Publishing Newscriminal law / diversity / films / First-Amendment / Google / harassment / Hawaii / intent / menstruation / photos / speech / Supreme Court / taboos / threats / women's health7 Comments
Supreme Court Overturns Conviction in Online Threats Case, Citing Intent – Although this opinion was released on Monday, I wanted the chance to skim the opinion before reporting on it, in part because the decision was being received as failing victims of online harassment. I disagree with that statement, at ... more >
Publishing News"hard" SF / Free Speech / gender / harassment / hate speech / Hugos / online speech / SFF / stalking / writing10 Comments
To the Hard Members of the Truthy SF Club – I readily admit that I am an outsider to the SFF community, although I have read within the genre since graduate school. I have read many discussions of the difference between so-called “hard” and “soft” SF, but I especially enjoyed ... more >
Publishing NewsArt / Auschwitz / bookstores / digital books / Gamergate / gender / harassment / History / Kobo / Misogyny / optical illusions / oral history / print books / representation / World War II2 Comments
Mixed Results for Bricks-and-Mortar Stores with Digital Content – Many independent bookstores have been making a comeback, in large part from the strength of print books. However, according to this article, when it comes to digital, the brick and mortar bookselling industry has not figured out exactly what their place ... more >
Publishing Newscrowdfunding / digital publishing / gender / harassment / Harry-Potter / intelligence / patriarchy / reader engagement18 Comments
How the New York Times Measures “Love” – A transcript of the Digital Book World presentation by New York Times Director of News Analytics James Robinson, who spoke on the way the newspaper measures reader engagement. One of the more interesting aspects of this short talk is the way he ... more >
Letters of Opinionauthors / commercial speech / community / harassment / power / readers / risk / stalking125 Comments
I had originally intended to write a follow-up post to last week’s piece on feminism and the Romance genre, but the enormous Kickstarter debate kicked me back to a post on authors and power I had intended to write some months back after the Kathleen Hale incident. During that debate, ... more >
Publishing Newsdetective fiction / doxxing / harassment / marriage proposal / monetizing content / mystery / privacy / social network / television series14 Comments
JK Rowling ‘to collaborate’ with BBC on Cormoran Strike TV adaptation – The stories of Robert Galbraith, aka JK Rowling, will be adapted by the BBC to television in collaboration with the author. Television will definitely provide the opportunity to keep the stories going for a significant length of time. ... more >