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September 14, 2015

Monday News: Electronic privacy, hip-hop comics covers, teaching about disability, and animated book covers

JanetPublishing Newsbook-covers / Comic books / disability / Fourth Amendment / hip-hop / search warrant / US border1 Comments

EFF Urges Appeals Court To Toughen Privacy Protections for Devices at the Border – Just a heads up to anyone traveling across the US border that your laptops and smartphones may not be safe from unwarranted search and/or seizure. EFF (which has been fighting the AT&T case for years now) ... more >

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September 2, 2015

Wednesday News: Project Implicit, the Hugos are finally over, Australian Romance Readers Survey, and “Judgey” book cover game

JanetPublishing NewsAustralia / book game / book-covers / hidden bias / Hugos / literary awards / readers survey / Romance / SFF8 Comments

Project Implicit – All of the discussion around the Wine Train incident made me wonder how many people have taken the Harvard Implicit Association Test. It measures that unconscious bias that all of us have about any number of people, ideas, behaviors, etc. One of the things that makes the ... more >

March 25, 2015

Wednesday News: Oyster’s new CFO, Goodreads’ new author policy, black authors and self-publishing, and Kindle cover disasters

JanetPublishing 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 >

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February 23, 2015

Monday News: Writers Coffee Shop verdict, DIY book covers, bookstore sponsorships, and “sh*t romance readers say”

JanetPublishing 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 >

January 12, 2015

Monday News: limits of anonymity on Twitter, Hathi Trust case finally over, YA author on diversity, and Victorian book covers

JanetPublishing 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 >

December 16, 2014

Tuesday News: book covers, Judy Blume’s new adult novel, trigger warnings, and a 6-year-old self-published author

JanetPublishing 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 >

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