On January 2, Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced he would be challenging himself to read a new book every other week in 2015. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-06-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
After Facebook convinced publishers to go all-in on exclusive content with Instant Articles, it hopes advertisers will do the same. In a presentation at Cannes Lions this week, Facebook's chief product officer Chris Cox showed ad buyers mock-ups of a new mobile format that takes over a screen... Continue reading >> [ Source: AdWeek | 2015-06-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
W.W. Norton & Company has announced that its entire catalog of trade and professional ebooks will be available to readers through lending libraries. The post W.W. Norton Offers Entire Ebook Catalog to Lending Libraries appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2015-06-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
Publishers are ready to ramp up content distribution on Facebook’s Instant Articles in the coming days, people familiar with the matter said, with some newsrooms preparing to post a few dozen stories a day. Continue reading >> [ Source: Editor & Publisher | 2015-06-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
Just as Spotify has done for music, the new pay-per-page system could change the way ebooks are published and authors paid. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2015-06-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
Statistics from the publishers association show that German ebook sales has stabilized, with prices dropping year over year, and print sales are up. The post German Ebook Sales Reaches 4.3% Of Overall Book Market appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2015-06-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
New Statesman columnist tweets displeasure after being kicked off social media site, saying she used alias to avoid being trolledFacebook has been accused of putting users at risk “of rape and death threats” by a journalist who was banned from the social networking site for using a... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2015-06-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
Moviepilot has doubled its traffic in the past year to become the sixth-biggest site for movie buffs. In the process, it’s become highly dependent on Facebook, which supplies 80 percent of its traffic. But well aware that Facebook can turn off the traffic spigot at any time, the site is... Continue reading >> [ Source: Digiday | 2015-06-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
After days of speculation, Swedish book and media company Bonnier confirmed on Monday (22nd June) that its German publishing operation Verlagsgruppe Bonnier (including Piper, Ullstein, Carlsen, arsEdition, Thienemann-Esslinger and Berlin Verlag) is dropping DRM (Digital Rights Management) from... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-06-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
'Star Wars' and 'Lord of the Rings' had a baby, it died badly, and this book is its reanimated remains. The post We Review a Self-Published E-Book About a Lady Clone War appeared first on WIRED. Continue reading >> [ Source: Wired | 2015-06-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
Germans will be able to buy adult-themed ebooks only between the hours of 22:00 and 06:00, under new rules. Continue reading >> [ Source: BBC World | 2015-06-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
Just a few days ago the Electronic Frontier Foundation published its annual Who Has Your Back report looking at how various technology companies treated customer privacy. The report makes for interesting reading, but it also raises some questions. One question that has cropped up several times... Continue reading >> [ Source: Betanews | 2015-06-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
New abstractions from Mark Bradford. An artist who remixes literature with pop culture. A street art temple inspired by Indian graphics. Plus: the story of two men connected in death, a performance about the end of men, and a panel about keeping L.A. creative. Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2015-06-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
Ello's mobile app will hit the Apple App store Thursday, about eight months after the ad-free social network launched as an invite-only alternative to Facebook. Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2015-06-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
As Facebook rolls out its “Instant Articles” initiative, in which news entities such as the New York Times and The Guardian are publishing directly to the social network, instead of just posting links to their own sites, media org ... Continue reading >> [ Source: Editor & Publisher | 2015-06-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
Belgian privacy commission launches lawsuit after warning over alleged privacy law breaches over tracking of users and non-users for adsThe Belgian privacy commission is taking Facebook to court for its alleged “trampling” over Belgian and European privacy law.The lawsuit will be heard in a... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2015-06-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
The European Commission has opened a formal antitrust investigation into the way Amazon distributes ebooks and its relationship with publishers. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-06-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
Amazon.com’s ebook distribution deals are coming under close scrutiny from the European Commission, which has begun a formal antitrust investigation into the company’s contracts with publishers.The probe will focus on clauses in Amazon’s contracts that require publishers to tell the company... Continue reading >> [ Source: PC World | 2015-06-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
The European Commission announced that it has opened a formal investigation into some of the ebook practices of Amazon. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-06-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
When you’re not liking your friends’ photos on Facebook, you’re likely to soon have more opportunities to buy stuff.Facebook is expanding its partnership with Shopify, which helps businesses create online storefronts. Facebook has been testing buy buttons in the News Feed and on businesses’... Continue reading >> [ Source: PC World | 2015-06-11 00:00:00 UTC ]