In the world of online publishing, traffic means little in and of itself. That fact is often overlooked by some in the digital media world. The post The Downside of Digital Media’s Scale Fetish appeared first on Digiday. Continue reading >> [ Source: Digiday | 2013-11-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
Gillian Anderson, Benedict Cumberbatch, Nick Cave, Neil Gaiman and Thandie Newton will be among... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-11-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Times' new literary editor Robbie Millen has promised that the newspaper will not cut its... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-11-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
The National Book Awards suggest that books are where grown-ups go when they want to use all of their minds and hearts, says Salon's Laura Miller. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2013-11-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
Shonda Rhimes is the creator of the TV shows 'Grey's Anatomy,' 'Private Practice,' and 'Scandal.' Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2013-11-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
Glam Media, one of the largest digital media companies, has hired magazine publishing veteran Dan Lagani as its first president and chief revenue officer, the company is expected to announce Tuesday. Continue reading >> [ Source: AllThingsD | 2013-11-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
The BBC's Nick Higham meets John Grindrod, the author of Concretopia, a new book charting the rebuilding of post-war Britain Continue reading >> [ Source: BBC News | 2013-11-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
Maurice Sendak's 1963 children's classic 'Where the Wild Things Are' still tops polls as a favorite picture book and was adapted into a film in 2009. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2013-11-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
Bookstore sales rebound in September and more in this week's publishing news briefs. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2013-11-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
Amazon has launched its own digital currency for apps and games in the UK, six months after the... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-11-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
James McBride won the National Book Award for fiction for his novel set during the Civil War, while George Packer picked up the non-fiction award for his examination of contemporary America. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2013-11-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
Forty years ago this fall, a University of Chicago graduate student named Curt Matthews and his wife, Linda Matthews, founded Chicago Review Press, naming it after the Chicago Review literary journal, for which Curt was then poetry editor. Operating initially out of the couple’s basement, CRP’s... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2013-11-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Burmese Ministry of Information announced that a new translation of Orwell’s 1934 novel, Burmese Days, won the National Literary Award’s informative literature award. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2013-11-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
Facebook has sent unprecedented levels of traffic to publishers across the internet in recent months, a dramatic and unexpected increase affecting a large range of sites serving a wide variety of content. According to data from the BuzzFeed Networ ... Continue reading >> [ Source: Editor & Publisher | 2013-11-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
The industry is supposedly embracing a digital future, but too scant attention is too often paid to the basics of organising ebooksThe bright hopes of digital publishing are gathered in London for the latest FutureBook conference and the future looks, well, familiar. As the new boss of... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2013-11-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
Local World's chairman, David Montgomery, has revealed his vision of the future role for journalists employed by his regional newspaper group.According to a Press Gazette report based on a sight of Monty's mission statement, a single journalist will fill a weekly paper by "skimming online... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2013-11-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
Mobile devices are increasingly being used for social reading and recommendation sites, the... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-11-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
Partnering with HarperCollins's academic marketing division, Avon (which is a trade imprint at HC), is opening its editorial doors to submissions from undergraduate and graduate students. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2013-11-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
As tonight's announcement approaches, buzz is building over such nominees as Lawrence Wright's 'Going Clear' and Thomas Pynchon's 'Bleeding Edge.' Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2013-11-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
FIAT, Relativity Media and Sony are among the first few brands to use the new ads at launch. Sold on a cost-per-click basis, these ads will also be served in slideshows published by Yahoo Sports, Yahoo Music and Yahoo TV. All of the ads will be sold directly by Yahoo -- not networks or... Continue reading >> [ Source: Digiday | 2013-11-21 00:00:00 UTC ]