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April 17, 2015

Friday News: Agency pricing returns with a vengeance, Etsy goes public, the trouble with Jon Ronson, and The Left Hand of Darkness radio play

JanetPublishing NewsAgency pricing / Easy / Ebooks / IPO / online speech / public shaming / publishing / radio play / SFF / Ursula Le Guin28 Comments

Best-Selling Ebook Prices Rise Before HarperCollins Restores Agency – And so it begins. Readers reported seeing higher prices for Harlequin ebooks in Wednesday’s news report on HC’s deal with Amazon, and now we have even more confirmation of rising prices in the form of the Digital Book World’s tracking of ... more >

April 16, 2015

Thursday News: Scribd adds 9,000 audiobooks, is Facebook manipulating its algorithms, moderating Monica Lewinsky, and Tennessee legislators love the Bible

JanetPublishing Newsaudiobooks / comment moderation / Establishment Clause / Facebook / First-Amendment / news feeds / online speech / Penguin Random House / religion / Scribd / Ted12 Comments

SCRIBD ADDS PENGUIN RANDOM HOUSE AUDIO TITLES TO ITS LIBRARY – In the current battle between digital book subscription services, the reader definitely seems to be gaining. Now Scribd is adding 9,000 audiobooks from Penguin Random House Audio. From the press release: SAN FRANCISCO, April 16, 2015 — Scribd, the ... more >

April 14, 2015

Tuesday News: The SFF and Speech Edition

JanetPublishing News"hard" SF / Free Speech / gender / harassment / hate speech / Hugos / online speech / SFF / stalking / writing10 Comments

To the Hard Members of the Truthy SF Club – I readily admit that I am an outsider to the SFF community, although I have read within the genre since graduate school. I have read many discussions of the difference between so-called “hard” and “soft” SF, but I especially enjoyed ... more >

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