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February 14, 2018

Wednesday News: Married Love, reading more, Shakespeare’s sources, and V-Day audiobook giveaway

JanetPublishing Newsaudiobooks / giveaway / historical sources / Marie Stope / sex and marriage / Shakespeare5 Comments

What can we learn from Marie Stopes’s 1918 book Married Love? – Rafia Zakaria discusses Stopes’s book, which was published in the era of the First World War – a year before The Sheik – and tackled the issue of sex in marriage. Like much Romance fiction, past and present, Stopes ... more >

June 2, 2017

Friday News: Wonder Woman, Vellum, audiobook covers, and paper animals

JanetPublishing Newsaudiobooks / book-covers / Ebooks / gender and film / Vellum / Wonder Woman2 Comments

The Complex Gender Politics of the ‘Wonder Woman’ Movie – The title of this article might be better represented as “the complex gender politics of commentary on the ‘Wonder Woman’ movie,” because it gets tripped up by some of the same pitfalls it tries to point out. For example, the piece ... more >

March 13, 2017

Monday News: Indie audiobooks, kids’ subscription services, Harlem Hellfighters, and book art

JanetPublishing Newsaudiobooks / book art / DRM / graphic novels / History / kid lit / subscription servicesComments Off on Monday News: Indie audiobooks, kids’ subscription services, Harlem Hellfighters, and book art

Libro.fm Launches Audiobook Subscriptions – Libro.fm is now offering a DRM-free audiobook subscription service for the same price as Audible’s Gold level ($15 a month). With more than 70,000 books and the possibility of listening on iOS and Android, let’s hope we see a viable alternative to the current DRM-ed audio monopoly. ... more >

November 18, 2016

Friday News: A place for audio, Apple’s $300 design book, women’s writing in Brazil, best webcomics

JanetPublishing NewsApple / audiobooks / Brazil / Literary Criticism / webcomics / women's writing5 Comments

IS AUDIO REALLY THE FUTURE OF THE BOOK? – Although we’ve talked a lot about the increasing popularity of audiobooks, this essay from Rebecca Rego Barry on the history and reception of aural reading reveals the difficult path to widespread respectability the audiobook has taken. Matthew Rubery has written a book, The Untold Story ... more >

August 1, 2016

Monday News: End(?) of Harry Potter, listening v. reading, and the OMG history of home pregnancy tests

JanetPublishing Newsaudiobooks / birth control / Harry-Potter / J.K. Rowling / pregnancy tests4 Comments

J.K. Rowling Says Harry Potter’s Story Is Done With The Release Of ‘Cursed Child’ – Although I don’t follow this franchise very closely, I seem to remember Rowling declaring the end of Potter before Harry Potter and the Cursed Child. But apparently now it’s really done. Whatever that means. After, you know, all ... more >

March 4, 2016

Friday News: Audio on the rise, Perseus + Ingram, and “toward a radical politics of pleasure”

JanetPublishing Newsaudiobooks / consent / distribution / Ebooks / female pleasure / Hachette / Ingram / Perseus / publishingComments Off on Friday News: Audio on the rise, Perseus + Ingram, and “toward a radical politics of pleasure”

Book sales are in decline but audio books are thriving – More on the rise of print, not just in the US, but in the UK, too, with a side of ‘print is more expensive = good’, and ‘ebooks are “cheaper” = bad’ for publishing. *sigh* Anyway, we know that audio ... more >

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