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December 2, 2016

Friday News: Scrap poetry, tablets & readers, soundtracks, and love letters

JanetPublishing Newse-readers / Emily Dickinson / gift guide / love letters / movie soundtracks / poetry / Tablets2 Comments

EMILY DICKINSON’S SINGULAR SCRAP POETRY – A lovely meditation on Emily Dickinson’s habit of writing poems and pieces of poems on all sorts of paper items, including chocolate wrappers (genius). There is still a good deal of curiosity and speculation around Dickinson, and thinking about the relationship between the writing and ... more >

Microsoft Surface
October 29, 2015

Thursday News: SXSW, Microsoft, Disney, and the best meditation ever

JanetPublishing NewsApple / Disney / Gamergate / macabre comedy / meditation / Microsoft / online harassment / SXSW / Tablets4 Comments

Exclusive: After Gamergate Misstep, SXSW Weighing an All-Day Forum on Online Harassment – So following the backlash against SXSW’s announcement to pull two panels on gaming, and perhaps even more importantly, the news that Buzzfeed and Vox Media would not participate in the event unless organizers reinstated the panels, it appears ... more >

Kobo App
October 10, 2014

Friday News: Kobo nixes tablets, grammar rules you can forget, libraries and Adobe ADE, and Agatha Christie’s jewels

JanetPublishing NewsAdobe / Agatha Christie / auctions / DRM / e-readers / Ebooks / grammar / Kobo / Libraries / privacy / security / Tablets / writing7 Comments

Kobo: tablets ‘no longer a focus’ – So Kobo President Michael Tamblyn has confirmed that Kobo is not going to be developing any more tablets, but will focus on the Kobo Touch, Kobo Aura and the new H2O. Without enough “unique content,” according to analyst Douglas McCabe, Kobo is now ... more >

July 14, 2014

Monday News: Tablet sales decline, more self-publishing data scraping, Goodreads looks at unfinished books, and a Romance summer reading challenge

JanetPublishing Newsdata / Goodreads / readers / Romance / Self-publishing / smartphones / subgenres / Tablets15 Comments

Sales of Big Smartphones Are Totally Killing Tablets – I posted a story last week on Samsung’s decreasing profits, and here is more evidence that tablet sales are in jeopardy, in large part because bigger smartphone screens are making it easier for consumers to get by with only one device. ... 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 >

November 22, 2013

Friday News: Busting the famous writers self publishing myth; WordPress fights back on behalf of bloggers; Tablets are a big holiday item for kids

JanePublishing Newscensorship / editing-problems / self-published / Tablets19 Comments

Famous Writers Who Self-Published: Busting a Self-Publishing Myth – Peter Winkler takes on the false claims by “book promotion guru John Kremer” who compiled an inaccurate list of famous authors who once self published. Why Kremer does this when there are legitimate famous and successful authors who did self publish, ... more >

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