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August 27, 2015

Thursday News: Hugo Awards online, Barnes & Noble v. homeless readers(?), Romance Writers of Australia conference, and suing illegal downloaders

JanetPublishing NewsBarnes & Noble / class / Hugo Awards / literacy / piracy / poverty / reading / Romance Writers of Australia / SFF / writer's conferences14 Comments

2015 Hugo Awards Ceremony – Missed the Hugo Awards ceremony? You can catch it (in four parts) on Livestream. I hear that Laura Mixon’s acceptance speech for Best Fan Writer was particularly moving. –Livestream Viewpoint: Changes at Barnes & Noble may indicate a privilege problem – Nick Norton of Wayne State ... more >

lego cows
June 23, 2015

Tuesday News: Spider-Man, Legos, Banned Books, and The Briefcase

JanetPublishing NewsBanned-Books / censorship / class / intellectual property / Libraries / patent / Supreme Court / television / trademark1 Comments

Supreme Court cuts the string on Spider-Man toy inventor’s patent – A Spider-Man toy wristband that shoots a silly-string like “spider web” was collecting royalties from Marvel well past the expiration of its patent, pursuant to an open-ended contract between the toy’s creator, Stephen Kimble, and Marvel. However, the Supreme Court ... more >

Old key chain in the shape of a small Earth globe
April 23, 2015

Thursday News: Ode to the DMCA; food and social class; an “ibreakup;” and Julia Rothman’s “Nature Anatomy”

JanetPublishing NewsAmerica / class / copyright / dmca / Earth Day / food / infringement / nature / Race / technology / YouTube5 Comments

How the DMCA made YouTube – A really interesting piece on the way the DMCA, which was enacted in 1998, and in particular the safe harbor provision, has allowed services like YouTube to flourish. Given the onerous provisions of the DMCA, and with all of the changes at YouTube (and ... more >

June 2, 2014

Monday News: Do small pubs benefit from Amazon v. Hachette, Jay Lake dies, (no) diversity at BEA, and slut-shaming and social class

JanetPublishing NewsAmazon / BEA / class / digital publishing / diversity / gender / Hachette / obituary / patriarchy10 Comments

Why Amazon Is Actually The ‘Very Best Thing’ For Small Publishers Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-vs-hachette-small-publishers-side-2014-5 – Another perspective weighs in on the Amazon – Hachette conflict, this time (some) small publishers. As the big guys fight it out, this argument goes, the smaller publishers (and, I’m thinking, independent authors acting as ... more >

April 15, 2014

Tuesday News: Pulitzer Prizes announced, fiction and money, literary couples, and book covers on real bodies

JanetPublishing Newsbook-covers / class / Literary fiction / literary prizes / marriage / Pulitzer5 Comments

Guardian and Washington Post win Pulitzer prize for NSA revelations – A full list of finalists and winners can be found here. While the fiction prizes are always of interest, this year the spotlight is definitely on the journalism awards, especially reporting on the NSA surveillance and the Boston Marathon ... more >

September 12, 2013

REVIEW: The Dream Thieves by Maggie Stiefvater

WillafulB Reviewsclass / friendship / Love-Triangle / Small-Town / Urban-Fantasy / Virginia / Young-Adult7 Comments

Note: I’m attempting to be vague on plot details to avoid spoilers for both this book and The Raven Boys, however I strongly recommend they be read in order. Dear Ms. Stiefvater: Those who have read the young adult urban fantasy The Raven Boys, know that it ends on a ... more >

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