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August 27, 2015

Thursday News: Hugo Awards online, Barnes & Noble v. homeless readers(?), Romance Writers of Australia conference, and suing illegal downloaders

JanetPublishing NewsBarnes & Noble / class / Hugo Awards / literacy / piracy / poverty / reading / Romance Writers of Australia / SFF / writer's conferences14 Comments

2015 Hugo Awards Ceremony – Missed the Hugo Awards ceremony? You can catch it (in four parts) on Livestream. I hear that Laura Mixon’s acceptance speech for Best Fan Writer was particularly moving. –Livestream Viewpoint: Changes at Barnes & Noble may indicate a privilege problem – Nick Norton of Wayne State ... more >

Neuromancer by William Gibson
December 5, 2014

Friday News: Pew’s Web IQ quiz and report, Barnes & Noble divorces Microsoft, Slate’s best books, and William Gibson reads Neuromancer

JanetPublishing Newsaudiobooks / Barnes & Noble / Female Authors / Internet / Nook / research / Science Fiction / technology / top ten list19 Comments

What Internet Users Know about Technology and the Web – A very interesting Web IQ of Americans report from Pew Internet, which includes a quiz to test your own Web IQ. The results from the report sample suggest that while the majority of respondents could identify terms associated with daily ... more >

September 18, 2014

Thursday News: B&N disses desktop downloads, new Kindles to ponder, breakthrough digital textbook for visually impaired students, and interview with Alison Bechdel

JanetPublishing NewsAmazon / Barnes & Noble / cartoons / digital books / disability / feminism / gender / graphic memoir / Kindle Fire / Kindle Voyager / Nook / sexuality / textbooks76 Comments

B&N Ends Desktop Downloading – In a stealth move and without notifying its existing customer base, BN has removed the ability for readers to download Nook purchases to their desktops. Readers who complained were told that they could download the book to via a Nook App or a Nook Device ... more >

September 10, 2014

Wednesday News: Apple announces new products, Barnes & Noble loses less money this quarter, Man Booker Prize is now multinational, and victim blaming Janay Rice

JanetPublishing NewsApple / Apple Watch / Barnes & Noble / Booker Prize / diversity / domestic violence / iPhone / literary prizes / NFL / Race16 Comments

Apple Watch, iPhone 6, and More: The Apple Announcement from A to Z – So the dreamers were correct – Apple did, indeed, introduce three new products, including two new iPhones and the much anticipated Apple Watch, which holds absolutely no appeal for me (yet), but will at least stop ... more >

August 8, 2014

Friday News: Google + BN v. Amazon; Plagiarism (Again!); Randy Queen v. Escher Girls; 18th C novel titles

JanetPublishing News18th C fiction / Amazon / Art / Barnes & Noble / book title / copyright / delivery / Fair Use / Google / Literary fiction / plagiarism10 Comments

Google and Barnes & Noble Unite to Take On Amazon – New York, Los Angeles, and San Francisco are now test markets for the new partnership between Barnes & Noble and Google that promises same-day delivery to customers. The approach is more personalized, with couriers who actually go to the ... more >

March 18, 2014

Tuesday News: Nook Press hits the UK market, the future of the Great American Novel, profile of Arundhati Roy, and Cover Girl’s new girl power video

JanetPublishing NewsAdvertising / Arundhati Roy / Barnes & Noble / digital books / Nook / novel / Self-publishing / sexism / UK6 Comments

Barnes & Noble to Launch Nook Press in the UK This Week – Barnes & Noble is using the Oxford Literary Festival to introduce its newest self-publishing platform to authors in the UK. Although the platform has been available in the US for almost a year now, self-published authors in ... more >

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