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February 8, 2017

Wednesday News: Crowdsourced books, bad apps, domestic inventions, and the ‘crazy ex-girlfriend’

JanetPublishing NewsAfrican American history / apps / Crazy Ex-Girldfriend / crowdsourcing / inventors / Rachel Bloom / Self-publishing3 Comments

Kickstarter Hits $100 Million Mark for Publishing, Adds New Countries, New Tools in 2016 – Like much of self/independent publishing, crowdsourced publishing has been robustly growing, with $100 million in fundraising since 2009. Did you know that Kickstarter even has a director of publishing? Margot Atwell believes that Kickstarter has a ... more >

February 3, 2017

Friday News: Frederick Douglass, outdating iOS apps, the beauty of self-confidence

JanetPublishing Newsapps / Black History Month / Frederick Douglass / gender / History / iOS / photography / Race2 Comments

How Frederick Douglass Harnessed the Power of Portraiture to Reframe Blackness in America – If you’ve missed some of our latest national embarrassments, check out The Root‘s coverage of the Trump -Frederick Douglass snafu before reading the above essay on Douglass and 19th C U.S. portraiture. At least it’s an opportunity to ... more >

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December 7, 2015

Monday News: Haruki Murakami’s library records published, Barnes & Noble expands, Wally Lamb book as app, and Traits of Classic Romance Novels

JanetPublishing Newsapps / Barnes & Noble / digital publishing / Haruki Murakami / infographics / Libraries / privacy / Wally Lamb10 Comments

Novelist Haruki Murakami’s privacy violated by publication of library details – Apparently some old books at Murakami’s Kobe high school library were being discarded, and the cards showing the check-out records were discovered by someone going through the books. The cards were then shared with a local newspaper, which photographed and ... more >

November 20, 2015

Friday News: National Book Awards, YouTube’s Fair Use advocacy, marketing apps, and Twitter’s TV hopefuls

JanetPublishing Newsapps / copyright / Fair Use / Google / legal defense / literary awards / marketing / National Book Awards / software / television / Twitter / YouTubeComments Off on Friday News: National Book Awards, YouTube’s Fair Use advocacy, marketing apps, and Twitter’s TV hopefuls

Ta-Nehisi Coates Wins National Book Award – The least surprising, but nevertheless moving, win of the night was Ta-Nehisi Coates for his non-fiction work, Between the World and Me. Adam Johnson won the award for Fiction, Neal Shusterman for Young People’s Literature, Robin Coste Lewis for Poetry, James Patterson won the Literarian Award, and Don DeLillo won ... more >

February 15, 2015

Pushbullet

IAM JSONEssaysapps / automagical / Pushbullet / Tech Sunday4 Comments

The Beauty of the Automagical I once worked for a CIO who liked to call certain things “Automagical.” Obviously not original, but his point, really, was that software should strive to feel to the end-user as if it happens by magic. It just works.. You don’t want users complaining about ... more >

August 17, 2014

A Few of My Favorite Apps

IAM JSONEssaysapps / Tech Sunday27 Comments

In this post, I’m sharing apps I use and like. I’ll even list apps I got all excited about and then …. :::crickets::: Because–and tell me if this happens to you–there are apps that sound like they will change your life from awesomeness, and then you get it and even ... more >

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