Unfortunately, it's time to hit the books once more. Don't get completely bummed out by the start of classes because this special issue of our weekly e-magazine has all of the top picks for back to school gear. That's right, from laptops to portable audio, we've narrowed down the best tech... Continue reading >> [ Source: Engadget | 2013-08-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
Considering that Korea's warring giants don't get along too well, it's amusing to see LG offering a Samsung-made tablet on LG U+, the latter's domestic cellular network. The "Homeboy" is a re-branded Galaxy Tab 3 that plugs into U+'s services, including TV channels, music, video, ebook and... Continue reading >> [ Source: Engadget | 2013-08-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
In an effort to beef up its digital presence, the University of Missouri's independent student newspaper, The Maneater, announced Wednesday that it will reduce its print publication from twice a week to once a week, publishing only on Wednesdays. .. Continue reading >> [ Source: Editor & Publisher | 2013-08-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
Dan Brown’s Inferno is still selling well in many international markets, but a few notable titles began to dominate European fiction bestsellers lists in July. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2013-08-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
Edinburgh's international book festival is getting Stripped and ready with a strand devoted to comic books. Continue reading >> [ Source: BBC World | 2013-08-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
As the U.S. economy crumbled, Choire Sicha wrote a nonfiction book about its effect on a group of young men in New York in 2009.Let's say you had the misfortune to be young and broke in 2009. Some people moved back in with family members. Some people's parents helped them get a job. Others... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2013-08-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
“I’ll corroborate what you’ve probably been hearing,” says Abrams CEO Michael Jacobs, when asked to discuss the state of digital publishing in the art and photo book market. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2013-08-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
Shopkeepers aren't so unlike us online writers. We do experiments: manipulate our content, headlines, and images to see what draws in readers and keeps you coming back. So do retailers: Put the blue shirt up front, now the red; see what sells. The difference is that online experiments produce... Continue reading >> [ Source: Fast Company | 2013-08-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
News Corp.—which now includes The Wall Street Journal but not 20th Century Fox—is adopting a new strategy for making money from digital advertising: It will no longer sell inventory through outside ad networks but will handle those automated sales itself.The news and information company, which... Continue reading >> [ Source: Crains New York | 2013-08-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
Andrea Bennett has been appointed as the new editor-in-chief of Niche Media's VEGAS magazine. Continue reading >> [ Source: Folio Magazine | 2013-08-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
Colin Dickerman, formerly executive editor at The Penguin Press, has been named as editorial... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-08-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
When ebook sales surpassed hardcover sales for the first time last year, it seemed like just the latest piece of evidence that in the future, all books will be ebooks. But playing the video game Gone Home, an "interactive story" you can download onto your computer, I started to wonder if, in... Continue reading >> [ Source: Slate | 2013-08-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
Facebook on Thursday rolled out changes to the way third-party apps request permissions from users when connecting to Facebook. Now, the app must request separate permission to "read" and use some of your Facebook information, as well as to "write," or publish your app activity back to Facebook.... Continue reading >> [ Source: AllThingsD | 2013-08-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
Microsoft Xbox corporate VP Phil Harrison isn't worried that making publishing open on Xbox One will flood the console's storefront with junk. In fact, he welcomes the impending flood. "I hope we have to deal with tens of thousands of games," Harrison told Engadget in an interview this week... Continue reading >> [ Source: Engadget | 2013-08-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
Source Interlink has reached an agreement with investor GoldenTree Asset Management to recapitalize t Continue reading >> [ Source: Folio Magazine | 2013-08-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
Following a promotion in which the site sold books at 10 percent off Amazon's prices, Overstock.com says it will now match Amazon prices for books. And it's not a temporary measure. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2013-08-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
Print book sales have enjoyed a strong summer, with publishers and retailers crediting the robust... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-08-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
Lincolnshire county council's plans for its library network have been criticised in the... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-08-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
Swedish startup Atingo, a collaboration between Publit and Axiell, offers a platform for real-time negotiation of ebook lending rights between libraries and publishers. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2013-08-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
Jonathan Cape has partnered with software developer Panel Nine to bring its graphic novels to the... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-08-22 00:00:00 UTC ]