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July 8, 2015

Wednesday News: Vampires, Crowdfunding, Beatboxing, and Comics

JanetPublishing Newsbeatbox / Comics / crowdfunding / diversity / Sony / vampires9 Comments

‘Vampires’ keep doctors in the dark for fear of stereotyping: study – So here’s an interesting Romance novel premise: real-life vampirism that doesn’t, apparently, come with all the complications of being undead. A new paper, published in the Canadian peer-reviewed journal, Critical Social Work, focuses on the real-life “vampire community” and ... more >

April 20, 2015

Monday News: Did Sony pirate books on hacking; some history on the Hugos; comics and “casual” fans; and a bigger market for manga

JanetPublishing NewsComics / copyright / fandoms / Hacking / Hugos / infringement / intellectual property / Manga / privacy / SFF / social media / Sony / Tumblr1 Comments

Sony pirated ebooks on hacking – Several site, including Boing Boing, are reporting that copies of two O’Reilly books available in PDF form on Sony’s internal servers, and part of The Hack, are pirated (which is ironic, since they’re books on hacking). The books are availably via Wikileaks, and recently ... more >

February 16, 2015

Monday News: YA diversity & the “problem book,” Spider-Man deal with Marvel & Sony, Masters & Johnson, and Polidori’s Vampyre

JanetPublishing Newsdiversity / History / literature / Marvel / problem book / science / sexuality / Sony / Spider-Man / vampires / YA4 Comments

“SO MANY (TOO MANY?) ISSUES”: PERCEPTIONS OF DIVERSITY IN BOOK REVIEWS, PART 2 – A very interesting and compelling post on the portrayal of minority identities in YA, specifically in terms of diverse YA novels being tagged as “issue” or “problem” books, especially in a reviewing environment where many or ... more >

December 23, 2014

Tuesday News: Sony wants leaks plugged, Stephenie Meyer’s fan fiction project, the DRMd litter box, and the value of strong female protagonists

JanetPublishing Newsconsumer products / DRM / fan-fiction / female protagonists / film gender / privacy / Sony / Twilight / Twitter / women in film21 Comments

Note: We’re taking a break for Xmas and (assuming I don’t celebrate too much tomorrow) will be back with the news on Friday, December 26.  Sony threatens Twitter with legal action if it doesn’t ban users linking to leaks – In the wake of the Sony hacking, social media users have ... more >

December 19, 2014

Friday News: Pricing, licensing, cross-genre writing, and national propagandizing

JanetPublishing NewsAgency pricing / censorship / creative commons / films / Flickr / Free Speech / Macmillan / Serials / Sony / Yahoo1 Comments

A Message From John Sargent – I do so look forward to John Sargent”s public missives. It’s good to know all the entities we should blame – except Macmillan, of course, which is full of integrity and the best interests of “authors, illustrators, and agents” (but not readers, apparently), for ... more >

May 9, 2014

Friday News: Bye, bye Sony; 3-d makeup printer; Romance novel survey; and a French portrait mystery

JanetPublishing News3D Printing / Australia / diversity / epub / Germany / Kobo / Libraries / Reader Store / Sony / UK16 Comments

Sony Reader Store to Close in the UK, Germany, Austria, and Australia June 16th – Well, that didn’t take long. Two months after closing the Sony Reader Store in the United States and Canada, Sony is pulling out of almost all its other markets, including Australia, the UK,and Germany, signaling ... more >

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