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January 3, 2018

Wednesday News: suing RT, collecting from Joyce, reading like Bowie, and snapping readers

JanetPublishing Newsbook clubs / copyright / David Bowie / defamation / Fair Use / lawsuits / photography / privacy / pseudonyms5 Comments

Pseudonymous litigation, and alleged skulduggery in the world of romance novelists – I missed this story in September, but a DA reader kindly submitted it for the news, and it is definitely news. Author Randi Alexander and model/musician Jackson Young (both pseudonyms), are suing Kathryn Falk, Romantic Times, and Gracie ... more >

March 21, 2017

Tuesday News: Culling libraries, Cory Doctorow’s publishing platform, why the Oxford comma rules, and Chuck Berry’s genius

JanetPublishing NewsChuck Berry / Cory Doctorow / lawsuits / Libraries / Oxford comma / publishing / rock music6 Comments

Dilemma for librarians: Keep thousands of books or donate them? – Libraries, like all collections, must be curated, and part of that process is ensuring that books on the shelves are both in good condition and in good standing, historically speaking. At what point does a book become outdated, for example, ... more >

December 13, 2016

Tuesday News: AI & storytelling, the dangerous apology, 100 strangers write a book, and more bookish gifts

JanetPublishing Newsdefamation / gifts / lawsuits / storytelling / technology / writing a book5 Comments

Spoiler Alert: Artificial Intelligence Can Predict How Scenes Will Play Out – Although still at a very early stage, this technology is a step forward in the ability for machines to predict how a scene will play out, which has implications for everything from automatic video tagging in Facebook to self-driving ... more >

December 12, 2016

Monday News: Romance survey, Adblock Plus unblocked in Germany, history of women composers, and bookish kid gifts

JanetPublishing Newsad blockers / children / female composers / Germany / gifts / lawsuits / research / Romance survey2 Comments

Survey Time! – Donna Marie Hanson has asked us to post the link to two surveys she has put together as part of her dissertation research (at the University of Canberra) on popular Romance novels. I have not looked at either survey myself, yet, so I cannot provide any details beyond what ... more >

February 23, 2016

Tuesday News: Jewel v. NSA, publishing kid lit in Russia, serial killer’s book, and Hachette v. Mottola

JanetPublishing Newsbreach of contract / children's lit / international publishing / lawsuits / Memoir / privacy / Russia / Son of Sam laws / surveillance5 Comments

Court Says EFF Can Move Forward With Discovery In Its Big Case Against NSA Surveillance – Despite a number of legal setbacks, the Electronic Frontier Foundation scored a huge victory last week when Judge Jeffrey White gave plaintiffs the right to proceed with discovery. Not only is this case notable because ... more >

February 1, 2016

Monday News: A singular bookstore, 50 Shades lawsuit damages, and the whiteness of publishing

JanePublishing Newsbookstores / diversity / lawsuits5 Comments

  Arlington woman wins $11.5 million in Fifty Shades of Grey lawsuit?- Jennifer Pedroza, the Texas woman who claimed that Amanda Hayward unlawfully excluded her from profits for the three Fifty Shades novels, which were originally published through The Writer’s Coffee Shop, which Pedroza and Hayward ran, along with another ... more >

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