Monday News: YouTube & ContentID, suing for hypothetical infringement, Tate...
Congrats on the 10-Year Anniversary YouTube, Now Please Fix Content ID – YouTube is ten years old! It has definitely changed over the years, and not always for the better. EFF notes that the automated...
View ArticleFriday News: Nebula Awards, EU investigates Amazon, YouTube authors, and...
Female Sci-Fi Writers Nearly Sweep the 2015 Nebula Awards – When the Irene Gallo story hit, there was some speculation that a certain individual who has been banned from SFWA may have orchestrated the...
View ArticleFriday News: VidCon’s science stars, taking a closer look at comics, and...
YouTube’s Rock Stars of Science Make a Splash at VidCon – Given the sexual assault scandals associated with VidCon, I was pleasantly surprised by the success of science bloggers and their popularity at...
View ArticleMonday News: harassment, privacy, self-publishing, and flowers
Inside the underage sex scandal that’s tearing Vine apart – So despite all the tough talk from Hank and John Green about the sexual abuse and harassment issues in the Vine and YouTube communities, the...
View ArticleMonday News: New Models for Success?
How to Write a ‘Big Book’ -I’m still trying to figure out if this blog post by Lev Raphael is a joke. The subject – ‘how to write a big book’ – is also its central argument: to write a ‘big book’ in...
View ArticleTuesday News: Book banning, ad blocking, spam, and piracy
Book banned after Christian complaint -New Zealand now has its first banned book in more than 20 years, Ted Dawe’s Into the River, which was named Book of the Year in 2013 at the New Zealand Post...
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Snapchat Scare, YouTube Red, Facebook Real Names, and a Fancy Retro Keyboard
Instead of a big article, here’s a couple of tech news that I thought I’d highlight. The Snapchat Scare (or if you aren’t paying for a product, you are the product). Snapchat updated it’s privacy...
View ArticleFriday News: National Book Awards, YouTube’s Fair Use advocacy, marketing...
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...
View ArticleThursday News: Samhain stays open (for now), YouTuber books, Bravo! imprint,...
Samhain tells its authors that the doors will stay open: Chris Brashear informed Samhain authors that expense cutting strategies are keeping the publisher afloat, and they hope to re-open submissions...
View ArticleWednesday News: Canadian book sales, content moderation, Blackbeard’s reading...
Print book sales declined in 2017 – Some very interesting numbers and trends here. More than 51 million print books sold (more than $1B Canadian), with the highest sales in YA/Juvenile (40%) and...
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