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November 3, 2016

Thursday News: ebooks v. games, DOJ sues DirecTV, Facebook’s growth, and Bono as ‘woman of the year’

JanetPublishing NewsAmazon / antitrust / ATT / DirecTV / Ebooks / Facebook / games / Paypal / Women of the YearComments Off on Thursday News: ebooks v. games, DOJ sues DirecTV, Facebook’s growth, and Bono as ‘woman of the year’

Paypal’s New eBook Report: Consumers Are More Willing to Pay for eBooks Than Video Games – Nate Hoffelder’s take on a new report from Paypal that looks at international ebook and game buying patterns. Beyond the not-really-news that Amazon still leads in the sale of ebooks (surprise!), it seems that games ... more >

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October 1, 2014

Tuesday News: PayPal separates from eBay, legal challenge to revenge porn laws, Kirkus books prize finalists, and history of a marriage advice column

JanetPublishing NewseBay / First-Amendment / literary prize / marriage / Misogyny / online payment / Paypal / revenge porn1 Comments

PayPal broke up with eBay so it could take on Apple – After 12 years together, PayPay and eBay are getting a divorce, so that PayPal can move on to bigger and better things. Unfortunately, PayPal’s growth was being overshadowed by its relationship with eBay, which has not been moving ... 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 >

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September 6, 2013

Friday News: Sign up at a data collecting company to find out what data they are collecting about you and other news

JanePublishing Newseink / Paypal / privacy / Sony / subscriptions15 Comments

Acxiom gives you a peek at the data it collects about you – So remember the stories about how Target can send a different mailer to you than it does to your neighbor based upon all the little footprints you leave in their store and on the internet? One of ... more >

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July 11, 2012

Wednesday News: Worldwide fiber cabling map, Kobo launches new spy app, RH makes a fan fiction rights grab

JanePublishing Newsfan-fiction / Kobo / Paypal / privacy5 Comments

Underwater map of fiber cabling – Telegeography.com Thought this was very cool. The screenshot captures just a tiny portion of the entire world’s fiber cabling. PayPal Bans Major File-Hosting Services Over Piracy Concerns | TorrentFreak – “In recent weeks, PayPal has cut off many of the world’s largest filehosting sites ... more >

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February 26, 2012

The Paypal Fiction Crackdown Roundup

JanePublishing NewsAll-Romance-Ebooks / Paypal / Siren-Bookstrand Inc / Smashwords62 Comments

Background Back in 2007, Jayne and I reviewed ebookstores. There seemed to be new ones that were announced everyday. When All Romance eBooks launched in 2007, it lacked the Paypal option. It would later add Paypal in October of 2007. Commenters informed us that Paypal had content restrictions. One reason ... more >

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