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November 7, 2016

Monday News: Hong Kong publishing, facial recognition, whitewashing Dr. Strange, and more accurate world map

JanetPublishing Newscensorship / China / Dr. Strange / facial recognition / Film / Hong Kong / maps / technology / whitewashing3 Comments

WRITING ON THE WALL: DISAPPEARED BOOKSELLERS AND FREE EXPRESSION IN HONG KONG  – PEN America has weighed in on the relationship between China and Hong Kong publishing, and in particular the recent case of the disappearing booksellers. The report “examines the wide-reaching impact for Hong Kong as an international publishing center ... more >

October 5, 2015

Monday News: Death of a playwright, a book-banning librarian, the art of map-making, and how to hack your book cover

JanetPublishing Newsbook banning / book-covers / censorship / Ireland / librarian / literature / maps / obituary / playwright / psychology3 Comments

Brian Friel, Playwright Called the Irish Chekhov, Dies at 86 – The writer behind such classics as Dancing at Lughnasa, Faith Healer, and The Loves of Cass McGuire died last week at his home in Ireland. Before becoming a playwright, Friel contemplated becoming a priest, taught math, and wrote short stories ... more >

May 22, 2015

Friday News: Godzilla v. Dallas Buyers Club, lots of people v. Zuckerberg, Oxford’s Inklings, and a cool book map

JanetPublishing Newscopyright / Facebook / Fantasy / Film / fraud / Goodreads / History / infringement / maps / Oxford / religion / trademark7 Comments

Dallas Buyers Club studio suing Australians faces its own monster lawsuit involving Godzilla – After aggressively pursuing alleged copyright infringers in Australia via internet service providers, the Dallas Buyers Club is now facing a lawsuit from Toho, the Japanese company that owns the rights to Godzilla, for shopping around a ... more >

January 9, 2015

Friday News: Patterson donates $1M to bookstores, Ebooks in India, a poet’s reinvention, and powerful WWII graphic

JanetPublishing NewsBiography / Ebooks / independent bookstores / maps / poetry / print books / publishing / World War II5 Comments

Book News: James Patterson Makes Good On $1M Promise To Indies – Regardless of whatever you think about James Patterson’s insistence that American literature is imperiled, you have to respect his willingness to put his money where his mouth is and substantially aid independent bookstores. 81 more independent bookstores have ... 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 >

January 15, 2014

Wednesday News: Net neutrality ruling, James Frey is back, a Pride and Prejudice proposal, BBC Map series, and an author attends his own book’s discussion

JanetPublishing NewsBarnes & Noble / Book-club / broadband access / FCC / Hunger Games / James-Frey / maps / medieval / net neutrality9 Comments

Appeals court strikes down FCC’s Net neutrality rules – In this long-awaited — and some say disastrous —  ruling on a case filed by Verizon against the FCC, the federal appeals court has ruled that the FCC does not have authority under the so-called Open Internet rules rules to tell ... more >

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