Publishing NewsAdvertising / branding / Comic-Con / copyright law / dmca / emoji / intellectual property / punctuation / sexting / texting36 Comments
Brands and Fans Flock to Biggest New York Comic Con Yet – With 169,000 tickets sold for the New York City Comic Con, there was a lot going on at this year’s event. Lots of cosplay (as usual), a resurgence of manga (with Mavashi Kishimoto attending), and so-called “branded ‘activations,’” which consisted ... more >
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To All of Edit at Gawker Media – In case you missed the smoke coming from Gawker this weekend, here is part of the story of Gawker’s editorial implosion, which came after a controversial (and in many people’s opinion, a completely inappropriate and unethical) story was pulled from Gawker over the protests ... more >
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THE MESSY BUSINESS OF REINVENTING HAPPINESS – What a fascinating story about the attempt to modernize — and incorporate new technologies into – Disney theme parks. You would think that a franchise famous for concepts like “Tomorrowland” would find this process to be a snap. And yet it was really ... more >
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The world’s largest photo service just made its pictures free to use – This is great news for bloggers; Getty Images, which owns 100+ years and millions of photos, is opening up its archives so everyone can use the images for free. This move is in marked contrast to certain ... more >
Publishing Newsbranding / cover-art / fan-fiction / genre critique64 Comments
Fanfiction – Deb sent me a link to this video. It’s a rather fun look at fan fiction including a historical aspect. Did you know that someone published a sequel to Don Quixote? Unauthorized?Know Your Meme Hold the front page: cover art is going out of fashion – James Bridle ... more >
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Links, News, and some WTFery | Blog | Smart Bitches, Trashy Books – “YA Author Sarah Cross has a guest blog about plagiarism and how it sucks a lot (which it does). It’s not a bad post, as it discusses the different types of plagiarism. But it’s a guest post on ... more >