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Sony, one of the first companies to enter the ebook market, will close its ebookstore in March and allow its American and Canadian customers to migrate their accounts to Kobo. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-02-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Good Housekeeping is a monster brand for parent company Hearst. The 129-year-old magazine is among its largest in terms of revenue, with more than 4.4 million subscribers. Consumers place enormous trust in the Good Housekeeping Seal. Continue reading at AdAge.com Continue reading at Advertising Age
[ Advertising Age | 2014-02-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Are brands the new celebrity weeklies? A tweet announcing the news and first pic of the birth of pop singer Kevin Jonas' daughter came not from People or OK! Magazine but a non-media source altogether: the detergent maker Dreft. The Jonas Brothers singer and his wife Danielle teamed up with the... Continue reading at AdWeek
[ AdWeek | 2014-02-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
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“In recent years, new bookstores have virtually mushroomed in the city of Sofia," says Rumyana Tsvetkova, reporting for Radio Bulgaria, Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2014-02-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
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By encouraging the young to publish fan fiction, story-sharing startup Movellas is tackling English children's low literacy levelsLiteracy levels among English young adults compare poorly with those in other industrialised countries, according to an OECD survey last autumn which ranked England a... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2014-02-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Blackboard, a learning management system that provides the online educational environment for many higher educational institutions, plans to launch an online bookstore for its platform. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-01-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Wikipedia. It's one of the cornerstones of the internet. It's a global resource which has quite a reputation and has spawned numerous copycats and offshoots; the latest addition to the wiki canon is the Wikipedia Voice Intro Project (or WikiVIP). As you may have guessed from the name, this is a... Continue reading at Betanews
[ Betanews | 2014-01-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The Friday Project has bought a book by journalist and author Chris Wright, in a deal for world... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2014-01-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Hearst Magazines will roll out its newest title, Dr. Oz, The Good Life, Feb. 4. With 800,000 copies being distributed, including 375,000 copies on newsstands for $3.99 and another 425,000 going to subscribers of other Hearst titles, The Good Life could well be the biggest consumer magazine... Continue reading at AdWeek
[ AdWeek | 2014-01-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The past few years have seen a resurgence of independent booksellers, with new shops opening in communities that haven’t previously had many bookstores, or that had only Borders outlets—until the chain went under in 2011. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-01-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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While two independent bookstores in Door County, Wisconsin, have closed or will close, two others report an uptick in sales. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-01-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Library chief, Roy Keating, says show will explore field from Misty comics and superhero classics to graphic novelsBoys in the late 1970s probably assumed the girls comic Misty was all boring romance, puppies and ponies. How wrong they were. They were full of "incredibly dark, weird,... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2014-01-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The court overseeing the Chapter 7 liquidation of Good Enterprises has approved a motion allowing Simon & Schuster to continue distributing the Good Books titles. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-01-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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'39 Clues' author Patrick Carman says he knows Amazon is a convenient option, but suggests buying a book from an independent bookstore each time you buy from Amazon. Continue reading at The Christian Science Monitor
[ The Christian Science Monitor | 2014-01-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Eighty California indies are signed up to participate in the statewide California Bookstore Day on May 3, 2014, featuring exclusive publisher titles for sale. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-01-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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A few key take-aways from DBW 2014: teens aren't reading for fun, ebook sales grow overseas, Wall Street discounts publishing and Amazon is like modern art. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2014-01-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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A lengthy filing posted on January 10 in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for Eastern Pennsylvania provides a glimpse of some of the inner workings of Good Enterprises (the parent company of Good Books), which filed for Chapter 7 liquidation on December 11. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-01-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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At Digital Book World, independent booksellers and librarians answered two questions: Why are we still here, and how do we stay here? Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-01-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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As part of its transition to a lifestyle company, the Cambridge, Mass.-based publisher terminated its contracts with sales reps. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-01-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The fact a delegation is visiting the UK over the hostile response to the Guardian's reporting of the Snowden leaks, as well as the royal charter, should sound alarm bellsThis week, the World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers has dispatched a delegation of editors and publishers from... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2014-01-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
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