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December 28, 2016

Wednesday News: Richard Adams dies, digital discovery, evolution of imaging, and Carrie Fisher quotes

JanetPublishing NewsCarrie Fisher / digital discovery / images / National Geographic / obituary / Publishers / Richard Adams14 Comments

Watership Down author Richard Adams dies aged 96 – Oh how I loved Watership Down as a kid, and frankly didn’t even realize that its author, Richard Adams, was still alive. Anyway, this is a lovely remembrance, not only about the origin of Adams’s most famous story, but also about his own ... more >

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March 1, 2016

Tuesday News: Streaming audiobooks from the cloud, brain dumps, and missing Hong Kong publishers

JanetPublishing Newsaudiobooks / Banned-Books / bookstores / brain / Hong Kong / Publishers / science / streamingComments Off on Tuesday News: Streaming audiobooks from the cloud, brain dumps, and missing Hong Kong publishers

Daughter of ‘disappeared’ Hong Kong book publisher won’t be silent – For the first year she can remember, Gui Minhai’s daughter, Angela Gui, did not get a call from her father on her birthday. Gui is one of the five missing Hong Kong publishers  — he is the naturalized Swedish citizen who made ... more >

February 8, 2016

Monday News: Equity in publishing, Chris Jackson, and Beyoncé

JanetPublishing NewsArt / Beyoncé / Chris Jackson / cultural critique / diversity / editors / Literary Agents / music / Publishers / publishing / RWA3 Comments

Equity in Publishing: What Should Editors Be Doing? – I’ve been holding on to this story for a while, and with RWA’s recent “open letter” on diversity, it seems like a good time to post it. The roundtable, organized by Antonio Aiello following the Best American Poetry scandal, includes Alexander Chee, Anna deVries, Hafizah Geter, Amy ... more >

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December 30, 2015

Wednesday News: On deals, coloring, making, and leading

JanetPublishing News1960s / Art / Burning Man / coloring books / E-books / leadership / maker culture / marketing / Publishers / social critique3 Comments

Daily E-Book Deals Are Gaining Traction – Services like BookBub are becoming more popular marketing tools for publishers like Kensington and Simon & Schuster. As traditional publishers continue to raise e-book prices, they are also hoping to sell more digital content through daily deals, even as they worry (sigh) about conditioning readers ... more >

July 7, 2015

Tuesday News: The WTF Edition

JanetPublishing Newsbad dates / book marketing / Disney / gender / Greece / harassment / menstruation / Publishers / reddit / Twitter14 Comments

Book agents trying to cash in on Greek tragedy – If you’ve been paying attention to the economic crisis in Greece, you know that economist-turned-Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis resigned after his push against a financial bail-out proved successful in this weekend’s national referendum. Varoufakis has always been a controversial ... more >

April 7, 2015

Tuesday News: Scalzi on the Hugos, libraries and publishers, Amazon bestsellers, and ridiculous story about Octavia Spencer’s book signing

JanetPublishing NewsAmazon / bestsellers / children's literature / coloring books / Hugo Awards / Libraries / literary awards / Publishers / SFF / stereotypes14 Comments

A Note About the Hugo Nominations This Year – After a celebratory scoffing at the Sad Puppies last year (an inadvertent double dog dare, perhaps?), Scalzi was pretty reserved in his comments about this year’s Hugo Award nominations. An interesting post in which Scalzi tries not to challenge the legitimacy ... more >

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