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September 9, 2015

Wednesday News: Best American Poetry?, Sci-Fi by women of color, women & marriage, and celebrity parody on Istagram

JanetPublishing Newsappropriation / diversity / education / Fantasy / gender / Instagram / marriage / Orientalism / parody / poetry / pseudonym / Race / Science Fiction / stereotypes6 Comments

Yi-Fen Chou and the Man Who Wore Her – You may be following the fallout from the revelation that one of the poets whose work is included in the Sherman Alexie edited volume of the Best American Poetry 2015 is a white man who assumed the pseudonym of a fictitious ... more >

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September 4, 2015

Friday News: ebook sales drop, female representation in tech already dropped, punctuation evolves, and Sociality Barbie rules

JanetPublishing NewsAgency pricing / Amazon / Barbie / Ebooks / gender / History / Instagram / parody / publishing / punctuation / Satire / technology18 Comments

E-Book Sales Fall After New Amazon Contract – Is anyone surprised? Or rather, does anyone really think that publishers care? Given traditional publishing’s reliance on the hardcover, what, precisely, is the incentive to encourage higher ebook sales? In fact, the comment below about higher sales of paper books suggests a belief ... more >

September 3, 2015

Thursday News: Books can change your life; is reading dangerous; publishing and diversity; trends in online engagement

JanetPublishing NewsBooks / censorship / diversity / education / Facebook / gender / Internet / poetry / prison / publishing / Race / Twitter3 Comments

Yes, One Book Can Change Your Life, Even In Prison – Reginald Dwayne Betts Jr. is a poet. He is also a memoirist with an MFA and a third (and final) year student at Yale Law School. And he got his start reading and writing poetry in prison, where he ... more >

July 31, 2015

Friday News: VidCon’s science stars, taking a closer look at comics, and Beloit’s Mindset List

JanetPublishing Newscollege students / Comics / gender / Green brothers / identity politics / Race / video / YouTube3 Comments

YouTube’s Rock Stars of Science Make a Splash at VidCon – Given the sexual assault scandals associated with VidCon, I was pleasantly surprised by the success of science bloggers and their popularity at VidCon. I would have been pretty excited to listen to Emily Graslie myself. With tens of millions ... more >

July 30, 2015

Thursday News: celebrating Romance, restricting books, rewriting Little Women, and erasing women’s history

JanetPublishing Newsbest of list / book banning / dystopian / gender / Louisa May Alcott / museum / npr / television adaptation / women's history / YA11 Comments

Happy Ever After: 100 Swoon-Worthy Romances – An interesting list that at the very least reflects the difficulty in making any kind of “best of” list. If that’s what this is. We get back, pretty quickly, to the question of what makes a Romance novel effective, and what “good” or “best” ... more >

July 24, 2015

Friday News: ATT & DirecTV merger, RockNRoll bride photo shoot, Golden Heart/RITA lifestream, and translating books

JanetPublishing NewsAlice in Wonderland / book translations / broadband / cable tv / gender / literary awards / monopoly / photography / RWA / wedding dresses2 Comments

Consumer groups say FCC conditions on AT&T-DirecTV merger fall short – Amazingly enough (aka not surprisingly), the Department of Justice has signaled that they don’t find the merger of AT&T and DirectTV “did not appear to be anti-competitive.” AT&T, which is purchasing DirecTV for $49 billion, has met with some conditions ... more >

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