Tuesday News: BBC v Netflix, the “romance delusion,” the Last Bookstore, and...
BBC may become victim of its own success, Netflix exec suggests – Netflix’s Chief Content Officer Ted Sarandos predicts that in building such a robust storytelling culture in Britain the BBC may be...
View ArticleFriday News: Disrupting the book, Netflix & theaters, short films, and the...
Disrupting the book: Serialization, new formats, and AR – We continue to see stories evolve, including their format, and as Ja Ja Liao points out in this post, technologies continue to evolve. Tablets...
View ArticleTuesday News: Amazon, Apple, Netflix, comics, and princesses
Millions of Americans Have Free Amazon Credits. Here’s How to Check Yours – A friendly reminder that if you have unused Apple settlement credits, they will expire Saturday, June 24th, 2017. I’m not...
View ArticleWednesday News: Pronoun, periods, bestsellers, and magic
Macmillan’s Pronoun Self-Publishing Platform Signs Off – If you’ve never heard of Pronoun, you may know the company by its former name, Vook. Pronoun’s closure announcement is somewhat vague...
View ArticleMonday News: free books, Netflix & franchising, ‘raising happy girls,’ and...
The Internet Archive “Liberates” Books Published Between 1923 and 1941, and Will Put 10,000 Digitized Books Online – Utilizing a section of copyright law that allows libraries to digitize works...
View ArticleFriday News: author websites, net neutrality, book covers, and motherhood in...
Liz Carlyle kills her website – An astute reader noticed that Liz Carlyle shut down her website this week, leaving a short note referencing her retirement and sending readers to Amazon. There is a...
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