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March 3, 2016

Thursday News: AAP annual meeting, Madam C.J. Walker, Tribune reorganization, and Trump erotica

JanetPublishing NewsAAP / Free Speech / History / journalism / Madam C.J. Walker / Newspapers / piracy / Trump eroticaComments Off on Thursday News: AAP annual meeting, Madam C.J. Walker, Tribune reorganization, and Trump erotica

Free Speech, Digital Piracy Headline AAP Annual Meeting – The Association of American Publishers, aka “the voice of American publishing,” featured several themes at its annual meeting, including the threats to free speech, especially in education (yay!), digital piracy (sigh), and educational technology as social media (hmmm). These are interesting themes, considering ... more >

September 11, 2015

Friday News: Criticism, journalism, feminism, and swearing

JanetPublishing Newsbook criticism / censorship / Erica Jong / feminism / gender / journalism / Los Angeles Times / Newspapers / Race / reviews / Roxane Gay / Ted Dawe / YA3 Comments

Is Everyone Qualified to Be a Critic? -Adam Kirsch and Charles McGrath debate the question of criticism – namely whether there should be formal “qualifications.” McGrath laments what he seems to see as a general degradation of critical writing these days (ah, the good old days!), and argues that informed ... more >

June 16, 2014

Monday News: FutureBookHack UK Hackathon, Tribune spinning off newspapers, bookstore literally dumps books, and women writing crime fiction

JanetPublishing Newscrime fiction / gender / genre / hackathon / independent booksellers / Newspapers / publishing2 Comments

FutureBookHack Category Winners revealed – Almost 100 hackers gathered at the University College London for the first FutureBookHack. Organized by The Bookseller and intended to address challenges set by publishers, the event spanned this past weekend and yielded a number of projects for both print and digital publishing. An overall ... more >

May 19, 2014

Monday News: Home pages, cheap smartphones, Roxane Gay on Zadie Smith, and public libraries

JanetPublishing Newsdigital publishing / diversity / home pages / Libraries / Newspapers / smartphones / technology8 Comments

Are home pages dying? And what is the value of a shadow reader? – Although this post is a somewhat short response to an other post by Ezra Klein at Vox, I think it’s worth reading both, in part for Tyler Cowen’s identification of the “shadow reader,” or someone who can ... more >

Japan. Big Stock Photo
January 13, 2014

Monday News: Seattle booksellers, RIP Amiri Baraka, Kamloops newspaper shuts down, Elsevier redux, and an American writer in Japan

JanetPublishing Newsacademic publishing / Amazon / copyright / detective fiction / Japan / Newspapers / open access / poetry9 Comments

Retail in Seattle: In the Shadow of Amazon – If any book selling market seems like it would suffer because of Amazon’s presence, it’s Seattle. And yet, this article suggests that is far from the case; in fact, despite the obvious challenges, there are some interesting examples here of booksellers ... more >

January 18, 2010

Monday Round up Links: A New Kind of Book Tour

JanePublishing NewsAmazon / Ebooks / Espresso Book Machine / HarperCollins / iPhone / Library / New-York-Times / Newspapers / Print-on-Demand6 Comments

Cover Cafe nominations for 2010 are now open. If you want to nominate a cover for a book that has been published in 2010, please go to  http://www.covercafe.com and click on Nominate. The new 2010 nomination form is now available. All About Romance has launched its annual readers’ poll. Author Stephen ... more >

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