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100th Pulitzer prizes announced – Journalism awards, in particular, stood out this year, with the Los Angeles Times winning for their breaking coverage of the San Bernadino shooting, and digital media ProPublica and the Marshall Project’s collaborative win for explanatory reporting. The full list of winners can be found here, and ... more >
Publishing NewsAladdin / Beauty-and-the-Beast / Cassandra Clare / copyright / crowdfunding / Dark-Hunter / Disney / Ebooks / Edition at Play / fan-works / Google / infringement / lawsuit / Shadowhunter / Sherrilyn Kenyon / Star Trek / trademark14 Comments
Copyright Clash Over Demon-Fighting Stories – So Sherrilyn Kenyon is suing Cassandra Clare for copyright infringement, trademark infringement, and false advertising, claiming that Clare’s “Shadowhunter” series infringes on Kenyon’s “Dark-Huner” series. According to the article above, Kenyon seeks an injunction, compensatory damages, and lost profits. Jane summarizes some of the relevant ... more >
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Google Paid Apple $1 Billion to Keep Search Bar on iPhone – When I read this headline, I hear Dr. Evil in my head, repeating “one billion dollars” over and over. Whereas Oracle, in their suit against Google for infringement of copyright over their Java software, likely doesn’t think it’s ... more >
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The Best Facts I Learned from Books in 2015 – So Historical Romance readers aren’t the only ones who enjoy learning stuff from fiction. This list from Kathryn Schulz of the top ten things she learned in 2015 expresses what she refers to as the “literary pleasure of facts,” and I think ... more >
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Ta-Nehisi Coates Wins National Book Award – The least surprising, but nevertheless moving, win of the night was Ta-Nehisi Coates for his non-fiction work, Between the World and Me. Adam Johnson won the award for Fiction, Neal Shusterman for Young People’s Literature, Robin Coste Lewis for Poetry, James Patterson won the Literarian Award, and Don DeLillo won ... more >
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Romance, Perception, Plagiarism, and Ripped Bodices – You may have heard about the Kickstarter campaign to start an all Romance bookstore in Los Angeles. The store’s name, The Ripped Bodice, is stirring up controversy (surprise!), and there have been numerous conversations on Twitter about whether the name is an homage and ... more >