Publishing NewsAustralia / book game / book-covers / hidden bias / Hugos / literary awards / readers survey / Romance / SFF8 Comments
Project Implicit – All of the discussion around the Wine Train incident made me wonder how many people have taken the Harvard Implicit Association Test. It measures that unconscious bias that all of us have about any number of people, ideas, behaviors, etc. One of the things that makes the ... more >
Publishing Newsaudiobook / harassment / Hugos / John Scalzi / music / parody / Stephen-King / Worldcon4 Comments
SASQUAN, EXIT STAGE LEFT – You may have been following the situation with Lou Antonelli, who had written a letter to the Spokane, Washington police about David Gerrold, who was being honored at the upcoming Worldcon. Antonelli indicated that he thought Gerrold was dangerous and other inflammatory things, an action ... more >
Publishing NewsComics / copyright / fandoms / Hacking / Hugos / infringement / intellectual property / Manga / privacy / SFF / social media / Sony / Tumblr1 Comments
Sony pirated ebooks on hacking – Several site, including Boing Boing, are reporting that copies of two O’Reilly books available in PDF form on Sony’s internal servers, and part of The Hack, are pirated (which is ironic, since they’re books on hacking). The books are availably via Wikileaks, and recently ... more >
Publishing NewsAmazon / Comic books / David Gerrod / digital publishing / Harper Collins / Hugos / politics / PopSugar / Rakuten13 Comments
HarperCollins and Amazon in Multiyear Publishing Deal – Although the terms of the agreement are still private, Harper Collins has signed a new contract with Amazon, forestalling the possibility of a public conflict or the absence of HC books for sale via Amazon. One thing I find interesting is that ... 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 NewsAmazon / awards / digital books / gender / Hachette Livre / Hugos / publishing / reading / SFF / subscription services4 Comments
The Hugo Awards Were Always Political. But Now They’re Only Political. – So if you follow SFF closely or casually, you have probably heard that the so-called Sad Puppies slate of nominees has manages to make the ballot — not in all categories, but enough that it has substantially skewed ... more >