August 20, 2014

Wednesday News: Samsung Nook releases, broad anti-piracy injunction, Kensington to sell trade paperbacks via BAM, and Colombian student faces jail for copyright infringement

JanetPublishing NewsBAM / Barnes and Noble / Colombia / copyright / digital publishing / intellectual property / kensington / Nook / piracy / trade paperback11 Comments

Exclusive: New Samsung Galaxy Tab 4 Nook to be in Stores Wednesday, Will Cost $179 – Nate Hoffelder compares the new Samsung Nook Tablet — releasing today! — to other tablets and e-readers on the market. For the sake of Barnes & Noble and its digital customers, I do hope ... more >

June 6, 2014

Friday News: RIP Nook(?), Syracuse schools equip students with summer reading, the losers in Hachette v. Amazon, and a random reading project

JanetPublishing NewsAmazon / Barnes and Noble / children's literature / digital publishing / education / Hachette / independent bookstores / Libraries / literature / Nook / reading / Samsung / Tablets18 Comments

So This Is How The Nook Ends – In his inimitable style, Mike Cane sounds the death knell for Nook, noting that the announcement by Barnes and Noble and Samsung to build “co-branded tablets” says more about how B&N has abandoned Nook than it does about the prospect of one ... more >

March 18, 2014

Tuesday News: Nook Press hits the UK market, the future of the Great American Novel, profile of Arundhati Roy, and Cover Girl’s new girl power video

JanetPublishing NewsAdvertising / Arundhati Roy / Barnes & Noble / digital books / Nook / novel / Self-publishing / sexism / UK6 Comments

Barnes & Noble to Launch Nook Press in the UK This Week – Barnes & Noble is using the Oxford Literary Festival to introduce its newest self-publishing platform to authors in the UK. Although the platform has been available in the US for almost a year now, self-published authors in ... 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 >

February 27, 2014

Thursday News: Cool sentence diagramming art, Barnes & Noble’s new Nook, cultivating Pride & Prejudice style, and petitioning Jeff Bezos

JanetPublishing NewsAmazon / anonymity / Barnes and Noble / Literary fiction / Nook / Pride-and-Prejudice / Reviewing22 Comments

25 Literary Opening Lines Diagrammed on One Giant Poster – Using the Reed-Kellogg sentence diagramming model, Pop Chart Lab has created a poster consisting of 25 opening lines from classic works of fiction. “Call Me Ishmael,” (Moby Dick) to “It was a queer, sultry summer, the summer they electrocuted the ... more >

February 11, 2014

Tuesday News: digital domestic violence, B&N fires hardware engineers, Canada nixes agency pricing, and Open Road buys E-Reads

JanetPublishing NewsAgency pricing / Barnes & Noble / Canada / digital publishing / domestic violence / E-Reads / Nook / Open Road / social media4 Comments

Digital Harassment Is the New Means of Domestic Abuse – February is Teen Dating Violence Awareness Month, and a growing concern among those who work with victims of domestic violence that “technology is increasingly replacing fists as the weapon of choice in abusive relationships.” The National Domestic Violence Hotline has ... more >