BookBub, a daily deal site for ebooks, announced it has raised $3.8 million in Series A funding, the first external capital secured by the company. Continue reading at 'Publishers Weekly'
[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-05-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
Bloomberg published an eyebrow-raising report Thursday night about a draft proposal being prepared by the Trump administration that would subsidize the coal industry in part by invoking a Cold War-era law intended for use in national security emergencies: Continue reading at Slate
[ Slate | 2018-06-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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For Mental Health Awareness Week, we spoke to Jonny Benjamin MBE about his debut memoir The Stranger on the Bridge (Bluebird). Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-05-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Facebook published numbers for the first time detailing how much and what type of content it removes from the social network. Continue reading at The New York Times
[ The New York Times | 2018-05-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Last month, Facebook published its internal community enforcement guidelines for the first time and today, the company has provided some numbers to show what that enforcement really looks like. In a new report that will be published quarterly, Facebo... Continue reading at Engadget
[ Engadget | 2018-05-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Unit sales of print books fell 3% in the week ended May 6, 2018, compared to the similar week in 2017 at outlets that report to NPD BookScan. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2018-05-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Playwright Roger Hall, 79, has updated the script - and books - of his 1999 off-beat romantic comedy The Book Club for a 2018 audience and a season at Takapuna's PumpHouse Theatre Continue reading at Stuff
[ Stuff | 2018-05-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Compensation for Time Warner Chief Executive Jeffrey Bewkes — who is hoping to take a victory lap after orchestrating the sale of his company to AT&T — soared to $49 million in 2017, according to a regulatory filing. His 2017 compensation was 50% higher than the previous year, when he... Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2018-04-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Unit sales of print books in the week ended April 15, 2018, tumbled 15% compared to the similar week in 2017 at outlets that report to NPD BookScan. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2018-04-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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A book accompanying the "Terry Pratchett: HisWorld" exhibition at Salisbury Museum has raised £20,000 for Bath-based dementia charity RICE (The Research Institute for the Care of Older People). Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-04-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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HarperCollins Children’s Books will publish David Walliams’ third and final title in ‘The World’s Worst Children’ series in May, with illustrations by Tony Ross. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-04-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Publisher Springer Nature has confirmed it intends to list its shares on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange, targeting funds of approximately €1.2bn to strengthen its financial profile. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-04-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The bestselling iBooks in biographies and memoirs, fiction and literature, mysteries and thrillers, and more for the week ended April 8, 2018. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2018-04-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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A jury found a number of companies owned by Philip Smyres guilty of copyright and trademark infringement for selling counterfeit textbooks. The textbook publishers that filed the suit were awarded $34 million in damages. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2018-04-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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U.S. stocks are mixed Wednesday as the price of oil rose to a three-year high but banks declined along with interest rates. Stocks rallied a day earlier on signs the trade tensions between the U.S. and China were easing. Facebook stock continues to rise as CEO Mark Zuckerberg testifies to... Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2018-04-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The number of Bologna Children’s Book Fair attendees totalled 27,642 last month, up 3% from 2017, according to the organisers. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-04-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Facebook says as many as 87 million people may have had their data accessed in the Cambridge Analytica scandal - an increase from the 50 million disclosed in published reports. Continue reading at Stuff
[ Stuff | 2018-04-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Former Sacramento Kings player Matt Barnes will lead a rally in downtown Sacramento on Saturday to protest the police killing of Stephon Clark, one day after an independent autopsy concluded that the unarmed black man was shot six times in the back. “I knew I had to do step up and do something... Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2018-04-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Cigar Aficionado, New York magazine and Allrecipes on the ways they developed new business with existing assets. The post How 3 Publishers Grew Revenue By Repurposing Content appeared first on Folio:. Continue reading at Folio Magazine
[ Folio Magazine | 2018-03-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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With Easter occurring two weeks earlier this year than in 2017, unit sales of print books rose 8% in the week ended March 18, 2018, over the comparable period in 2017 at outlets that report to NPD BookScan. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2018-03-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Moomin Characters Ltd has raised £268,000 for Oxfam through sales of a special edition of The Invisible Child, a short story from the Tales from Moominvalley collection. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-03-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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