November 3, 2017

Friday News: Book World closing, pirate TV, publishing comics, and murder at the OED (sort of)

JanetPublishing Newsbookstores / Comic books / dictionaries / History / mental illness / murder / OED / piracy / publishing / streaming media13 Comments

Book World to close, leaving void for many small Wisconsin communities – This U.S. midwestern chain, inclusive of 45 stores and more than 300 employees, is closing all of its stores and has commenced a liquidation sale. There is a lot of blame being directed Amazon’s way, not only for ... more >

January 26, 2016

Tuesday News: Amazon, the OED, Apple, and Letters Bookshop

JanetPublishing NewsAmazon / Apple / bookstores / customer service / gender bias / OED / security / sleep11 Comments

Amazon’s customer service backdoor – A very frightening account of how customer service can give someone trying to get your personal information, including a credit card number, a “backdoor,” as long as they have enough details (name, email address) to provide to the customer service agent. One commenter notes that he ... more >

August 28, 2015

Friday News: new words, benefits of bedtime reading, book babies, and the “Lord of the Books”

JanetPublishing Newsauthors / Books / Columbia / dictionary / learning / Libraries / OED / reading / science of reading2 Comments

From mic drops to manspreading: an Oxford Dictionaries update -Well, it’s that time again – new words have been added to the Oxford Dictionaries, including the OED. There are some pretty good ones this year, depending on your definition of good. Manspreading might be my favorite, although butt-dial is pretty ... more >

April 16, 2014

Wednesday News: Free access from Oxford U Press this week, the state of digital journalism, Shakespeare’s plays as webcomics, and celebrating librarians

JanetPublishing NewsComics / dictionaries / digital journalism / Libraries / news / OED / Shakespeare3 Comments

Oxford University Press Gives You Free Access to Books, Dictionaries & More During National Library Week – So while you can’t access Oxford academic journals, in honor of National Library Week, Oxford University Press is offering free access to a number of its texts, including its dictionaries. So if you’ve ... more >

January 23, 2014

Thursday News: BookCon at BEA, British Library exhibits comics, the OED of the future, will eBay and PayPal split, and Lil’ Kim gets sued

JanetPublishing NewsBEA / Comics / eBay / intellectual property / Libraries / OED / Paypal9 Comments

BEA Rebrands Consumer Day BookCon – Possibly recognizing the wincing awfulness of anything book-related being called “Consumer Day,” BEA is elevating the profile of that particular day and calling it “BookCon,” which will allow exhibitors to relocate their booths to the BookCon hall or purchase a “satellite booth” there for ... more >