Craig Seymour discovered his book vanished from Amazon's search results back in February, stripped of its sales ranking without explanation.
When challenged, the retailer claimed the ISBN was flagged as "adult product," effectively deleting the title from visibility.
This pattern emerged with numerous legitimate literary works featuring LGBTQ+ themes.
Classics like James Baldwin's "Giovanni's...
Audible is poised to revolutionize the audiobook industry with the launch of its highly anticipated Harry Potter series. The company aims to set new records, targeting a total of over 1.8 billion listening hours, surpassing previous versions of J.K. Rowling’s beloved stories.
On November 4th, Audible introduced the first installment, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, kicking...
For just three pennies a day, immerse yourself in Audible's Premium Plus tier this holiday season.
Prime subscribers unlock exclusive access to premium audiobooks for $0.99 monthly, a significant discount from the standard $14.95/month rate.
This limited-time offer, valid October 1st through December 1st, grants full entry to Audible's massive library, including coveted monthly credits...
A landmark resolution has been reached
for Australian Facebook users
following the Cambridge Analytica scandal.
Under an enforceable undertaking with the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner,
Meta Platforms Inc. will establish a $50 million payment scheme.
This marks the largest sum ever dedicated
to addressing privacy concerns in the country.
Eligibility for compensation hinges...
Bantam Books has invested nearly $45 million to acquire four upcoming novels by Tim LaHaye, a prominent Baptist pastor renowned for co-creating a series of Christian apocalyptic novels that have achieved sales comparable to popular franchises like Harry Potter.
Alongside Jerry B. Jenkins, LaHaye has penned nine installments in the "Left Behind" series, a collection of evangelical thrillers...
The literary landscape is heating up under the Hollywood sun.
A surge of book options signals a pre-holiday rush,
as studios scramble to stock their development slates.
The recent buying spree spans diverse genres:
from surf culture dramas to supernatural thrillers,
and detective tales to comedic novels about urban life.
This flurry follows a period of industry slowdown,
with the market now...
Contrary to the familiar stories of beloved books being ruined on film, several recent screen versions have won over both devoted readers and many critics.
Part of the reason is a pragmatic approach by filmmakers: they try to capture the novel’s core while recognizing that movies are a different art form with their own limits.
Fans who have lived inside a book’s world are...
Hollywood has turned its gaze back to the stories of childhood, treating beloved kids’ books as fertile ground for big-screen adaptations and cross-media empires.
The recent box-office dominance of family-friendly hits showed studios a clear truth: movies that appeal to both children and adults can be enormously profitable.
That realization has sparked a stampede for classic and...
Numerous verbatim passages surfaced in Chris Anderson's "Free: The Future of a Radical Price", notably from Wikipedia and other online platforms.
The unattributed material was identified by Waldo Jaquith during a review of an advance copy.
Anderson, Wired's editor-in-chief, acknowledged the oversight to Jaquith and publisher Hyperion before public disclosure.
He committed to revising digital...
Data Privacy Concern: Potential Information Leak Affects Facebook Users
A serious security vulnerability in Facebook's embedded frame handling mechanism has been identified, potentially compromising personal information of millions of users. Security researchers estimate approximately 100,000 applications may have inadvertently exploited this flaw since the platform's application ecosystem...
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