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The Bennet sisters have been summoned from New York City to help stop their mother feeding their father steak and donuts after heart surgery, to tidy up their crumbling family home and to haul their three sisters out of various states of arrested development. Then Chip Bingley arrives in suburban ... more >
Publishing NewsDan Brown / defamation / Free Speech / gender stereotypes / Jeff Bezos / male gaze / mathematics / parody / reading strategies4 Comments
Jeff Bezos: Gawker’s Plight Proves “Ugly Speech” Needs Protection – The Gawker lawsuit has raised many questions about how much and what kind of protection public figures should have against media coverage. As much as I think Nick Denton is obnoxiously gross, he’s correct that gossip has historically been outside polite ... more >
Publishing NewsAlice in Wonderland / Book-club / censorship / charity / children's literature / crafts / Disney princesses / Libraries / literary annotations / parody / Saudi ArabiaComments Off on Wednesday News: annotations, book clubs, libraries, and hot dog princesses
Down the Rabbit Hole: The rise, and rise, of literary annotation – An interesting article on literary annotations, particularly their recent re-popularization, especially for children’s literature. Evan Kindley points to the success of the website Genius, which began with annotations to rap songs, as part of the movement, and he uses the ... more >
Publishing NewsAmazon / authors / copyright / crowdfunding / literary prize / Man Booker Prize / orphan works / parody / publishingComments Off on Wednesday News: gofundme parody, orphan works & copyright, Man Booker shortlist, and throwback publishing article
Go Fund My Lazy Ass -It’s no secret that crowdsourcing has become popular for all sorts of creative projects. Although I haven’t seen it, I saw some folks talking about a crowdfunding campaign for someone who wanted to go to RT. Anyway, an author named Payne Hawthorne put together a ... more >
Publishing Newsappropriation / diversity / education / Fantasy / gender / Instagram / marriage / Orientalism / parody / poetry / pseudonym / Race / Science Fiction / stereotypes6 Comments
Yi-Fen Chou and the Man Who Wore Her – You may be following the fallout from the revelation that one of the poets whose work is included in the Sherman Alexie edited volume of the Best American Poetry 2015 is a white man who assumed the pseudonym of a fictitious ... more >
Publishing NewsAgency pricing / Amazon / Barbie / Ebooks / gender / History / Instagram / parody / publishing / punctuation / Satire / technology18 Comments
E-Book Sales Fall After New Amazon Contract – Is anyone surprised? Or rather, does anyone really think that publishers care? Given traditional publishing’s reliance on the hardcover, what, precisely, is the incentive to encourage higher ebook sales? In fact, the comment below about higher sales of paper books suggests a belief ... more >