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December 9, 2015

Wednesday News: Creativity, graphic novels, Bollywood, and the Mona Lisa

JanetPublishing 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 >

October 8, 2015

Thursday News: On being outside the box

JanetPublishing Newscard catalog / Comics / feminism / gender / graphic novels / Halloween costume / Library / masculinity8 Comments

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 >

March 5, 2015

Thursday News: Barnes and Noble does it again, the graphic novel gets a NY show, and a funny Bachelor parody

JanetPublishing 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 >

January 22, 2015

Thursday News: a different view of ebooks, Carly Phillips joins Kindle Worlds, women and Hollywood, and cool graphic novel on art

JanetPublishing NewsArt / book-sales / Carly Phillips / digital publishing / Ebooks / fan-fiction / filmmaking / gender / genres / graphic novels / Hollywood / Kindle Worlds / Race10 Comments

What Nielsen Bookscan data tells us about ebook sales cycles & the ebook plateau – This is a great piece that takes some of the other analytical treatments of ebook data and subjects them to a different set of questions and inferences. So instead of stopping at the point where ... more >

Bayou Arcana Promises
December 30, 2011

Friday Links of News & Deals: Amazon the Bully, Readers in need of help (me), and How to get an ebook refund

JaneBook Deals / Publishing NewsComics / Deals / French-Revolution / graphic novels / Harlequin Medical Romance / medical romance / Smashwords45 Comments

News Bayou Arcana is due out in the UK shortly. I can’t find it in the U.S. but it is a “southern gothic” horror anthology that brings together an all female team of artists and all male team of writers. From the Guardian: “There is a certain sensitivity that you ... more >

DA Industry News
October 13, 2011

Thursday Midday Posts: DRM Efficacy Questioned by Game Theory, Amazon Launches New Imprint, Kobo + WH Smith

JanePublishing NewsAmazon / book-sales / Charlaine Harris / digital rights management / graphic novels61 Comments

Amazon launched its science fiction, fantasy and horror line called 47North. It’s lined up some big names in scifi with the launched of 15 books “including ‘The Mongoliad: Book One,’ the first in the ambitious, five-book, collaborative Foreworld series led by Neal Stephenson and Greg Bear. All of these books ... more >

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