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January 8, 2018

Monday News: PBS-NYT Book Club, Fitbit tattoo, adapting Holmes, and post-Harvey book drive

JanetPublishing Newsbig data / book drive / Book-club / fitness apps / Sherlock Holmes4 Comments

Introducing the PBS NewsHour-New York Times book club, ‘Now Read This’ – I greeted this news with wan curiosity, although that’s probably unfair. It’s just that I’ve been so disappointed by the undoing of the NYTBR that I don’t know what to make of a Facebook-grounded book club. If any ... more >

August 19, 2015

Wednesday News: Amazon, the New York Times, algorithms, book tours, and “female Viagra”

JanetPublishing Newsalgorithms / Amazon / big data / book tours / gender sex / Jeff Bezos / journalism / New-York-Times / Promotion / washington post7 Comments

Hacking through Amazon’s jungle of coverage -Much has been written about Amazon and about the New York Times’ recent piece on Amazon’s work culture, with even the paper’s own Margaret Sullivan suggesting that the article needed more “irrefutable proof” and less “generalization and anecdote.” That I found some of the insights ... more >

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June 24, 2015

Wednesday News: NAL merges with Berkley, big data & advertising, Disney’s Pocahontas, and the Simpsons honor Hayao Miyazaki

JanetPublishing NewsAdvertising / anime / big data / culture / Disney / History / media / Penguin Random House / publishing / reorganization / television2 Comments

People: NAL Is Merged Into Realigned Berkley Publishing Group – Well, this is unfortunate. Berkley and NAL (New American Library) are being merged into a “new” Berkley Publishing Group, and also reorganized, with NAL focusing on non-fiction and Berkley focused on fiction, and what looks like a significant number of firings, ... more >

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January 27, 2014

Monday News: Harlequin to publish Laverne Cox’s memoir; HarperCollins’s adventure with big data; Amazon starts Christian imprint; Judges needed for Readers Choice Award; and great costumes from Game of Thrones

JanetPublishing NewsAmazon / big data / Christian fiction / Contest / Game of Thrones / Harlequin / HarperCollins / LGBTQIAP+5 Comments

Important Notice: There are reports that upgrading to the new Adobe Digital Editions will remove access to old purchases due to the new DRM scheme. Do not upgrade at this time. Refusing an upgrade will simply keep you at the status quo. Orange Is the New Black ‘s Laverne Cox ... more >

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January 14, 2014

Tuesday News: Kickstarter, Harper Lee’s enduring royalties, Big Data, wedding jumpsuits, and Leafmarks

JanetPublishing Newsbig data / fashion / Goodreads / Kickstarter / Leafmarks / Royalties / To Kill a Mockingbird16 Comments

Publishing Projects Find Success on Kickstarter – I’m not sure how I feel about this, frankly, but apparently Kickstarter has become quite the launching pad for book projects. The article provides a list of some of the standouts, but in all, “More than 6,000 publishing campaigns were launched on Kickstarter ... more >

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