Amazon Scores Highest Monthly Growth Among Streamers Thanks to Thursday Night Football, Rings of Power

The kickoff of the National Football League season was readily apparent in Nielsen's September Gauge report, with broadcast TV seeing a slight viewership bump, and streaming services with exclusive NFL games also seeing big gains. (THR) Per Nielsen data, Amazon received a 12% bump in streaming viewership from August, leading the streamer to match its... Continue reading at 'AdWeek'

[ AdWeek | 2024-10-16 11:57:00 UTC ]
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Pre-Roll Video Ads a Leading Catalyst to Ad-Blocking Growth

A new Wells Fargo Securities report put ad blocking right alongside viewability as a top challenge facing the digital publishing ecosystem.The report asked whether ad blocking is an existential threat or "just a 'Europe thing'" and netted out somewhere in the middle: "We believe the rapid rise... Continue reading at Advertising Age

[ Advertising Age | 2015-03-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Bloomsbury signs title on the maths behind football

Bloomsbury has signed a debut book from mathematician David Sumpter, looking at the statistical background behind football. Commissioning editor Jim Martin signed world rights to More than a Game in a deal with Chris Wellbelove at Greene & Heaton. The book will published on Bloomsbury's... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2015-03-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Amazon opens online store on Chinese competitor's marketplace

Amazon has opened a flagship store on Chinese competitor Alibaba Group Holding’s consumer-to-consumer site, Tmall.com. Amazon’s store on the site launched this week and so far offers a limited range of products including imported food, women’s shoes, toys and kitchen equipment, the Wall Street... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2015-03-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Google, Beware: Facebook to Open Ad Exchange Powered by LiveRail

Facebook continues its campaign to invade Google's ad-tech turf.Facebook is building an ad exchange that would automate the sale of other publishers' ads, according to people familiar with the matter. LiveRail, the online video ad-tech firm that Facebook bought last summer, will be the one... Continue reading at Advertising Age

[ Advertising Age | 2015-03-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Live From Pentagram, It's Saturday Night Live: The Book!

Pentagram's Emily Oberman tells us about how she channeled her inner super-nerd to help Taschen create the ultimate SNL Bible.Pentagram's Emily Oberman is pretty much Saturday Night Live's go-to designer at this point. She's done three separate SNL identities, including this year's... Continue reading at Fast Company

[ Fast Company | 2015-03-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Amazon under fire on redundancies and Prime promotion

Amazon is failing in its legal duties when making staff redundant, according to union GMB. Meanwhile the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has upheld a complaint against an Amazon promotion for its Prime membership service The GMB union has accused the internet giant of failing to follow... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2015-03-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Using Solar Power for E-readers in Africa, France

Worldreader now offers solar powered charging stations for schools and libraries in Africa; France's Bookeen is developing a new light-powered eink device. The post Using Solar Power for E-readers in Africa, France appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives

[ Publishing Perspectives | 2015-03-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Will Amazon's Kindle Scout democratize publishing?

Amazon's Kindle Scout, one of the first crowdsourced publishing platforms, announced it will release its first set of 10 reader-selected titles next month. Continue reading at The Christian Science Monitor

[ The Christian Science Monitor | 2015-02-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Camex 2015: College Stores Revamp; Amazon, Indies Arrive on Campus

Five years ago, the National Association of College Stores issued a white paper that looked forward to what the state of the college store would be in 2015. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-02-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Amazon hires former White House press secretary

Amazon has hired former White House press secretary Jay Carney as senior v.p. for worldwide corporate affairs. Carney, who served as press secretary for US President Barack Obama for more than three years until 2014, will begin in his new job on Monday, Politico reported. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2015-02-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Money, mobile and maturing brands: What else is keeping publishers up at night?

As part of Digiday's Publishing Summit Europe, held in February in Monaco, Taboola hosted a town hall for publishers. At once excited and nervous about the industry's digital-first future, several dozen industry veterans weighed in on the challenges they face. Chief among them? How to manage... Continue reading at Digiday

[ Digiday | 2015-02-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Jill Abramson Signs $1M Book Deal – But Won't Settle Scores with New York Times

Jill Abramson, the former New York Times executive editor, has signed a rumoured $1m book deal – but readers hoping for a score-settling page turner may be disappointed, according to her publisher. Continue reading at Editor & Publisher

[ Editor & Publisher | 2015-02-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Amazon to Publish First Titles from Kindle Scout

Amazon opens pre-ordering for the first 10 titles coming from its crowdsourced publishing platform. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-02-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Will Amazon Prime Now Hurt Manhattan Bookstores?

Amazon has made its Prime Now one-hour delivery service available in Manhattan, and the service includes books. How will it impact B&N and other bookstores? The post Will Amazon Prime Now Hurt Manhattan Bookstores? appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives

[ Publishing Perspectives | 2015-02-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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CAMEX 2015: A Show of Amazon and Disruption

Amazon had an outsized presence at this year's campus retail educational conference in Atlanta. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-02-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
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I read only non-white authors for 12 months. What I learned surprised me | Sunili Govinnage

Reading science fiction, chick lit and fantasy novels by people of colour for a year brought home to me just how white my reading world wasIn 2014, I managed to read 25 novels. All of them were written by people of colour. That was the result of a small challenge I set myself: not to read books... Continue reading at The Guardian

[ The Guardian | 2015-02-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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S&S Heads Back to Press on Carr's 'Night of the Gun'

Simon & Schuster will be reprinting 10,000 copies of revered 'New York Times' critic and columnist David Carr's 2008 memoir following his death last week. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-02-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Do you love Amazon? There's a Valentine's Day sale going on

Amazon, originally known as a book seller, has become an all-around retail super store with a growing list of its own electronics. Sales are not infrequent as the company tries to push its devices, in many cases selling them at a loss with plans to make up the money once the customer is... Continue reading at Betanews

[ Betanews | 2015-02-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Faber and Granta power Folio Prize shortlist

Independent publishers have come out on top in the shortlist for the 2015 Folio Prize for Fiction, with Faber and Granta getting three books each on the list. Faber’s three titles are All My Puny Sorrows by Miriam Toews, about sisters, suicide and how to carry on after grief; Family Life by... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2015-02-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Amazon tool converts print into ebooks

Amazon customers in the US can now convert their print titles into Kindle books with a software package called Kindle Convert. Currently available in the US for computers running Windows 7 and 8, the software helps users to scan in pages of their print books, converting the image into usable... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2015-02-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
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