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February 10, 2015

Tuesday News: Charging readers to comment, Patreon done with VAT, authors and social media, and Melanie’s Marvelous Measles

JanetPublishing NewsAmazon / commenting / crowdfunding / EU / fan-fiction / fandoms / Literary fiction / Patreon / paywall / reviews / social media / trolling / VAT13 Comments

Join the Conversation on Tablet – Although I think this is a disastrous move, I’m really curious to see how Tablet Magazine’s decision to charge its readers to comment will play out. That’s right – for a mere $2 a day, $18 a month, and $180 a year, you can ... more >

January 14, 2015

Wednesday News: Macmillan joins Scribd, the “Great American Novel,” 3-d print prosthetics, and “cult books”

JanetPublishing Newsbest of list / classics / cult books / digital technology / Literary fiction / Macmillan / Scribd / subscription service12 Comments

We’ve added more than a thousand new titles from Macmillan – For $8.99 a month, you can have access to more than 500k eBooks and 30k audiobooks from three of the big 5 publishers. The newest publisher to join the Scribd service is Macmillan, and below you can read some ... more >

December 31, 2014

Wednesday News: The future of online shopping, increasing US literacy, literatures of Africa, and Orwell on empathy and fruit loaf

JanetPublishing NewsAfrica / children's lit / literacy / Literary fiction / non-profits / online retailers / Orwell / recipes / shopping2 Comments

How the e-retailers keep us spending – With another big US shopping day ahead of us (New Year’s Day), this is an interesting piece on how online retailers have been moving in the direction of globalizing local celebrations, holidays, or traditional spending days (e.g. Black Friday) to capture the global ... more >

November 14, 2014

Friday News: Hachette & Amazon make nice; Internet tax bill; map of uncolonized Africa; Microsoft patches 19-year-old vulnerability; and UK’s Project Remix

JanetPublishing NewsAfrica / Agency pricing / Amazon / booksellers / colonialism / Contest / Hachette / internet sales / Literary fiction / maps / Microsoft / sales tax / software / use tax10 Comments

Updated: Amazon and Hachette finally reach deal; Hachette will set its ebook prices –  The war appears to be over between Hachette and Amazon, and whatever the state of their relationship, readers get the return of Agency Pricing. Yippee. When the new ebook terms take place in early 2015, “Hachette ... more >

November 10, 2014

Monday News Harper Collins fails to crush Open Road, Ed Park leaves Amazon for Penguin, oligopoly in the music industry, and hand-annotated books for charity

JanetPublishing NewsAgency pricing / Amazon / Art / charity / competition / copyright / Ebooks / editors / Harper Collins / Literary fiction / music industry / Open Road / Penguin8 Comments

Open Road Dodges $1 Million Bullet in Copyright Case – In its bid to be awarded attorneys fees of more than $1M dollars, Harper Collins argued that Open Road’s contract to publish Julie of The Wolves as an ebook was “objectively unreasonable” — that is, so clearly wrong that Harper ... more >

September 19, 2014

Friday News: Has Twitpic been rescued?, Facebook’s algorithm change, National Book Award fiction long list, and Austenites get Guinness World Record

JanetPublishing Newsalgorithms / Book Awards / Facebook / Guinness World Record / Jane Austen / Literary fiction / news feeds / Twitpic / Twitter3 Comments

Twitpic Is No Longer Shutting Down – Although there have been no other details forthcoming, I’m hoping that TwitPic’s tweet today means that we won’t lose this vital support service for Twitter: “We’re happy to announce we’ve been acquired and Twitpic will live on! We will post more details as ... more >

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