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June 5, 2015

Friday News: Violence against women in GoT, digitizing backlists, 19th C literary reviews, and book trailers

JanetPublishing News19th C / Authors Guild / backlists / book trailers / digital publishing / Fantasy / Game of Thrones / gender roles / History / literary reviews / Open Road / violence against women20 Comments

George R.R. Martin explains why there’s violence against women on Game of Thrones – In which George R.R. Martin uses the history excuse to explain the violence against women in his work. Because even though he writes about dragons, which are clearly fantasy, he sticks to “history” when it comes ... more >

January 12, 2015

Monday News: limits of anonymity on Twitter, Hathi Trust case finally over, YA author on diversity, and Victorian book covers

JanetPublishing News19th C / anonymity / Authors Guild / book-covers / copyright / defamation / diversity / Free Speech / Hathi Trust / Justina Ireland / Twitter / Young-Adult8 Comments

Court orders Twitter to identify anonymous users – When some Twitter users alleged that a corporation encouraged domestic violence, claiming the CEO paid for sex, the corporation sued, with the expected subpoena served on Twitter to reveal the identities of the defendants. This is a difficult situation, because there are ... more >

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