When it comes to referral traffic from social networks, there's Facebook and Pinterest — and then there's everyone else. Facebook accounted for more than 10% of overall traffic to publishers in September, by ... Continue reading >> [ Source: Editor & Publisher | 2013-10-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
Not being able to control access to content as users bypass the paywall is a major challenge facing publishers. This is according to new research carried out by MPP Global Solutions as part of its latest webinar on the future of digital publishing m ... Continue reading >> [ Source: Editor & Publisher | 2013-10-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
Lydia Newhouse has been appointed as senior commissioning editor at HarperCollins imprint Avon... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-10-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
When David Shelley, publisher of Little, Brown U.K., arrived at a lunch to meet a potential new author named Robert Galbraith, he instead found a blonde woman sitting next to agent Neil Blair. "When she turned round I had the surprise of my life. She said, ‘I'm Jo.'" Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2013-10-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
In much of the INMA network worldwide, the focus is on big news brands producing life-changing, business-building journalism that transforms democracies and speaks truth to power. Yet among the other 99% of news publishers worldwide, the challeng ... Continue reading >> [ Source: Editor & Publisher | 2013-10-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
The 2013 Frankfurt Book Fair was a busy one, despite another modest decline in trade visitors Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2013-10-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
E-book seller Kobo suspends all self-published books from its UK store after the discovery of abuse-themed titles on sale. Continue reading >> [ Source: BBC World | 2013-10-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
Michael O'Mara will publish the autobiography of soap actress Michelle Collins next April.... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-10-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
W H Smith has said it expects its website to “be live again shortly” following its... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-10-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
Porter Anderson looks at the Frankfurt Book Fair, at Sprint Beyond the Book and Book Sprints, at pen names, and more in Ether for Authors this week. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2013-10-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
In case you slept through this weekend and missed it, here are the 10 biggest comic book stories from 2013's New York Comic Con. Continue reading >> [ Source: Wired | 2013-10-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
Morrissey will be in Sweden for publication day of his autobiography this Thursday (17th October... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-10-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
Helen Fielding's new Bridget Jones novel, Mad About the Boy (Jonathan Cape), has become one... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-10-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
Granta is to reprint 25,000 hardbacks of Eleanor Catton's Man Booker Prize-winning The... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-10-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
Eleanor Catton has won the Man Booker Prize 2013 with The Luminaries. Catton's second novel... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-10-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
Rodale has hired former Dow Jones executive, Scott Schulman, as its president—a role left vacant since Steven Pleshette Murphy stepped down as president and CEO in 2009. Continue reading >> [ Source: Folio Magazine | 2013-10-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
It was just more than a year ago that Ev Williams and Biz Stone created the publishing platform Medium. The Internet officially met the site in August 2012, and since then, Medium’s popularity has grown enough for even the most ske ... Continue reading >> [ Source: Editor & Publisher | 2013-10-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
Jim Vandehei, co-founder of the D.C.-based online political reporting publication POLITICO, has been promoted to president and CEO. Continue reading >> [ Source: Folio Magazine | 2013-10-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
Hearst Magazine is moving Country Living's editorial operations to Birmingham, Ala., from its current location in New York, the company said Monday. Current edit staffers, who learned of the news Monday afternoon, will not make the move.Country Living's full-time edit staff in New York is "a... Continue reading >> [ Source: Crains New York | 2013-10-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
A textbook rental company is trying to mimic the instantaneous speed of ebook delivery for printed books by utilizing civil drones in Sydney, Australia. Imagine the book you need to ace the exam showing up at your door, care of your friendly neighborhood drone. Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2013-10-15 00:00:00 UTC ]