Publishing News#metoo / Amazon Go / consent / Edith Wharton / educational achievement / interior design / reading clubs / sex6 Comments
#MeToo Has Forced Me to Admit I’m a Romance Novelist Who’s Having Bad Sex – Thoughtful post from Andie J. Christopher, who confronts the gap between the sex she has in real life and the sex she writes about in Romance fiction. She said that the gap didn’t really bother ... more >
Publishing NewsComic books / consent / copyright / digital books / Internet Archive / literary inspiration / Netflix / sexual-assault3 Comments
The Internet Archive “Liberates” Books Published Between 1923 and 1941, and Will Put 10,000 Digitized Books Online – Utilizing a section of copyright law that allows libraries to digitize works published between 1923 and 1941 that are “not being actively sold,” the Internet Archive is working with a Tulane ... more >
Publishing Newsaudiobooks / consent / distribution / Ebooks / female pleasure / Hachette / Ingram / Perseus / publishingComments Off on Friday News: Audio on the rise, Perseus + Ingram, and “toward a radical politics of pleasure”
Book sales are in decline but audio books are thriving – More on the rise of print, not just in the US, but in the UK, too, with a side of ‘print is more expensive = good’, and ‘ebooks are “cheaper” = bad’ for publishing. *sigh* Anyway, we know that audio ... more >