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Harry Potter series: Britain’s spy agency alerted books’ publisher to possible online leaked copy – The lengths that Bloomsbury, Harry Potter’s UK publisher, have gone to keep the books under wraps until their publication date are as jaw dropping as the attempts to get early copies. Government surveillance, attempts to bribe a ... more >
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To Achieve Diversity In Publishing, A Difficult Dialogue Beats Silence – A thought-provoking post about how much change needs to come to publishing in order to truly diversify both the industry and the literary voices that are brought to the public. Not only do more and different stories need to ... more >
Publishing NewsAdobe / Audre Lorde / book reviewing / digital books / DRM / Gawker / gender / HarperCollins / India / infographic / intellectual property / James Baldwin / RaceComments Off on Tuesday News: Tarantino sues Gawker, James Baldwin and Audre Lorde converse, digital publishing is growing in India, successful books are vivisected, and more questions emerge about new Adobe DRM strategy
Quentin Tarantino sues Gawker for circulating ‘Hateful Eight’ script – Well, this might be interesting. I say “might” because who knows if the case will ever see the inside of a courtroom. There’s a lot going on here, beyond the question of intellectual property rights. Tarantino’s camp obviously wants to ... more >