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 ]
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 ]
Facebook says it wants to continue sending traffic to publishers, citing how news stories perform well in the News Feed. Facebook said it would start showing more links to news stories in particular to mobile users. And it would begin resurfacing articles in News Feeds that have attracted... Continue reading >> [ Source: Digiday | 2013-12-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
Kaplan transformed the New York Observer and was part of the city's publishing elite during the magazine era's last golden agePeter Kaplan, who died on Friday at 59, of cancer, was an editor whose career spanned and encapsulated what one of his many employees and protégées – John Homans now at... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2013-12-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
With more than 6 million copies sold, and 71 weeks spent on the New York Times's hardcover bestseller list, Gillian Flynn's thriller, Gone Girl, is coming to paperback. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2013-12-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
Publisher of great 20th-century writers and thinkers who lifted the lid on the business of booksIn March 1990, the publishing world was stunned by news of André Schiffrin's controversial resignation from the position he had held for the previous 29 years as editor-in-chief of Pantheon Books.... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2013-12-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
New York magazine will reduce its frequency from 42 issues to 29—effectively going from a weekly to biweekly—in a move that reflects shifting reader habits as much as it does the economic realities of putting out a print magazine, the company said Monday.The magazine will save $3.5 million in... Continue reading >> [ Source: Crains New York | 2013-12-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
Facebook has altered its newsfeed algorithm, which is turning out to be great news for online publishers. Major sites say the social network has driven more referrals in the past month than ever before.The post A Facebook Tweak Gives Publishers a Traffic Boost appeared first on Digiday. Continue reading >> [ Source: Digiday | 2013-12-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
Taylor & Francis Group has released a short motion graphics film entitled What is Open Access Publishing?, which offers an explanation of the concept in under two minutes. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2013-12-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
Timed to coincide with the Federal Trade Commission's workshop this week on native advertising, the Interactive Advertising Bureau plans to release a prospectus on the industry's hottest ad format. The report is the digital community's first pass at defining best practices for a $3 billion... Continue reading >> [ Source: AdWeek | 2013-12-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
Daily Mirror publisher's Buzzfeed-style website achieves rapid growth thanks to content including its North-o-MeterUsVsTh3m, the Daily Mirror publisher's Buzzfeed-style social content website, has more than doubled its traffic in a month, hitting 7 million unique users in November.Trinity Mirror... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2013-12-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
The University of Kent has apologised for a statement on its website that seemingly belittled... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-12-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
Publishers have launched online advent calendars offering readers prizes in the countdown to... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-12-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
Amazon is testing drones called "Octocopters" which could potentially deliver customers... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-12-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
New York State’s collection of online sales tax has withstood a legal challenge by Amazon and Overstock, as the U.S. Supreme Court decided this morning not to hear an appeal of a March ruling by New York’s top court that found that the state could impose the tax. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2013-12-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
Johnston Press is trying to dispose of its Irish newspapers. According to the Sunday Times in Ireland, the company "is in advanced talks" to sell its 12 Irish titles to the British advertising executive Malcolm Denmark.The indebted publisher paid about £115m in 2005 to acquire the stable of... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2013-12-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
Forty-eight years after it was first published, Stoner (Vintage Classics) by the late US author... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-12-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
Sebastian Faulks gave his former Sunday Telegraph boss, John Thompson, a warm send-off in his tribute yesterday, "A nurturing force in the final days of Fleet Street".It reinforced the picture drawn of Thompson in the more formal Daily Telegraph obituary following Thompson's death, aged 93, on... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2013-12-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
The author of Stephen Ward Was Innocent, OK (Biteback Publishing), has revealed his book has been... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-12-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
Bloomsbury Publishing has appointed Elise Burns as children’s sales director. She will... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-12-02 00:00:00 UTC ]