Techtober rolled straight into November this year. The first week of the month was a busy one at Engadget HQ as we published a number of high-profile reviews over the last few days. There's the MacBook Pro and Mac mini from Apple alongside the beastly (and expensive) PS5 Pro. Plus, we've got yet... Continue reading >> [ Source: Engadget | 2024-11-09 15:00:04 UTC ]
After a long run of record financial results, sales at Simon & Schuster fell 13%, and operating income dropped 35.5%, in the third quarter ended September 30, 2023. Nonetheless, CEO Jonathan Karp is excited about prospects for both the holiday season and life after Paramount Global. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2023-11-03 04:00:00 UTC ]
After a long run with weekly sales ahead of 2022, unit sales of adult fiction titles were down 0.2% in the year-to-date after sales fell last week. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2023-09-28 04:00:00 UTC ]
Superhero movies are a dime a dozen, but the comic book podcast is about to hit its stride. We’ve had a nice, long run of comic book movies and television shows. One after the other, with big actors and even bigger action sequences. Before the end of the year we’ll get Loki Season 2, The... Continue reading >> [ Source: Fast Company | 2023-09-26 05:00:00 UTC ]
Amazon Prime Day 2023 is a few days away on July 11th, but you don't have to wait until then to get a good deal. The company has started to roll out a few early Prime Day deals before the two-day shopping event officially commences, including, as expected, several discounts on its own devices... Continue reading >> [ Source: Engadget | 2023-07-09 13:05:03 UTC ]
Amazon Prime Day 2023 is a few days away on July 11th, but you don't have to wait until then to get a good deal. The company has started to roll out a few early Prime Day deals before the two-day shopping event officially commences, including, as expected, several discounts on its own devices... Continue reading >> [ Source: Engadget | 2023-07-07 14:29:48 UTC ]
Amazon Prime Day 2023 is one week away on July 11th, but you don't have to wait until then to get a good deal. The company has started to roll out a few early Prime Day deals before the two-day shopping event officially commences, including, as expected, several discounts on its own devices and... Continue reading >> [ Source: Engadget | 2023-07-04 12:48:53 UTC ]
Over half a decade later, a new Kickstarter campaign has finally eclipsed Pebble's crowdfunding record on the website. Fantasy and sci-fi author Brandon Sanderson set up a campaign to raise $1 million within 30 days to fund four secret books he intends to release every quarter next year. It... Continue reading >> [ Source: Engadget | 2022-03-04 12:57:00 UTC ]
The long run of unit sales of print books posting weekly sales gains over the comparable week in 2020 came to an end last week, with units falling 1.3% compared to the week ending July 11, 2020, at outlets that report to NPD BookScan. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2021-07-15 04:00:00 UTC ]
In mid-March, Wired joined fellow Condé Nast titles The New Yorker and Vanity Fair, as well as numerous other newspapers and magazines, in opening up free access to its coverage of the COVID-19 pandemic, moving that content outside of the metered paywall that otherwise limits non-subscribers... Continue reading >> [ Source: Folio Magazine | 2020-04-09 17:20:07 UTC ]
A quality experience is something every publisher wants to offer their audience. Yet, there isn't a playbook on exactly how to do it. There are many variables in what makes for a quality experience, but ultimately it’s the readers/users themselves that decide. Still, there are creative ideas... Continue reading >> [ Source: Folio Magazine | 2020-02-20 17:20:54 UTC ]
Harlan Coben’s new thriller, Run Away, takes #1 on the Apple Books store, ending Delia Owens’s long run at the top with Where the Crawdads Sing, which fell to #2. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2019-03-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
Book publishing is a business and increasingly a technical one, but at its heart it is an art, writes Peter J. Dougherty from Princeton University Press in this opinion piece. Continue reading >> [ Source: Knowledge@Wharton | 2018-12-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
Facebook playing a shrunken role as the de facto regulator of media will be a good thing in the long run. The post ‘A watershed moment’: Publishers find hope in a more rational post-Facebook media landscape appeared first on Digiday. Continue reading >> [ Source: Digiday | 2018-01-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
For years, news organizations have had little recourse but to cede more distribution and advertising dollars to Facebook and Google, even agreeing to give away articles in the hopes the wider digital audience will pay off in the long run. But as profits continue to decline in journalism, news... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2017-07-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
As publishers, we recognize that our own operations need to evolve if we are going to survive in the long run. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2016-12-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
Cost of rail travel for more than 100 managers has also risen since relocation to MediaCity in Salford QuaysThe suspicion that British Airways and Virgin Trains would be among the beneficiaries of the BBC's move to Salford appears to be born out by figures on travel costs published this week.In... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2013-12-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
For all the good native advertising does for brands, a big roadblock the digital ad form faces is its ability to scale, said AOL CEO Tim Armstrong at a breakfast event this morning in New York. "I think it's beneficial, overall, for brands. I think there's a danger, though, that native... Continue reading >> [ Source: AdWeek | 2013-06-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
When Erin Morgenstern’s first novel, The Night Circus, debuted last September, PW predicted in a starred review that this magical tale was destined for bestsellerdom. The hardcover went on to sell 167,000 copies through the outlets tracked by Nielsen BookScan, and the paperback, which was... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2012-07-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
Because California is losing more Borders stores than any other state in the country, the region's booksellers are uniquely poised to find ways to turn the ramifications of the bankruptcy proceedings to their advantage. "In the long run, the indies will benefit because there will be fewer... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2011-04-11 00:00:00 UTC ]