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September 15, 2016

Thursday News: Twitter streaming, on not reading, WSJ bookclub, and favoring sons

JanetPublishing Newsbook clubs / gender bias / parenting / reading / Twitter6 Comments

Twitter app brings free NFL games to Apple TV, Amazon Fire TV, and the Xbox One – Twitter is branching out (and trying to cash in) by having a version of its app on Apple TV, Amazon Fire TV, and Microsoft’s Xbox One, where it’s all about live streaming (although you can ... more >

January 26, 2016

Tuesday News: Amazon, the OED, Apple, and Letters Bookshop

JanetPublishing NewsAmazon / Apple / bookstores / customer service / gender bias / OED / security / sleep11 Comments

Amazon’s customer service backdoor – A very frightening account of how customer service can give someone trying to get your personal information, including a credit card number, a “backdoor,” as long as they have enough details (name, email address) to provide to the customer service agent. One commenter notes that he ... more >

August 5, 2015

Wednesday News: creativity, gender, parenthood, and “lady authors”

JanetPublishing Newsemployment / employment law / gender bias / maternity leave / paternity leave / photography / publishing4 Comments

Homme de Plume: What I Learned Sending My Novel Out Under a Male Name – A fascinating and frustrating piece by Catherine Nichols on her experience sending out her book manuscript under her own name and under a man’s name. Not only did she get more responses with a male pseudonym, ... more >

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January 9, 2014

Thursday News: Wattpad’s record year; Women in science and on the internet; Marketing your ebook; and More cool gadgets

JanetPublishing NewsEbooks / gender bias / marketing / smartphones / wattpad10 Comments

Wattpad Year in Review – 2013 – Wattpad had an impressive year. If converted to paper, they claim the totality of Wattpad stories in 2013 would weigh more than 1,000 elephants. Among the amazingness, they report that 7,544,914 pieces of fan fiction were uploaded to Wattpad, and material was available ... more >

May 13, 2013

Monday News: Mark Coker of Smashwords suggests that $3.99 is the new black; Copyright reform for consumers introduced to Congress; Gender hypocrisy exists outside romance

JanePublishing Newsbook prices / book-covers / copyright / Fantasy Romance / gender bias / Smashwords3 Comments

Smashwords: New Smashwords Survey Helps Authors Sell More eBooks – Mark Coker shares some Smashwords data with the public. How much of this can be extrapolated to overall sales is unknown. Some interesting points include that the #1 bestselling book outsells the #500 by 37 times in total revenue; longer ... more >

February 28, 2013

Thursday News: Gender swap thoughts in 2000; Irene Adler’s character assassination; and Jacqueline Mitchard’s earrings

JanePublishing Newsgender bias / Library / Young-Adult29 Comments

Hingston: Kill the hardcover, please – From Reader Lana is this opinion piece in the Edmonton Journal calling for the end of the hardcover. The hardcover is currently the biggest money making item for publishers. Hingston argues that no one wants the hardcover any longer and not just because of ... more >

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