Publishing Newsbestseller lists / Civil-War / deafness / Harper Collins / librarians / Library of Congress / plagiarism2 Comments
New USA TODAY books list: The 100 books everyone’s reading – Many books on this list of the top 100 USA Today bestsellers for 2016 are no surprise (just look at the top five below). I made a mental note that Janet Evanovich is still selling Stephanie Plum at pretty robust ... more >
Publishing Newscamping / China / crime fiction / Descendants of the Sun / Ingrid Black / Korean military drama / motion book platform / nature writing / plagiarism7 Comments
The girl who stole my book: How Eilis O’Hanlon found out her crime novels were swiped by a stranger – For those who don’t read the comments to the news posts, “Anon” provided a link to this story in the comments to yesterday’s news post, and I think it deserves ... more >
Publishing Newsantitrust / Apple / Beverly Jenkins / Conspiracy / copyright infringement / ebook pricing / intellectual property rights / plagiarism / writer's conferences13 Comments
Don’t Do This Ever (an advice column for writers): Plagiarism Warning edition – Laura Harner has apparently “written” 75 books in the past five years. I quoted “written” because some of them, at least, appear to be versions of m/f books by Becky McGraw and Opal Carew (and perhaps others?) that change the ... more >
Publishing NewsAmazon / Facebook / literacy / obituary / plagiarism / privacy / search warrant / Self-publishing / standing6 Comments
Facebook Loses Appeal on New York Search Warrants – A very significant ruling around the issue of legal standing in regard to whether social media sites like Facebook have the right to challenge search warrants served on their customers. The court held that only the defendant can challenge the warrants, ... more >
Publishing Newsauthors / copyright / damages / federal law / fraud / harassment / infringement / journalism / mental health / plagiarism / reader expectations / reviews / rumors / sock puppets19 Comments
Update on the STM Plagiarism Case – You may remember Rachel Ann Nunes’s post about being plagiarized and then harassed by the person who allegedly plagiarized her book, A Bid for Love. In this case, plagiarism also amounts to an infringement of copyright. I am so excited to report that ... more >
Publishing NewsAmazon / collusion / fan-fiction / Hachette / plagiarism / Readers United Shey Stahl23 Comments
Making Sense of Amazon-Hachette – Of everything written and posted about the Amazon — Hachette battle, this made the most sense to me. Kerr talks about how Amazon’s persistent discounting has made ebooks the kind of product that no other company wants to build a business on, especially since Amazon ... more >