U.K. self-publishing platform Reedsy launched the Reedsy Book Editor, an online editing and typesetting tool, and the site reports growing membership and new partnerships with Ingram and Kobo. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2016-02-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
New digital media companies have to figure out how to scale an audience, but along the way, they face crucial branding decisions. The Huffington Post grew to top 100 million monthly uniques by stretching its mother brand across myriad subject areas, but Bustle and Vox Media say individual brands... Continue reading >> [ Source: Digiday | 2016-02-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
Even as the European Commission anticipates proposals for overhauling the EU's common VAT system, Italy joins several other member-nations in sharply lowering VAT on ebooks. The post Italy Lowers Ebook VAT to Buoy Digital Publishing Industry appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2016-02-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
Websites are freaking out over billions in lost revenue and starting to fight back, but there are still legit reasons to block ads.This January marked the 10th anniversary of AdBlock Plus, a browser plug-in that banishes ads from web pages. It isn't the only ad blocker; but AdBlock Plus... Continue reading >> [ Source: Fast Company | 2016-01-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
User experience is about empathy for the end user, Barbarian Group's Colin Nagy said on the Digiday Podcast. Many publishers miss that as they strive to churn pageviews and banner ad impressions. The result: navigating digital media is like walking on a sticky movie theater floor. The post... Continue reading >> [ Source: Digiday | 2016-01-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
Over the past few years, publishers have mastered the art of optimizing their content for Facebook to fuel growth. But today, growth is slowing, putting more publishers on edge as 2016 draws near. With easy traffic and growth far from certain, venture capital-backed publishers hope to sell at... Continue reading >> [ Source: Digiday | 2016-01-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
Video advertising is a bright spot for many online publishers, which is why they’re increasingly experimenting with ways to get as much video as possible in front of their audiences. One recent tactic: using “sticky&rdq ... Continue reading >> [ Source: Editor & Publisher | 2015-12-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
The average book’s length has grown from 320 pages in 1999 to 400 pages in 2014, a shift some blame on digital publishing. The post Is Digital Publishing to Blame for Books Getting Longer? appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2015-12-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
Newspaper publishes online article saying ECB had ‘confounded expectations’ by deciding to hold interest rates, causing euro to temporarily plummetThe Financial Times is to review its digital publishing practices after publishing an inaccurate article about the European Central Bank’s decision... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2015-12-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
The second half of our report from the 2015 East Africa Digital Reading Summit in Kenya looks at efforts to develop and distributing more local digital content. The post Kenya Fights to Foster More Digital Content Creation appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2015-12-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
Media consumers who prefer native digital content now make up nearly half the audience for entertainment in developed markets and more than a third of the audience for publishing and online services. In developing markets, those shares are slightly lower but trending in the same direction, Bain... Continue reading >> [ Source: Advertising Age | 2015-11-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
Nobody knows what the future of the media industry will look like - we can only extrapolate from its current state and hope nothing too disruptive ruins our bets in the meantime. To help us make those bets, TheMediaBriefing recently hosted the ... Continue reading >> [ Source: Editor & Publisher | 2015-10-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
John Pettigrew argues editors, those who turn mediocre books into great ones, are even more important in the digital age of content proliferation. The post Why the End of Editors in Digital Publishing is a Mistake appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2015-10-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
The awards were presented tonight at the start of the annual get-together after the first day of the World Publishing Expo in Hamburg. Here is a look at the full list of this year's winners and what made their entries special and succ ... Continue reading >> [ Source: Editor & Publisher | 2015-10-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
Goldsboro Books owner David Headley is to launch an international online bookseller next spring, funded by “significant investment” from Headley and his business partner Lee Wilson. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-10-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
Actress Zoe Saldana is teaming up with new millennial mom-geared network AweStruck to create digital content. Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2015-09-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
With unions cropping up in digital newsrooms across the media landscape, publishers have to be wondering if they should be worried. Could their staff be next? For those who have grown their businesses on the back of a ... Continue reading >> [ Source: Editor & Publisher | 2015-08-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
Adobe’s Digital Publishing suite has long offered a way for brands to publish content on tablets, but on Wednesday the company introduced a new generation of the software tweaked specifically to put such capabilities in the hands of ordinary business users.Adobe’s new Digital Publishing Solution... Continue reading >> [ Source: PC World | 2015-07-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
Today’s new breed of digital publishers is just not that into ad tech. Indeed, the much hyped cadre of venture-backed, Web-born, and millennially-inclined publishers — think Vox Media, Mic and Refinery29 &nd ... Continue reading >> [ Source: Editor & Publisher | 2015-07-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
Netflix earned more than $5 billion in 2014. No wonder companies want to be “the Netflix of” other kinds of digital media — ebooks, magazines, music. That’s not easy to pull off when you don’t ... Continue reading >> [ Source: Editor & Publisher | 2015-07-02 00:00:00 UTC ]