Conde Nast Traveler, the glossy travel magazine from Conde Nast, has eliminated about 14 editorial positions, more than half its staff, according to two people with direct knowledge of the matter.The job cuts include five editors, the entire photo desk and the the graphics department, according... Continue reading >> [ Source: Advertising Age | 2013-09-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
After discovering the winner of a debut novel prize was co-authored, Planeta is donating the prize money of million pesos (USD $76,800) to Mexico's flood victims. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2013-09-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
Google has expanded Play ebook sales to Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam, and New Zealand. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2013-09-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
Scholastic has donated 1 million books to Reach Out and Read, a literacy charity that works to provide books to at-risk children via doctors and nurses. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2013-09-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
Joe Ripp started his new job as CEO of Time Inc. only three weeks ago, but he's already caught the attention of staffers by saying the executive suite had for too long been a place "where ideas go to die." He'll need their imagination and commitment going forward as parent company Time Warner... Continue reading >> [ Source: Advertising Age | 2013-09-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
If ABC's new series has you curious about the comic book history of Marvel's spy agency, here's a quick primer. Level 7 clearance, of course. Continue reading >> [ Source: Wired | 2013-09-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
Random House has launched new magazines aimed at exploring worlds created by their authors. First up: Margaret Atwood and George R.R. Martin. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2013-09-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
In Mexico City librarians from Colombia, Mexico and Spain agreed there remained numerous challenges to libraries offering digital content and lending ebooks. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2013-09-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
Australia's biggest publishing house is to publish the much-anticipated memoirs of Julia Gillard. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Sydney Morning Herald | 2013-09-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
Thames & Hudson has appointed Sophy Thompson to the new role of publishing director.... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-09-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
William Boyd signed seven copies of his heavily embargoed new Bond novel Solo (Jonathan Cape) to... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-09-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
It's 1969 and James Bond wakes up in The Dorchester in London. It’s his 45th birthday.... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-09-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
All of a sudden, the browser plug-in as we know it is starting to look mighty unpopular. Microsoft barred plug-ins from the modern UI version of Internet Explorer 10 right out of the Windows 8 gate, and this week, the other two major browsers advanced plans to nerf the out-of-the-box... Continue reading >> [ Source: PC World | 2013-09-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
@Horse_ebooks is the Twitter account that, until today, spewed frequent bouts of eerily poetic nonsense to more than 213,000 followers: @Horse_ebooks was widely believed to be a Twitter bot whose tweets were sent out by a robot that scraped text from obscure parts of the Internet. That is, until... Continue reading >> [ Source: Fast Company | 2013-09-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
Since so many consumers hop from smartphone to desktop to tablet and back again multiple times a day, Web publishers have rushed to embrace responsive design: a technology that automatically resizes content to fit any screen. The responsive movement has been a win for users, who increasingly... Continue reading >> [ Source: AdWeek | 2013-09-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
Here is some good news for marketers: More consumers trust advertising compared with six years ago, according to a new report from Nielsen that polled people in 58 countries.While word-of-mouth recommendations remain a brand's best friend by far, confidence in various forms of paid advertising... Continue reading >> [ Source: Advertising Age | 2013-09-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
The educational publisher has operated from its Cheltenham, southwest England headquarters as a standalone subsidiary of Oxford University Press since it was acquired in January for an undisclosed sum. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2013-09-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
Amazon has announced the US release of three new Kindle Fire Tablets. Meanwhile Barnes &... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-09-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
Patrick Walsh of Conville & Walsh said he has had "very serious interest worldwide... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-09-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
A preview of the upcoming sequel is available via the recently released ebook edition of 'The Time Traveler's Wife.' Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2013-09-25 00:00:00 UTC ]