Publishers in the US including Hachette Book Group, Penguin Random House and Simon & Schuster are making $250m (£163m) in free ebooks available to low-income students as part of a scheme announced today (30th April) by President Obama. The new ebook commitments, to cover a three-year... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-05-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
President Barack Obama announced a new program on Thursday aimed at delivering access for more than 10,000 ebooks to financially strapped schoolchildren throughout the United States. The $250 million program will feature titles from numerous publish... Continue reading >> [ Source: Engadget | 2015-05-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
Sourcebooks continues to move forward at a rapid pace, with company executives reporting a 20% sales gain in 2014 over 2013. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-05-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
Google, Facebook, Twitter and any other social platform you care to name would at one time have gone to the corporate stake to defend the idea that they are not publishers or actively engaged in acts of journalism. Things are changing rapidly. .. Continue reading >> [ Source: Editor & Publisher | 2015-04-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
Satanic Verses author refuses to back down after being accused of using ‘McCarthy era’ language in attack on six writers who withdrew from PEN gala over award to satirical magazineSalman Rushdie and Francine Prose have clashed publicly on Facebook over Charlie Hebdo, with the author of The... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2015-04-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
Woven Digital, the publisher behind Uproxx, views Facebook as its primary video-distribution vehicle. It drew more than 20 million views across 10 videos in April, far more than on YouTube or its own site. While Facebook has yet to introduce a video ad product for publishers, Woven CEO Scott... Continue reading >> [ Source: Digiday | 2015-04-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
Publishers are ambivalent about uploading their video to Facebook’s native player, as the social network has yet to reveal how it will enable them to monetize that video. While most publishers are playing by the rules, one publisher isn’t waiting around, though. NewsBeat Social, a Portland,... Continue reading >> [ Source: Digiday | 2015-04-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
Facebook drives 25 per cent of all social referrals online, and its algorithm changes can boost or blast a publishers' figures almost overnight. The social network is also reportedly in talks with news outlets inluding the New York Times a ... Continue reading >> [ Source: Editor & Publisher | 2015-04-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
Pundits have speculated for two years that the Facebook Apocalypse will arrive any day now. The newest roll-out may take several weeks to see completion. And data is still rolling in. But the battle for news feed space is competitive, and the reach of a typical fan will diminish over time as... Continue reading >> [ Source: Digiday | 2015-04-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
PopSugar produces dozens of videos each week for its audience of millennial women, and then it tailors them for each distribution platform. The publisher posts longer videos on YouTube and on its own site, while Facebook gets more clips and flashy text graphics, because the platform autoplays... Continue reading >> [ Source: Digiday | 2015-04-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
When disaster strikes, technology can often be put to good use. Following the devastating earthquake that struck Nepal this week, Google and Facebook are among the companies helping those in the area, as well as people looking for friends and relatives. Google's People Finder does very much what... Continue reading >> [ Source: Betanews | 2015-04-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
On Thursday YouTube celebrated the 10th anniversary of the first video being uploaded to what would become the preeminent online video service. And Facebook crashed the party.Facebook announced on Thursday a branded-video program called Anthology that will have publishers and digital video... Continue reading >> [ Source: Advertising Age | 2015-04-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
Facebook today unveiled changes to the way its news feed algorithm distributes page posts, giving more credence to posts by users' friends than from publishers. For instance, news articles with many likes and comments have typically appeared high up in users' news feeds, but that is being... Continue reading >> [ Source: AdWeek | 2015-04-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
When “Kindle Cover Disasters” debuted on Tumblr earlier this year, the Internet ROFLMFAO’d at the truly heinous designs: cheap clipart, effects reminiscent of early Print Shop, clashing pastels, Photoshopping by palsied hands, and fonts so troubling you find yourself celebrating the relative... Continue reading >> [ Source: Wired | 2015-04-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
On April 30, Popsugar will announce a daily show called Popsugar Rush at its Digital Content NewFronts presentation. But rather than have viewers catch the program on its women's lifestyle channel on YouTube, they'll be directed to Facebook where it will run exclusively for 24 hours. "In every... Continue reading >> [ Source: AdWeek | 2015-04-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
Facebook's tentacles are reaching deeper into the publishing ecosystem. One of its newest tools, interest targeting, lets publishers target their content on Facebook to fans of niche communities like sports or TV shows. The tool is showing results for publishers like The New York Times, which is... Continue reading >> [ Source: Digiday | 2015-04-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
Olive Software's SmartLayers technology claims to turn a publisher's generic prose ebooks into an easily revised and upgradeable multimedia-enriched content platform. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-04-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Harvard professor that brought us a real life smell-o-phone has announced that he's expanding his olfactory-focused products to include eBooks, songs and clothing. Now clothes that give off a scent isn't that weird, but eBooks and songs? How does... Continue reading >> [ Source: Engadget | 2015-04-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
The latest report, for the six-month period ending in February, hints at the tension that has marked Apple's monitorship thus far. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-04-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
Playster, a digital multimedia streaming platform, will now sell ebooks from Simon & Schuster on a subscription basis. The post Playster Streaming Service to Offer Simon & Schuster Ebooks appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2015-04-17 00:00:00 UTC ]