Publishing NewsApple / Disney / Gamergate / macabre comedy / meditation / Microsoft / online harassment / SXSW / Tablets4 Comments
Exclusive: After Gamergate Misstep, SXSW Weighing an All-Day Forum on Online Harassment – So following the backlash against SXSW’s announcement to pull two panels on gaming, and perhaps even more importantly, the news that Buzzfeed and Vox Media would not participate in the event unless organizers reinstated the panels, it appears ... more >
Publishing 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 >
Publishing NewsArt / Auschwitz / bookstores / digital books / Gamergate / gender / harassment / History / Kobo / Misogyny / optical illusions / oral history / print books / representation / World War II2 Comments
Mixed Results for Bricks-and-Mortar Stores with Digital Content – Many independent bookstores have been making a comeback, in large part from the strength of print books. However, according to this article, when it comes to digital, the brick and mortar bookselling industry has not figured out exactly what their place ... more >
Publishing Newsauthors / earnings / feminism / Fifty Shades / Gamergate / genre / Misogyny / publishing / Romance / Wikipedia11 Comments
Wikipedia Purged a Group of Feminist Editors Because of Gamergate – This story was originally published in a media outlet I refuse to link to in the DA news anymore, but Gawker and several other sites have the basic facts (which, of course, are disputed in comments, especially at Pando ... more >
Publishing Newsbest of list / contraception / defamation / Gamergate / gender / Halloween / harassment / lawsuit / Misogyny / Satire4 Comments
‘American Hustle’ Sued by Microwave Expert … The Movie Nuked My Reputation! – Sooooo, if you’ve ever seen the movie “American Hustle,” you likely remember the scene where Jennifer Lawrence’s character passive aggressively blows up their microwave by trying to cook food in a metal pan. When her husband laments ... more >
Publishing NewsAdobe / algorithms / Facebook / film adaptation / Gamergate / reading / Relationships / timeline / Twitter39 Comments
If you don’t like algorithmic filters, you’re probably not going to like the future of Twitter – So it looks like Twitter is, indeed, starting to model itself a bit more after Facebook, at least with its anticipated move to algorithmically filtered timelines. Ironically, this change seems to privilege intermittent ... more >