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November 9, 2015

Monday News: Romance bookstore, race in children’s lit, Germany & copyright, and NaNoWriMo

JanetPublishing Newsbookstores / children's literature / copyright law / diversity / Germany / Google / Kickstarter / NaNoWriMo / Race / snippets / stereotypes7 Comments

Romance, Perception, Plagiarism, and Ripped Bodices – You may have heard about the Kickstarter campaign to start an all Romance bookstore in Los Angeles. The store’s name, The Ripped Bodice, is stirring up controversy (surprise!), and there have been numerous conversations on Twitter about whether the name is an homage and ... more >

February 24, 2015

Tuesday News: New Sherlock Holmes story, emoji diversity, 50 Shades v. Secretary, and undelivered Kickstarters

JanetPublishing NewsApple. emojis / BDSM / crowdfunding / diversity / Fifty Shades / games / gender / Kickstarter / sexual fantasy / Sherlock Holmes8 Comments

Lost Sherlock Holmes story discovered in man’s attic – Arthur Conan Doyle contributed a short story to a small book produced to support the building of an iron bridge in Selkirk, Scotland, after the original wood bridge was destroyed. Conan Doyle was apparently a frequent visitor to Selkirk and a ... more >

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January 16, 2015

Friday News: upcoming romance conference, fake memoir pulled, sexist internet comments, and Kickstarter’s trends

JanetPublishing Newsautobiography / conference / crowdfunding / fake memoir / gender / genre critique / Kickstarter / Literary Criticism / Romance / sexism7 Comments

Library to Host Conference, “What Is Love? Romance Fiction in the Digital Age,” Feb. 10-11 – Next month Harlequin will be sponsoring a conference on Romance at the Library of Congress. Conference program and registration information can be found here. It looks like the Popular Romance Project is also a ... more >

September 24, 2014

Wednesday News: Protecting library records for digital books, sexual harassment against librarians, self-published author’s new Kickstarter campaign, and cookies gone wrong

JanetPublishing Newscrowd sourced funding / defamation / digital books / digital lending / feminism / instant video / Kickstarter / librarians / Libraries / privacy / security / sexual harassment19 Comments

New Jersey Passes New Reader Privacy Act, Expanding Laws to Cover eBooks – New Jersey just became the third US state (along with California and Arizona) to pass a law that extends library patron privacy to digital books. I’m not sure how much attention those in the US paid to ... more >

May 29, 2014

Thursday News: RIP Maya Angelou, Tor’s new DRM-free imprint, LeVar Burton Kickstarts Reading Rainbow, and books featuring bookworms

JanetPublishing Newsbookworms / digital publishing / DRM / Kickstarter / literacy / Maya Angelou / obituary / top 10 lists / Tor17 Comments

Maya Angelou’s TV legacy, from ‘Roots’ to ‘Sesame Street,’ ‘Super Soul’ – A fantastic tribute to Maya Angelou, who died on Wednesday at the age of 86. Angelou was not only a celebrated poet and novelist, but she also acted, danced, consulted on documentaries and educational television and film projects, ... more >

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March 7, 2014

Friday News: The “Average” Barbie, the dark side of Kickstarter, the art of re-reading, and Harlequin’s declining revenues

JanetPublishing Newsbody image / Comics / digital books / Harlequin / Kickstarter / readers18 Comments

The New Barbie: Meet the Doll with an Average Woman’s Proportions – Remember the artist’s rendering of what an “average” Barbie would look like? Well, Nickolay Lamm decided to take his vision and make it a reality, raising $95,000 on Kickstarter to design and manufacture his own doll. to be ... more >

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