Costco has been pulling back from book sales for years, hurting the publishing industry. Now, the company reportedly plans to primarily limit book sales to the holiday season, from September to December. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2024-06-06 04:00:00 UTC ]
It didn't take long to get NewFronts fatigue. The New York Times kicked off the two weeks of presentations with a more-than-two-hour pitch to agency executives and marketers parading its journalists in the way other digital publishers might show off their social influencers.Typically one of the... Continue reading >> [ Source: Advertising Age | 2017-05-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
Are publishers cooling on Facebook Instant Articles? An analysis by Newswhip says that several publishers are posting very little to the fast-loading articles format or appear to be pulling back. Instant Articles has been controversial since Facebook launched it a little over a year ago because... Continue reading >> [ Source: Digiday | 2016-09-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
Content recommendation has become a big business, but it's showing signs of its limitations. Yahoo, facing an uncertain future as a company, shut down its 2-year-old Yahoo Recommends service to publishers. It follows the shuttering of IAC's nRelate as a standalone service to publishers. Two of... Continue reading >> [ Source: Digiday | 2016-02-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
Christian publishers are not in panic mode despite recent Nielsen BookScan numbers indicating Christian fiction sales dropped 15 percent from 2013 to 2014. Houses with major fiction programs remain optimistic about the category and are not pulling back. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-02-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
The chaos brimming at the heart of Robert Stone's finest works surfaces in his latest book set on a New England campus.Robert Stone has long been a big-picture novelist. "Dog Soldiers," which won a 1975 National Book Award, involves a "journalist of sorts" who tries to smuggle three kilos of... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2013-11-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
Publishers seem to have no end to their appetite for apps. This year through October, 9,125 publication-related apps were released for the iPad, twice the number released in the year-ago period, according to McPheters & Co.’s iMonitor app-tracking service. Hearst led publishers with the most... Continue reading >> [ Source: AdWeek | 2012-12-05 00:00:00 UTC ]