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September 13, 2016

Tuesday News: Man Booker shortlist, Norwegian Facebook censorship, YA National Book Award, Soar with Reading

JanetPublishing NewsBook Awards / book vending machines / censorship / Facebook / Man Booker Prize / National Book Award / Norway / YA2 Comments

The Man Booker Prize 2016 Shortlist – If you want to catch up on the Man Booker nominees, check out Rosario and Liz’s blogs, as both are working their way through the longlist. The list is disappointingly narrow in its geographical scope, but overall, what do you think? Paul Beatty (US) The ... more >

July 1, 2016

Friday News: Jewel v. NSA, Facebook tell-all, Seoul International Book Fair, and “essential” American books

JanetPublishing NewsAmerican literature / best of list / book fairs / children's literature / Facebook / Korea / surveillance5 Comments

Jewel v. NSA Moves Forward—Time For NSA To Answer Basic Questions About Mass Surveillance – And now we tune in to the ongoing saga of the US government’s attempts to block, delay, and otherwise frustrate one of the most important cases regarding unwarranted domestic surveillance in the history of the country. ... more >

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June 8, 2016

Wednesday News: Facebook, serials, and Book Marks

JanetPublishing NewsBook Marks / Book Reviews / Facebook / serial fiction6 Comments

Facebook tests more discreet notifications, instead of tagging friends – So apparently Facebook understands that users are frustrated at the way they have to so broadly share posts, testing a new feature that lets users tag only a few friends, which would also allow for smaller, more controlled conversations, as well: ... more >

May 11, 2016

Wednesday News: Facebook, Amazon, Shelf, and the Princess of Paleontology

JanetPublishing NewsAmazon / Facebook / fossils / History / Shelf / video services5 Comments

Senate Republicans Want Face Time With Facebook Over Trending Topics ‘Bias’ – So Facebook is now under scrutiny following a Gizmodo story claiming that some former employees at the social media service intentionally favored “liberal” news in the trending topics feed. And since the Republican-dominated US senate has plenty of time – ... more >

November 18, 2015

Wednesday News: Instagram, copyright, #GiveaBook, and Murakami vending machine

JanetPublishing Newsbook vending machines / charity / copyright / Facebook / GiveaBook / Instagram / Penguin Random House / Promotion / public domain / Twitter1 Comments

How Instagram Became the New Oprah’s Book Club – Forget Twitter – Instagram is now the best, most influential platform for books. The fact that you can see a book in a pretty little picture is apparently far superior to the 140-character Twitter blurb (even though you can have pictures on ... more >

November 1, 2015

Snapchat Scare, YouTube Red, Facebook Real Names, and a Fancy Retro Keyboard

JanePublishing NewsFacebook / keyboard / Privacy-issues / YouTube5 Comments

Instead of a big article, here’s a couple of tech news that I thought I’d highlight. The Snapchat Scare (or if you aren’t paying for a product, you are the product).  Snapchat updated it’s privacy policy a couple of days ago. The new policy informs you that they are tracking ... more >

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