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March 15, 2016

Tuesday News: Harper Lee’s estate, “Moneyball” for books, and more book art

JanetPublishing Newsbook analytics / book art / copyright / Harper Lee / mass market paperback / publishing / Reader Habits8 Comments

Harper Lee’s Estate’s First Order Of Business: Kill Off The Cheap Version Of To Kill A Mockingbird – If you were one of the people who was suspicious of the circumstances under which Lee’s Go Set A Watchman was published, this will likely raise your other eyebrow: according to this Techdirt article, Harper ... more >

February 22, 2016

Monday News: Harper Lee, Umberto Eco, and Antonin Scalia

JanetPublishing NewsAmerican literature / Antonin Scalia / Harper Lee / law / Legacies / Literary Criticism / obituaries / Race / semiotics / The Name of the Rose / To Kill a Mockingbird / Umberto Eco9 Comments

Go Set a Legacy: The Fate of Harper Lee – Harper Lee’s death on Friday has generated a number of excellent chronicles of her life (like this one from AL.com). It has also spurred several inevitable discussions about her literary legacy, especially because of the cloudy circumstances around last year’s publication ... more >

November 27, 2015

Friday News: A bunch of unrelated stuff

JanetPublishing Newsbook exchanges / Harper Lee / HarperCollins / Libraries / publishing / sex / signed books / technology / writing advice3 Comments

On Sex in Fiction – So let’s start with the good. Yes, it’s another one of those author-written semi-promotional pieces, but it also happens to be a nice little companion piece to the several pieces on writing sex we’ve been discussing in recent news posts (and I can’t remember the last ... more >

August 7, 2015

Friday News: Beginnings and Endings

JanetPublishing NewsAfrican American / Green Book / Harper Lee / Jon Stewart / paperbacks / Penguin Classics / travel guides8 Comments

PENGUIN BOOKS AT 80 – Do you remember those wonderful Penguin Classics paperbacks? It would be many years later before I realized that Penguin published other things. In fact, early Penguins were all about affordable quality and broad access, selling in the UK at a mere sixpence in 1935. Eighty ... more >

July 17, 2015

Friday News: debut novels, anti-privacy regulations, thoughts on the confederate flag, and “letters” to an editor

JanetPublishing Newsbook recommendations / Harper Lee / Internet / Kenya / privacy / Race / Satire1 Comments

Writers to Watch: Fall 2015: Anticipated Debuts -Publishers Weekly has posted a list of debut novels for fall, and frankly some of the stories of how these books got published sound as interesting as the books themselves. Ruth Galm’s Into the Valley, for example, was published from Soho Press’ slush ... more >

July 9, 2015

Thursday News: Tattoos as book marketing, gearing up for Go Set a Watchman, Nook closing international store, and Alex Ross illustrates the Beatles

JanetPublishing NewsArt / Beatles / Comics / digital books / Hachette Australia / Harper Lee / marketing / Nook / tattoos12 Comments

The desperate book industry and ‘tatvertising’ are a perfect, tragic match – I don’t even know what to say about this, beyond WHAT THE FUCK ARE THEY THINKING?!? Hachette Australia has announced an open casting call for a woman who is willing to “donate” her back for a large, permanent ... more >

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