BuzzFeed, the online publisher of news, lists and quizzes that are designed to be shared on social media, is forecasting revenue of as much as $120 million in 2014, said two people with knowledge of its financials.The sales level will depend on how many advertising deals are booked next year,... Continue reading >> [ Source: Advertising Age | 2013-12-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
Publishers like to think that their content is getting read. But at the expense of advertising dollars? Not so fast. Increasingly popular apps like Pocket, Instapaper and Evernote’s Web Clipper have been billed as a way to help publishers combat fragmentation by letting users read bookmarked... Continue reading >> [ Source: Digiday | 2013-12-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
Illustrator resorts to lawyers over long-running dispute about his sale of the comic-book franchise to Hachette LivreHe co-created the Asterix comic series about the adventures of the indomitable Gaul, but now Albert Uderzo is fighting his own real-life battle, and has filed a legal complaint... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2013-12-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
Rita Ora confirms that she will play the role of Mia in the film adaptation of EL James' book series. Continue reading >> [ Source: BBC News | 2013-12-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
Monday: Slate staffers pick their favorite books of 2013. Tuesday: The overlooked books of 2013. Wednesday: The best lines of 2013, and the best poetry of 2013. Thursday: Dan Kois’ 15 favorite books. Friday: The Slate Book Review Top 10. Continue reading >> [ Source: Slate | 2013-12-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
Jonah Peretti, BuzzFeed Photo: Jeremy Goldberg A few years back, Peretti produced something that went viral. He challenged himself to do it again. And he did. Then, nobody thought you could engineer viral, but Peretti saw the power of social publishing clearer than anybody else. “I’ve... Continue reading >> [ Source: AdWeek | 2013-12-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
To any small newspaper publisher still holding out against a digital platform, consider a visit to Linton, N.D. There, few publishers serve as small or rural a community as Allan Burke, whose family-owned Emmons County Record, a 3,100-circulation ... Continue reading >> [ Source: Editor & Publisher | 2013-12-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
E-books by Sainsbury’s is asking customers to vote for their ‘E-book of the Year... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-12-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
Publisher of military history books and husband of Jilly CooperLeo Cooper, who has died aged 79 after suffering from Parkinson's disease, was a publisher with a zeal for military history, who also enjoyed some notoriety as the husband of the novelist Jilly Cooper.Leo's hospitality was out of all... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2013-12-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
Red-top brands comedian a hypocrite, Jack Dee criticises Crewe and Jimmy Carr tells Ross Noble not to knock Mock the WeekThis week's comedy newsThe gloves are off in Brand versus the Sun. On Saturday, the never-knowingly-underexposed comedian wrote a piece for this paper accusing the Sun on... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2013-12-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
Alex Ferguson has increased his lead at the summit of the Official UK Top 50. Sales of the... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-12-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
An informal survey of new and established bookstores finds that holiday sales should be up again this year. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2013-12-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
After the staff at New Hampshire bookstores proposed 'Cider Monday' as a holiday to celebrate on America's Cyber Monday, the idea caught on with other indie sellers. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2013-12-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
A new book delivery company, which sends monthly parcels of books for children aged 0-5, is... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-12-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
Stoner by late US author John Williams, first published 48 years ago, wins the Waterstones Book of the Year prize. Continue reading >> [ Source: BBC News | 2013-12-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
When I was a teenager, I thought it would be great to be an adult and be surrounded by people who weren't mean to each other all day. Enter stage left: the world wide webBack in the early 90s, when I was still at school and words such as "friend" and "message" were nouns as opposed to verbs, a... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2013-12-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
Union pays Lucy Adams' legal costs after falsely accusing her department of being involved in a 'dirty tricks' campaignThe National Union of Journalists has apologised to the BBC's outgoing human resources director Lucy Adams and paid her legal costs after falsely accusing her department of... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2013-12-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
A new deal with Penguin UK means a greater variety of books for the insurgent platform. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Atlantic | 2013-12-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
There are dozens of content management systems for sale, but publishing companies like ours are building their own. What's so complicated about a CMS, anyway?It's impossible to say this comprehensively, but most people in publishing hate the CMS, or content management system, they're forced to... Continue reading >> [ Source: Fast Company | 2013-12-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
Amazon has been prising open the wallets of Australian consumers for years – but what will its local push on Kindle mean for readers, writers and publishers?Ben Eltham Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2013-12-03 00:00:00 UTC ]