Sarah Martinez, senior vice president, Americas Revenue, IAS The digital media landscape is a revolving door of content that vies for consumer attention. Between social feeds that scroll to infinity with the swipe of a finger and the state of television undergoing a digital revolution, content... Continue reading >> [ Source: Digiday | 2022-12-08 16:10:20 UTC ]
Marie Claire’s closure highlights print titles’ struggle for survival in the age of online media Another gap is about to appear on your newsagent’s shelf. This week Marie Claire announced the closure of its UK print edition, adding to an expanding list of high-profile titles from NME to FHM that... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2019-09-14 06:00:58 UTC ]
“The Catcher in the Rye” and other Salinger novels are coming out in digital formats, and the writer’s son plans to release more from his archives. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2019-08-11 09:00:01 UTC ]
As schools turn to open digital resources to cut student costs, reeling college book makers are looking for ways to monetize the free content. The digital revolution has been rocking the academic publishing applecart for years. Students bristling at the price of books—an intro biology text can... Continue reading >> [ Source: Fast Company | 2017-07-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
As advertisers turn their backs on newsprint, publishers who have been in denial about the digital revolution are confronted by an uncomfortable realityI am in Ireland to address the Irish Press Council’s annual general meeting in a lecture entitled “Have newspapers got a future?”My theme is... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2016-05-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
Digital Book World opened with a call for more marketing collaboration between publishers and their authors, and a keynote from the director of USC's Innovation Lab about how the major tech companies have destroyed government regulation in order to build dominant market shares. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2016-03-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
Dan Nigloschy of codeMantra believes that now is the time for a second digital revolution in book publishing, one that takes advantage of digital agility. The post Content Will Exist in a Continuum appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2015-10-07 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 ]
Only one in seven people think the industry is ready for the next stage in the digital revolution, The Bookseller’s 2014 Digital Census has found. The survey, from over 1,100 respondents and taken between September and October 2014, found that just 14.7% believed the sector is prepared for the... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-10-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
It’s 2014, and for North American manga publishers, the digital revolution is well underway. Where there once were only a handful of publishers offering their titles online or via ebook apps, now almost all of them are offering, or negotiating to offer at least some of their current and backlist... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-02-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
Johnston Press is disposing of staff photographers in a swathe of newspapers across England, reports HoldTheFrontPage. Photographers are soon to leave the company's titles in Lincolnshire, Warwickshire, Northamptonshire and Buckinghamshire. Most will go after accepting voluntary redundancy... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2014-01-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
We used to know what it took to be a writer – you had to publish a book. But electronic publishing is piling pressure on myths of the author's lifeWhat's the difference between making money out of books and writing books that people want to buy? Turns out it's about 40% – if, that is, you... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2014-01-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
Hearst Corp. had record revenue and profits in 2013, when it marked the fourth year in a row of growth on both fronts since the 2008 recession, Steven Swartz said in a New Year’s letter to employees recapping the year he took over as chief executive. Swartz, formerly the head of Hearst’s... Continue reading >> [ Source: AdWeek | 2014-01-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
This may not be a first - but HoldTheFrontPage is reporting that the Manchester Evening News has ditched its picture desk.It says that both the picture editor and his deputy have not been replaced after leaving the Trinity Mirror title. Photographers are now assigned to jobs by the... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2013-12-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
Right-sized and re-made, the Frankfurt Book Fair retains its pre-eminent position in the global publishing industry, digital revolution and all. Click here to listen. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2013-10-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
The biggest difference between before the digital revolution and now is that customers control the content flow rather than publishers. As customers we want what we want when we want it and how we want it. A new song? A new book? One click away (so frictionless!). A question about our health? Continue reading >> [ Source: Folio Magazine | 2013-08-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
The publishing business mirrors the natural world in many ways: it’s a fertile, creative process influenced by myriad conditions, some as unpredictable and unforgiving as weather. The coming of the ebook and digital publishing to the Canadian book industry can be compared to the approach of... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2012-09-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
Eli Horowitz does not think of himself as someone who “fetishizes the book.” But he’s also seen what books become, in digital form, and has not always been impressed. A former managing editor and publisher at McSweeney’s, Horowitz describes much of what he has seen in the digital revolution in... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2012-09-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
In the early days of the digital revolution, most independent publishers were moving slower than the larger houses in getting on the ebook bandwagon. That period has clearly passed. With only a couple of exceptions, the publishers that made it onto this year’s edition of PW’s fast-growing small... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2012-03-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
Written By: Philip Jones Publication Date: Tue, 11/10/2011 - 09:00 Literary agents speaking at Publishers Launch Frankfurt have challenged publishers to approach ebook royalty discussions in a more "knowledgeable" way or face a "reckoning" from the digital revolution. But there are signs of... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-10-11 00:00:00 UTC ]