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October 28, 2014

Tuesday News: Amazon acquires Rooftop, Amazon as meta publisher?, Popehat rants about Gamergate, and Levar Burton reads adult bedtime story

JanetPublishing NewsAmazon / Gamergate / Literary Criticism / Rooftop / Self-publishing / traditional publishing / video1 Comments

Authors & Publishers, Take Note: Amazon’s Rooftop Media Acquisition is About Platform, Not Content – Nate Hoffelder argues that Amazon’s acquisition of Rooftop, of which they were already a client, is more about platform than content, specifically in the way of “ACX crossed with KDP crossed with Youtube,” such that ... more >

June 11, 2014

Wednesday News: HathiTrust wins against Author’s Guild, Kindle installment plan, book criticism hasn’t changed much, but thankfully love letters have

JanetPublishing NewsAuthors Guild / Book Reviews / copyright / digital access / digital publishing / disability / Fair Use / HathiTrust / Literary Criticism / love letters6 Comments

Fair Use Victory in HathiTrust Litigation – So this is the one about how the Author’s Guild sued the HathiTrust and lost. The HathiTrust — comprised of more than 80 academic and research institutions — created a digital library (the HathiTrust Digital Library) and then digitized more than ten million ... more >

May 8, 2014

Thursday News: Critics and novelists; Asian American masculinity; Voltaire and the mathematician; and Science Fiction’s lament

JanetPublishing Newsdiversity / gender / historical romance / Literary Criticism / Literary fiction / masculinity / mathematics / philosophy / Science Fiction5 Comments

Do Critics Make Good Novelists? – This week’s Bookends column — between Daniel Mendelsohn and Leslie Jamison — is a pretty interesting contemplation of the relationship between literary critic and novelist. Mendelsohn seems to suggest that critics are unsuited to writing fiction, while Jamison suggests that the prejudice against critics ... more >

January 6, 2014

Monday News: Comic artistry, library stories, publisher acquisitions, the lack of professional reviewers, and a movie trailer mashup

JanetPublishing Newsbest of list / book reviewing / digital publishing / kensington / Literary Criticism / Lyrical Press / Movies / Yumi Sakugawa2 Comments

Comic Artist Yumi Sakugawa On Friend-Love, Identity And Art – Although not publishing news, per se, this is a really lovely interview with Yumi Sakugawa, whose work investigates, among other things, the kinds of relationships we have with people who are not romantic partners, but who, nonetheless, contribute substantially to ... more >

November 13, 2013

Wednesday News: Social media is used to cull college applicants; Women don’t often find physical release in hookups; Do pseudonyms matter?

JanePublishing Newsbook-sales / Literary Criticism / marketing / social media12 Comments

In Hookups, Inequality Still Reigns – Women don’t really find sexual satisfaction from hookups per this article but for some, the trade off is worth it. “For Kim Huynh, a 29-year-old filmmaker in San Francisco, sacrificing a reliable orgasm for sex without the burden of commitment was a conscious decision. After a ... more >

September 13, 2013

Friday News: Rowling to pen Hogwart’s screenplay; Holy Crap method of selection; Mark Twain on writing

JanePublishing Newsbook reviewing / JK-Rowling / Literary Criticism16 Comments

J.K. Rowling announces new movie franchise set in wizarding world – If you aren’t ready to say goodbye to Harry Potter series, then this will be the best news ever. Rowling is going to adapt “Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them” a Hogwarts textbook into a movie featuring the ... more >

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