Amazon will launch a music-streaming service under its Prime membership plan, BuzzFeed reported Thursday. According to the news site, the e-commerce giant has inked deals with two out of the three major music labels, Warner Music Group and Sony Music Entertainment. The service, slated for June or July, would join a growing list of premium services already available via Amazon, including on-demand video and ebooks. The music service will reportedly limit the number of songs consumers can stream. Per BuzzFeed, it will feature only tracks and albums that are at least six months old. Other services, including Spotify, Beats and Rdio, promote a broader library of content. Streaming music is hot, with Spotify recently hitting 10 million subscribers and Apple yesterday announcing the purchase of Beats Electronics for $3 billion, its biggest acquisition to date. Analysts chalked up the hefty price tag in part to opportunities for Apple to ramp up its music-streaming services. Not all are bullish on Apple's purchase of Beats. "It’s true that Apple has a lot of cash to spend on acquisitions, but this is not a good way to spend it," Karsten Weide, program vp of digital media and entertainment at IDC. "This is a lot of money for a streaming service that has barely 250,000 subscribers. This is a lot of money for a mediocre hardware company. This is a lot of money for buying some ‘cool’ when Apple should be able to create its own." Continue reading at 'AdWeek'
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In “Music Is History,” Questlove examines pivotal songs from each of the last 50 years, creating a hybrid of American history, musicology and memoir. Continue reading at The Washington Post
[ The Washington Post | 2021-10-20 13:45:00 UTC ]
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Kate Mosse is launching a YouTube channel, including a book club featuring two non-fiction titles and a pair of fiction titles each month. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-10-20 03:44:21 UTC ]
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Journalist and writer Darren Boyle has won Capital Crime's Amazon Publishing New Voices Award for his thriller The Black Pool, which is set in contemporary Dublin and follows a journalist who ventures deep into the murky world of gang-organised tiger raids. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-10-19 15:51:36 UTC ]
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“The Every,” a sequel to “The Circle,” suffers from the Web’s worst quality: unlimited space. Continue reading at The Washington Post
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Jessica Kingsley Publishers (JKP) is launching a new podcast supporting the mental health of children and teens called "Our Kids in Mind". Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-10-18 23:02:32 UTC ]
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Bluemoose Books is launching a non-fiction list, starting with a book by Stu Hennigan which exposes "the abject poverty of an inner city trying to cope with the onset of the pandemic". Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Springer Nature has introduced a free auto-translation service for books and manuscripts for its authors Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-10-18 08:57:50 UTC ]
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Amazon is the Standard Oil of the 21st century. Its business operations and global reach dwarf those of virtually every other company on the planet — and exceed the GDP of more than a few countries — illustrating the vital importance innovation has on the modern economy. In his latest book, The... Continue reading at Engadget
[ Engadget | 2021-10-16 15:30:33 UTC ]
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Supply chain specialist Woodland Group has acquired 50% of logistics company Worldwide Book Services, Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Agents Michelle Brower, Stephanie Delman, and Allison Hunter have announced the launch and begun hiring a team. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
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Granta Magazine has opened submissions for the fifth edition of its Best of Young British Novelists list, to be released in spring 2023. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-10-13 08:19:00 UTC ]
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Hearst builds a Youth + Wellness Group Airship to show advertisers potential opportunities for virtual, co-branded experiences that can reach young female gamers. The post Hearst launches blimp in the metaverse in a bid to show advertisers virtual co-branded opportunities appeared first on Digiday. Continue reading at Digiday
[ Digiday | 2021-10-08 04:01:00 UTC ]
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After expanding its streaming measurement capabilities this year, Nielsen is combining its three streaming metrics into a single measurement suite--and rebranding two of them. Streaming Video Ratings, SVOD Content Ratings and Digital Ad Ratings will now now be offered in one measurement suite,... Continue reading at AdWeek
[ AdWeek | 2021-10-07 12:00:00 UTC ]
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Melinda French Gates will launch Moment of Lift Books, a new nonfiction imprint, at Flatiron Books. The imprint's first three titles are due in 2023. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2021-10-07 04:00:00 UTC ]
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Literary agency Peters Fraser + Dunlop is launching the Queer Fiction Prize, with author Okechukwu Nzelu among the judges for the inaugural award. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-10-05 18:48:23 UTC ]
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The Association of Learned & Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP) has launched a new careers hub for the scholarly publishing community. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-10-05 05:43:24 UTC ]
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2018 award was shared by New York Times and Washington Post for exposing interference and links between Trump and MoscowDonald Trump has again demanded the Pulitzer prize board rescind the prize for national reporting awarded to the New York Times and Washington Post in 2018, for exposing... Continue reading at The Guardian
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The author likes small bookshops. So he won’t let the online giant sell his new hardbackThe plight of the high street bookshop, struggling against the power of the online giants, is a common complaint either side of the Atlantic. But not often do the prominent players, the authors and... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2021-10-03 08:00:23 UTC ]
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Ozy faced questions about its viewership figures and claims that its co-founder impersonated a YouTube executive on a call with Goldman SachsOzy, a digital media startup, is shutting down less than a week after a New York Times column raised questions about the organization’s claims of millions... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2021-10-01 23:52:05 UTC ]
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When it comes to haunted houses, House Beautiful thinks the ghosts have gotten all the attention. To compensate, on Wednesday the Hearst title launched the first podcast in its 125-year history, a free, five-episode product called Dark House, which will explore the stories and architecture... Continue reading at AdWeek
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