After You makes it two as Moyes holds the number one spot

Jojo Moyes has scored a second week in the Official UK Top 50 number one spot as After You (Penguin) sold 47,872 copies for £180,513. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'

[ The Bookseller | 2016-07-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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US indie bookshop numbers soar

The news coming from the American Booksellers Association at BEA is that there’s been a net increase of 660 independent stores since 2009 – a reflection if ever there was one of the growing power of localism in the US. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2016-05-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Facebook Reactions make up 16 percent of total publisher likes

It’s been two months since Facebook rolled out its five new emoji reactions (love, sad, wow, etc.), to let people express more than just that they “liked” something. NewsWhip looked at their use across 20 publishers over the past two weeks and found that Fox News got the most reactions... Continue reading at Digiday

[ Digiday | 2016-05-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Scottish Book Trust makes changes to children’s prizes

Scottish Book Trust is replacing its annual Children’s Book Awards with two new prizes; the Bookbug Picture Book Prize and the Scottish Teenage Book Prize. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2016-05-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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BEA 2016: Jeffrey Brown: Making Prehistory Entertaining

One impetus for Jeffrey Brown’s participation in BEA is the new trilogy he’s launching with "Lucy and Andy Neanderthal." Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2016-05-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Pan Mac scores hat-trick with three number ones

Pan Macmillan has scored a hat-trick this week by taking three number one positions across fiction and non-fiction in the Nielsen BookScan bestseller charts. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2016-05-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
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'Galbraith' claims third straight number one

Robert Galbraith’s Career of Evil (Sphere) has defeated the Star Wars Expert Guide (Dorling Kindersley) to take the Official UK Top 50 number one spot. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2016-05-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Orion acquires The People at Number 9

Orion Fiction has acquired a tale of "sex, envy and betrayal in the suburbs" in The People at Number 9 by Felicity Everett. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2016-04-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
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USA Today owner makes $815m offer for LA Times publisher

Gannett hopes to make $50m a year in savings from takeover of Tribune PublishingGannett, which owns local newspaper publisher Newsquest in the UK, has made a $12.25 (£8.44) per share offer to take over Tribune Publishing.The all-cash offer, a 63% premium on Tribune’s closing share price on... Continue reading at The Guardian

[ The Guardian | 2016-04-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
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New Day dawns for Sylvia’s fourth straight number one

Sylvia Day has stormed into the Official Top 50 number one spot, as One with You (Penguin) outsold previous chart-topper Lee Child’s Make Me (Bantam) by over 17,116 copies. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2016-04-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Why Your Idea Of Success Might Be Making You Miserable

People desire excellence. We want to be healthier, well-liked, and successful. So we soak up articles instructing us how to get promoted, be more productive, and become better liked. We read books like Charles Duhigg's recent Smarter Faster Better in order to learn what science can tell us about... Continue reading at Fast Company

[ Fast Company | 2016-04-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Facebook delivers new ways for publishers make money (and get readers) from Instant Articles

Facebook is trying to sweeten the deal for Instant Articles publishers. At its F8 developers conference today. the social network showed off expected new video ads, which can go right into Instant Articles. It also discussed its new branded content policies, which allow publishers to create... Continue reading at Digiday

[ Digiday | 2016-04-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Rothschild's debut makes Baileys Prize shortlist

Writer and film-maker Hannah Rothschild is the only British author to have made the 2016 Bailey’s Women’s Prize for Fiction shortlist, released tonight (11th April). Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2016-04-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Facebook is making product endorsements more obvious

Ads have been a staple in your Facebook News Feed for quite sometime. Today, the social network announced changes to its branded content policy that will make it more obvious when a celebrity or other publisher posts about third-party goods and servi... Continue reading at Engadget

[ Engadget | 2016-04-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Can Cash Back for Ad Fraud Make Brands Trust the Web Again?

Lexus dealers were so unnerved by online ad fraud a couple years back that they began urging Monica Mellier, group media director at the agency Team One, to redirect their ad dollars from digital media to legacy platforms such as TV or outdoor signs."We had a lot of conversations about how we... Continue reading at Advertising Age

[ Advertising Age | 2016-04-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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AI is already making inroads into journalism but could it win a Pulitzer?

From football reports to clickbait, programs are changing the way the news is createdLook closely at what many journalists write about artificial intelligence – from AlphaGo’s triumph at the ancient Chinese board game Go to Microsoft’s accidentally racist Twitter bot – and you might detect some... Continue reading at The Guardian

[ The Guardian | 2016-04-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
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School & Library Spotlight: How to Make Libraries Indispensible

School library expert Suzanna L. Panter shares the latest trends and issues affecting librarians in the field, ahead of the Texas Library Association annual conference. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2016-04-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Female authors make inroads at major publications – survey

Bylines by women at the New York Times Book Review and the New Republic are among the ‘dramatic increases’ over the last year, according to Vida’s annual survey of the publishing gender splitFemale authors and reviewers have found more room on literary pages over the last year, according to the... Continue reading at The Guardian

[ The Guardian | 2016-03-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Genius is trying to make its annotation system into a real business

Genius is growing up. The Brooklyn-based startup also said its hired its first CRO in an attempt to make money through events, ads and publishing deals. The annotation service is also adding a 'report abuse' button to combat criticism that the annotation tool could be used nefariously to harass... Continue reading at Digiday

[ Digiday | 2016-03-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
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In praise of little black numbers

The addition of 46 titles to Penguin’s Little Black Classics, from Jane Austen to the suffragettes, gives cause for renewed celebrationThe people at Penguin might be overstating things when they insist that their Little Black Classics “sparked a reading revolution”. All the same, sales of these... Continue reading at The Guardian

[ The Guardian | 2016-03-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
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“Traveling” Ideas Make Regional Magazines the Place to Be Seen

Innovation still matters, but sometimes it helps to be a follower, too. The post “Traveling” Ideas Make Regional Magazines the Place to Be Seen appeared first on Folio:. Continue reading at Folio Magazine

[ Folio Magazine | 2016-03-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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