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February 8, 2016

Monday News: Equity in publishing, Chris Jackson, and Beyoncé

JanetPublishing NewsArt / Beyoncé / Chris Jackson / cultural critique / diversity / editors / Literary Agents / music / Publishers / publishing / RWA3 Comments

Equity in Publishing: What Should Editors Be Doing? – I’ve been holding on to this story for a while, and with RWA’s recent “open letter” on diversity, it seems like a good time to post it. The roundtable, organized by Antonio Aiello following the Best American Poetry scandal, includes Alexander Chee, Anna deVries, Hafizah Geter, Amy ... more >

January 14, 2016

Thursday News: Book vending, diversity in publishing, National Jewish Book Awards, and Bowie’s Verbasizer

JanetPublishing Newsbook vending machines / composing / copyright / diversity / editors / Libraries / literary award / lyrics / National Jewish Book Award / publishing / randomizer5 Comments

Want a book? Try a vending machine from O.C. libraries  – We’re starting to see more book vending machines, but what’s especially cool about this one is that it’s a library vending machine inside the Anaheim Regional Transportation Intermodal Center. So instead of having to buy a book for your bus or ... more >

August 26, 2015

Wednesday News: AU v. Amazon; Wine Train apologizes to book club; Knopf editor talks editing; and a dad says yes to dolls for his son

JanetPublishing NewsAmazon / anti-trust / Authors United / Book-club / Department of Justice / discrimination / editors / gender norms / micro aggression / parenting / publishing3 Comments

Is Amazon Creating a Cultural Monopoly? – As much as I admire the tenacity of the Authors United group, their singular fixation on Amazon feels more and more like publisher pressure by proxy. I remember Jon Sargent trying to make the value argument about Agency Pricing – that more valuable ... more >

January 20, 2015

Tuesday News: Female road novels, the problem of ‘reliability,’ editors speak, and Tinder’s experiment

JanetPublishing Newschildren's fiction / diversity / editors / gender / general fiction / heroines / publishing / road novels4 Comments

Green Screen: The Lack of Female Road Narratives and Why it Matters – Although this essay by Vanessa Veselka is a couple of years old, with all of the focus on Gamergate and systematized violence against women, I think it’s more relevant now than ever. Viselka talks about her own ... more >

November 10, 2014

Monday News Harper Collins fails to crush Open Road, Ed Park leaves Amazon for Penguin, oligopoly in the music industry, and hand-annotated books for charity

JanetPublishing NewsAgency pricing / Amazon / Art / charity / competition / copyright / Ebooks / editors / Harper Collins / Literary fiction / music industry / Open Road / Penguin8 Comments

Open Road Dodges $1 Million Bullet in Copyright Case – In its bid to be awarded attorneys fees of more than $1M dollars, Harper Collins argued that Open Road’s contract to publish Julie of The Wolves as an ebook was “objectively unreasonable” — that is, so clearly wrong that Harper ... more >

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August 17, 2011

Wednesday Midday Links: Topless Female Duelists

JanePublishing News19th century / ebook_formats / editors / HarperCollins / lawsuits / Microsoft23 Comments

HarperCollins total year-end results are unclear given that parent company news Corp. did not break out  the division in the year-end report. However, the children’s division improved and e-book sales accounted for approximately 12% of all business in the US last year.  Source: PW **** Author Dorothea Benton Frank gave ... more >

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