Facebook is already dominating peoples’ phone time, and now it wants a crack at your lock screen, too. The social network rolled out a new app called “Notify” on Wednesday specifically to send you mobile notifications fr ... Continue reading >> [ Source: Editor & Publisher | 2015-11-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
Facebook is experimenting with new advertising approaches for its Instant Articles platform after publishers encountered challenges generating ad revenue because of restrictions imposed by the social network. Continue reading >> [ Source: Editor & Publisher | 2015-11-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
Global brands may appear to dominate ebook subscriptions, but nimble, local publishing startups across Europe are winning authors’ hearts and minds. The post When It Comes to Ebook Subscriptions, One Size Does Not Fit All! appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2015-11-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
Facebook wants to become a one-stop shop for breaking news while giving media brands more mobile channels to reach viewers. The social media giant today launched Notify, an app curating push notifications from dozens of publishers and other media sources all into one place: your iPhone's lock... Continue reading >> [ Source: AdWeek | 2015-11-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Bookseller is to launch a week of FutureBook offers in the run-up to the FutureBook Conference on 4th December. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-11-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
Days after Facebook announced that its users watched videos 8 billion times a day, Snapchat told the Financial Times on Sunday that its smaller set of users opened videos 6 billion times a day. See the most-read stories this hour >> The statistics reveal fast growth: Since the spring,... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2015-11-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
Revenue at Hachette Book Group USA fell 4.2% in the third quarter of 2015. Parent company Lagardere blamed the drop in part on lower ebook sales and a stronger publication schedule in the same period in 2014. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-11-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
Early Monday afternoon, President Barack Obama debuted an official Facebook page for the Oval Office. Obama's first post entailed a message about climate change, with a video in which he gives a brief tour of the White House backyard and tells listeners that a fox and a hawk regularly roam the... Continue reading >> [ Source: AdWeek | 2015-11-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
While Facebook makes headlines for cooking up new initiatives with publishers, the actual traffic it’s sending those publishers has fallen sharply. Referral traffic (desktop + mobile) to the top 30 Facebook publishers (as defined by ... Continue reading >> [ Source: Editor & Publisher | 2015-11-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
French railway SNCF has launched an ebook library on its mainline trains, offering 100,000 titles to be downloaded by smartphone, tablet or computer and read offline when there is no internet connection. Access to the full selection of books offered by SNCF e-LIVRE is free for 45 days and... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-11-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
Softening sales for digital books have impacted the bottom lines at HarperCollins and Simon & Schuster, according to both companies' recent earnings reports. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-11-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
When it comes to competing for digital ad dollars, it's hard for publishers to beat the ad-targeting prowess of Facebook and Google. E-commerce company Skimlinks is trying to level the playing field by selling audience buying behavior data that it collects from its publisher clients. Among the... Continue reading >> [ Source: Digiday | 2015-11-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
"This capability is what we lost 500 years ago with the Gutenberg book." And Akim Ozakil, founder of the two-year-old Alternate Worlds digital publisher in the San Francisco area, calls that lost capability "mutation," by which he means the ability for readers to impact a story. What's printed,... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-11-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
This year’s fifth anniversary FutureBook Conference brings together more than 50 speakers from across the media world for a day of reckoning, realisation and revivification. It will, to borrow from a famous beer advert, refresh the parts other digital and publishing events do not reach. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-10-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
Sandeep Mahal is to chair the FutureBook Conference 2015. Mahal, most recently director of The Space, will preside over the event, which takes place on 4th December at the Mermaid Theatre in central London. The full programme and preview of FutureBook 2015 has now been released by The... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-10-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
In their petition, Apple suggested a negative effect on the economy if the decision was left to stand. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-10-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
Facebook officially rolled out Instant Articles to all iPhone users last Tuesday, allowing media companies to publish content directly to the social network instead of driving users back to their own properties. The launch raises questions abo ... Continue reading >> [ Source: Editor & Publisher | 2015-10-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
HarperCollins has acquired The Midlist, a daily e-mail newsletter that features ebook deals from a variety of publishers. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-10-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
A two-part exhibition complete with driving tour. Examining the psychology of the art world through Twitter. And an exhibition that explores the nature of dance. Plus: abstractions of L.A., art from Cuba and a daylong art party on Grand Avenue. Here are seven shows not to miss — along with one... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2015-10-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
HarperCollins UK chief executive Charlie Redmayne is to give the closing keynote address at the FutureBook Conference this year. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-10-23 00:00:00 UTC ]