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September 3, 2014

Wednesday News: The Washington Post’s new CEO, Disney v Deadmau5, pseudonymity enhances commenting, and red “warps the mind” (?)

JanetPublishing NewsAmazon / anonymity / color psychology / commenting / Disney / Jeff Bezos / journalism / lawsuit / moderation / newspaper / pseudonyms / speech / trademark / washington post6 Comments

Jeff Bezos Ends Washington Post Publishing Dynasty With Politico Alum – So after a year of owning The Washington Post, Jeff Bezos is replacing Publisher and CEO Katharine Graham Weymouth with Frederick J. Ryan, Jr., a former member of Ronald Reagan’s presidential administration and co-founder of Politico. Weymouth will be ... more >

July 24, 2014

Thursday News: Popular French blogger sued, authors hope to solve the Amazon-Hachette dispute, a bookmark that “reminds” readers to finish a book, and a case of real life amnesia

JanetPublishing NewsAmazon / amnesia / authors / Authors United / blogging / Google / Hachette / lawsuit / readers / reviews / technology19 Comments

French blogger fined over review’s Google search placing – This is super-crazy and super-scary. A French blogger who wrote a negative restaurant review was ruled against because she had a significant blog following and because the review placed too high in the Google rankings. The French judge who made this ... more >

June 24, 2014

Tuesday News: People want bigger phones, independent booksellers capitalize on Hachette v. Amazon, Open Road responds to Harper Collins, and literary miscellany

JanetPublishing NewsAmazon / authors / contract / digital publishing / ebook royalties / Hachette / Harper Collins / lawsuit / Literary fiction / Open Road12 Comments

Survey Says: People Want Bigger Phones – Dear Apple, what is that they say — change or die? Remember the olden days when you were the underdogs, the upstarts, the revolutionaries? What happened, Apple? Please don’t make me buy a Galaxy Note. Please. XOXO, Me Of the 23,000 people polled ... more >

June 4, 2014

Wednesday News: The FCC invites comments on Net Neutrality, Apple disappoints (again), alleged plagiarism in 1D fan fiction, and Writer’s Coffee Shop owner is sued for millions

JanetPublishing News50 Shades / Apple / fan-fiction / FCC / lawsuit / net neutrality / plagiarism / real person fiction / Royalties / software16 Comments

John Oliver’s Net neutrality response swamps FCC – I’m posting this story to serve as a reminder that the public comment period for the FCC’s new Net Neutrality proposal is open until July 15th. It’s also a pretty funny anecdote about how comedian John Oliver directed people to the FCC ... more >

May 13, 2014

Tuesday News: Fake memoirist must pay back publisher; made-to-order libraries; preserving digital books; and 100-year old how-to manuals

JanetPublishing Newscopyright / digital publishing / DRM / Ebooks / History / Holocaust / lawsuit / Libraries / Memoirs10 Comments

Author of fake Holocaust memoir ordered to return $22.5m to publisher – In another chapter of the strange case of Misha Defonseca, the author of the fake Holocaust Memoir has been ordered by a judge to return $22.5 million that she won in another suit against her US publisher. Defonseca’s ... more >

May 2, 2014

Friday News: Harlequin authors win some and lose some, Toronto Public Library releases proposed banning list, Free Comic Book Day is this Saturday, and win $1000 for deciphering margin notes

JanetPublishing Newscensorship / Comic books / contests / Harlequin / lawsuit / Libraries / Royalties / translation31 Comments

Updated by Jane to add: This morning it was announced that News Corp. will buy Harlequin for close to a half billion dollars and that Harlequin will become a division of HarperCollins. The “Harlequin as a division of HC” is worrisome to me. When Penguin and Random House merged, each ... more >

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