Imagine the forecasters are right, and that print will die and social media rises to domination. What would the 2042 general election be like then?It was the week when the fake news furore went legacy-viral. Facebook bought full-page print ads in national dailies featuring 10 tips for spotting... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2017-05-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
The digital revolution was expected to kill traditional publishing. But print books are ever more beautifully designed and lovingly cherishedBooks have always had a fetishistic quality to them, with their dusty secretiveness. Now, though, it feels like we’re living through a special moment in... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2017-05-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
It wasn't so long ago that book publishers and bookstore owners were quailing about the coming of ebooks, like movie theatre owners at the dawn of the television age. Continue reading >> [ Source: Stuff | 2017-05-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
Good user experience (UX) design is based on evidence. Qualitative evidence, such as user testing and field research, can only get you so far, however. To get the full picture of how users are engaging with your website or app, you’ll need to use quantitative evidence in the form of analytics.... Continue reading >> [ Source: Betanews | 2017-05-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
Facebook is taking another step to penalize the lowest quality websites by lowering their visibility on the social network.Facebook is using artificial intelligence to identify when a link leads to a website with the worst ad experiences, like sponsored content spam and other negative cues, and... Continue reading >> [ Source: Advertising Age | 2017-05-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Commission ruled last week that booksellers must now fulfill orders from customers anywhere in the European Union. Some fear the shift will force small and medium-sized booksellers out of the ebook business. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2017-05-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
Adverts contain a list of ten things to look out for when deciding whether a story is genuine. Continue reading >> [ Source: BBC World | 2017-05-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
In 2011 as Facebook inched ever closer to 1 billion active monthly users, it faced a vexing crisis: uproar about a facial recognition algorithm that tagged people in photos without their consent. Six years later, and as Facebook nears the 2-billion-user milestone, that complaint almost seems... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2017-05-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
Relatives of the victims of the San Bernardino terrorist attack filed a federal lawsuit Wednesday against Twitter, Google and Facebook, accusing the tech giants of knowingly supporting Islamic State and its extremist agenda. The lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2017-05-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
Facebook's ad empire is facing worries including brand safety on the live video it carries and constraints on inventory growth, but it had a strong start to 2017 all the same.The social network said Wednesday that it took in $7.86 billion in ad revenue in the first quarter, a 51% jump from the... Continue reading >> [ Source: Advertising Age | 2017-05-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
The European Commission has accepted Amazon's changes to how it sells its ebooks. Following a 2015 investigation over the retailer's anti-competitive behaviour, Amazon said back in January that it would change its ebook contracts, removing clauses t... Continue reading >> [ Source: Engadget | 2017-05-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
HarperCollins has bought the début book from Gill Sims, the voice behind the hit Facebook blog "Peter and Jane". Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-05-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
Publishers' responsibilities with 'controversial authors professing what seem to be unpopular opinion' at BEA, while Brussels gets some perspective on VAT. The post Industry Notes: BookExpo’s ‘First Amendment Resistance’; EU Research Looks at VAT on Ebooks appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2017-05-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
Joanna Trollope called it "justice at last", as legislation making the UK the first country in the world to extend Public Lending Right (PLR) to include remote loans of ebooks and audiobooks was finally passed. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-05-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
“They’re our competitors. They’re an existential threat.” The post UK publisher on Facebook: ‘They hire nice people to placate us’ appeared first on Digiday. Continue reading >> [ Source: Digiday | 2017-05-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
Facebook wants video, but it's time-consuming and expensive, which is why, for better or for worse, publishers are turning to various hacks. The post ‘The audience there is huge’: A guide to the most popular publisher Facebook video hacks appeared first on Digiday. Continue reading >> [ Source: Digiday | 2017-05-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
One theme of this year's NewFronts: publishers pitching themselves as the "brand-safe" alternatives to YouTube and Facebook. The post NewFronts publishers see an opening with recent YouTube, Facebook ad crises appeared first on Digiday. Continue reading >> [ Source: Digiday | 2017-05-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
The much-ballyhooed fall in sales of traditionally published ebooks in 2016 was balanced by an expanded share of book sales for e-tailers. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2017-04-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
On each page of A Universe Explodes by Tea Uglow, owners are required to add one word and remove two – which amounts to an odd reading experienceIt opens with a woman reaching up for a cereal bowl and closes with a new beginning – or at least it does for the moment. By the time you get to read... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2017-04-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
Today Facebook publishes its Global Government Requests Report, revealing just how many data requests the social network has received from governments around the world. This time around, the report covers the second half of 2016, and it shows a mixed-bag of figures. While the number of items... Continue reading >> [ Source: Betanews | 2017-04-27 00:00:00 UTC ]