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November 8, 2016

Tuesday News: Perceiving genre, flashback to Fanny Hill, gender & anonymity, and book cover bags

JanetPublishing 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 >

September 29, 2015

Tuesday News: Banned Books Week, blurbs, books in the visual arts, and Neil deGrasse Tyson’s book recs

JanetPublishing 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 >

April 2, 2015

Thursday News: Three’s Company parody prevails, authorial agency and commercialism, Fresh Romance Kickstarter, and Nature’s April Fool’s joke

JanetPublishing 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 >

February 26, 2015

Thursday News: RIP Bertrice Small, Apple loses another lawsuit, Hollywood and originality, and requiem for a bookstore

JanetPublishing 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 >

January 26, 2015

Monday News: Wikipedia v. feminism, Cara McKenna on author earnings, funny FSOG video, and romance flowchart

JanetPublishing 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 >

August 12, 2014

The Marketing of Slave Fantasy: A Bridge Too Far?

JanetLetters 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 >

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