Publishing Newsauthors / book-covers / children's lit / diversity / Ebooks / Goodreads / Kindle / Oyster / Self-publishing / subscription17 Comments
E-Book Startup Oyster Hires Jeannie Mun As Its First CFO – Jeannie Mun, formerly of MediaMath and Operative, is now CFO of Oyster, which demonstrates the seriousness with which the company is approaching a successful model for the subscription ebook service. That Barry McCarthy, CFO of Netflix, is also going ... more >
Publishing Newsbook-covers / bookstore / Fifty Shades of Grey / fraud / genre vocabulary / lawsuit / partnership / Self-publishing18 Comments
A Texas woman just won a lawsuit claiming she was tricked out of royalties to ‘Fifty Shades of Grey’ – You may remember this suit, filed by one of the original owners of Writers Coffee Shop, the small publisher that hit big by publishing Fifty Shades before it sold to ... more >
Publishing News19th C / anonymity / Authors Guild / book-covers / copyright / defamation / diversity / Free Speech / Hathi Trust / Justina Ireland / Twitter / Young-Adult8 Comments
Court orders Twitter to identify anonymous users – When some Twitter users alleged that a corporation encouraged domestic violence, claiming the CEO paid for sex, the corporation sued, with the expected subpoena served on Twitter to reveal the identities of the defendants. This is a difficult situation, because there are ... more >
Publishing Newsadult fiction / book-covers / Self-publishing / sexual-assault / trigger warnings / YA15 Comments
The Best Book Covers of 2014 – What goes into a great book cover? While the New York Times isn’t picking among a wide variety of genre books, they’ve chosen some very interesting images that can definitely be compared to the best covers within specific genres. Any of these covers ... more >
Publishing NewsArt / book-covers / character features / commercial fiction / culture / dialects / language / Literary fiction / reading / Spanish / superdialects / Twitter4 Comments
What Does Anna Karenina Look Like? – Peter Mendelsund is responsible for some of the most memorable book covers, including The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, and now he has written a book on how the reader does or doesn’t imagine the physicality of the characters: What We See When ... more >
Publishing NewsAmazon / Apple / book-covers / collusion / digital lending / digital publishing / Ebooks / media / quiz / reader engagement / settlement13 Comments
Apple in $400m settlement over e-book price fixing – It seems that it’s either feast or famine in the news arena, and this week it’s feast, so I’ve had to pick and choose which stories to highlight today. First up, the terms of Apple’s proposed settlement in the collusion case ... more >