New Year’s weekend will be generally quiet as far as openings go — though the museums will all be doing their thing, with some terrific shows ongoing. But the art world gets cooking again early next week with the opening of a film festival at the Hammer Museum and a show at LACE that examines the... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
With sales of ebooks slipping and print books enjoying a mild rebound, ebooks’ share of consumer spending on books has declined over the past two years. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
In an opposition brief filed on December 23, the U.S. Department of Justice urged the Supreme Court not to hear Apple’s appeal in the long-running ebook price-fixing case. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-12-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
Michael Tamblyn, chief executive of Kobo, offers the business advice he wishes he had been given when he started out, as part of the BBC News series, CEO Secrets. Continue reading >> [ Source: BBC World | 2015-12-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
Is Free Basics an altruistic effort to connect the world to opportunities, or a neocolonial race to control and capitalize on new markets?Today, Mark Zuckerberg published a lengthy opinion article in The Times Of India defending his attempt to connect millions of people to the Internet via a... Continue reading >> [ Source: Fast Company | 2015-12-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
Facebook’s scheme for speedy news stories has finally come to Android. With select publishers you’ll now see a lightning bolt icon in the top corner, which denotes that article is stored on Facebook’s servers and will load rapidly.This feature, as is often the case, first debuted on the... Continue reading >> [ Source: PC World | 2015-12-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
News UK’s chief marketing officer Chris Duncan wasn’t previously a fan of publishing directly to platforms like Facebook. In previous interviews with media, he called Facebook’s launch of Instant Articles, and the g ... Continue reading >> [ Source: Editor & Publisher | 2015-12-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
In "considering the hard-won lessons of the academic publishing journey," our FutureBook 2015 programme this month was organised by Bookseller editor Philip Jones to place new and robust emphasis on the scholarly sector. Today, Taylor & Francis' Michael Strang surveys this in a thoughtful... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-12-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
Pottermore has commissioned graphic designer Olly Moss to redesign the front covers of the Harry Potter ebooks. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-12-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
We’re excited to announce that everyone who uses the Facebook for Android app can now read thousands of Instant Articles every day in News Feed from publishers worldwide. Combined with our recent launch of Instant Articles to everyone on Fa ... Continue reading >> [ Source: Editor & Publisher | 2015-12-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
Another 13 U.K. publishers are signed up to start using Facebook’s Instant Articles, including The Daily Telegraph, The Mirror, The Daily Mail and The Economist, Sky News, sports site 90min.com and The Sun. The BBC and ... Continue reading >> [ Source: Editor & Publisher | 2015-12-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
Books by Bill Bryson, Paula Hawkins and John Green are among the shortlist for Sainsbury’s ebook of the year 2015 award. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-12-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
"Pretty great, right?" You have to forgive us for our pride in this year's inaugural BookTech Showcase and FutureBook Award. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-12-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
Facebook is updating its policies for Instant Articles, per a rep with the company, which could mean up to 40 percent more ads for publishers on the platform. Starting today, publishers utilizing Instant Articles will be able to place an ad every 350 words instead of every 500 words, according... Continue reading >> [ Source: AdWeek | 2015-12-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
Facebook's CEO Mark Zuckerberg has been ordered to depose in an intellectual property dispute between Oculus and ZeniMax Media, as he has "unique knowledge" of his decision to buy and his valuation of the wearable virtual reality technology company. ZeniMax sued Oculus in May 2014 for exploiting... Continue reading >> [ Source: PC World | 2015-12-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
Facebook is changing the advertising policies for its Instant Articles platform, after publishers said restrictions made it too hard for them to generate revenue from content they posted to the social network’s new feature. & ... Continue reading >> [ Source: Editor & Publisher | 2015-12-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
Shrinking publisher market share in digital books has given the “illusion” of an ebook plateau, but there is a “huge, untracked shadow industry” of self-published titles growing faster, The FutureBook Conference has heard. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-12-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Bookseller's conference FutureBook 2015 was a timely reminder for the publishing industry that its digital transformation has barely begun, that it has a whole universe of possibilities to explore, and that its careful progression may yet turn into an unsightly stumble. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-12-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
The FutureBook Conference celebrated its fifth anniversary with a line-up including rapper Akala, the leaders of some of UK publishing's biggest companies, and the first BookTech Showcase. The use of data and the increase in mobile users were major themes of the event, which also saw the... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-12-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
Futurebook is Europe's biggest publishing conference bringing together leading thinkers in publishing, retail, editorial, writing, marketing and tech, along with speakers from other industries. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-12-08 00:00:00 UTC ]