App-install ads continue to be a lucrative business for Facebook and Twitter, and now Google wants a bigger piece of the market. Today Google is rolling out two new tools aimed at making it easier for marketers to plug mobile apps. The first change is that advertisers can extend AdMob... Continue reading >> [ Source: AdWeek | 2015-03-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
The book 'The Emperor of All Maladies' won the Pulitzer Prize for literature in the nonfiction category. The TV adaptation of the award-winning book debuts on PBS on March 31. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2015-03-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
German publisher Carlsen has taken over the humor program of Lappan Verlag to form the largest humor and cartoon publisher in the German-speaking market. The post Friendly Takeover: Carlsen and Lappan Join Forces appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2015-03-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
Before the opening of the Bologna Children's Book Fair, app creators and developers gathered to discuss the digital children's market, including pricing and pitfalls. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-03-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
At Digiday’s Publishing Summit in Vail, Colorado, the big issues crowding publishers’ minds included viewability challenges, mobile and programmatic. So we wondered: What will we be talking about in a year from now that’s not getting much attention now? Publishing execs predicted growing ad... Continue reading >> [ Source: Digiday | 2015-03-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
Creators of the Clean Reader app will no longer sell books after receiving complaints from authors that their works were being altered without permission. The post UK Authors Force Clean Reader App to Stop Some Book Sales appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2015-03-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
Bonnier Corporation, publisher of dozens of special-interest publications including Saveur and Popular Science, is in talks to buy Men's Fitness magazine from American Media Inc., according to two people with knowledge of the conversations.One person said the expected sale price is "just shy of... Continue reading >> [ Source: Advertising Age | 2015-03-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
Henri Cartier-Bresson's famous photo book is republished after 60 years, proving that breaking the rules can change everything. The post Rare, Revolutionary Photo Book Is Back in Print appeared first on WIRED. Continue reading >> [ Source: Wired | 2015-03-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
With comp store sales up 0.4% in the year, total revenue at Books-A-Million rose 0.8% over the previous year. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-03-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
Game of Thrones isn't the only highly anticipated returning premium cable program based on a hugely popular book series with a rabid fan base. Starz has its own budding hit in Outlander, based on Diana Gabaldon's historical/fantasy/romance novels, which will launch the second half of its debut... Continue reading >> [ Source: AdWeek | 2015-03-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
Given the outsized influence of the 33-year-old South Florida bookstore and owner Mitchell Kaplan, the biggest surprise was that it hadn't received the award earlier. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-03-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
From the mud and thunder of early festivals to Live Aid and Rihanna, music journalist Mark Ellen was usually in the right place at the right timeMark Ellen surveys the happy youngsters comfortably cavorting at Glastonbury, marvelling at Primal Scream beneath a harvest moon. “You bastards,” moans... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2015-03-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
The success of Penguin’s highly portable commute-sized gobbets says much about what modern readers wantReleased to mark Penguin Books’ 80th birthday, the pocket-sized, 80p-a-pop Little Black Classics have been a hit, selling 70,545 copies in the first week of publication.The commercial success... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2015-03-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
Ebury Press has acquired a book by YouTube stars Dan Howell and Phil Lester. There will be a “major UK tour” to mark the release of The Amazing Book is Not on Fire, which Ebury Press says is the “first production of its kind from a publisher” which will bring “Dan and Phil’s unique brand of... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-03-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
Canongate has signed a book celebrating dogs of all shapes and sizes by photographer Lynn Terry. Publishing director of non-fiction Katy Follain bought UK and Commonwealth rights, excluding Canada, in a deal with Caspian Dennis at Abner Stein. US rights went to Gallery Books after an eight-way... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-03-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
Bloomsbury has signed Meg Rosoff's first novel for adults, a romantic comedy set in New York. Helen Garnons-Williams, publishing director for fiction, acquired UK and Commonwealth rights, excluding Canada, at auction from Catherine Clarke at Felicity Bryan Associates. Duck Zoo tells the story... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-03-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
Russell Brand has used profits from his book Revolution (Century) to help fund a café in Hackney staffed by recovering drug addicts. The Trew Era café is a social enterprise located in a housing estate that faced eviction last year by a US company. The Guardian reports that Brand backed the... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-03-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
We asked attendees at last week’s Digiday Publishing Summit to come clean on their ability to face up to the threat of ad fraud. Here’s how well they’re coping with bots, how big of a threat ad fraud will be in the next 12 months and more. Sponsor content by Distil Networks. The post From bots... Continue reading >> [ Source: Digiday | 2015-03-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
Jens Bammel, secretary general of the International Publishers Association (IPA), is to step down from his role. Bammel has led the IPA since 2003, but will step down ahead of the 2015 Frankfurt Book Fair. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-03-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
Macmillan Children's Books (MCB) has acquired a YA comedy about a group of fangirls from debut US author Goldy Moldavsky. Kill the Boy Band is a fictional account of what happens when a group of fangirls accidentally kidnap their least favourite member of their most favourite boy band, and is... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-03-28 00:00:00 UTC ]