Love audiobooks? There are plenty of worthy Audible competitors out there. You just need to know where to look. While Amazon-owned Audible dominates the audiobook market, it’s far from the only player in town. Continue reading at 'Fast Company'
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Audible, the largest producer and seller of audiobooks, has reportedly begun commissioning original audio works. A book by Jeffery Deaver is one of the works currently being created by the company. Continue reading at The Christian Science Monitor
[ The Christian Science Monitor | 2015-03-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
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U.K. publishers are employing a number of tactics to garner Facebook traffic. Digiday spoke to five of the UK publishers in the top 10 to receive traffic from the social network -- and learned a few tricks. Having engineered its sites for mobile -- and consequently, social -- six of Trinity... Continue reading at Digiday
[ Digiday | 2015-03-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Pierre Omidyar, the eBay founder who lives in Honolulu, saw his ranking on Forbes magazine's list of the world's richest people slip this year, while Larry Ellison, the billionaire executive chairman and chief technology officer of Oracle Corp. who owns the island of Lanai in Hawaii, held on to... Continue reading at Silicon Valley Business Journal
[ Silicon Valley Business Journal | 2015-03-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
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As the story goes, in October 1897, the American Library Association (ALA) plunged into controversy when Rutherford P. Hayes (the son of former U.S. president Rutherford B. Hayes) seized the ALA presidency following the death of duly elected president Justin Winsor, despite there being no... Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-02-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Children's Laureate Malorie Blackman is launching an online YA festival for teenagers to mark World Book Day. Continue reading at BBC News
[ BBC News | 2015-02-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Amid widening concerns that another startup bubble has formed, digital media remains a white-hot market among the private-investment community.Last year, venture capital poured at least $683 million into digital media companies worldwide -- more than twice the $277 million invested in 2013,... Continue reading at Advertising Age
[ Advertising Age | 2015-02-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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With Snapchat Discover launching earlier this week, publishers now have a new way to tease their content on social media and find backing from brands. The new offering allows marketers to directly sponsor stories on the platform, getting their names in front of a younger audience. We spoke to... Continue reading at AdWeek
[ AdWeek | 2015-01-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
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For many, the tragic events in Paris have highlighted the importance of free expression. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-01-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Bardowl, the audiobook streaming service that launched to the public in 2012, is to close this week. In an email to subscribers the service noted: “It is with great disappointment that I have to tell you that we are closing Bardowl. From next Wednesday your subscription will not renew, and at... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-01-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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WH Smith has released its interim results covering the Christmas period, revealing that group sales were down 2% like-for-like. As usual, WH Smith Travel performed better than its High Street stores, with like-for-like sales up 2% and total sales up 7%, with particular improvements at large... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-01-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
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It’s been six years since British author Philip Pullman last transported readers and listeners to the world of the bestselling His Dark Materials trilogy. But audiobook fans can now travel back to Lyra Belacqua’s Oxford via “The Collectors,” an original short story written exclusively for... Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-01-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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As we kick off a new year, PW asked audio publishers to share their reflections on successes and trends of 2014. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-01-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Waterstones’ core Christmas sales were up over 5% year-on-year but overall revenue was hit by lower sales of Kindle devices. The chain bookseller’s m.d, James Daunt, said the company had a “solid” Christmas and was pleased with sales of books, stationery and toys, with new stores in the estate... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-01-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Early in 2014 we snuck an unauthorized hands-on with Asus's Transformer Book T300 Chi, the company's newest Windows-enabled tablet/laptop hybrid, and came away impressed. It's slim! It's lightweight! It runs Windows 8.1! It's a blatant, uh, homage to the Microsoft Surface! Nine months later, at... Continue reading at PC World
[ PC World | 2015-01-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Bleacher Report founder Bryan Goldberg writes that the major digital publishing narrative in 2015 will be revenue. Everything else will be a function of how publishers thrive or struggle to monetize. The post Coming in 2015: reality check for VC-engorged digital media appeared first on Digiday. Continue reading at Digiday
[ Digiday | 2015-01-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Patron privacy has long been a concern for libraries and library users in the digital age. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-01-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Native advertising became a full-blown phenomenon in online publishing in 2014. Here's what we learned about it this year. The post 5 things we learned about native ads in 2014 appeared first on Digiday. Continue reading at Digiday
[ Digiday | 2014-12-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
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It's sobering to think of carrying on into next year the weight of all the unread books on one's nightstand. Continue reading at The Christian Science Monitor
[ The Christian Science Monitor | 2014-12-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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US publishers have reported a sales revenues rise of nearly 5% across 2014, mainly fuelled by the success of children's and young adult. Figures released by the Association of American Publishers (AAP), covering the first nine months of the year, show that across publishing as a whole,... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2014-12-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Berlin-based Blinkist condenses nonfiction books down to key points called blinks and is offering an app that delivers books as 15-minute audio summaries. The post Blinkist Condenses Nonfiction Books to 15-Minute Audiobooks appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2014-12-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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