shenanigans with several books (who knows how many) getting a 31% off treatment. Initially some on the Amazon boards thought it signaled the end of agency for Simon & Schuster but after investigating, I noticed that several Macmillan books were also 31% off. I’m(…)
Sep 25 2012
My first post in this series on free speech issues focused on the line between fully protected critical speech and less protected commercial speech, specifically in regard to paid-for positive and sockpuppeted reviews. This post is on the economic concept of free riding and its substantial but often silent impact on intellectual property issues. If(…)
Jul 25 2008
MPD Enforcer 2.0 is a blog about the Memphis Police Department and run by an anonymous blogger. The blog has been critical of the MPD, citing examples of sexual harassment and prisoners’ rights violations. The MPD would like to shut down the blog and has filed a lawsuit and subpoenaed the information from AOL. Those(…)
Jul 2 2008
Several booksellers filed suit in May to challenge the newly passed Indiana legislation that would require every store that sold “sexually explicit” material to register with the Secretary of State and pay a fee. Because the term “sexually explicit” was so broad, the US District Court hearing the case ruled that the law was “too(…)
Jul 1 2008
According to Gawker Media (who sounds like an idealist whose idol was shown to have clay feet) reports that Boing Boing, a site helmed by Cory Doctorow and others, has been removing the blog posts of Violet Blue. I haven’t found a reason. Violet Blue was engaged in a controversy for having the gall to(…)
Oct 16 2007
Source: Snuffle Guppy It has occurred to me, from my years of online inhabitation, that people love to fling about the threat of a lawsuit but never really follow through. The sad truth is that most people apparently can’t tell their ears from their eyes when demanding reparations. The most frequent accusation that I’ve seen(…)
Oct 1 2007
A Slashdot reader noticed that in section 5 of the Terms of Service agreement between AT&T and its DSL subscribers, AT&T reserves the right to terminate or suspend service if tends to damage the name or reputation of AT&T, or its parents, affiliates and subsidiaries. As Ars Technica writer Ken Fisher ruminated, it is doubtful(…)
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