Facebook has added 360-degree videos to its news feed, an immersive feature the Menlo Park-based social media platform said will capitalize on a growing number of video publishers using the format. And to pique the interest of users, The Walt Disney Co. (NYSE: DIS) and Lucasfilm have published... Continue reading >> [ Source: Silicon Valley Business Journal | 2015-09-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
Facebook videos are about to get more interactive. The social network announced Wednesday it now supports 360-degree videos. Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2015-09-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
Oyster, one of the first and most prominent ebook subscription services, is shutting down, with much of its team moving on to Google Play Books. The post Ebook Sub Service Oyster Closing Shop, Google Takes Its Talent appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2015-09-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
Oyster, an ebook subscription service inspired by Netflix and Spotify, is shuttering—and Google has scooped up its top execs.Oyster, the ebook subscription service and would-be Amazon competitor, is calling it quits. In a blog post published Monday, the Oyster team announced that, in the coming... Continue reading >> [ Source: Fast Company | 2015-09-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
The world of ebook subscription services lost one of its earliest proponents late Monday evening, when Oyster—the so-called “Netflix of ebooks,” which also recently opened an online book store—announced it was shutting down “over the next few months.”The surprise announcement comes less than two... Continue reading >> [ Source: PC World | 2015-09-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
Oyster's experiment with a Netflix-like subscription service for ebooks appears to be coming to a close... at least, in its current form. The startup is warning customers that it will shut down its all-you-can-read service over the course of seve... Continue reading >> [ Source: Engadget | 2015-09-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
Summary judgment motions were filed last week in a case in which three defunct ebook retailers claim that Apple's 2010 price-fixing conspiracy forced them out of business. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-09-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
When a brand uploads a new video to Facebook, 94 percent of views it generates in the following week happen on that video, says Visible Measures. The stat shows that while video is booming on Facebook, it’s still difficult for brands and publishers to get people to watch their entire library,... Continue reading >> [ Source: Digiday | 2015-09-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
At the BISG Annual Meeting, S&S CEO Carolyn Reidy says publishers need to use metadata and social media to "connect books to what's going on in the world." Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-09-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
Apple attorneys confirmed that they will seek a Supreme Court review of the 2013 verdict finding the company liable for price-fixing, but it's no lock the court will hear the case. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-09-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
E-book sales have leveled off for the most part in 2015 to date, continuing a trend that began last year. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-09-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Bookseller has launched its annual tracker of the publishing's industry's transformation, the FutureBook Digital Census. The survey, which annually attracts more than 1,000 responses from across the book business, looks at the patterns of digital sales growth and industry views on subjects... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-09-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
Amazon has come under fire from the NSPCC after a 12-year-old girl stumbled across explicit material on its website while searching for free ebooks. The girl’s mother, referred to only as Nicola, has complained to Trading Standards and The BBC her daughter typed “free Kindle books for... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-09-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
Apple's long-running court battle over manipulating the pricing of ebooks is getting even more dramatic. Next stop, the Supreme Court, Fortune reports. Back in June, Apple failed to get a Manhattan appeals court to overturn a 2014 ruling that woul... Continue reading >> [ Source: Engadget | 2015-09-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
"Just as portable paint tubes revolutionized the act of making art for painters like Monet and Renoir, the digital revolution is transforming the art book," writes critic Carol Strickland. The author of a digital book for iPad on impressionism in Erudition's Masterpieces of Art series,... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-09-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
On Aug. 24, when Facebook drew 1 billion users on a single day for the first time, the social network's impact on the world of conversation only became more obvious. But what exactly are people using the platform to talk about? To inform our readers, we've started working with Facebook to... Continue reading >> [ Source: AdWeek | 2015-09-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
BitLit and Lightning Source have struck a new agreement allowing publishers using Ingram's CoreSource Plus programme to offer ebook bundles to readers. Mary Alice Elcock (pictured), BitLit vice-president for content, told The Bookseller that this means more than 200 new publishers have been... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-09-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
Online retailer Amazon has removed an electronic version of Ted Dawe's Into the River after it was slapped with an interim ban earlier this week. Continue reading >> [ Source: Stuff | 2015-09-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
The FutureBook Conference has become one of The Bookseller’s leading events. This year we celebrate its fifth birthday, and this has allowed us to both celebrate how it has become an integral part of the book business’ digital transformation and also look to its future. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-09-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
Annette Thomas, Stephen Page and Susan Jurevics are the keynote speakers for this year’s FutureBook Conference, the largest digital publishing gathering in Europe. Nigel Roby, chief executive and publisher of The Bookseller, has also unveiled what is to be a week-long sequence of events... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-09-08 00:00:00 UTC ]