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September 16, 2016

Friday News: Galaxy Note recall, NBA long lists, banned books scavenger hunt, and The Little Virtues

JanetPublishing NewsBanned-Books / Natalia Ginzburg / National Book Award / safety recall / Samsung6 Comments

How Samsung Botched Its Galaxy Note 7 Recall – By now you’ve probably heard that the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission has issued a mandatory recall on all Galaxy Note 7 phones, after 92 reports of overheated batteries (including 26 instances of human burns). However, apparently the recall was delayed due to ... more >

February 11, 2015

Wednesday News: Scribd offers unlimited comics, Samsung TVs are listening, the Hugo Award & gender bias, and rare TV interview with E.L. James

JanetPublishing Newsbias / Comics / E. L. James / fan-fiction / Fifty Shades / Film / gender / Hugo Award / privacy / Samsung / Scribd / smart tvs / subscription service / voice recognition5 Comments

Scribe Unlimited Comics – The latest development in the battle between subscription services is Scribd’s offering of more than 10,000 comic books. This one might finally push me over the edge and into signing up. Check out the launch page for more details, and per the press release, features include: ... more >

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July 10, 2014

Thursday News: Pixar & Lucasfilm started wage-fixing cartel, Apple tells on Google, profits down at Samsung, and bookstore shelving

JanetPublishing NewsApple / FTC / Google / in-app purchasing / independent bookstores / Samsung / smartphones / technology / Techtopus / wage-fixing6 Comments

REVEALED: Court docs show role of Pixar and Dreamworks Animation in Silicon Valley wage-fixing cartel – Remember the revelations of artificial wage suppression by Google and Apple? Well, that, it turns out, was just the beginning of the conspiracy, and now, with a $324 million settlement at risk, revelations about ... more >

June 6, 2014

Friday News: RIP Nook(?), Syracuse schools equip students with summer reading, the losers in Hachette v. Amazon, and a random reading project

JanetPublishing NewsAmazon / Barnes and Noble / children's literature / digital publishing / education / Hachette / independent bookstores / Libraries / literature / Nook / reading / Samsung / Tablets18 Comments

So This Is How The Nook Ends – In his inimitable style, Mike Cane sounds the death knell for Nook, noting that the announcement by Barnes and Noble and Samsung to build “co-branded tablets” says more about how B&N has abandoned Nook than it does about the prospect of one ... more >

April 17, 2014

Thursday News: iPhone too small and expensive, is Star Wars just for white men, new imprint at Little, Brown, and an interview with Andrés Neuman

JanetPublishing NewsApple / Big 5 publishers / children's lit / Galaxy / gender / iPhone / Literary fiction / Samsung / Star WarsComments Off on Thursday News: iPhone too small and expensive, is Star Wars just for white men, new imprint at Little, Brown, and an interview with Andrés Neuman

Internal Apple presentation on the iPhone: ‘Consumers want what we don’t have’ – A very interesting post, based on Apple’s internal slides from the Samsung-Apple legal morass, which shows that the market spot that the iPhone controls is basically outside what consumers want on both price (less than $300) and ... more >

April 7, 2014

Monday News: How people use their tablets, the trouble with Indiegogo, NPR’s tricks its readers, and amusing YA quiz

JanetPublishing NewsApple / crowdsourcing / Fire / Galaxy / genre fiction / Indiegogo / iPad / Kindle / Movies / npr / Samsung / YA4 Comments

Data Point: People Really Like to Read on Their Kindle Fires – A very interesting graphic comparing the iPad, the Galaxy, and the Fire. The statistic for e-reading on the Kindle Fire is a clear stand-out, but I’m not really sure what — if anything — that means. My first ... more >

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