UPDATE: There were three waves of cyberattacks today, but as of 7 p.m., they appear to have been resolved. It all started Friday morning, when a slew of digital publishers and other ecommerce players were hit by a cyberattack, causing their sites in some parts of the U.S. to go out in a problem that lingered into the early evening. According to DownDetector—check out its map above—the East Coast and Southern California were hit hardest while Western Europe also saw outages. Twitter was inaccessible to many users for hours, while Spotify, Pinterest, Shopify and SoundCloud also had major outages. Additionally, Etsy, Reddit, Airbnb, The New York Times and The Boston Globe were down due to the ongoing outages, per TechCrunch. Hacker News is running an updated list of which sites are currently crashing. At different points throughout the day, such websites were fully live again, but then some of them—most notably, Twitter—went dark once more. The development seemed particularly bad for publishers that rely on ad impressions for revenue—Twitter, Pinterest, NYT—but the damage was even worse for internet retailers Shopify and Etsy, which likely lost sales. It will be interesting to see whether industry analysts weigh in on what financial damage was done to the affected players. The outages were apparently being caused by a distributed denial-of-service—or DDoS—attack on web-domain provider Dyn. Late Friday morning, the Ottawa-based company posted information related... Continue reading at 'AdWeek'
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Acquisition of 2016 startup and its 1.2 million subscribers puts newspaper on target for 10 million paid subscriptions The New York Times has agreed to buy subscription-based sports site the Athletic for $550m (£400m) in cash, as the 170-year-old newspaper adds more digital content to grab... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2022-01-06 23:27:19 UTC ]
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The Athletic, which quickly came to prominence for publishing exclusive reporting and high-quality sports journalism, is getting a new owner. As first reported by The Information, The New York Times has agreed to buy the subscription-based digital media company for $550 million. The deal is... Continue reading at Engadget
[ Engadget | 2022-01-06 17:05:15 UTC ]
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The best science fiction and fantasy book deals of the day, curated by Book Riot Continue reading at Book Riot
[ Book Riot | 2022-01-03 13:53:28 UTC ]
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Atria nabs an essay collection by William Shatner, Sourcebooks Casablanca picks up a new Claire Legrand trilogy, and more. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2021-12-31 05:00:00 UTC ]
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NASA announced on Thursday it has awarded $415.6 million US to billionaire Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin, stalwart contractor Northrop Grumman Corp and venture-backed Nanoracks to develop privately owned and operated commercial space stations. ... Continue reading at CBC
[ CBC | 2021-12-03 12:56:05 UTC ]
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Diana Gabaldon has the #1 book in the country with her ninth Outlander novel, 'Go Tell the Bees That I Am Gone.' Plus Brandon Sanderson's latest Skyward novel, 'Cytonic,' lands at #3 on our children's fiction list, and 'The Wheel of Time' Prime Video series gets its first tie-in edition. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2021-12-03 05:00:00 UTC ]
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After doing the same for Disney, Spotify has launched a Netflix hub bringing all of the streaming service's soundtracks, playlists and podcasts into one place. While many of Netflix's soundtracks were already on Spotify, the new feature puts all content related to the service in one place. That... Continue reading at Engadget
[ Engadget | 2021-11-23 13:00:54 UTC ]
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Iran's state TV says a cyberattack has disrupted access to the country's privately owned Mahan Air Continue reading at ABC News
[ ABC News | 2021-11-21 09:33:44 UTC ]
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“Our Journey Together" promises to capture “the greatness" of the Trump White House, but critics aren't convinced. Continue reading at HuffPost
[ HuffPost | 2021-11-20 12:07:31 UTC ]
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Looking to accelerate its expansion into the audiobook market, the Swedish audio streaming subscription service giant Spotify has agreed to acquire Ohio-based digital audiobook distributor Findaway for an undisclosed price. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2021-11-12 05:00:00 UTC ]
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Spotify could soon be home to a lot more audiobooks. The streaming service has acquired audiobook platform Findaway, the companies announced. Terms of the deal were not disclosed, but the acquisition suggests Spotify is looking to build out its own library of audiobook titles.Findaway is an... Continue reading at Engadget
[ Engadget | 2021-11-11 21:00:04 UTC ]
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Debut author Jesse Sutanto has won the CWIP Prize for Published Comic Novel, for her "deliciously frantic comedy caper" Dial A for Aunties (HarperCollins), with Dolly Alderton coming runner-up. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-11-08 09:52:15 UTC ]
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The Sheikh Zayed Book Award reports a 76-percent rise in submissions of work by women, and a 47-percent jump in entries of men's work. The post Sheikh Zayed Book Award: 3,000+ Submissions, a New Record appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2021-11-03 02:09:08 UTC ]
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Hachette UK saw its revenues fall 3% in the third quarter of 2021 compared to the same period last year, although c.e.o. David Shelley said sales were still “extremely strong" and ahead of forecasts, with increased market share. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-10-27 21:59:40 UTC ]
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Of course there’s ‘Twilight’ and Anne Rice’s Lestat, but less well known are books like “Night Watch” and “Carrion Comfort” Continue reading at The Washington Post
[ The Washington Post | 2021-10-16 12:00:00 UTC ]
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Welcome to Campaign's weekly round-up of the hires, departures and promotions across the industry. Continue reading at Media Week
[ Media Week | 2021-10-08 08:50:51 UTC ]
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Educational publishers Macmillan Learning, Cengage Group, Elsevier, McGraw Hill and Pearson have obtained a preliminary injunction against 60 websites that sell illegal, unlicensed copies of e-books. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-09-28 14:17:26 UTC ]
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The injunction is the fourth successful action in two years for the group, known as the Educational Publishers Enforcement Group, which consists of Cengage, Elsevier, Macmillan Learning, McGraw Hill and Pearson. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2021-09-28 04:00:00 UTC ]
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Glossy magazines get a makeover with focus on vintage clothing, creativity and recycling Former editors and directors at Britain’s glossiest fashion magazines are carving out a niche for themselves with print titles and websites that focus on sustainable clothing.Later this month, Calendar will... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2021-09-26 05:45:03 UTC ]
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NASA clearly needs more astronauts if programs like Artemis are to be successful, and it thinks it has a clever sales pitch: a tech-savvy comic. The space agency has released an augmented reality graphic novel, First Woman, that tells the tale of the fictional Callie Rodriguez as she becomes... Continue reading at Engadget
[ Engadget | 2021-09-25 20:49:55 UTC ]
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