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March 30, 2016

Wednesday News: Plagiarism, motion publishing, Korean military romance, and women in the wild

JanetPublishing Newscamping / China / crime fiction / Descendants of the Sun / Ingrid Black / Korean military drama / motion book platform / nature writing / plagiarism7 Comments

The girl who stole my book: How Eilis O’Hanlon found out her crime novels were swiped by a stranger  – For those who don’t read the comments to the news posts, “Anon” provided a link to this story in the comments to yesterday’s news post, and I think it deserves ... more >

March 11, 2016

Friday News: Cuba, China, story and bees

JanetPublishing Newscensorship / China / Cuba / music / nature / publishing / storytelling / trade embargoComments Off on Friday News: Cuba, China, story and bees

Publishers Petition White House to End Cuba Book Embargo – With 40 signatories thus far, publishers, trade organizations, and agents have signed a petition to lift sanctions that constitute a trade embargo on US published books. Since Congress is not expected to completely end the sanctions before Obama leaves office, focus ... more >

January 18, 2016

Monday News: Hong Kong publishing mystery, children’s book pulled, Avon’s 75th anniversary, and Taiwan’s “glass slipper” church

JanetPublishing Newsanniversary / Avon / book banning / China / churches / diversity / fairy tale / Free Speech / Hong Kong / publishing / Race / scholastic / slavery / Taiwan / weddings / Woodiwiss6 Comments

One of Hong Kong’s missing booksellers just reappeared to confess to an 12-year-old crime – With Sweden increasing its interest in the disappearance of one of the missing publishers, Gui Minhai was shown on state-run television confessing to a drunk-driving accident in which he allegedly killed a woman more than ten years ago. ... more >

January 8, 2016

Friday News: banning books, Diesel Digital, Bill Gates – book blogger, and paper roses

JanetPublishing NewsBanned-Books / Bill Gates / book art / Book Reviews / China / Diesel Digital / Diesel eBooks / paper flowers / publishing3 Comments

The Case of the Missing Hong Kong Book Publishers – As the world’s second-biggest publishing market, China is also struggling to keep banned books out of the marketplace, despite their immense popularity. As the disappearance of five publishing employees gains more international attention, some of the underlying tensions between mainland China ... more >

January 6, 2016

Wednesday News: more on the Hong Kong mystery, ads and the Internet, books by robots, and book of Reddit AMA’s

JanetPublishing Newsad blockers / censorship / China / freedom of speech / Hong Kong / online ads / publishing / reddit / robots7 Comments

A book linked to the disappearance of Hong Kong booksellers focuses on Xi Jinping’s “six women” – More information has emerged related to the disappearance of five men linked to Causeway Bay Bookstore and its publisher-owner, Mighty Current, which has been preparing for publication a manuscript on Xi Jinping’s love life. ... more >

December 10, 2015

Thursday News: Book sales abroad, remembering the Montgomery boycott, and interactive music video

JanetPublishing NewsAfrican American women / children's literature / China / civil rights / Montgomery Bus Boycott / music video / Persian Gulf / publishing / storytelling / translation2 Comments

How books are booming in the Arabian Gulf – A lack of strategic relationships in place to distribute books among some Arab countries has been exacerbated by political strife in the region. However, the rise of literacy in the Arab gulf countries (UAE, Oman, Kuwait, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, and Qatar), ... more >

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