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August 25, 2015

Tuesday News: Book club members kicked off train, Duke students refuse to read Bechdel, Germany goes for soft DRM, and Tolkein recites his own poetry

JanetPublishing NewsAmazon / Bechdel / Book-club / DRM / Duke / Ebooks / Germany / microaggressions / Netherlands / poetry / Poland / Race / sexual identity / Tolkein12 Comments

Group of black women kicked off Napa wine train after laughing too loud -What happened to this book club on the Napa Valley Wine Train is pretty much the definition of microaggression. It’s also just plain gross. After some complaints that the eleven women were too “loud,” they were “paraded” off ... more >

January 6, 2015

Tuesday News: Copyright comic book, net neutrality, Scribd’s new funding, and Zuckerberg’s book club

JanetPublishing NewsBook-club / copyright / Facebook / intellectual property / net neutrality / Scribd / subscription serviceComments Off on Tuesday News: Copyright comic book, net neutrality, Scribd’s new funding, and Zuckerberg’s book club

Bound by Law?: Free Comic Book Explains How Copyright Complicates Art – Whenever authors write books or filmmakers produce movies, there is a lot of background and cultural context, much of which is itself protected by copyright. From music lyrics that may play a role in a Romance novel to ... more >

May 27, 2014

Book Club: The Windflower by Sharon & Tom Curtis [Updated: Giveaway]

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  UPDATE: Robin has an extra copy of the original first edition of The Windflower hanging around the house, that she’s giving away to one commenter. Please see the details at the end of this post and enter via the Rafflecopter.   Welcome to the first book club of 2014. Today ... more >

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May 23, 2014

Friday News: Facebook wants to violate your privacy again, device security faces new challenges, food poisonings revealed via Yelp, and reviving old words

JanetPublishing NewsBook-club / Facebook / History / iPhone / language / privacy / reviews / security / vocabulary / Yelp16 Comments

Do You Want Facebook Listening to Your iPhone? – Type in a Facebook update over your iPhone and everything the phone hears will be recorded, part of Facebook’s ambition to link everything in your life to, well, pretty much everyone else. Apparently this is an opt-in feature, but it’s not ... more >

May 7, 2014

Wednesday News: Beauty blogger’s work used without permission; Google Classroom debuts; Edgar Awards announced; Dear Author’s May Book Club selection

JanetPublishing Newsawards / blogging / Book-club / copyright / education / Google / mystery7 Comments

I’m A Blogger. Respect My Work. – London Beauty Queen, a blogger with more than 22,000 followers on Twitter, has had her images used without permission. We often talk about how bloggers need to be careful about using photos from sources that are not public domain, but now, with the ... more >

January 15, 2014

Wednesday News: Net neutrality ruling, James Frey is back, a Pride and Prejudice proposal, BBC Map series, and an author attends his own book’s discussion

JanetPublishing NewsBarnes & Noble / Book-club / broadband access / FCC / Hunger Games / James-Frey / maps / medieval / net neutrality9 Comments

Appeals court strikes down FCC’s Net neutrality rules – In this long-awaited — and some say disastrous —  ruling on a case filed by Verizon against the FCC, the federal appeals court has ruled that the FCC does not have authority under the so-called Open Internet rules rules to tell ... more >

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