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July 4, 2017

Tuesday News: Tolkien lawsuit settled, Standard Ebooks, Romance hashtags, and daylight fireworks

JanetPublishing Newsbook clubs / digital licensing / Harper Collins / Romance hashtags / Standard Ebooks / Tolkien / Warner Bros3 Comments

Warner Bros., Tolkien Estate Settle $80 Million ‘Hobbit’ Lawsuit – This is a pretty interesting lawsuit, because it focuses attention on contract language and digital rights. The Tolkien Estate, along with Harper Collins, claimed that Warner Bros. was producing digital products based on the Hobbit enterprise, when their licensing contract ... more >

June 9, 2017

Friday News: digital ads, copyright/wrong, Tolkien in love, and martial arts book for women

JanetPublishing NewsAdvertising / Apple / Beren and Lúthien / digital publishing / Google / martial arts / TolkienComments Off on Friday News: digital ads, copyright/wrong, Tolkien in love, and martial arts book for women

As Apple and Google take aim at ads, publishers tremble – So with Google now planning to monetize digital advertising to whatever extent possible, and Apple claiming that it will block autoplay (THANKYOUTHANKYOUTHANKYOU) and stop (some) consumer tracking, digital publishers ranging from The New York Times to Vox Media are challenged anew ... more >

October 27, 2016

Thursday News: new Tolkien book; Stephen King, kid lit, & YA; wtf James Woods

JanetPublishing Newsdefamation / issue books / kid lit / lawsuit / Stephen-King / Tolkien / YA4 Comments

We’re Set to Get a New Tolkien Book in 2017 – And it’s a love story! Although Beren and Lúthien is going to be “crafted” by Tolkien’s son Christopher, based on “its introduction in The Silmarillion. The story will be filled out from its different mentions in Toklkein’s History of Middle-earth series, ... more >

August 14, 2015

Friday News: Digital development, new Tolkien story, fictional languages, and printing the old-fashioned way

JanetPublishing Newsdigital divide / documentary / Facebook / languages / linotype / New-York-Times / newspaper / technology / Tolkien8 Comments

Digital Fairness vs. Facebook’s Dream of World Domination – A provocative article on the willingness of private industry to try to narrow the global digital breach. While the public sector has a strong vested interest in digital fairness and broad-based access, it has largely been the private sector that has ... more >

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