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September 12, 2016

REVIEW: Playing It Cool by Amy Andrews

JayneBook Reviews / C+ ReviewsAustralia / body image / Contemporary / rugby / sports romance5 Comments

Harper Nugent might have a little extra junk in her trunk, but her stepbrother calling her out on it is the last straw… When rugby hottie, Dexter Blake, witnesses the insult, he surprises Harper by asking her out. In front of her dumbass brother. Score! Of course, she knows it’s ... more >

April 27, 2015

Monday News: Broadband, publishing innovation, World War I, and body image

JanetPublishing NewsAdvertising / body image / broadband / Comcast / FCC / History / net neutrality / publishing / Race / Time Warner / World War I3 Comments

How Net neutrality helped kill the Comcast-Time Warner Cable merger – A very interesting analysis on the death of the Comcast – Time Warner merger, particularly in regard to how regulators became more and more resistant to the deal in the wake of the net neutrality debates. Given the incredible ... more >

HarperCollins
July 11, 2014

Friday News: Authors Guild backs Hachette, Amazon Breakthrough Novel contest, Harper Collins tries direct-to-consumer sales, and Jenny Trout exposes bias against body fat

JanetPublishing NewsAmazon / Amazon publishing / Authors Guild / body image / contests / digital publishing / direct sales / Hachette / Harper Collins34 Comments

Authors Guild Weighs In on Amazon-Hachette Dispute – I know you’ve been waiting for this; the Authors Guild’s Richard Russo wrote a letter to its members, essentially backing Hachette in the current game of publishing chicken. I don’t think this is at all surprising, given the Guild’s history of and ... more >

harlequin books
March 7, 2014

Friday News: The “Average” Barbie, the dark side of Kickstarter, the art of re-reading, and Harlequin’s declining revenues

JanetPublishing Newsbody image / Comics / digital books / Harlequin / Kickstarter / readers18 Comments

The New Barbie: Meet the Doll with an Average Woman’s Proportions – Remember the artist’s rendering of what an “average” Barbie would look like? Well, Nickolay Lamm decided to take his vision and make it a reality, raising $95,000 on Kickstarter to design and manufacture his own doll. to be ... more >

garter barbie
January 2, 2014

Thursday News: The Authors Guild’s appeal, Underrated movies, below-stairs stories, Alice in Wonderland redux, and Plus-Size Barbie

JanetPublishing NewsAlice in Wonderland / Authors Guild / best of list / body image / Ebooks / films / Google / HathiTrust / Longbourn / Pride-and-Prejudice / Virginia Woolf8 Comments

Authors Guild Appeals Google Decision – The Authors Guild provided notice that it is appealing Judge Chin’s dismissal of the Guild’s suit against Google. They did not file a brief, but their notice was filed in the Second Circuit, where the Author’s Guild v. HathiTrust case is also in process. Hathi is ... more >

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