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June 23, 2017

Friday News: New frontier for fan fiction, Facebook’s new mission, Sam Taylor-Johnson, and floral dinosaurs

JanetPublishing News50 Shades / deep learning A.I. / Facebook / fan-fiction / film directorsComments Off on Friday News: New frontier for fan fiction, Facebook’s new mission, Sam Taylor-Johnson, and floral dinosaurs

When Fan Fiction and Reality Collide – I don’t really think the title of this article does it justice, because it’s tackling so much more – namely, the complex relationship between fan fiction, its subjects, and the mainstream publishers and production companies that are looking to exploit new content. Case ... more >

February 17, 2016

Wednesday News: Changes to Scribd, join a bookclub, Reedsy book editor, and RPF goes mainstream

JanetPublishing Newsbook clubs / book editor / ebook subscription service / fan-fiction / real person fiction / Reedsy / research study / Scribd11 Comments

Scribd Announces Major Changes to Subscription Service – While Nate Hoffelder characterizes this as Scribd “gutting” its ebook subscription service, that’s like more the case for the so-called “power reader” than for the reader who can read one book a week, max.  Scribd is pushing this as a more “sustainable” model ... more >

February 27, 2015

Friday News: Net Neutrality ruling, fan fiction goes to college, more comics come to TV, and women of the Harlem Renaissance

JanetPublishing Newsadaptation / Comics / common carriers / diversity / fan-fiction / FCC / Harlem Renaissance / Internet / Literary Criticism / Modernism / net neutrality / television / women writers10 Comments

FCC votes for net neutrality, a ban on paid fast lanes, and Title II – So the FCC finally reached a decision to enforce net neutrality by reclassifying internet service providers as common carriers, which puts them in the category of, for example, phone companies, and subjecting them to much ... more >

February 11, 2015

Wednesday News: Scribd offers unlimited comics, Samsung TVs are listening, the Hugo Award & gender bias, and rare TV interview with E.L. James

JanetPublishing Newsbias / Comics / E. L. James / fan-fiction / Fifty Shades / Film / gender / Hugo Award / privacy / Samsung / Scribd / smart tvs / subscription service / voice recognition5 Comments

Scribe Unlimited Comics – The latest development in the battle between subscription services is Scribd’s offering of more than 10,000 comic books. This one might finally push me over the edge and into signing up. Check out the launch page for more details, and per the press release, features include: ... more >

February 10, 2015

Tuesday News: Charging readers to comment, Patreon done with VAT, authors and social media, and Melanie’s Marvelous Measles

JanetPublishing NewsAmazon / commenting / crowdfunding / EU / fan-fiction / fandoms / Literary fiction / Patreon / paywall / reviews / social media / trolling / VAT13 Comments

Join the Conversation on Tablet – Although I think this is a disastrous move, I’m really curious to see how Tablet Magazine’s decision to charge its readers to comment will play out. That’s right – for a mere $2 a day, $18 a month, and $180 a year, you can ... more >

January 22, 2015

Thursday News: a different view of ebooks, Carly Phillips joins Kindle Worlds, women and Hollywood, and cool graphic novel on art

JanetPublishing NewsArt / book-sales / Carly Phillips / digital publishing / Ebooks / fan-fiction / filmmaking / gender / genres / graphic novels / Hollywood / Kindle Worlds / Race10 Comments

What Nielsen Bookscan data tells us about ebook sales cycles & the ebook plateau – This is a great piece that takes some of the other analytical treatments of ebook data and subjects them to a different set of questions and inferences. So instead of stopping at the point where ... more >

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