Transworld has acquired three new novels by women’s romantic fiction writer Cathy Bramley, who this week hit a milestone of 500k copies sold, across print and ebook sales worldwide, since Ivy Lane published in 2014. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-10-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
Bleacher Report is wading into live sports by broadcasting three top high-school football games on Facebook Live this fall. It’s a big production for the Turner-owned publisher, which will have 20 to 25 crew members involved in the production. While not the first publisher to stream a full game... Continue reading >> [ Source: Digiday | 2016-10-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Sun has been aggressively scaling its audience since it dropped its paywall last November. And coming from a place of zero search equity, Facebook has been the platform that's helped the publisher scale its audience fast. And it has clearly worked: The Sun has 20 million monthly visitors,... Continue reading >> [ Source: Digiday | 2016-10-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
Self-published writers and digital only publishers will continue to grow their share of the digital content market while traditional publishers over-price ebooks, according to early results of the FutureBook Census, launched ahead of this year’s FutureBook Conference, taking place on 2nd December. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-10-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
From 50 percent 'of all US Kindle author earnings,' Author Earnings now sees indie share dive below 40 percent, 'all the way back to early 2015 levels The post Author Earnings: Sharp Downturn in US Indie Ebook Share appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2016-10-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
Don’t count out the power of the “What time does the Super Bowl” and other SEO tricks just yet. Facebook may have been all the rage these past few years, but now there's a renewed focus by publishers on Google search. Facebook has turned out to be a fickle partner, and Google's own shifting... Continue reading >> [ Source: Digiday | 2016-10-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
According to an ACLU blog post published on Tuesday, law enforcement officials implemented a far-reaching surveillance program to track protesters in both Ferguson, MO and Baltimore, MD during their recent uprisings and relied on special feeds of use... Continue reading >> [ Source: Engadget | 2016-10-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
Hours after the Washington Post published a video of Donald Trump in 2005 stating, among other things, that "And when you're a star, they let you do it...You can do anything. Grab them by the p---y," the candidate issued a video response that went ou... Continue reading >> [ Source: Engadget | 2016-10-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
The four keynote speakers who will headline The Bookseller’s digital publishing conference FutureBook have been announced as author Andrew Keen, Ogilvy & Mather’s James Whatley, Bonnier AB’s chief digital and technology officer Anki Ahrnell, and Eva Appelbaum, partner at Digital Talent @ Work. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-10-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
A year after Facebook launched Instant Articles, 100 or so publishers were on board the fast-loading mobile article feature, which has its pros and cons. Perhaps that's why there have been some notable holdouts. Bloomberg Media, The Wall Street Journal and Vice News are among those that have all... Continue reading >> [ Source: Digiday | 2016-10-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
Amazon Inc and European Union regulators have started settlement discussions over the internet giant’s ebook deals with publishers, according to news reports. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-10-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
Verizon and Comcast are not the first to try and build streaming video platforms for the best short-form web content -- AOL and Yahoo have already failed at it. Unlike digital publishers that dip their toes into video, these companies are willing to spend serious money on content. But money... Continue reading >> [ Source: Digiday | 2016-10-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
If you have been looking for one more reason to become an Amazon Prime subscriber, the newly launched Prime Reading feature could just be the clincher. Prime Reading gives US subscribers access to a library of free Kindle ebooks, magazines, comics and other publications completely free of... Continue reading >> [ Source: Betanews | 2016-10-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
The International News Media Association (INMA) released a survey of large publishers last week that captured their complicated relationship with Facebook. These five charts document publishers’ perception of various Facebook features, their mixed feelings about Instant Articles, changes in... Continue reading >> [ Source: Digiday | 2016-10-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
When Marriott made its first foray into Facebook Messenger in March 2016, it was a complete disaster. The hotel brand took its dynamic product ads to people’s Facebook inboxes, initiating automated conversations that asked them if they still wanted to book a room at the Courtyard Marriott... Continue reading >> [ Source: Digiday | 2016-10-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
Facebook's measurement problem goes beyond video. The social giant's data sharing practices as a whole are a sticking point with publishers. The chief things they want Facebook to share are more data on Instant Articles; how content performs by subject matter; and information on live video... Continue reading >> [ Source: Digiday | 2016-10-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
Are publishers cooling on Facebook Instant Articles? An analysis by Newswhip says that several publishers are posting very little to the fast-loading articles format or appear to be pulling back. Instant Articles has been controversial since Facebook launched it a little over a year ago because... Continue reading >> [ Source: Digiday | 2016-09-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
To mark the 20th anniversary of the release of the first book in George R.R. Martin's Song of Fire and Ice series, 'A Game of Thrones,' Penguin Random House has released an enhanced ebook edition of the title featuring additional content. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2016-09-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Partnership on Artificial Intelligence to Benefit People and Society was unveiled today by Google, Facebook, Amazon, IBM and Microsoft. Indeed, that's quite a name and quite a list of companies. Their chief mission is to promote public understanding of AI while developing standards and... Continue reading >> [ Source: AdWeek | 2016-09-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
To properly celebrate the 20th anniversary of George R. R. Martin's best-selling A Game of Thrones, there's a new iBooks edition of the series that offers features to help you keep up with all of the action. The first installment is officially called... Continue reading >> [ Source: Engadget | 2016-09-29 00:00:00 UTC ]