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October 27, 2015

Tuesday News: Penny books, iPhones & warrants, SXSW struggles with speech, and visualizing poetry

JanetPublishing NewsApple / booksellers / federal law / Free Speech / Gamergate / harassment / iPhone / poetry / SXSW / used books / visual arts / warrant8 Comments

A Penny for Your Books – I’ve actually always thought of these books as $4.00 books, because while they technically sell for a penny, Amazon’s $3.99 shipping effectively makes them $4.00. What I did not know, though, is that these books are basically picked from garbage. How brilliant is that?! It’s ... more >

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July 15, 2015

Wednesday News: Reddit v. Ellen Pao, Penguin Random House’s bottom line, Amazon sides with Ted Cruz, and U.S. family size growing

JanetPublishing Newsbestsellers / demographic data / Free Speech / gender / harassment / Race / reddit / traditional publishingComments Off on Wednesday News: Reddit v. Ellen Pao, Penguin Random House’s bottom line, Amazon sides with Ted Cruz, and U.S. family size growing

How Reddit shoved former CEO Ellen Pao off the glass cliff – If you’ve been following the imminent self-destruction turmoil at Reddit, you may have seen the myriad news and opinion pieces blaming Ellen Pao for taking the position of CEO and being a “bad” leader, and more. She’s even been ... more >

July 13, 2015

Monday News: Voat, Authors Guild, Go Set A Watchman, and Comic-Con

JanetPublishing NewsAuthors Guild / censorship / Comic-Con / digital royalties / Free Speech / publishing / reddit / Voat17 Comments

Welcome to Voat: Reddit killer, troll haven, and the strange face of internet free speech -With the recent trouble at Reddit — from charges of corporate-minded censorship (the platform is owned by Conde Nast) to the controversy over Ellen Pao’s termination (both from those who protested her position and those ... more >

June 26, 2015

Friday News: The Over-Reach Edition

JanetPublishing NewsApple / censorship / Confederate flag / Free Speech / gag order / music / sexual harassment / subpoena / Vine2 Comments

DoJ’s Gag Order On Reason Has Been Lifted — But The Real Story Is More Outrageous Than We Thought – You may be familiar with the frightening and bizarre federal grand jury subpoena and gag order served on Reason, the first to get the identities of several inflammatory commenters, and ... more >

April 28, 2015

Tuesday News: Speech and its Consequences

JanetPublishing Newscritique / Free Speech / hate speech / parody / racism / Satire2 Comments

Six PEN Members Decline Gala After Award for Charlie Hebdo – The PEN Literary Awards recognize artistic excellence and free expression, and this year’s Freedom of Expression Courage Award is being given to French satirical magazine Charlie Hedbo, a decision that has caused six PEN writers to pull out of the ... more >

April 14, 2015

Tuesday News: The SFF and Speech Edition

JanetPublishing News"hard" SF / Free Speech / gender / harassment / hate speech / Hugos / online speech / SFF / stalking / writing10 Comments

To the Hard Members of the Truthy SF Club – I readily admit that I am an outsider to the SFF community, although I have read within the genre since graduate school. I have read many discussions of the difference between so-called “hard” and “soft” SF, but I especially enjoyed ... more >

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