Publishing NewsAmazon / Apple / bestsellers / dolls / Ebooks / marketing / price-fixing / superheroes / Supreme Court4 Comments
Supreme Court Declines to Hear Apple’s Appeal in E-Book Pricing Case – Without providing justification or explanation, the Supreme Court turned down Apple’s request for the Court’s review of the Second Circuit’s appellate decision that the company’s agreement with Big 5 publishers amounted to price-fixing. Which means that Apple is still ... more >
Publishing NewsBarbie / dolls / Gabriel Garcia Marquez / gender / gender stereotypes / genre fiction / masculinity / science / soap operas / STEM5 Comments
Rethinking Pink: A New Feminine Aesthetic in Tech Toys for Girls – Sparkle Labs’ Amy Parness writes about the persistent use of pink and blue in the marketing of items to boys and girls. Although retailers like Amazon have actually eliminated the boys/girls categorization, the distinction, Parness argues, is discouraging girls from pursuing ... more >
Publishing NewsCanada / copyright / criminal harassment / digital rights management / dolls / infringement / television / Twitter / UK2 Comments
Canadian Court Ponders If A Disagreement On Twitter Constitutes Criminal Harassment – A friend gave me a heads up to this story last week, but at that point I could only find one article that seemed completely biased toward the defendant, Greg Elliott, whose tweets to two women, Stephanie Guthrie ... more >