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October 7, 2021

REVIEW: Shelf Life by Nadia Wassef

JayneB- Reviews / Book Reviewsautobiography / bookseller / bookselling / Business woman / Egypt / independent booksellers / Middle East / Misogyny / non-fiction / POC / POC author3 Comments

The warm and winning story of opening a modern bookstore where there were none, Shelf Life: Chronicles of a Cairo Bookseller recounts Nadia Wassef’s troubles and triumphs as a founder and manager of Cairo-based Diwan The streets of Cairo make strange music. The echoing calls to prayer; the raging insults ... more >

June 6, 2016

Monday News: Importing books to Australia, male birth control, My Friend Flicka & first love, and American Girl viral video

JanetPublishing NewsAustralia / bookselling / children's lit / importation restrictions / male birth control / My Friend Flicka / viral videos17 Comments

Australian readers – take note – I think I reported on the Australian Parallel Importation situation not too long ago, but with this recent rant from Jay Kristoff, it might be time to do so again. Kristoff rehearses the argument that allowing parallel importation will dilute the Australian book market, open the ... more >

February 3, 2016

Wednesday News: eBay, lost manuscripts, book placement, and constructed languages

JanetPublishing Newsbookselling / children's literature / eBay / language / lost manuscripts / security / SFF / social omnivores1 Comments

eBay Platform Exposed to Severe Vulnerability – Despite the fact that Check Point contacted eBay with evidence of a HUGE and dangerous security flaw on their platform, it appears that eBay is ignoring it, possibly because they think it is necessary to allow active content??? An attacker could target eBay users ... more >

December 9, 2014

Tuesday News: bookselling via Twitter, the legality of data retention, media whitewashing, and struggle over Sendak’s estate

JanetPublishing Newsbookselling / data retention / diversity / EU laws / films / Hachette / human rights / lawsuit / Maurice Sendak / media / privacy / probate / security / social media / UK6 Comments

Hachette Tries Selling Books via Twitter – So Hachette is experimenting with new ways to sell books direct to readers, and its collaboration with Gumroad to sell books on Twitter is set to launch this week, beginning with books from Amanda Palmer, Chris Hadfield and The Onion. This is apparently ... more >

November 26, 2014

Wednesday News: Simon & Schuster opens up digital lending, Taiwanese book business booming, Montlake offers review copies, and Hungarian anti-rape, woman-shaming video

JanetPublishing NewsAmazon / ARCs / bookselling / bookstores / digital lending / digital publishing / Libraries / Misogyny / Montlake / Simon & Schuster13 Comments

S&S Expands Library E-book Lending – Simon and Schuster will now be providing both front and backlist books to all libraries. This is a change over their previous policy, which was to allow only those libraries that were part of it’s “Buy it Now” program, where the borrower would have ... more >

October 7, 2014

On the “specialness” of books

JanetLetters of OpinionAuthors United / Books / bookselling / consumer goods / reading / value68 Comments

We’re all familiar with the assertion that books are “special,” and therefore deserving of different treatment than other commercial products. I used believe it myself. Until, that is, folks like Jon Sargent and Authors United started using it to justify crap like agency pricing and the shunning of Amazon. To ... more >

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