The $4.4bn purchase by the US telecoms giant will help overcome the ad industry’s biggest problem Verizon buying AOL wasn’t the last deal we in agency land ever expected, but to most it’s come as a bit of a shock. It feels to me more like Apple buying Beats, than Comcast trying to merge with... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2015-05-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
News of a change at the helm of leading graphic novel publisher Drawn & Quarterly was the talk of this year's Toronto Comic Arts Festival, which saw growth in attendees and exhibitors. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-05-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
Chicken House and production company Altitude Film Entertainment have jointly acquired Moondust by debut writer Gemma Fowler. Chicken House will publish the novel in autumn 2016 and Chicken House and Altitude will develop a film script based on the book. Rights were acquired from film agent... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-05-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Department for Culture, Media and Sport has confirmed that Ed Vaizey will remain in place as culture minister. Vaizey, who has filled the role since the coalition government formed in 2010, will now serve under his fourth culture secretary, John Whittingdale. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-05-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
Jamie Oliver’s new book will focus on healthy eating, following a “personal journey” taken by the TV chef. Penguin Random House’s Michael Joseph division will publish Everyday Super Food in August this year, to tie in with a new six-part Channel 4 series. The book will contain recipes for 30... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-05-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
The BBC is adapting Hilary Mantel’s novel about the French Revolution, A Place of Greater Safety, following its recent adaptation of her Man Booker Prize-winning Tudor novels, Wolf Hall and Bring Up The Bodies (all Fourth Estate). The 1992 novel tells the story of three young men who were key... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-05-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
While brands and publishers are taking advantage of programmatic buying to work with the partners they choose, working with each other is not always a smooth process. Speaking at the Digiday Programmatic Summit in Austin yesterday, senior manager of paid digital media at Kellogg North America,... Continue reading >> [ Source: Digiday | 2015-05-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
Pan Macmillan has acquired a new epic fantasy series in a six-figure deal. Senior commissioning editor Bella Pagan bought world rights to John Gwynne’s standalone trilogy from agent John Jarrold. The trilogy will be set in the same stirring Celtic-inspired world as Gwynne’s first quartet, the... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-05-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
Facebook has reached a deal with New York Times and eight other media outlets to post stories directly to the social network's mobile news feeds, as publishers strive for new ways to expand their reach. Continue reading >> [ Source: Stuff | 2015-05-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
The inaugural issue of the magazine, to be a quarterly, will be available in print and digital beginning September 2, circulated to 450,000. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-05-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
Publishers should start to spread money from the sale of ebooks fairly between themselves and authors, and not make assumptions when they start to experiment with new channels that “an author is going to be thrilled with it”, Association of Authors’ Agents president Sam Edenborough has... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-05-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
The first title selected for the group is 'I'll Give You the Sun' by Jandy Nelson. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2015-05-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
Virgin Books has acquired the UK and Commonwealth rights to Wildflower, a collection of autobiographical essays by actress and producer Drew Barrymore. In the essays Barrymore, who shot to fame as a child actress when she played Gertie in Steven Spielberg’s "E.T.", writes about incidents from... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-05-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
Selected out of over 100 print magazines and 270 covers. The post The New Yorker’s “Broken Arch” is ASME’s Cover of the Year appeared first on Folio:. Continue reading >> [ Source: Folio Magazine | 2015-05-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
Wal-Mart Stores' planned competitor to the Amazon Prime service will have a price advantage, but catching up with its e-commerce rival won't be easy.Wal-Mart announced plans yesterday to give online customers unlimited free shipping for $50 a year, half the cost of Prime. What it lacks is... Continue reading >> [ Source: Advertising Age | 2015-05-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
Major news publishers took full advantage of Facebook's multimedia features in kicking off their first uses of Facebook's new Instant Articles product but missed some chances to tailor their content to mobile users. The New York Times, Atlantic, National Geographic all posted long articles,... Continue reading >> [ Source: Digiday | 2015-05-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
It wants to be ‘the best photography fair in the world – bar none’. But can it possibly live up to the hype? Prepare to be amazed and probably overwhelmed as Photo London hits the capitalBack in 2011, I wrote a piece about London’s belated embrace of photography. Citing the Tate’s 2009... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2015-05-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
Lee Child achieves a personal best this week as his latest thriller tops the Official UK Top 50 for a third consecutive week. The paperback edition of Personal (Bantam) sold 22,680 copies in the seven days ending 9th May and marks the first time a Jack Reacher thriller has spent more than a... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-05-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
Media companies increasingly want to publish their articles, videos and graphics directly to social networks and mobile apps like Facebook, Instagram and Snapchat. Call it modern syndication.Facebook, for instance, is talking with media companies about publishing articles within the social... Continue reading >> [ Source: Advertising Age | 2015-05-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
Arrow has acquired a book commemorating Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird, to be published ahead of the release of Lee’s Go Set a Watchman (William Heinemann). Publishing director Jenny Geras acquired UK and Commonwealth rights, excluding Canada, to Scout, Atticus & Boo by Mary McDonagh... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-05-13 00:00:00 UTC ]