Oyster, the subscription ebook startup that has been slowly persuading publishers to embrace the Netflix model for books, has now ventured into the ebook retail business: On Wednesday, the... To view the full story, click the title link. Continue reading >> [ Source: Crains New York | 2015-04-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
Oyster has launched an online ebook store in the US. The subscription company, which started out in September 2013 charging $9.95 a month for unlimited ebooks, has now expanded into online retail, launching an ebook store where customers can pay for individual titles. While only S&S,... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-04-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
The findings of a new survey debunks theories that Facebook is losing its “cool factor” among teenagers.Facebook is the most popular social network among teens, according to the results of the survey published Wednesday night by the Pew Research Center. The researchers found that 71 percent of... Continue reading >> [ Source: PC World | 2015-04-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
HarperCollins in the US is preparing to return to a full agency model for ebook sales next week, according to a report on Publishers Lunch. The site reports that multiple retailers have been made aware that HarperCollins will change its terms as of 14th April, requiring all of its ebooks to be... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-04-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
Oyster, The "Spotify For Books," Is Taking On Amazon With E-Book Sales Continue reading >> [ Source: Fast Company | 2015-04-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
E-book subscription service Oyster has opened an online book store, a move that pits the young company against heavyweight Amazon.Oyster’s ebook store has the support of the top five publishers in the U.S. While Amazon also offers books from these publishers—Hachette, HarperCollins, Macmillan,... Continue reading >> [ Source: PC World | 2015-04-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
Oyster, the ebook subscription service launched in 2013, has added a retail component to its business. It is now offering more than a million ebooks for sale, including titles from all of the Big Five publishers. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-04-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
The social networking site creates a new baby book designed for children to inherit an online identity on Facebook. Continue reading >> [ Source: BBC World | 2015-04-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
Today Turkey blocked access to a number of websites including YouTube and Twitter. The ban came after the sites published images of a prosecutor being taken hostage at a court in Istanbul earlier in the week. Google has vowed to getting things back up and running, but it's not the same story for... Continue reading >> [ Source: Betanews | 2015-04-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
Arnaud Nourry, the chairman and chief executive of Hachette Livre discusses the terms impasse with Amazon and the future for print and 'e' Hachette Livre will move into its new purpose-built offices in Vanves (on the outskirts of Paris) on April 7. Even though the new building is very elegant,... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-04-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
In early March, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) issued a major ruling, invalidating reduced value-added tax (VAT) rates on ebooks in France and Luxembourg. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-04-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Culture Ministers of France, Germany, Italy and Poland have joined together to campaign for the EC to charge the same VAT for ebook sales as print. The post France, Germany, Italy, Poland Call for Lowering VAT on Ebooks appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2015-04-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
Nikao Yang is the senior vice president of global marketing at Opera Mediaworks and senior vice president of business development and marketing. “Scrolling the feed” is the new flicking through TV channels with a remote. It’s the alternative to flipping the pages in a magazine. It’s even... Continue reading >> [ Source: Digiday | 2015-04-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
France's Syndicat National de l’Edition (SNE) has launched a social media campaign to encourage readers to support the fight for a lower VAT on ebooks. The post #ThatIsNotABook: How to Campaign to Lower European Ebook VAT appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2015-04-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
Facebook giveth traffic. Hath Facebook taken it away? The social network said on Tuesday afternoon that it had given news publishers underwhelming data reports about how many people see posts on its NewsFeed. Continue reading >> [ Source: Editor & Publisher | 2015-04-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
Facebook tracks everyone who visits its site, including people who don’t have an account, and even continues to track users and non-users who have opted out of targeted ads, researchers at two Belgian universities have found.Researchers at the University of Leuven in cooperation with researchers... Continue reading >> [ Source: PC World | 2015-03-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
E-books’ market share of new-book sales increased slightly in 2014 over 2013, while the share of all book sales made through online retailers and bookstore chains dipped in the same period. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-03-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
Facebook is positioning itself to become the data, media-consumption and content-sharing backbone for the entire digital media industry. Between making user data available in its video ad network LiveRail, making its video player embeddable on publishers' websites, growing its number of... Continue reading >> [ Source: Digiday | 2015-03-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
Facebook is revealing its latest technology to the world this week at its annual Facebook Developer Conference in San Francisco. And while the show is geared at developers, a good chunk of the news should apply to brands and publishers that regularly use the platform, particularly with mobile... Continue reading >> [ Source: AdWeek | 2015-03-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
The controversial news that media outlets including The New York Times and BuzzFeed may publish straight into Facebook’s ecosystem was a hot topic at Digiday’s Publishing Summit in Vail, Colorado, where hundreds of digital publishing executives are gathering this week to hash out the issues... Continue reading >> [ Source: Digiday | 2015-03-26 00:00:00 UTC ]