Aerbooks' new Aer.io Retail Network, "enables any person or company to create, customize, and curate a fully mobile/social storefront." The post Aer.io Lets You Curate Your Own Online Bookstore appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2015-01-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
The future of digital publishing is increasingly borrowing from the long history of newspapers' political cartoons. The post Digital publishers turn to cartoons to cover the news appeared first on Digiday. Continue reading >> [ Source: Digiday | 2015-01-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
When Atlantic Media introduced business-news publication Quartz in September 2012, it spent about $10 million on the launch, according to people familiar with the matter. That's a far cry from the more than $100 million Cond Nast dropped in 2007 rolling out its glossy business magazine,... Continue reading >> [ Source: Advertising Age | 2015-01-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
Bleacher Report founder Bryan Goldberg writes that the major digital publishing narrative in 2015 will be revenue. Everything else will be a function of how publishers thrive or struggle to monetize. The post Coming in 2015: reality check for VC-engorged digital media appeared first on Digiday. Continue reading >> [ Source: Digiday | 2015-01-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
Curtis Brown is launching an online book group, offering readers the chance to get “a sneak preview of work from some of the agency’s most exciting new and undiscovered authors” just ahead of publication. Applications for readers for the group, the first online reading group to be hosted by a... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-11-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
Marcello Vena of AllBrain in Italy is repulsed by a recent report on publishing on Vox.com and calls for a renewed sense of ethics in those covering digital media. The post A Call for Digital Media Ethics appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2014-10-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
The organization formerly known as the Online Publishers Association (OPA) has announced a new name, Digital Content Next, a rebrand that signals a renewed focus on defining and confronting critical, big picture issues that its members face when crea ... Continue reading >> [ Source: Editor & Publisher | 2014-09-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
Standards are like plumbing: they are only noticed when they don’t work. And like plumbing, retrofitting a 200-year-old structure—legacy publishing—with new metadata standards to improve commerce in the digital age is, at best, a complex process. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-09-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
Yahoo and other online publishers are embracing the term "magazine." Here's why that's not as backwards as its sounds. The post Why digital publishers want to be in the magazine business appeared first on Digiday. Continue reading >> [ Source: Digiday | 2014-07-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
There is a long-held belief among content publishers -- including many we are partnered with -- that they shouldn't pay to amplify their content. Their clear aversion most often comes from some dogmatic belief that quality content doesn't require paid promotion. For them, paying to promote... Continue reading >> [ Source: Advertising Age | 2014-07-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
In recent years, a debate has raged on among publishing and advertising industry insiders over “sponsored content”—more recently called “native advertising” and once known as & ... Continue reading >> [ Source: Editor & Publisher | 2014-07-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
The digital publishing boom of the last few years has changed the book business for ever, or has it? As a three-day conference begins to debate 'literary values in a digital age', we'll be reporting, live from 9.40am on Friday June 12, the views of editors, activists, writers, doubters and... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2014-06-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
Ala Alsallal, founder of the website Jamalon, says there will be an entire section on the website devoted to selling banned books. Alsallal hopes to make banning books so pointless that governments stop doing so. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2014-06-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
Newspaper and magazine publishers have always been rather more than pure media companies. Look back a hundred years and you’ll find a multiplicity of reader promotions and clubs designed to keep readers loyal. Continue reading >> [ Source: Editor & Publisher | 2014-06-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
Byliner, a company that publishes long, literary journalism and fiction online and as ebooks, told its contributors Tuesday that it has been struggling and is seeking partners to ensure its future. The company started in 2011 with some fanfare. It ... Continue reading >> [ Source: Editor & Publisher | 2014-06-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
In its 2013 State of the News Media report released today, Pew found that while digital publishers are clearly growing fast, they're going to need to grow a lot more to make up for the losses elsewhere. The post 5 charts that describe the state of digital publishing appeared first on Digiday. Continue reading >> [ Source: Digiday | 2014-03-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
A breakdown of which publishers share traffic data with their own writers -- and which don't.The post Why top digital publishers are betting on data dashboards for reporters appeared first on Digiday. Continue reading >> [ Source: Digiday | 2014-03-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
A seasoned rights agency knows the answers to the following questions: What kind of title will sell and what will become silverfish fodder in the warehouse? Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-03-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
Nothing gets the work done faster, or makes the word travel further, than having the might of the government behind it or the united action of a group of individuals with shared interests. In the Korean publishing industry, such synergy is evident and has been very effective. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-03-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
Consider these figures: This is the country with the fastest Internet speed in the world at 13.3 Mbps (against 8.7 Mbps in the U.S.), and 98% of its households have access to broadband Internet. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-03-21 00:00:00 UTC ]