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December 15, 2017

Friday News: author websites, net neutrality, book covers, and motherhood in the flesh

JanetPublishing Newsauthor websites / best of list / book-covers / FCC / Liz-Carlyle / motherhood / net neutrality / Netflix / photography4 Comments

Liz Carlyle kills her website – An astute reader noticed that Liz Carlyle shut down her website this week, leaving a short note referencing her retirement and sending readers to Amazon. There is a sense of finality to this move, of course, but also a deprivation of potential resources to ... more >

November 27, 2017

Monday News: Men, again, more on Net Neutrality, books by women, and publicist confessions

JanetPublishing Newsbest of list / book publicists / men writing Romance / net neutrality1 Comments

Romance and the bloke — Aussie male romance writers tap into billion-dollar industry – Oh, look; another article on men writing Romance. *sigh* Apparently men who can’t make any money writing other genres in Australia have discovered Romance, and with the availability of self-publishing, they are capitalizing on the opportunity. ... more >

November 22, 2017

Wednesday News: Backward books, Net Neutrality, Thanksgiving Pudding, and Women of NASA

JanetPublishing Newsbook displays / FCC / food history / Lego / net neutrality / Thanksgiving / Women of NASA5 Comments

Would you put books backward? This decor trend has people seriously divided – I would never consider myself compulsive about decorating, but OMG just the idea of this makes me want to flinch back. Beyond the inability to actual recognize the books, why in the hell would you expose the ... more >

July 12, 2017

Wednesday News: Net Neutrality, Nnedi Okorafor, Hawaii Five-O, and Parthenon of banned books

JanetPublishing NewsBanned-Books / diversity / Free Speech / George R.R. Martin / Hawaii Five-O / HBO / net neutrality / Nnedi Okorafor / Parthenon / tv adaptation1 Comments

Today’s the Day: Let’s Save Net Neutrality – Note: click past the initial notice on the EFF page – it’s part of their messaging about net neutrality. Also, they have a great avenue to send an email to the FCC. If you need to brush up on the some of ... more >

August 29, 2016

Monday News: Popularizing poetry, what net neutrality?, “One Book” movement, and Nate Parker backpedals

JanetPublishing NewsMemoir / Nate Parker / net neutrality / One Read / poetry / sexual-assault3 Comments

How To Sell Nearly a Half-Million Copies of a Poetry Book – The success of Rupi Kaur’s poetry collection, Milk and Honey, initially self-published and then picked up by Andrews McMeel Publishing (AMP), is surprising on a number of levels. Especially since AMP has only been publishing poetry since 2013. And it’s poetry, ... more >

April 27, 2015

Monday News: Broadband, publishing innovation, World War I, and body image

JanetPublishing NewsAdvertising / body image / broadband / Comcast / FCC / History / net neutrality / publishing / Race / Time Warner / World War I3 Comments

How Net neutrality helped kill the Comcast-Time Warner Cable merger – A very interesting analysis on the death of the Comcast – Time Warner merger, particularly in regard to how regulators became more and more resistant to the deal in the wake of the net neutrality debates. Given the incredible ... more >

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