Publishing Newsaudiobooks / book art / DRM / graphic novels / History / kid lit / subscription servicesComments Off on Monday News: Indie audiobooks, kids’ subscription services, Harlem Hellfighters, and book art
Libro.fm Launches Audiobook Subscriptions – Libro.fm is now offering a DRM-free audiobook subscription service for the same price as Audible’s Gold level ($15 a month). With more than 70,000 books and the possibility of listening on iOS and Android, let’s hope we see a viable alternative to the current DRM-ed audio monopoly. ... more >
Publishing NewsBig Read / Book Awards / Comic-Con / Comics / diversity / female superheroes / graphic novels / NEAComments Off on Thursday News: PEN book prize, women in comics, graphic books, and NEA’s Big Read discovers the 21st C
PEN America launches $75,000 book prize, one of the country’s biggest – Book awards are important for many reasons, not the least of which is the monetary infusion they can provide an author. The Pulitzer, despite its prestige, comes with a $10K award, while the Nobel Prize is $1M. The new ... more >
Publishing NewsBook Awards / diversity / free books / graphic novels / John Grisham / medicine / reading / World Book Day6 Comments
John Grisham thinks his new book is so important he’s giving it away for free – Grisham, who was invited by his University of Virginian neurosurgeon friend, Neal Kassell, to join the board of Kassel’s Focused Ultrasound Foundation, believed so strongly in the potential for the technology to extend lives that ... more >
Publishing Newsart history / Bollywood / creativity / gender / graphic novels / India / Jewish artists / Johnnie Christmas / Leonardo da Vinci / Margaret Atwood / Mona Lisa / silent films1 Comments
The Creativity Bias against Women – A paper written by three researchers at Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business shows that in certain work environments, men are perceived to be more creative than women, especially in fields that are more dominated by or associated with male characteristics (e.g. Architecture showed the ... more >
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Plan ‘B’: How A Feminist Comic Book Found Devoted Fans Through Absurdity – A great interview with Kelly Sue DeConnick on the origins of the comic Bitch Planet, the first five issues of which were released this week as a graphic novel. DeConnick talks about how being pigeonholed as an “angry feminist,” ... more >
Publishing NewsAuthor Solutions / Barnes and Noble / DRM / graphic novels / Nook / parody / The Bachelor / theater7 Comments
Barnes & Noble’s Dirty Little Secret: Author Solutions and Nook Press – So Barnes and Noble continues to disappoint, this time via the author services it started advertising a few months ago. What they did not reveal at the time (nor presently, for that matter) is that they are outsourcing ... more >