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July 30, 2015

Thursday News: celebrating Romance, restricting books, rewriting Little Women, and erasing women’s history

JanetPublishing Newsbest of list / book banning / dystopian / gender / Louisa May Alcott / museum / npr / television adaptation / women's history / YA11 Comments

Happy Ever After: 100 Swoon-Worthy Romances – An interesting list that at the very least reflects the difficulty in making any kind of “best of” list. If that’s what this is. We get back, pretty quickly, to the question of what makes a Romance novel effective, and what “good” or “best” ... more >

April 7, 2014

Monday News: How people use their tablets, the trouble with Indiegogo, NPR’s tricks its readers, and amusing YA quiz

JanetPublishing NewsApple / crowdsourcing / Fire / Galaxy / genre fiction / Indiegogo / iPad / Kindle / Movies / npr / Samsung / YA4 Comments

Data Point: People Really Like to Read on Their Kindle Fires – A very interesting graphic comparing the iPad, the Galaxy, and the Fire. The statistic for e-reading on the Kindle Fire is a clear stand-out, but I’m not really sure what — if anything — that means. My first ... more >

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July 11, 2011

Monday Midday Links: Sex Is Dangerous

JanePublishing NewsErotic-Romance / genre critique / npr14 Comments

Sharon sent me this link to an NPR review of Erica Jong’s collection of stories called “Sugar in My Bowl”.  Various female authors have contributed essays on the topic of sex and sexual fantasy. Liz Smith, of gossip column fame, contributes a tale of losing her virginity to her cousin. ... more >

July 20, 2009

News I Should Have Posted But Was too Busy at RWA to Attend to the Computer

JanePublishing NewsAll-Romance-Ebooks / Kindle / Nora-Roberts / npr17 Comments

Last week, Amazon crept into consumer’s Kindles and deleted two ebooks that had been purchased: 1984 and Animal Farm by George Orwell.   These books are considered public domain in several countries but not in the US.   The copies that had been uploaded were not authorized copies for readers in the ... more >

July 9, 2009

Sweet Savage Love Links of the Day

JanePublishing NewsKindle / npr9 Comments

The Kindle’ 2  price drop from $359 to $299.   Some reports say this is due to the drop in cost of manufacturing of the eink screens. Who knows. Lucinda Betts and Elise Logan sent me the link to NPR’s piece by Jack Murnighan who is a closet romance reader (not so ... more >

December 6, 2008

NPR’s All Things Considered Takes a Look at the Book Industry

JanePublishing Newsbook business / npr1 Comments

Once considered recession proof, the book business is suffering the same kind of economic turmoil as the rest. Booksellers, according to All Things Considered, incur 25% of the book sales in the holiday season. One long time bookseller is getting out of the new book business and will now sell ... more >

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