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April 19, 2016

Tuesday News: 100th Pulitzer Prizes, wine train book club settles suit, SCOTUS turns down Authors Guild, and Russia’s “womanhood schools”

JanetPublishing NewsAuthors Guild / Book-club / digital books / discrimination / Google / lawsuit / marriage / Pulitzer-Prize / Russia7 Comments

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 >

February 10, 2016

Wednesday News: Kenyon v. Clare, Editions at Play, Star Trek Continues, and Disney’s maybe-meta

JanetPublishing 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 >

January 22, 2016

Friday News: Google & Apple, digital ownership, Internet predictions, and angry redditors

JanetPublishing NewsAMA / Apple / copyright infringement / digital books / future predictions DMCA / Google / Internet / license / Oracle / reddit8 Comments

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 >

December 18, 2015

Friday News: Reading for facts, Google’s tracking, 2015 books, and Star Wars wedding

JanetPublishing Newsbest of list / Google / privacy / Star Wars / theme weddings / user tracking3 Comments

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 >

November 20, 2015

Friday News: National Book Awards, YouTube’s Fair Use advocacy, marketing apps, and Twitter’s TV hopefuls

JanetPublishing Newsapps / copyright / Fair Use / Google / legal defense / literary awards / marketing / National Book Awards / software / television / Twitter / YouTubeComments Off on Friday News: National Book Awards, YouTube’s Fair Use advocacy, marketing apps, and Twitter’s TV hopefuls

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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November 9, 2015

Monday News: Romance bookstore, race in children’s lit, Germany & copyright, and NaNoWriMo

JanetPublishing Newsbookstores / children's literature / copyright law / diversity / Germany / Google / Kickstarter / NaNoWriMo / Race / snippets / stereotypes7 Comments

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 >

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