Publishing Newsalgorithms / anonymity / book bags / book-covers / Fanny Hill / gender / genre / obscenity3 Comments
Deep Neural Network Learns to Judge Books by Their Covers – Two researchers at Japan’s Kyushu University – Brian Kenji Iwana and Seiichi Uchida – created an algorithm to detect genre by book cover image. Although their results were not stunning (exact match only 20% of the time and top three 40% ... more >
Publishing NewsALA / Artists / Banned-Books / best of list / book blurbs / genre / Libraries / visual arts1 Comments
Celebrating the Freedom to Read: Sept. 27- Oct. 3, 2015 – A piece of clickbait from Slate reminded me yesterday that this week is Banned Books Week. After the few seconds during which I lamented the deterioration of Slate (and Salon – what the ever loving hell happened there?!), I found ... more >
Publishing NewsApril Fools Day / authors' moral rights / Clean Reader / copyright / crowdfunding / diversity / dragons / Fair Use / genre / infringement / parody / reader expectations / Romance18 Comments
Play Reimagining ‘Three’s Company’ Wins Case – This is sort of a good news/bad news situation. The good news is that the play “3C,” which parodies the television series “Three’s Company,” has prevailed in federal court as transformative and therefore not infringing on DLT Entertainment’s copyright over the television show. ... more >
Publishing NewsApple / Beatrice Small / bookstores / DRM / films / genre / iTunes / obituary / patent infringement5 Comments
Remembering Bertrice Small: 1937 – 2015 – Despite the lack of formal obituaries for Beatrice Small (and what is up with THAT???), RT Book Reviews has a nice tribute to the late author (she was only 77), with memories from other authors and industry professionals, as well as some great ... 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 >
Letters of Opinionerotica / genre / marketing / Riptide / Romance / slave fantasy25 Comments
If you’ve been on Twitter the past couple of days, you may have seen the minor skirmish over Riptide’s Belongingverse, a website created in 2011 by Rachel Haimowitz and presented via Riptide Publishing, which straddled the line between book promotion and slave fantasy content like classified ads for the purchase of human ... more >