JaneEssaysFacebook / marketing / social media41 Comments

Facebook is a multi billion dollar juggernaught and companies have spent millions of dollars on building brand recognition on the social media platform. Rather than blogs and even over Twitter, Pinterest, Tumblr, and Instagram, authors use this service to sell themselves to readers. Like Amazon, Facebook operates under super secret ... more >

February 20, 2014

Thursday News Facebook buys WhatsApp, Top Shelf opens DRM-free comics store, LinkedIn expands its publishing platform, and English university offers MA in self-publishing

JanetPublishing NewsComics / DRM / Facebook / LinkedIn / Self-publishing / WhatsApp9 Comments

Facebook to buy WhatsApp for $19 billion – That collective groan you heard across the Internet yesterday heralded the announcement of this small purchase, which Mark Zuckerberg hopes will boost the messaging power of Facebook, by at least the 450 million users WhatsApp currently claims. Growing by about a million ... more >

December 25, 2013

Wednesday News: Kohn appeals ebook settlements; book banning attempts were up this year; more gifts for book lovers; Matt Walsh chooses his blog over radio; and Hulu is sued for blabbing to Facebook

JanetPublishing Newscensorship / ebook settlement / Facebook / gift guide / Hulu5 Comments

Kohn Appeals Penguin, Macmillan E-book Settlements – Despite a warning from Judge Cote that his arguments were unlikely to prevail, RoyaltyShare founder Bob Kohn has formally appealed the approved e-book settlements with Penguin and Macmillan. As I noted earlier, Kohn’s argument is especially interesting, because he doesn’t assert that the ... more >

December 10, 2013

Tuesday News: Netflix, 3D imaging, Bonnie & Clyde, Facebook, and Penguin Random House are all on the hot seat today

JanetPublishing Newsdiversity / Facebook / historical-accuracy / Netflix / Penguin Random House / piracy / sexism11 Comments

Netflix Instant has a diversity problem – With so many timely discussions about race and diversity in Romance, this is a noteworthy (but depressing) piece about the apparent lack of diversity in Netflix Instant. Although I am not a Netflix user myself, I couldn’t help but be concerned by the ... more >

January 10, 2013

Thursday News: Facebook couples destroy love; Monopoly is axing a game piece; and Jane Friedman makes some suppositions about self publishing

JanePublishing NewsFacebook / self-published9 Comments

23 Reasons Why Facebook Couples Are The Worst – Buzzfeed has made a list of why Facebook couples should cease to exist. The reasons run the gamut from thirteen year olds celebrating their proposals of marriage to a woman morose that her man is cheating on her by decided to ... more >

November 27, 2012

Tuesday News: Fake Facebook Update Status; Android usage down; One company seeks to teach the world to code

JanePublishing NewsAmazon / Android / Facebook / Intellectual Property Issues / privacy20 Comments

Beware the False Privacy Notice Posted All Over Facebook – A fake copyright notice spread around Facebook yesterday claiming that under the “Berner Convention” if you declared your copyright over uploaded photos and facebook statuses, you would be able to prevent Facebook from reusing them without your permission. There is ... more >