News & Notes is a weekly Saturday post featuring book- and publishing-related news, links to interesting articles and opinion pieces, and other cool stuff Literary Losses Patricia A. McKillip, World Fantasy Award-winning author of The Forgotten Beasts of Eld, the Riddle-Master of Hed trilogy, and more than 15 other books,… Read more »
News & Notes is a weekly Saturday post featuring book- and publishing-related news, links to interesting articles and opinion pieces, and other cool stuff, Bookish News The 2020 Edgar Award nominees were announced. The winners will be named in April. The ALA announced its 2021 Youth Media Awards, including the… Read more »
News & Notes is a weekly Saturday post featuring book- and publishing-related news, links to interesting articles and opinion pieces, and other cool stuff Book News Lawsuit decided based on missing Oxford comma (The Write Life) A class action lawsuit brought by a dairy’s drivers for overtime pay was decided… Read more »
News & Notes is a Saturday post featuring book- and publishing-related news, links to interesting articles and opinion pieces, and other cool stuff Book News Plagiarism rears its ugly head again. And Romancelandia is up in arms. Cristiane Serruya apparently plagiarized from upwards of 35 well- and lesser-known authors…. Read more »
There’s yet another plagiarism scandal. But this time, the plagiarist took on all the wrong people. (A News & Notes special edition) You do not want to anger Romancelandia; it will come after you. The story began on Monday, with a blog post from Courtney Milan announcing “Cristiane Serruya is a copyright infringer,… Read more »
News & Notes is a weekly Saturday post featuring book- and publishing-related news, links to interesting articles and opinion pieces, and other cool stuff Book News Darwin’s annotated copy of On the Origin of Species goes to auction (The Guardian) John Lewis plagiarism row gives Christmas sales boost to… Read more »
News & Notes is a weekly Saturday post featuring book- and publishing-related news, links to interesting articles and opinion pieces, and other cool stuff Book News Four unseen Beatrix Potter drawings found at Melford Hall, a National Trust property in Suffolk. (The Guardian) You can also read more about the drawings… Read more »
News & Notes is a weekly Saturday post featuring book- and publishing-related news, links to interesting articles and opinion pieces, and other cool stuff Book News AuthorEarnings releases “Definitive Study of Amazon Author Earnings”. Using a software spider, they looked at almost every ebook title sold on Amazon, whether traditionally… Read more »
News & Notes is a weekly Saturday post featuring book- and publishing-related news, links to interesting articles and opinion pieces, giveaways on this and other blogs, and other cool stuff. Books & Ebooks in the News: Barnes & Noble is getting out of the tablet business. The company hopes to… Read more »
Worth Reading: “Enough Feisty Princesses: Disney Needs an Introverted Heroine” (Lindsay Lowe, The Atlantic) “Plagiarism and the link: How the web makes attribution easier — and more complicated” (Matthew Ingram, paidContent) “The Used eBook Trojan Horse” (ebookp*rn blog) Books & Ebooks in the News: “Book of Kells now Free to… Read more »
