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November 13, 2015

Friday News: Reader assault case update, World Fantasy Award, Snowden on privacy, and Disney princess mashups

JanetPublishing Newsassault / Author Issues / Disney / mashups / online security / privacy / Reviewing3 Comments

British Writer Tracks Down Teen Who Gave His Book a Bad Review, Smashes Her With Wine Bottle – You may remember this 2014 case – a teenage reader-reviewer named Paige Rolland gave Richard Brittain’s self-published book, The World Rose, a negative review, enraging Brittain enough to track her down and assault ... more >

May 21, 2012

Monday Midday Links: IPDF proposes ‘Light Weight DRM’; Self Pub author meltdown

JaneBook ReviewsAmazon / Author Issues / digital lending / digital rights management / plagiarism / Waterstones15 Comments

Giveaways (not taking place here) The editor, Harrison Demchick, of The Sinful Life of Lucy Burns (a recommended read by Robin aka Janet) and The Understory written by Elizabeth Leiknes, wrote us to let us know about a giveaway the publishing house is running to celebrate the release of The Understory. ... more >

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November 7, 2011

Monday Midday Links: New Nook Tablet

JanePublishing NewsAmazon / Author Issues / Barnes & Noble / digital lending / Kindle / Overdrive31 Comments

Barnes and Noble held its press conference today to announce the new Nook tablet and price reductions for the Nook Color and Nook Touch WiFi.  The details were actually leaked last week but there are a few new details.  Physically, it looks exactly the same as a NookColor.  For the ... more >

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September 12, 2011

Monday Midday News: Unhappy Author Goes Viral

JanePublishing NewsAmazon / Author Issues / digital lending / J.D. Robb / publishing business22 Comments

I didn’t intend to post this link but I had multiple send this to my inbox and tweet the link to me.   As a result of this post is that the author’s name and books are viral. It’s a smart marketing strategy for her self published books but probably places ... more >

August 3, 2009

As a Reader Are You Bothered by Authors Speaking Out About their Publishers

JaneFeatures / PollAuthor Issues / Author Reader Relationship55 Comments

A few years back, Anne Stuart publicly voiced her concern that she wasn’t getting sufficient publishing support from Harlequin. She took an enormous amount of flack for this.   Recently, Susan Andersen stated in her newsletter to readers that her trilogy would not be finished due to decisions made by the ... more >

June 29, 2009

Daily Links Round Up: Authors Losing Their Shit & FREE Kindle Books

JanePublishing NewsAmazon / Author Issues / Barnes & Noble / Kindle6 Comments

Authors Alice Hoffman and Alain de Botton compete for author douchebag of the day. Hoffman tweets the phone number and email address of the awful reviewer and de Botton essentially curses the career of the NYTBR critic. See more here. In better news, publishers are just giving away the farm ... more >

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