Nook Press Misses Payments, Authors Left With No Explanation or Support (The Digital Reader)
Reports are coming in this weekend that Barnes & Noble’s self-pub platform Nook Press has dropped the ball. An unknown number of authors are saying that their latest payment from B&N, which was supposed to be deposited in their account in the last week of August, never arrived.
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How Can We Prevent Another Event Like the iCloud Celebrity Photo Hack? (GigaOM)
Here are a few things we can learn from the iCloud photo hacking scandal — plus steps you can take to make sure that your private photos remain unseen.
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Thinking Fiction: An Overview of the World of Fiction Copyediting (An American Editor)
In my contributions to An American Editor, I hope to address some of these issues and share my approach to copyediting fiction.
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Open-Source Textbooks Take Root at Md. Colleges (Washington Post)
An experiment with open-source online textbooks at several Maryland universities last semester yielded promising results, and officials are preparing to expand the program this fall.
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