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Chief Brand Officer Andy Sareyan Parts Ways with Meredith

Andy Sareyan, chief brand officer and executive vice president of consumer brands with Meredith Corp., has left the company. Continue reading at 'Folio Magazine'

[ Folio Magazine | 2011-05-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Mauger to urge WI to campaign for libraries

Written By: Benedicte Page Publication Date: Tue, 24/05/2011 - 08:38 Annie Mauger, chief executive of CILIP, is to call on the Women's Institute to campaign for public libraries when she addresses the organisation's annual general meeting in Liverpool on 8th June. The WI, which has a 210,000... Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'

[ The Bookseller | 2011-05-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Aurum buys spy's story

Written By: Benedicte Page Publication Date: Tue, 24/05/2011 - 08:25 Sam Harrison at Aurum has bought a biography of Cold War spy George Blake by journalist Roger Hermiston. Harrison acquired UK and Commonwealth rights for a "significant" five figure sum from Andrew Gordon at David Higham... Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'

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California State University opts for $49 ebook over expensive biology textbook

By Tim Conneally, Betanews Nature Publishing Group and California State University (CSU) on Tuesday announced a three-year partnership that will eliminate paper textbooks from certain classes, and replace them with interactive ebooks instead. Continue reading at 'Betanews'

[ Betanews | 2011-05-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Publishers Fight to Control Consumer Data They Barely Use

The sticking point in publishers’ negotiations with Apple to sell magazines on the iPad was over who would control the customer data. Publishers said they needed it to renew and cross-sell buyers of their digital content. Apple didn’t want to give it up. But the big irony in all this back and... Continue reading at 'AdWeek'

[ AdWeek | 2011-05-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Digital in the Black for First Time at Future

Future plc, the U.K.-based enthusiast publisher with a U.S operation in San Francisco, released half-year results for its fiscal 2011 and digital has become the star performer. Continue reading at 'Folio Magazine'

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Top Five Mags First Half: Sneakers, Yachts and Hiking Boots

Some new magazine faces have shown up in min's top 5 ad-page charts (see below) for June and for the first half (January-June 2011 vs. 2010). They are sun-bleached, health-minded, sports and outdoor enthusiast in Competitor Group's Competitor, Source Interlink's Power & Motoryacht, Mariah... Continue reading at 'Folio Magazine'

[ Folio Magazine | 2011-05-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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STL rebrands after redundancies

Written By: Lisa Campbell Publication Date: Tue, 24/05/2011 - 09:40 STL Distribution has been rebranded as Trust Media Distribution after making 32 people redundant. The Carlisle-based supplier of Christian books announced in March it would be making more than a quarter of its 120-strong... Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'

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Amazon's Kirshbaum move could reduce competition—BEA

Written By: Gayle Feldman Publication Date: Tue, 24/05/2011 - 09:41 Responses to Amazon.com's hire of Laurence Kirshbaum as publisher have varied from worried to fear of a "dampening" effect on competition among delegates at the BEA conference. Word that started to spread Sunday night was... Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'

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Beautiful Books launches summer campaign

Written By: Charlotte Williams Publication Date: Tue, 24/05/2011 - 08:46 Beautiful Books has launched its own summer reading campaign, providing POS material and an extra 5% off the selected titles ordered by independent bookshops. The four titles being promoted through the Go Against the... Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'

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John Malone Explains Barnes & Noble Bid

John Malone, the chairman of Liberty Media, explained why his company made a buyout bid for Barnes & Noble valuing it at $1 billion. The decision came down to Liberty's bid for Sirius and his outlook for Nook, he said. “You might look at the experience we've had with Sirius XM,” Malone told... Continue reading at 'AdWeek'

[ AdWeek | 2011-05-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Bloomsbury shells out on snail title

Written By: Charlotte Williams Publication Date: Tue, 24/05/2011 - 08:30 Bloomsbury has acquired a non-fiction nature-writing title about snails. Senior commissioning editor Richard Atkinson acquired world rights to A Slow Passion: Snails, My Garden and Me by gardener and winner of the BBC... Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'

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Liberty Says Nook Inspired B&N Bid

Liberty Media Corp. executives laid out their rationale for their surprise bid for Barnes & Noble Inc., touting the potential of the bookseller's Nook e-reader and the vast network of retail stores it can use to promote it. Continue reading at 'AllThingsD'

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Pan Mac acquires self-publishing star Hocking

Written By: Graeme Neill Publication Date: Tue, 24/05/2011 - 09:38 Pan Macmillan has bought UK and Commonwealth rights (including ebooks) to seven books by self-published US sensation Amanda Hocking. Julie Crisp, editorial director at Tor, bought the rights from St Martin's Press in the United... Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'

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Bringing E-books to Stores

Booksellers attending the Canadian Booksellers Association's National Conference in Toronto, May 13–15, were introduced to innovations from two Canadian companies designed to help bricks-and-mortar stores sell ebooks. Transcontinental Printing demonstrated its ebook distribution system, which... Continue reading at 'Publishers Weekly'

[ Publishers Weekly | 2011-05-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Koenig & Bauer AG Reports Strong First Quarter

German press manufacturer Koenig & Bauer AG (KBA) made a much better start to the business year than in 2010. International sales of printing presses were moderately higher than last year, primarily driven by demand from China. Continue reading at 'Editor & Publisher'

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The Secret World of Apps

Last week, Apple went to Washington, D.C., to answer questions from U.S. lawmakers about consumer privacy in the mobile marketplace. The visit was triggered by the discovery that Apple’s iPads and iPhones tracked and kept users’ locations for up to a year, creating a step-by-step picture of... Continue reading at 'AdWeek'

[ AdWeek | 2011-05-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Oxfordshire scraps December library cuts

Written By: Benedicte Page Publication Date: Mon, 23/05/2011 - 15:45 Oxfordshire council has confirmed it will not withdraw funding from libraries at the end of this year. Under plans unveiled in 2010, 20 libraries in the county were due to lose all funding at the end of December. While a... Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'

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Aggie MacKenzie cookbook to Pavilion

Publication Date: Mon, 23/05/2011 - 14:00 Anova Books has acquired a family cookbook and housekeeping guide by Aggie MacKenzie, presenter of C4 series "How Clean Is Your House?" Pavilion senior commissioning editor Becca Spry acquired world rights Aggie's Kitchen Cookbook from Debbie Catchpole... Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'

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CWA reveals 2011 Dagger shortlists

Written By: Katie Allen Publication Date: Mon, 23/05/2011 - 09:33 S J Bolton , Mo Hayder and Susan Hill are among the authors shortlisted for this year’s Crime Writers Association’s Dagger in the Library, as the CWA reveals its Dagger shortlists. Jason Goodwin, Philip Kerr and RJ Ellory are... Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'

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