B 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 >
Publishing 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 >
Publishing 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 >
Publishing 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 >
Publishing 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 >