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February 26, 2018

Monday News: Terry not so Goodkind, ebooks and hardcovers, sexist new video game

JanetPublishing Newsbook-covers / cover artists / digital books / Hachette / hardcovers / video games21 Comments

Terry Goodkind Apologizes to Artist After Trashing Cover to Own Book – When Terry Goodkind called his new book cover “laughably bad,” he was in no way insulting the cover artist. Of course he wasn’t! Who would ever think that?! If you believe his lame “apology,” he was really criticizing ... more >

December 18, 2017

Monday News: “Literary necrophilia,” octopi, history of book covers, and bad holiday cards

JanetPublishing Newsauthorial persona / book-covers / cover-art / holiday cards / octopus / reader expectations / Satire / social mediaComments Off on Monday News: “Literary necrophilia,” octopi, history of book covers, and bad holiday cards

Book Lovers: Literary Necrophilia in the 21st Century – A very interesting piece from Joanna Walsh on the continually evolving relationship between author and text. The necrophilia in the title relates in part to the conceptual “death of the author,” and the reader’s attempt to mark their relationship to the ... more >

December 15, 2017

Friday News: author websites, net neutrality, book covers, and motherhood in the flesh

JanetPublishing Newsauthor websites / best of lists / book-covers / FCC / Liz-Carlyle / motherhood / net neutrality / Netflix / photography4 Comments

Liz Carlyle kills her website – An astute reader noticed that Liz Carlyle shut down her website this week, leaving a short note referencing her retirement and sending readers to Amazon. There is a sense of finality to this move, of course, but also a deprivation of potential resources to ... more >

June 2, 2017

Friday News: Wonder Woman, Vellum, audiobook covers, and paper animals

JanetPublishing Newsaudiobooks / book-covers / Ebooks / gender and film / Vellum / Wonder Woman2 Comments

The Complex Gender Politics of the ‘Wonder Woman’ Movie – The title of this article might be better represented as “the complex gender politics of commentary on the ‘Wonder Woman’ movie,” because it gets tripped up by some of the same pitfalls it tries to point out. For example, the piece ... more >

November 8, 2016

Tuesday News: Perceiving genre, flashback to Fanny Hill, gender & anonymity, and book cover bags

JanetPublishing Newsalgorithms / anonymity / book bags / book-covers / Fanny Hill / gender / genre / obscenity3 Comments

Deep Neural Network Learns to Judge Books by Their Covers – Two researchers at Japan’s Kyushu University – Brian Kenji Iwana and Seiichi Uchida – created an algorithm to detect genre by book cover image. Although their results were not stunning (exact match only 20% of the time and top three 40% ... more >

September 12, 2016

Monday News: Old books, new books, closed books, and library books

JanetPublishing Newsbook-covers / Fifty Shades / men on Romance / private libraries / technology7 Comments

Romance Novels Brought Me Closer To My Mom, Even After She Was Gone – What a lovely essay by Adam Winter, whose mother was a Romance reader. After her untimely death, he struggles with his own embarrassment at her reading tastes, eventually tackling her books himself, in an effort to understand ... more >

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