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Microsoft Surface
October 29, 2015

Thursday News: SXSW, Microsoft, Disney, and the best meditation ever

JanetPublishing NewsApple / Disney / Gamergate / macabre comedy / meditation / Microsoft / online harassment / SXSW / Tablets4 Comments

Exclusive: After Gamergate Misstep, SXSW Weighing an All-Day Forum on Online Harassment – So following the backlash against SXSW’s announcement to pull two panels on gaming, and perhaps even more importantly, the news that Buzzfeed and Vox Media would not participate in the event unless organizers reinstated the panels, it appears ... more >

Microsoft Surface
August 4, 2015

Tuesday News: Hachette, book banning, Windows, and 17th C London

JanetPublishing Newsanimation / Ebooks / History / London / Machete / Microsoft / privacy / publishing / revenue / security / windows4 Comments

Hachette Book Group Reported Revenues Down 7.8% in the First Half – Pointing to a lack of major bestsellers during the first half of 2015, Hachette has announced that revenue is down so far this year, although the publisher has made some gains back from the 12.3% revenue decline for ... more >

August 3, 2015

Monday News: harassment, privacy, self-publishing, and flowers

JanetPublishing Newsflowers / harassment / India / Microsoft / privacy / science / security / Self-publishing / sexual-assault / VidCon / Vine / YouTube14 Comments

Inside the underage sex scandal that’s tearing Vine apart – So despite all the tough talk from Hank and John Green about the sexual abuse and harassment issues in the Vine and YouTube communities, the problem persists. And, unsurprisingly, it’s young women who seem to be taking the lead, with a ... 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 >

Minecraft marriage proposal
September 17, 2014

Wednesday News: Harper Collins doubles down on DRM, Canada may tax Netflix and iTunes, Microsoft buys Minecraft, and the habits of high tech parents

JanetPublishing NewsCanada / digital books / DRM / gaming / Harper Collins / iTunes / Microsoft / Minecraft / Netflix / parenting / social media / Steve Jobs / tax / technology12 Comments

HarperCollins Adds Digital Watermarks to E-books – I read this whole article shaking my head at the idea that Harper Collins actually thinks it’s a good idea to add MORE DRM to their digital books. Why, you may ask? According to Harper Collins’ CDO Chantal Restivo-Alessi, the goal is “to ... more >

March 14, 2014

Friday News: Scribd’s most downloaded books, Amazon Prime’s price increase, what sexual assault victims were wearing, and Microsoft and Nook renegotiate

JanetPublishing NewsAmazon / digital publishing / Ebooks / Microsoft / Nook / Rape / Scribd14 Comments

The Most Popular Book in Each of the 50 States – So the first caveat here is the results are limited to Scribd downloads, which makes the results both narrower and more interesting. Alabama, for example, was Lisa Kleypas’s Midnight Angel, Missouri, The Princess Diaries by Meg Cabot, Tennessee, I ... more >

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