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March 23, 2016

Wednesday News: POD bookstore, publishing errors, Shea Serrano’s Twitter army, and girl detectives

JanetPublishing Newsbook errors / book marketing / Espresso Book Machine / France / girl detective / History / Knopf / POD bookstore / publishing / Shea Serrano / Twitter2 Comments

Famed publisher opens Paris’ first on-demand only bookshop – One of Paris’s most respected bookstores re-opened after more than fifteen years after it originally closed. Its renaissance is due to the availability of print-on-demand technology (note: Moriah Jovan had this idea eight years ago) : While the PUF’s [Les Presses Universitaires ... more >

March 10, 2016

Thursday News: Women writing, reading, and publishing

JanetPublishing NewsBaileys Prize / book clubs / gender equity / publishing / Twitter / women in publishing1 Comments

Women’s literary prizes are ‘problematic’ says Lionel Shriver – Orange Prize (now called the Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction) winner Lionel Shriver criticized women’s literary prizes, called International Women’s Day “creepy,” and dismissed the idea of a Year of Publishing Women in 2018. Her critique goes back to the debate over ... more >

February 9, 2016

Tuesday News: Twitter, a book a week, the “book of love,” and best wedding ring inscription ever

JanetPublishing Newsalgorithms / love / neuroscience / reading / Twitter / wedding ring7 Comments

Put Down the Pitchforks—A Twitter Algorithm Won’t Ruin Anything – I (probably) never say that I feel sorry for the guys who run Twitter, but his weekend, it was kind of funny watching the surprised responses to so much anger over Twitter’s proposed algorithmic ordering of tweets. Why? Because you have ... more >

November 20, 2015

Friday News: National Book Awards, YouTube’s Fair Use advocacy, marketing apps, and Twitter’s TV hopefuls

JanetPublishing Newsapps / copyright / Fair Use / Google / legal defense / literary awards / marketing / National Book Awards / software / television / Twitter / YouTubeComments Off on Friday News: National Book Awards, YouTube’s Fair Use advocacy, marketing apps, and Twitter’s TV hopefuls

Ta-Nehisi Coates Wins National Book Award – The least surprising, but nevertheless moving, win of the night was Ta-Nehisi Coates for his non-fiction work, Between the World and Me. Adam Johnson won the award for Fiction, Neal Shusterman for Young People’s Literature, Robin Coste Lewis for Poetry, James Patterson won the Literarian Award, and Don DeLillo won ... more >

November 18, 2015

Wednesday News: Instagram, copyright, #GiveaBook, and Murakami vending machine

JanetPublishing Newsbook vending machines / charity / copyright / Facebook / GiveaBook / Instagram / Penguin Random House / Promotion / public domain / Twitter1 Comments

How Instagram Became the New Oprah’s Book Club – Forget Twitter – Instagram is now the best, most influential platform for books. The fact that you can see a book in a pretty little picture is apparently far superior to the 140-character Twitter blurb (even though you can have pictures on ... more >

October 23, 2015

Friday News: Streaming Disney, all about fonts, women’s opinions, and a tale of two libraries

JanetPublishing NewsBaseball / digital books / Disney / fonts / gender / Kansas City / Libraries / power / sexism / streaming movies / subscription service / Toronto / Twitter / typeface1 Comments

Disney to Launch Subscription Streaming Service in U.K. – Just in time for the winter holidays, Disney is beginning a subscription service in the UK, inclusive of digital books, movies, music, and television series, all for a mere £9.99 a month (a little over $15 USD). According to CEO Bob Iger, Disney ... more >

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