Ads for mobile apps are frequently ineffective after the first viewing -- once users install a given app, they rarely have incentives to try the software again. Facebook may have found a way to sustain customers' interest through its new deep linking ad format, however. The approach takes... Continue reading >> [ Source: Engadget | 2013-10-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
Whether publishers want it or not, the Netflix model is coming to the book business.The San Francisco startup Scribd, best known as a site for posting PDFs of documents, announced Tuesday it is launching a multi-platform digital book subscription service that will provide access to a wide range... Continue reading >> [ Source: Crains New York | 2013-10-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
Paper making a Book? That would follow logic. But the Paper we're referring to here is actually an iPad sketchbook app and the book? Why, that'd be a product of Moleskine. An update released today to Paper's popular app adds a new 'Make a Book' service which allows users to self-publish their... Continue reading >> [ Source: Engadget | 2013-10-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
Many of us associate Scribd with embedded documents on websites, but the company has been quietly building an ebook platform -- first by selling content and later by soft-launching a subscription service. The company is now making its strategy clear by formally launching the ebook service and... Continue reading >> [ Source: Engadget | 2013-10-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
Ebooks remain less than 1% of the market in India, but 'even the niche in India is a big number,' says the regional director for Kobo — which is launching 'soon.' Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2013-10-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
In a letter it issued Tuesday, the PEN American Center is asking the government to revisit its decision to block Bulgarian-German author Ilija Trojanov from entering the country. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2013-10-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
Penguin has paid tribute to thriller giant Tom Clancy, who has died at the age of 66. Tom Clancy... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-10-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
The title of the 2014 Sarah Waters novel is to be The Paying Guests, publisher Virago has... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-10-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
Scribd formally launched ebook subscriptions today and the company CEO said he believes the service could eventually produce $1 billion in annual revenue. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2013-10-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
If you'd like to combine your new iPhone and your wallet into a single device that looks like an old-fashioned mini datebook, Pad & Quill's Little Pocket Book is the case you want. Continue reading >> [ Source: Wired | 2013-10-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
This past summer media and entertainment company The Chernin Group (founded by former News Corp. president and COO Peter Chernin) released a digital reality series that took the notion of digital media and ran with it.Mr. Parks: The first thing I did was call all my favorite smartest people... Continue reading >> [ Source: Advertising Age | 2013-10-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
Faber is to release a new edition of Seamus Heaney's poetry collection Opened Ground: Poems... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-10-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
Campaign group Europe-v-Facebook received Facebook's response to complaints about the social networks' privacy policy on Tuesday, but was barred from publishing them by the Irish Data Protection Commissioner. Europe-v-Facebook wrote to the DPC over two years ago alleging that a lack of... Continue reading >> [ Source: PC World | 2013-10-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
Hodder & Stoughton has acquired UK and Commonwealth rights, excluding Canada, in The Reboot... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-10-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
Syria's civil war has decimated the local publishing business, all-but-ending the printing and sale of new books, and forcing many publishers authors to emigrate. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2013-10-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
O'Reilly said his book on World War II will have 'brand-new information about some very, very fascinating things' and should be released in September 2014. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2013-10-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
Amid the splendour of La Mamounia in Marrakesh, one of the world's most historic and beautiful hotels, Rachid O received the fourth annual Prix Littéraire de la Mamounia with Analphabètes (published in France by Editions Gallimard). Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2013-10-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
David Walliams' new children's novel, Demon Dentist (HarperCollins), has become the... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-10-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
Fairfax Media will shed at least 45 jobs across its publishing units amid continued challenging advertising markets. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Sydney Morning Herald | 2013-10-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
Richard House's The Kills (Picador), Charlotte Mendelson's Almost English (Mantle), and... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-10-01 00:00:00 UTC ]