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November 24, 2014

Monday News: Dish TV battles networks, Daniel Handler and racist stereotypes, rewriting Barbie, and an interview with Jody Ellen Malpas

JanetPublishing NewsBarbie / cable / diversity / gender roles / marriage / publishing / racism / satellite television / sexism / stereotypes / streaming5 Comments

Conflicts Between Pay-TV Providers, Networks Could Result in Permanent Blackouts – With all of the attention on the pending Comcast Time-Warner merger, you may have missed the ongoing conflicts between Dish Satellite and quite a few channels, from Turner Broadcasting to CNN and possibly CBS. In some ways, though, what’s ... more >

October 22, 2014

Wednesday News: Antitrust concerns for Comcast merger, China’s book banning, Publishers Weekly talks about diversity with publishers, and Walt Whitman’s advice to Oscar Wilde

JanetPublishing Newsantitrust / author branding / cable / censorship / China / Comcast / diversity / literary history / Oscar Wilde / publishing / Time Warner / Walt Whitman4 Comments

Antitrust experts slam Comcast merger plan, warn of threats to Netflix and Amazon Prime – As the FCC considers whether to green light the pending merger between Time Warner and Comcast, more than 36 antitrust experts from the fields of economics and law wrote a long objection to the merger, ... more >

July 18, 2014

Friday News: Conan Doyle estate smacked by SCOTUS, Rupert Murdoch pursuing Time Warner, future-world Archie dies, and new Emily Giffin review drama

JanetPublishing NewsArchie / Book Reviews / cable / Comics / copyright / criticism / Fair Use / public domain / SCOTUS6 Comments

Sherlock Holmes and the mystery of copyright – So the Conan Doyle estate has asked the US Supreme Court to stay the 7th Circuit’s recent decision. Fortunately, SCOTUS has already rejected the motion.  There is a case to be made for the aggressive protection of an author’s intellectual property rights ... more >

May 20, 2014

Tuesday News: ATT wants to merge with Direct TV, new Yahoo and AOL mail policy, trigger warnings in college lit classes, and 12 Years A Slave “fashion”

JanetPublishing Newsanti-trust / AOL / ATT / cable / Direct TV / email / literature / Race / security / trigger warnings / Yahoo25 Comments

AT&T and DirecTV strike $49 billion deal – Not to be outdone by the proposed TimeWarner-Comcast merger, AT&T is stepping up with an offer to buy Direct TV for a mere $49 billion, which would make the combined company the second largest subscriber tv service. Although because AT&T will also ... more >

April 23, 2014

Wednesday News: Women keeping boys from reading, men reading Romance, Comcast growing again, and Amazon planning Kindlephone

JanetPublishing NewsAmazon / cable / canon / children's literature / digital media / gender / genre critique / Kindle / Smartphone27 Comments

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