With Instant Articles, Facebook has created a rich, multimedia platform to host publishers' stories, and ensure that you never leave.As social networking has taken over the web, and users no longer visit publishers' homepages to find news, Facebook has become a primary funnel for readers,... Continue reading >> [ Source: Fast Company | 2015-05-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
Using location-based wireless technology, S&S is offering a complimentary selection of full-text frontlist titles to visitors at airports, hotels and museums around the country. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-05-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
Picador is to produce a new summer paperback edition of Jessie Burton’s The Miniaturist for publication on 16th July. The first paperback version was published in January. The July edition will be the second special edition for the book, following the Waterstones hardback last year, and will... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-05-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
L'Oréal has evidently found a video advertising vendor in Mediabong it's very high on. Mediabong—which is announcing a $5 million Series B round of funding today—said it achieved a 90 percent "video-through rate" for L'Oréal in a recent five-week ad campaign across various publishers.... Continue reading >> [ Source: AdWeek | 2015-05-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
Emma Cox, a headteacher from Devon, has won this year’s New Children’s Author Prize, organised by the National Literacy Trust and Bloomsbury. Malkin Moonlight, chosen from a shortlist of six books, is about a cat who is looking for his friend Roux. He comes across a group of cats at a recycling... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-05-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
Neel Mukherjee has won the £10,000 Encore Award for his novel The Lives of Others (Chatto & Windus). Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-05-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
Bestselling author Jeff Goins believes we don't so much find the work we were born to do; we just begin moving so it can find us. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-05-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
Facebook aims to speed up the delivery of news on the companys mobile apps with Instant Articles. The New York Times, National Geographic and others will use it to publish interactive articles directly on Facebooks iPhone app.People already share a lot of articles on Facebook, particularly on... Continue reading >> [ Source: PC World | 2015-05-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
[Sponsored Content] Multi-platform publishing has evolved from a buzzword to a business necessity. The idea is to get similar or related content onto multiple channels in order to reach and appeal to more people. The reasons for it are many, but here are a few. The post 3 Principles to... Continue reading >> [ Source: Folio Magazine | 2015-05-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
Jordanian online bookseller Jamalon solves distribution and delivery in the Arab world by offering cash-on-delivery services. The post Jordan’s Jamalon: The “Arab Amazon” Built on Cash-On-Delivery appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2015-05-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
Online shoppers will find out within a few months whether they will have to pay GST on ebooks, music, games and television services downloaded or streamed from overseas. Continue reading >> [ Source: Stuff | 2015-05-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
Publishing digitally first can help authors to learn about the publishing process, make writers more critical of their own work and help reinvent an author. However, the author Stark Holborn warned that the format should only be used in the right context as there is “a difficulty in marketing... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-05-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
A "Golden Ticket" competition launched by Blink and Alfie Deyes on Friday night (8th May) had to be cancelled on Sunday (10th) after a technical problem that informed hundreds of entrants that they had won. Deyes announced the competition on his YouTube channel on Friday evening. Viewers who... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-05-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
Simon & Schuster UK will this October publish a collection of essays by American YouTuber and lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) activist Tyler Oakley. Oakley currently has 6.9m followers on his YouTube channel, where he campaigns for LGBT rights and discusses social issues such... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-05-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
Malaysian children's book illustrator Wen Dee Tan, who won the top prize at the Sharjah Children's Reading Festival, discusses the mission of her work. The post Malaysia’s Wen Dee Tan Wins Illustrator’s Award at Sharjah appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2015-05-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
Authors including Susan Hill, Ann Cleeves, Mark Billingham and Peter James have been longlisted for the CWA 2015 Dagger in the Library award. The prize is give for an author’s whole body of work to date, rather than a single title. The longlist for the award, which is sponsored by Penguin... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-05-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Campaign for Reader Privacy has pressed for the passage of the bi-partisan USA Freedom Act of 2015, a bill it says will "restore some privacy safeguards to the government’s surveillance activities." Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-05-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
Paul Kingsnorth’s The Wake, published by crowd-funding platform Unbound, has been named the inaugural Book of the Year at the Bookseller Industry Awards 2015. The book is written in re-imagined old English and set in 1066, and was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize and the Folio Prize,... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-05-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
HarperCollins's digital-first romance fiction imprint, created in 2011, announced that in the four years since its launch it has sold more than three million ebooks. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-05-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
Scrambled brains, guinea pig, and the humble pizza pie: veteran food critic Robert Sietsema discusses the story behind his new book, 'New York in a Dozen Dishes.' Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-05-12 00:00:00 UTC ]