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June 12, 2015

Friday News: Nebula Awards, EU investigates Amazon, YouTube authors, and James McBride on To Kill A Mockingbird

JanetPublishing NewsAmazon / American literature / anti-trust / book deals / EU / Harper Lee / James McBride / literary awards / Race / SFF / SFWA / YouTube7 Comments

Female Sci-Fi Writers Nearly Sweep the 2015 Nebula Awards – When the Irene Gallo story hit, there was some speculation that a certain individual who has been banned from SFWA may have orchestrated the hoopla to distract from the Nebula Awards, which were announced Tuesday night. Considering the Gallo post ... more >

February 4, 2015

Wednesday News: new Harper Lee novel, SFWA accepts self-pub & small press members, ALA Youth Media Awards, and double standards for female authors

JanetPublishing NewsCaldecott Medal / children's lit / gender / Harper Collins / Harper Lee / literature / Newbery Medal / Self-publishing / sexism / SFWA / small press publishing9 Comments

Harper Lee, Author of ‘To Kill a Mockingbird,’ Is to Publish a Second Novel – News of the upcoming Harper Lee release burned through the internet yesterday, announced as it was via Lee’s lawyer and literary agent, complete with prepared quote about how happy Lee was to have this book ... more >

November 21, 2009

Saturday Midday Links Roundup: Writers Organizations Mad at Harlequin

JaneFeatures / Publishing NewsAmazon / best of list / book business / Conventions / Ebooks / SFWA / shortcovers / Smashwords158 Comments

TBIResearch believes that Amazon is losing quite a bit of money on the ebook market as it tries to drive down prices of books. Publishers are trying hard to maintain a higher price, but researchers and retailers believe that consumers will not pay a high price for ebooks. The good ... more >

November 30, 2007

SFWA Comes Under Fire Again for Its “Talks Like a Duck” New Committee

JanePublishing NewsSFWA2 Comments

Science Fiction Writers Association came under scrutiny when its e-piracy committee chair, Andrew Burt, undertook to issue thousands of copyright violation notices. When others stepped forward to take Burt to task, the e-piracy committee was disbanded and a new interim committee was formed to determine what would take its place. ... more >

September 4, 2007

Science Fiction Writer’s Association Dissolves Anti E Piracy Committee

JanePublishing Newsdmca / piracy / Science-Fiction-Romance / SFWA6 Comments

Science Fiction Writer’s Association Dissolves Anti E Piracy Committee If you aren’t a member of the SFWA or a regular reader of that community, you might have missed out on an important development that took place over the last week. The SFWA sent out take down notices under the auspices ... more >

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