"I gagged when it was revealed who Justin Timberlake was throwing on a blaccent for." Continue reading at 'HuffPost'
[ HuffPost | 2023-10-28 12:00:26 UTC ]
News tagged with:
#justin timberlake
#audiobook
By Robert M. Sacks There is an odd form of delusion in the publishing world, characterized by a resistance to reason in the face of actual facts. This inability to recognize modern business trends is easy for most... Continue reading at Publishing Executive
[ Publishing Executive | 2014-08-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#watershed moment
#publishing world
Makeup guru Michelle Phan, one of YouTube's most popular publishers with over 6.7 million subscribers, may have the vast influence that can give brands the exposure they crave. But, that hasn't stopped electronic dance music label Ultra from suing her for allegedly using its music without the... Continue reading at AdWeek
[ AdWeek | 2014-07-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#international audience
#record label
#great taste
Chief executive on the transformation of the magazine business, rivalry with Condé Nast, and takeoversDuncan Edwards may run an enviable portfolio of magazines, including Cosmopolitan, Elle, Esquire and Harpers Bazaar, but he admits an ingrained old-school mindset has cost the publisher the... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2014-07-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#including cosmopolitan
#digital initiative
#magazine editors
Some Amazon users spotted an ad for a Kindle Unlimited service, which would let users access as many ebook and audio titles as they wanted (within a certain library) for $9.99 a month. Continue reading at The Christian Science Monitor
[ The Christian Science Monitor | 2014-07-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#audiobook service
#users access
#audio titles
Hard on the heels of his 2014 Kate Greenaway award, Jon Klassen has picked up a second UK... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2014-07-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#jon klassen
William Heinemann has acquired a non-fiction title about “desk killers” by Dan... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2014-07-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#non-fiction title
#william heinemann
Gregory David Roberts’ cult hit Shantaram (Abacus) is available in audiobook for the first... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2014-06-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this |
The Sad Cat (or at least someone who sounds like him) is back, and this time he's dispensing advice to his kitten minions. BuzzFeed's Dear Kitten, a branded video for Friskies wet cat food, has resonated extremely well with the feline-obsessed online audience, collecting 12.1 million views (and... Continue reading at AdWeek
[ AdWeek | 2014-06-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#videowatch chart
#chart tracks
#pure views
#data sources
#proprietary score
#helps judge
#recommended videos
Despite the encroachment of digital downloads, sales of physical audiobooks remain resilient, with Nielsen BookScan reporting that units were up 6% through the first five months of 2014 compared to the same period last year. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-06-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#digital downloads
To commemorate Audiobook Month, the Audio Publishers Association (APA) is orchestrating a blog tour as a part of its June Is Audiobook Month campaign (JIAM), during which 31 different websites will give away an Audie-winning audiobook each day in June. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-06-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#blog tour
Our Clip of the Week comes to you in the form of two back-to-back segments from Wednesday night's "The Colbert Report," in which Stephen Colbert first outlines the ongoing battle between Amazon and the Hachette Book Group over ebook pricing, and then, together with his guest, National Book... Continue reading at Advertising Age
[ Advertising Age | 2014-06-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#wednesday night
#ongoing battle
#ebook pricing
#hardball tactics
#edan lepucki
More people are buying more books than ever, and more people are making a living by writing them. Why do millionaire authors want to destroy the one company that's made this all possible?As an author of ten novels legacy-published, self-published, and Amazon-published I'm bewildered by the... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2014-06-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#strange things
#legacy publishers
#net worth
Following the notice B&N sent to customers that it is shutting down its downloadable audio section, a spokesperson for the retailer told PW the company plans to re-enter the market at some point in the future. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-06-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#digital audiobooks
#company plans
William Heinemann is to publish a book looking at productivity and why “some people seem to... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2014-04-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#william heinemann
Hodder and Stoughton has acquired three books that are sequels to a series “which inspired... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2014-04-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this |
When Audible founder Don Katz launched the Audiobook Creation Exchange (ACX) platform in May 2011, he said one of the main goals was to help increase the number of audiobooks released into the market. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-04-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#main goals
Sixty thousand is the number of copies Christina Baker Kline thought her newest book, "Orphan Train," might sell in her “wildest dreams.” For a midlist author on her fifth novel, it was a lofty number. It turns out, it was also way too low. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-03-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#lofty number
#orphan train
#sixty thousand
#newest book
#wildest dreams
#midlist author
Publishers are claiming that content they share on Facebook pages isn't reaching as many readers as it used to. Adweek reached out to comScore to find out how referral traffic through Facebook has changed from Nov. 2013 to Feb. 2014 for several top properties. For reference, we also tracked the... Continue reading at AdWeek
[ AdWeek | 2014-03-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#ad spend
A Twitter account run by "ExMediaMan" has taken aim at the supposed seedy underbelly of digital media.The post In the belly of the viral-publishing beast, @ExMediaMan tells all appeared first on Digiday. Continue reading at Digiday
[ Digiday | 2014-03-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this |
Humble Bundle, the online venture that distributes bundles of digital content for a price decided by the consumer, is releasing its third bundle of ebooks, including a self-produced DRM-free audiobook of Cory Doctorow's novel "Homeland." Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-03-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#humble bundle
#online venture
#distributes bundles
#digital content
#cory doctorow