Facebook is putting its money where its mouth is when it comes to supporting local news publishers, putting $3 million toward helping some of them boost their digital subscription totals. Head of news partnerships Campbell Brown announced in a blog post that the Facebook Journalism Project... Continue reading >> [ Source: AdWeek | 2018-02-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
The publisher of Little Things blames Facebook's algorithm changes for the lifestyle website's closure. Continue reading >> [ Source: BBC World | 2018-02-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
The first president to have a Twitter account thinks social media needs to change. In what was supposed to be an off-the-record speech at MIT’s Sloan Sports Analytics Conference on Friday, Barack Obama shared his concerns about how social media has un-united these states of ours. Libertarian... Continue reading >> [ Source: Fast Company | 2018-02-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
Just because Facebook is downplaying publishers in your News Feed doesn't mean it's uninterested in giving media outlets a helping hand. The social network's Journalism Project is launching a Local News Subscriptions Accelerator that will help "metro... Continue reading >> [ Source: Engadget | 2018-02-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
Promising as much as 70-percent savings over 'the costs of traditional bound print textbooks,' McGraw-Hill Education is teaming with Barnes & Noble Education. MBS Textbook Exchange and Chegg on an ebook and textbook rental program. The post McGraw-Hill Opens Ebook, Textbook Rentals with... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2018-02-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
Huawei’s Matebook X Pro is what happens when designers boil down Microsoft’s Surface Book line to its essentials, sprinkling a bit of paranoia on top for extra flavor.Huawei’s flagship notebook improves upon the Huawei Matebook X that the company launched last year. Now with a 3,000x2,000-pixel... Continue reading >> [ Source: PC World | 2018-02-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
Shebooks, which has released 75 ebook titles to date, will become the ebook only option for SparkPoint's She Writes Press imprint. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2018-02-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
Facebook followed up on the music-licensing deals it announced last month by reaching an agreement for its first "multi-territorial" music license with online licensing processing and licensing solutions provider ICE Services. The social network inked similar pacts with Global Music Rights,... Continue reading >> [ Source: AdWeek | 2018-02-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
Declining organic reach and increasingly demanding marketers have compelled publishers to spend more on branded-content distribution on Facebook. The post Declining Facebook reach squeezes publishers’ branded-content business appeared first on Digiday. Continue reading >> [ Source: Digiday | 2018-02-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
It's been six months since Facebook rolled out Facebook Watch, its vertical featuring original series from dozens of publishers and companies like Discovery Communications, Hearst and Quartz. However, of the 50-some shows that were part of Watch's initial launch, only a handful of series have... Continue reading >> [ Source: AdWeek | 2018-02-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
The head of publisher Hachette has claimed ebooks are a failure – but as an author and a reader, they’ve completely changed my lifeI was a relatively late convert to the e-reader, getting my Kindle five years ago when it became clear that reading 600-pages of A Suitable Boy while breastfeeding... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2018-02-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
Hachette Group c.e.o. Arnaud Nourry has expressed frustration with the ebook format, calling it a "stupid product" and forecasting its sales would continue to plateau because of a lack of innovation. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-02-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
The chief executive of Hachette Livre, Arnaud Nourry, says the industry has had ‘one or two successes among a hundred failures’ and that ebooks have ‘no creativity’The head of one of the world’s largest book publishers has described the ebook as “a stupid product” that is unlikely to see further... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2018-02-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
While many in the industry have reacted to Arnaud Nourry's description of the ebook as 'exactly the same as print, except it’s electronic,' others might suggest that that's precisely what the consumer wants from digital reading. The post France’s Arnaud Nourry and that ‘Stupid Product’... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2018-02-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
Traffic to news publishers has dipped again since Facebook said it would prioritize users' posts in the news feed, according to multiple data sources. The post As promised, Facebook traffic to news publishers declines again, post news-feed change appeared first on Digiday. Continue reading >> [ Source: Digiday | 2018-02-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
"Facebook is aggressively turning the dial against [brands and publishers]." The post News UK to advertisers: Run your Facebook ads on our sites appeared first on Digiday. Continue reading >> [ Source: Digiday | 2018-02-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
"Publishers want to scare Facebook because there have been so many different gripes." The post ‘There’s an awful lot of showmanship’: Confessions of a publishing consultant on Facebook’s news feed changes appeared first on Digiday. Continue reading >> [ Source: Digiday | 2018-02-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
In an excerpt from a new book on Snapchat, Billy Gallagher explains how Facebook fought back against a tiny rival's challenge. Continue reading >> [ Source: Wired | 2018-02-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
International ebook retailer Rakuten Kobo has a long history of partnering with retailers to deliver ebooks, but Kobo its new partnership with Walmart is on a whole different level. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2018-02-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
Remember the days when Facebook's News Feed was full of listicles from the likes of BuzzFeed? A new feature from the social network has them poised to return, but from your friends and family, not from publishers. Facebook Tuesday began rolling out Lists, which enables users to create and share... Continue reading >> [ Source: AdWeek | 2018-02-14 00:00:00 UTC ]