Add AOL to the list of publishers that have gone from selling ads to making ads.AOL has created an internal division called Partner Studio that is charged with creating content for advertisers. Both the name and type of work may sound familiar. AOL-owned Huffington Post has its own in-house creative shop called HuffPost Partner Studio that does the same thing for brands, as do an increasing number of publishers including BuzzFeed, Vox Media, The New York Times, Vice, Politico, CNN, Tumblr, The Guardian -- the list goes on.And there's one big reason all of these publishers are constructing their own creative shops: that's where the money is starting to flow. Advertisers in the U.S. are expected to spend $4.3 billion this year on so-called "native" ads that emphasize an ad's editorial-like content and, in some cases, disguise the spots to look like unpaid placements, according to eMarketer. That's a 34% increase from what brands are projected to have spent on native ads last year. Continue reading at AdAge.com Continue reading at 'Advertising Age'
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When Granada Books opens in downtown Santa Barbara, Calif., next month, it will operate on a hybrid model with a for-profit bookstore and a not-for-profit event series, Pomegranate Arts. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2013-05-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Swedish husband-and-wife crime writing duo Alexandra and Alexander Ahndoril, who write together... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2013-05-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Hachette, the last holdout among America's "big six" publishers, will make its full ebook catalog available to nonprofit public libraries and school libraries across the nation on May 8th. Continue reading at The Christian Science Monitor
[ The Christian Science Monitor | 2013-05-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Random House Publisher Services has announced a multi-year extension of its sales and distribution partnership with Quirk Books, which began in January 2011. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2013-04-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Simon & Schuster is the latest publisher in the UK to introduce a refined agency model for e-... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2013-04-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
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David Fickling is to leave Random House, where he is publisher at the David Fickling Books... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2013-04-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Over the past decade and a half Tin House magazine, which began publishing in spring 1999, and Tin House Books, which started as an imprint with Bloomsbury in 2002 before becoming an independent press in 2005, have carved out a niche in the small press world. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2013-04-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The Association of Online Publishers has launched a new initiative with 16 leading media owners, to demonstrate the value of premium mobile advertising, with a view to standardising formats. Continue reading at Media Week
[ Media Week | 2013-04-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Faber has made a further YA acquisition, with publisher Leah Thaxton buying UK and Commonwealth... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2013-04-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Most readers who preordered Charlaine Harris’s forthcoming Sookie Stackhouse novel, Dead Ever After (which will be released May 7), likely did so at Amazon, where it is 45% off and has hovered in the top 50 for weeks. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2013-04-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The Fundación El Libro and Buenos Aires Book Fair have added another 20 new names to the original 50 on their list of the most inspiring people in the Spanish-language book trade. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2013-04-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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A new startup called Repost aims to make it easy for online publishers to distribute their articles via embedding — the same way I can share a video from YouTube or a document from Scribd directly in a blog post. Right now, if I saw ... Continue reading at Editor & Publisher
[ Editor & Publisher | 2013-04-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Magazine publishers have found new fans for their content on tablets and e-readers, but will they ever be able to get advertisers to give them the same commitment? In the three years since consumers got their hands on Apple’s first iPads, magazines have been preparing their content for the new... Continue reading at AdWeek
[ AdWeek | 2013-04-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The future of self-publishing, the new agency model and the Penguin Random House merger will be... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2013-04-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Random House has appointed ePubDirect to manage distribution of ebook assets and provide retail support for the UK, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, and India. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2013-04-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Random House is launching a debut author with a new free-to-play online narrative game, Black... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2013-04-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The Bookseller reported last week that HarperCollins and Hatchette UK have become the first British publishers to refine the agency model agreement with Amazon co.uk. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2013-04-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Google and Adobe have garnered their share of attention as they assemble their end-to-end advertising technology stacks to span the buying and selling of online ad inventory. But AOL has also, albeit relatively quietly, been lining up its own ad tech stack through AOL Networks (formerly the... Continue reading at AdWeek
[ AdWeek | 2013-04-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Macmillan Distribution Service's Australian arm is reportedly to make 50 positions redundant... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2013-04-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The merger between Penguin and Random House has been approved by the EU. The European Commission... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2013-04-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
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