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November 10, 2017

REVIEW: The Love Experiment by Ainslie Paton

KaetrinB ReviewsChicago / Contemporary / grumpy hero / media / newspaper / social experiment9 Comments

Disclaimer: I’m friendly with the author online, we talk often on Twitter, and I’ve met her a few times. She’s the kind of author who wouldn’t stop speaking to me if I didn’t like her books and I’m comfortable giving my honest opinion (else I wouldn’t review her work) but, ... more >

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June 24, 2015

Wednesday News: NAL merges with Berkley, big data & advertising, Disney’s Pocahontas, and the Simpsons honor Hayao Miyazaki

JanetPublishing NewsAdvertising / anime / big data / culture / Disney / History / media / Penguin Random House / publishing / reorganization / television2 Comments

People: NAL Is Merged Into Realigned Berkley Publishing Group – Well, this is unfortunate. Berkley and NAL (New American Library) are being merged into a “new” Berkley Publishing Group, and also reorganized, with NAL focusing on non-fiction and Berkley focused on fiction, and what looks like a significant number of firings, ... more >

December 9, 2014

Tuesday News: bookselling via Twitter, the legality of data retention, media whitewashing, and struggle over Sendak’s estate

JanetPublishing Newsbookselling / data retention / diversity / EU laws / films / Hachette / human rights / lawsuit / Maurice Sendak / media / privacy / probate / security / social media / UK6 Comments

Hachette Tries Selling Books via Twitter – So Hachette is experimenting with new ways to sell books direct to readers, and its collaboration with Gumroad to sell books on Twitter is set to launch this week, beginning with books from Amanda Palmer, Chris Hadfield and The Onion. This is apparently ... more >

July 17, 2014

Thursday News: Apple settlement details revealed, Amazon’s “Kindle Unlimited,” online media & reader attention, and book cover quiz

JanetPublishing NewsAmazon / Apple / book-covers / collusion / digital lending / digital publishing / Ebooks / media / quiz / reader engagement / settlement13 Comments

Apple in $400m settlement over e-book price fixing – It seems that it’s either feast or famine in the news arena, and this week it’s feast, so I’ve had to pick and choose which stories to highlight today. First up, the terms of Apple’s proposed settlement in the collusion case ... more >

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