Publishing Newsadaptations / Amazon / Authors Guild / fandoms / films / Google / research / television series4 Comments
Authors Guild warns authors over contributing online articles for free – So does each new president of the Author’s Guild undergo some kind of organizational mind-meld program? Because the main tune seems to be eerily similar from year to year (and president to president). Google is evil, Amazon is evil, ... more >
Publishing Newsaudiobooks / Barnes & Noble / best of list / Female Authors / Internet / Nook / research / Science Fiction / technology19 Comments
What Internet Users Know about Technology and the Web – A very interesting Web IQ of Americans report from Pew Internet, which includes a quiz to test your own Web IQ. The results from the report sample suggest that while the majority of respondents could identify terms associated with daily ... more >
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Second Circuit Hears Google Books Case – Yesterday was the day for oral arguments in the appeals case Authors Guild has brought in the hopes of reversing the lower court’s summary judgment against them. Arguments apparently went to 90 minutes, 60 over the allotted time, but the fact that the ... more >
Publishing Newscrowdsourcing / cultural criticism / Dear Author / defense fund / Ethics / Facebook / Free Speech / Jane Litte / research / Roxane Gay / security57 Comments
Dear Author/Jane Litte Defense Fund – Many people have been asking if and how they can contribute to Dear Author and Jane Litte’s legal defense. Consequently, this campaign was created. The Dear Author Jane Litte Legal Defense Fund will be run through Go Fund Me. Any donations made to this ... more >
Publishing Newsdiscrimination / Ebooks / Facebook / Film / gender / LGBTQIA+ / Libraries / privacy / research / sexual identity / sexual orientation4 Comments
Facebook’s chief product officer apologizes to the LGBTQ community – Facebook CPO Chris Cox penned what appears to be a pretty earnest and humble apology for discriminating against LGBTQ users by flagging their user names as fake. Although Facebook does not require birth names for its users, it does apparently ... more >
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Failed e-singles startup Byliner acquired by digital publisher Vook – Digital publishing service Vook has purchased Byliner, which was aimed at selling long form journalism in a digital format. There is still a lot of uncertainty around how authors contracted for projects through Byliner will be paid, but those whose ... more >