Audible Rolls Out Lower-priced Subscription Plan

Audible is launching Audible Plus, a $7.95 per month service that will provide listeners will unlimited access to more than 68,000 hours of original content. In conjunction with the launch, the company has restructured its traditional credit-based subscription service into a new $14.95 per month offering called Audible Premium Plus, which will provide access to its full catalog of more than 500,000 titles. Continue reading at 'Publishers Weekly'

[ Publishers Weekly | 2020-08-25 04:00:00 UTC ]
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Wordsworth Trust reveals £6.2m Dove Cottage and museum plans

The Wordsworth Trust has unveiled further details of its £6.2m project to bring the poet’s story into the 21st century by enchancing its museum and his former home. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2019-03-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Jerusalem International Book Forum Announces Initial 2019 Programming Plans

Book-to-film trends and streaming entertainment are topics at the Jerusalem International Book Forum in May, as are panels on book sales. The post Jerusalem International Book Forum Announces Initial 2019 Programming Plans appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives

[ Publishing Perspectives | 2019-03-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
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‘We’ve made a huge mistake’: European publishers sound off on subscriptions and tech talent shortages

At the Digiday's Publishing Summit Europe, publishers discussed growing reader revenue strategies and the changing programmatic landscape. The post ‘We’ve made a huge mistake’: European publishers sound off on subscriptions and tech talent shortages appeared first on Digiday. Continue reading at Digiday

[ Digiday | 2019-03-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Winter Dark named Audible Thriller of the Year

Audible has revealed the audio-exclusive debut Winter Dark by Alex Callister is this year’s Thriller of the Year.  Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2019-03-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Skyhorse Readies Plans for a Hoped-for Release of the Mueller Report

If the Mueller Report is made public, Skyhorse Publishing hopes to release a trade paperback edition in one to three weeks after receiving the documents. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2019-02-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Independent Bookshop Week reveals 2019 plans

Hachette UK will sponsor Independent Bookshop Week (IBW) and authors Cressida Cowell, Patrick Gale, Katherine Rundell and screenwriter Ben Aaronovitch will tour bookshops across the country as part of the annual celebration of indies. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2019-02-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Plan S must consider researcher demand for OA

Springer Nature's Steven Inchcoombe explains the publisher's stance on Plan S' implementation guidance. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2019-02-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Amazon Scraps HQ2 Plans for LIC

Amazon will no longer build a headquarters in Long Island City, Queens, following grassroots resistance from New Yorkers and adverse reactions from some lawmakers and unions. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2019-02-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
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TechCrunch unveils a subscription product, Extra Crunch

The tech and startup news publisher hopes to convert 1 to 2 percent of its readers into subscribers. The post TechCrunch unveils a subscription product, Extra Crunch appeared first on Digiday. Continue reading at Digiday

[ Digiday | 2019-02-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Springer Nature says Plan S stance on hybrid journals 'unacceptable'

Springer Nature has said the current Plan S requirement for publishers to commit to 'flip' hybrid journals to Open Access is "unnecessary, and...unacceptable for us and for many other publishers." Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2019-02-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Audible Reveals Latest Emerging Playwrights Commissions

On February 7, Audible raised the curtain on the second group of theater playwrights selected to receive support from its $5 million Emerging Playwrights Fund to create original works. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2019-02-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Audible brings A.S. Byatt novels and stories to audio for first time

Audible is bringing the novels and short stories of A.S. Byatt to audio for the first time this month. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2019-02-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Daunt plans new buying structure after flat year at Waterstones

Waterstones is to split its centralised buying functions into two roles, aimed at resolving the disconnect between what is ordered by the chain and what is then sold through. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2019-02-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Jacaranda reveals plans to publish 20 black British writers in 2020

Indie publisher says its #Twentyin2020 initiative will cover fiction, non-fiction and poetry and help ‘normalise’ diverse readersA group of unnamed individuals has donated £25,000 towards an independent publisher’s initiative to publish 20 black British writers in 2020, in the hope it will... Continue reading at The Guardian

[ The Guardian | 2019-01-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Bluemoose reveals plans to publish only female writers in 2020

Bluemoose Books has revealed it will only publish female writers in 2020, with co-owner Kevin Duffy lamenting how “women over a certain age are overlooked in the publishing world”. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2019-01-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Tig Wallace joins HCG as part of ‘major’ plans for growth

Hachette Children’s Team has hired Tig Wallace, formerly commissioning editor at Penguin Random House Children’s, as senior commissioning editor in the fiction team. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2019-01-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Amazon Fire TV Stick now comes with Alexa Voice Remote at same affordable price

Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos may be having a difficult time in his personal life right now, but professionally, the multi-billionaire is doing phenomenally. Amazon's stock is through the roof, and  there seems to be no slowing down the online retailer. Long gone are the days when the... Continue reading at Betanews

[ Betanews | 2019-01-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Facebook rolls out fact-checking operation in UK

Social network brings in independent charity in attempt to tackle misinformationFacebook’s fact-checking operation is launching in the UK, with the independent charity Full Fact selected to be the first British publisher to review and rate the accuracy of content on the social network.Posts,... Continue reading at The Guardian

[ The Guardian | 2019-01-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
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West plans new Wood Green co-operative bookshop

Tim West, co-founder of The Big Green Bookshop in Wood Green, plans to open a new, co-operative bookshop locally in the wake of the closure of the bricks and mortar Big Green store. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2019-01-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Audible to produce new anthology as new sponsor for The Sunday Times Short Story Award

Audible has been announced as a new sponsor for, what will now be known as, the Sunday Times Audible Short Story Award 2019. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2018-12-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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