Why is it a big deal for publishers to pay to promote their content on Facebook? The post Paying for traffic: the end of the last taboo? appeared first on Digiday. Continue reading >> [ Source: Digiday | 2014-09-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
Starting today, Alessandra Bastagli has joined Nation Books as its new editorial director. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-09-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
Media companies say much of what the newspaper wrote about Julian Disney and the council was untrue Continue reading... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2014-09-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
Picador is to launch a new paperback Picador Classic list, with the first titles to be released... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-09-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
'Shoplifter' Launch Party in Toronto, ON; 'Irwin: A New York Story' Screening in New York, NY; Gary Panter Exhibition Opening Reception in New York, NY; Cincy Comicon in Covignton, KY; Helsinki Comics Festival in Helsinki, Finland; Baltimore Comic-Con in Baltimore, MD. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-09-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
This week, we reviewed the HTC One for Windows, investigated Amazon's controversial ebook-pricing model, played around with Hyperlapse, learned about LG's G Watch R and more! Read on for Engadget's news highlights from the last seven days. Oh, and... Continue reading >> [ Source: Engadget | 2014-09-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
The winner of the first Wilfred Owen international poetry competition will be announced at the... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-09-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
If Scotland goes independent it is likely to cause “huge disruption” to bookselling... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-09-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
Memoirs dominate the longlist of the 2014 Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-fiction, with the personal... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-09-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
HarperCollins UK has relaunched its website with readers able to buy ebooks directly from the... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-09-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
Gallimard rejected Martin Amis’ latest novel The Zone of Interest not because of the... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-09-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
Chapter with more characters and Quentin Blake illustration deemed 'too wild' for British children appears for first timeA lost chapter of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, deemed too wild, subversive and insufficiently moral for the tender minds of British children almost 50 years ago, has... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2014-08-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
The discovery of new unpublished chapters reveals author Roald Dahl planned to include more children in his classic children's book Charlie and the Chocolate Factory but dropped them from the final version. Continue reading >> [ Source: BBC News | 2014-08-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
'Rosewater' is based on Bahari's memoir 'Then They Came for Me' and stars Gael Garcia Bernal as Bahari. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2014-08-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
When not busy helping to find new treatments for cancer, IBM Watson is helping to cook up a few new dishes as well.To show off Watson’s powers, IBM is training its cognitive computing system to suggest new combinations of ingredients that could help cooks to create new, and sometimes quite... Continue reading >> [ Source: PC World | 2014-08-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
DoubleDown Interactive, the company behind the popular gambling app DoubleDown Casino, placed its early marketing and media bets on Facebook. It's worked. But as its bettors shift to mobile gambling from desktops, in sync with consumers' migration to mobile devices for all sorts of daily... Continue reading >> [ Source: Advertising Age | 2014-08-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
Houses in the religion category run the gamut from corporate conglomerates like HarperCollins Christian Publishing to university presses like Georgetown and nonprofits like the Jewish Publication Society; from family-owned traditional publishers like Baker Publishing Group to recent startups... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-08-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
Penguin Random House posted total revenue of 1.46 billion euros in the first half of 2014 and operating EBITDA of 159 million euros. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-08-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
Apparently all customers believe the book they're looking for has a blue cover and some will tell you that if you haven't read every book in the store, 'you're not very good at your job.' Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2014-08-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
As new directions for bookselling evolve, the industry is increasingly looking to take advantage of the changes taking place across the entire retail spectrum. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-08-29 00:00:00 UTC ]