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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 >

August 14, 2015

Friday News: Digital development, new Tolkien story, fictional languages, and printing the old-fashioned way

JanetPublishing Newsdigital divide / documentary / Facebook / languages / linotype / New-York-Times / newspaper / technology / Tolkien8 Comments

Digital Fairness vs. Facebook’s Dream of World Domination – A provocative article on the willingness of private industry to try to narrow the global digital breach. While the public sector has a strong vested interest in digital fairness and broad-based access, it has largely been the private sector that has ... more >

September 3, 2014

Wednesday News: The Washington Post’s new CEO, Disney v Deadmau5, pseudonymity enhances commenting, and red “warps the mind” (?)

JanetPublishing NewsAmazon / anonymity / color psychology / commenting / Disney / Jeff Bezos / journalism / lawsuit / moderation / newspaper / pseudonyms / speech / trademark / washington post6 Comments

Jeff Bezos Ends Washington Post Publishing Dynasty With Politico Alum – So after a year of owning The Washington Post, Jeff Bezos is replacing Publisher and CEO Katharine Graham Weymouth with Frederick J. Ryan, Jr., a former member of Ronald Reagan’s presidential administration and co-founder of Politico. Weymouth will be ... more >

Downton Abbey
July 29, 2014

Tuesday News: Publishers at Comic-Con, self-publishing and agent contracts, how BookBub works, and the Telegraph’s 1914 archives

JanetPublishing NewsBookBub / Comic-Con / contracts / History / Literary Agents / marketing / newspaper / Publishers / research / Self-publishing / World War I8 Comments

No Lack of Major Prose Houses at Comic-Con – I think this article is a great example of how diversified entertainment options are, both in terms of partnerships between media outlets and formats, and competition for reader/viewer/gamer eyeballs and dollars. Jane has long said that it’s other forms of entertainment, ... more >

August 6, 2013

Tuesday News: Jeff Bezos buys Washington Post; iPod has been eclipsed; CBS in stand off with Time Warner Cable

JanePublishing NewsAmazon / cloud / Jeff Bezos / newspaper / Simon & Schuster10 Comments

Amazon founder Bezos to buy Washington Post – I heard some backchat on Twitter joking about Amazon buying HarperCollins and I thought, that seems silly. Bezos doesn’t need a publishing house. He’s created his own. But why, then, did Jeff Bezos buy the Washington Post and other properties? Forbes says ... more >

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