B Reviews / Book Reviewscats / magazines / parodyNo Comments
Pussweek: A Cat’s Guide to Feline Empowerment is full of hilarious spreads, quizzes, and advertisements, as well as top–notch photos of cats in all their cuteness and weirdness. Based on the magazine series Pussweek, written “by cats, for cats,” this book is a feline parody of fashion and celebrity gossip ... more >
Publishing NewsApple / archives / Ebooks / Harry-Potter / Jasmine Guillory / Kobo / magazines / translation / Walmart / women of color in Romance3 Comments
WOMEN OF COLOR AND MAJOR PUBLISHING HOUSE DEALS – So Bitch Media’s Evette Dionne published an interview with Jasmine Guillory on her upcoming debut, The Wedding Date, a Romance published by Berkley. Unfortunately, in their enthusiastic promotion of Guillory and her book, a lot of incorrect assertions about the status of ... more >
Publishing NewsBanned-Books / classic literature / Hong Kong / magazines / Netflix / publishing / reading habits / Relationships / third-party publishing services2 Comments
Hearst and Condé Nast Join Forces to Form PubWorx, a Shared Services Firm – So with magazine subscriptions going for alike $5 a pop, Condé Nast and Hearst are going into business together to create magazines on a contract basis for other companies. Because nothing says reinvention of the magazine business ... more >
B+ ReviewsContemporary / Erotic-Romance / magazines / New-York11 Comments
Dear Ms. Barnette: I read this book at the behest of Kaetrin, who is a trusted book recommender for me. I didn’t realize at the time that Abigail Barnette is a pseudonym for Jenny Trout, and we have a cordial relationship online. Anyway, Kaetrin recommended the book because I was saying how ... more >
Publishing Newsdigital books / DRM / France / Free Speech / magazines / Nobel Prize / SFF / Simon & Schuster11 Comments
Saga Press E-books To Be DRM-Free – So it seems like Simon & Schuster is experimenting with DRM-free books. However, going by this brief mention in Publishers Weekly, it doesn’t sound like they’re looking to broaden their selection of DRM-free content beyond SFF, and perhaps not even beyond this one ... more >