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November 4, 2016

Friday News: Building an Indian bestseller, copyright wrongs, breakaway brides, and Edwardian photos

JanetPublishing Newsautochromes / bestselling books / copyright / dmca / DRM / Edwardian-era / India / weddings3 Comments

This is how a bestselling book is made in India today – Interesting article by literary agent Kanishka Gupta about Ajay K Pandey’s debut bestseller, You Are The Best Wife, as he seems to follow in Ravinder Singh’s footsteps (including the fact that they both write “misery-lit”). Pandey’s book has sold about 50,000 copies ... more >

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September 20, 2016

Tuesday News: Google Discover, HP hates imitators, Luvvie Ajayi, and girls on film

JanetPublishing Newsblogger books / copyright / dmca / female leads / Google Discover / HP / movie adaptations1 Comments

Google Play Books Invites You to “Discover” a World of Reading – Keep in mind that this is more press release than review, but Discover, by Google Play Books, has launched on Android (soon to be available on iOS). As Engadget notes, the idea is to replicate hand selling, but with ... more >

October 16, 2015

Friday News: Comic Con, copyright, sex emojis, and punctuation

JanetPublishing 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 >

September 15, 2015

Tuesday News: Romance blogger dies, fair use and the DMCA, the National Book Awards longlists, and what’s in a grain of sand

JanetPublishing NewsBook Awards / copyright / dmca / Fair Use / kid lit / obituary / photography / YA4 Comments

Independent Romance Reader/Blogger Meoskop Dies – The Romance community lost a veteran contributor yesterday. Meoskop had been suffering from a particularly aggressive form of breast cancer, and had given herself the hashtag #DogNamedLucky — this was her third time with cancer – as she tweeted her progress in treatment. Her ... more >

August 10, 2015

Monday News: Book sales, copyright use and abuse, and summer reading competition for boys

JanetPublishing NewsAgency pricing / audiobooks / Buck Rogers / copyright / dmca / Ebooks / hardcovers / intellectual property / public domain / publishing / reading competition2 Comments

Publishers’ Overall U.S. Books Sales Down 5.6% YTD But Downloaded Audio Booms, Up 33% YTD – AAP has collected information from more than 1200 publishers and reports that book sales in most categories are down. It may not be surprising to see ebook sales down in the wake of Agency Pricing’s ... more >

July 29, 2015

Wednesday News: Book in a Box, limiting IP use, Chrome privacy extension, and discussion with Jacqueline Woodson and Jimmy Carter

JanetPublishing Newsbook packaging / browser extensions / Chrome / copyright / dmca / intellectual property / international law / Jacqueline Woodson / Jimmy Carter / privacy / Race / startup3 Comments

The 4 Steps a Startup Used to ‘Book’ $200K in 2 Months – Tucker Max, author of I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell, has created what seems to be a very successful new venture called Book in a Box, which claims to help people write a book in 12 ... more >

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