The first day of the ABA's annual conference tackled topics including the basics of bookselling, marketing and media strategies for booksellers in the digital age, and how publishers can make booksellers' lives easier. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2024-02-13 05:00:00 UTC ]
Through his businesses, Rupert Murdoch pushed a world view with the pursuit of money at its heartThere are not many chairmanships of companies that would so fascinate writers, and television producers, that they would make four series about them. Rupert Murdoch’s long tenure at Fox and News Corp... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2023-09-22 17:40:41 UTC ]
BuzzFeed changed the way news was reported for the digital age. But it became a casualty of its lopsided relationship with FacebookThe announcement of the demise of BuzzFeed News last week felt unlike the cavalcade of media closures and layoffs of the past decade. In a sense, it represented the... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2023-04-26 03:36:53 UTC ]
Long a fixture of checkout queues and newsstand kiosks, the celebrity news publisher The National Enquirer will soon bring its salacious storytelling online for the first time in its 96-year-old history. The publisher, along with its sister sites Globe, National Examiner and The National... Continue reading >> [ Source: AdWeek | 2023-04-20 11:59:40 UTC ]
Book fairs in the U.S. evolve alongside the industry, and while some have declined in the digital age, others have thrived through embracing regionality and technology, writes ‘PW’ Midwest correspondent Claire Kirch. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2022-04-19 04:00:00 UTC ]
A panel of executives from Bookshop.org, Libro.fm, and IndieCommerce discussed ways in which booksellers could use their platforms to take full advantage of the shifts in consumer behavior since the pandemic began. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2021-05-25 04:00:00 UTC ]
Publishing trade bodies have welcomed advice from the Competition & Markets Authority (CMA) that a new pro-competition regulatory regime "fit for the digital age" be rolled out to hold the most powerful tech firms to account through a new enforceable code of conduct. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-12-08 23:35:11 UTC ]
A new collection of rejigged tales gets much closer to the spirit of these stories than the ‘traditional’ versions we’re force-fed There’s a book called Politically Correct Bedtime Stories, written by James Finn Garner, which used to be on my parents’ shelves, and is now on mine. Published in... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2020-11-04 09:00:13 UTC ]
Algorithms routinely come up with ‘recommendations’ for anti-vax ‘bestsellers’ or juices that cure cancerIt’s a truism that we live in a “digital age”. It would be more accurate to say that we live in an algorithmically curated era – that is, a period when many of our choices and perceptions are... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2020-08-08 16:00:12 UTC ]
Publishers considering transforming their businesses from print first or print-centric to digital first or digital-centric should begin by asking lots of people a simple question: what would you like to be able to do that you can’t do now? Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2020-06-12 04:00:00 UTC ]
[caption id="attachment_178530" align="alignright" width="215"] The March 2020 cover of Playboy.[/caption] It seems Playboy's Spring 2020 issue, on newsstands this week, will be its last. The 66 year-old magazine is ceasing regular production of its print edition and moving ahead with a... Continue reading >> [ Source: Folio Magazine | 2020-03-18 21:08:45 UTC ]
As the lines between journalism and advertising become increasingly blurred, media companies must be on high alert for potential pitfalls around the failure to properly disclose sponsored content. The proper characterization of content as commercial advertising, and the proper disclosure of... Continue reading >> [ Source: Folio Magazine | 2020-01-09 00:40:34 UTC ]
In our digital age, libraries are spaces for community and connection. The new State Library Victoria proves libaries have an exciting future. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Conversation | 2019-12-08 18:49:50 UTC ]
A National Libraries Conference, due to take place later this month, aims to ensure the service’s “continued survival” in a digital age, organisers say. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-07-11 05:47:50 UTC ]
EVERY YEAR, IT SEEMS, we receive a new diagnosis regarding the viability of books in the digital age: print is dead, print is back, the bookstore is dead, bookstores are back. The nostalgia for and anxiety about print is often reactive, hinting at other anxieties about feeling lonely and... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Review of Books | 2019-07-06 19:00:22 UTC ]
Publishers need to invest in marketing technology that will help them reach their audiences better in the digital age. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2019-05-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
The counselling psychologist and author of All the Ghosts in the Machine discusses one of the most contentious issues of our ageElaine Kasket is a counselling psychologist based in London. Her first book, All the Ghosts in the Machine: Illusions of Immortality in the Digital Age, examines the... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2019-04-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
We must redefine Facebook as a publisher and not a platform so it bears responsibility for its content, says Pam Rudd. Tobacco was once ubiquitous yet many managed to quit, says Bob Walsh. We must view social media the same wayI do not believe we need to rewrite most of our regulation to... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2019-04-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Digital Age was still off in the distance when “Future Shock” arrived in America’s bookstores, offering readers a sobering forecast of a future where change and information would be arriving at such a dizzying pace that humankind would be overwhelmed. As the book became a global bestseller... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2019-02-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
Canongate has acquired the new adult novel from Scarlett Thomas, Oligarchy, billed as “The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie for the digital age”. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-01-31 00:00:00 UTC ]