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August 17, 2016

Wednesday News: B&N fires CEO, Harper Collins launches new website, NK Jemisin on SF diversity, and American Book Award winners

JanetPublishing NewsAmerican Book Award / Barnes & Noble / booksellers / diversity / HarperCollins / N.K. Jemisin / SFFComments Off on Wednesday News: B&N fires CEO, Harper Collins launches new website, NK Jemisin on SF diversity, and American Book Award winners

Barnes & Noble Fires CEO, Calls Him a Poor Fit – Ron Boire, who previously served as CEO of Sears Canada and Brookstone, was hired less than a year ago to head Barnes & Noble, and while it is unclear what went wrong, publicly stating that he was “not a good ... more >

July 22, 2016

Friday News: Twitter enforces TOS (finally), book collecting & selling, eco-friendly “fairytale” castle

JanetPublishing Newsbooksellers / castle / community rules / Instagram / Transylvania / Twitter8 Comments

Twitter Bars Milo Yiannopoulos in Wake of Leslie Jones’s Reports of Abuse – If you thought we were past the extreme racism, homophobia, transphobia, and misogyny of Gamergate, the disgusting rhetoric aimed at Ghostbusters, and the fabulous Leslie Jones, in particular, proves otherwise. Egged on by Milo Yiannopoulos, the vileness continued pretty ... more >

May 13, 2016

Friday News: BEA, book sales, and Winds of Winter

JanetPublishing NewsBEA / book adaptations / booksellers / Ebooks / Game of Thrones / print books / publishing10 Comments

Books are back: Printed book sales rise for first time in four years as ebooks suffer decline and BEA 2016: E-book Sales Fell 13% in 2015, Nielsen Reports – Trends in both then UK and US book markets appear to mirror each other, with adult coloring books and other “lifestyle non-fiction” propelling the ... more >

March 18, 2016

Friday News: National Book Critics awards, Japan’s book market, and hyperfiction

JanetPublishing NewsBook Awards / booksellers / Google Play / hyperfiction / Japan / publishing5 Comments

Paul Beatty, Maggie Nelson, Sam Quinones among winners of 2015 Book Critics awards – Paul Beatty’s novel The Sellout won the National Book Critics Circle award for fiction, while Maggie Nelson’s memoir The Argonauts won the award for criticism. A full list of winners can be found here. The poetry award went to ... more >

October 27, 2015

Tuesday News: Penny books, iPhones & warrants, SXSW struggles with speech, and visualizing poetry

JanetPublishing NewsApple / booksellers / federal law / Free Speech / Gamergate / harassment / iPhone / poetry / SXSW / used books / visual arts / warrant8 Comments

A Penny for Your Books – I’ve actually always thought of these books as $4.00 books, because while they technically sell for a penny, Amazon’s $3.99 shipping effectively makes them $4.00. What I did not know, though, is that these books are basically picked from garbage. How brilliant is that?! It’s ... more >

October 7, 2015

Wednesday News: Waterstones dumps Kindle, new Twilight book, Austrian writer jailed, and a goofy quiz

JanetPublishing Newsbooksellers / Brontes / ereaders / Holocaust / Kindle / publishing / Twilight / Waterstones26 Comments

Waterstones is removing Kindles from stores – In the wake of reports that print sales continue to gain strength, UK bookseller Waterstones is going to stop selling Kindles in their store due to poor sales. In fact, the word “pitiful” was used to describe sales of the e-reading device. This reality ... more >

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