Bloomsbury executive director Richard Charkin says the world’s biggest tech companies need educating about the importance of copyright, and that publishers must talk to them and not "just to each other". Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'
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The House of Commons Culture, Media and Sport Committee has criticised the Hargreaves Review'... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2013-09-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Talk to a passionate independent publisher and they'll soon have you convinced that strong independent presses are the ideal homes for many authors and their books. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2013-09-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Edward Thorp was banned from casinos in Vegas for counting cards. He even published a book on his system for winning at the blackjack table using the mathematical theory of probability. While working at MIT, he built what many consider the first wearable device for -- you guessed it -- beating... Continue reading at Engadget
[ Engadget | 2013-09-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Storify, a digital storytelling tool used by journalists to surface conversations that originate on social media, has been acquired by the Web publishing services company Livefyre. Livefyre plans to fold Storify into its StreamHub product, which offers Web publishers tools for commenting, live... Continue reading at AdWeek
[ AdWeek | 2013-09-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Taboola, a company that powers content recommendation and monetization for Web publishers, is now offering users a chance to reject and even weigh in on stories that the company suggests. The company's content recommendation tech appears on all sorts of sites on the Web, often in the form of... Continue reading at AdWeek
[ AdWeek | 2013-09-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The rapid pace of change with publishing technology, and consumer technology for that matter, has opened up a host of new opportunities for publishers. “Prevailing wisdom” has been turned on its head. Continue reading at Folio Magazine
[ Folio Magazine | 2013-08-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The Humble business model can apply to anything. Now, you can pay what you want for stand-up comedy in addition to ebooks, music and video games. For the next two weeks, you can get comedy specials from Maria Bamford, Tig Notaro, Hannibal Buress and Jim Norton for as little or as much as you... Continue reading at Engadget
[ Engadget | 2013-08-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
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InfiniScroll, populated by a winding parade of creatures with tails and tales, is an upgrade for child and parent. A favorite tale of children’s book publishers and parenting blogs is set in a land not so far away, where the evil e-reader is a slayer of the bedtime story. In another version... Continue reading at Fast Company
[ Fast Company | 2013-08-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Technology companies may be hiding behind legal jargon to avoid being more forthcoming in their responses to new documents on government surveillance that were disclosed Friday, some experts say. Internet and software companies including Microsoft, Yahoo, Google and Facebook “are legally... Continue reading at PC World
[ PC World | 2013-08-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Condé Nast has announced a big deal with Amazon that will let people buy and renew print and digital subscriptions to its magazines on the e-commerce giant. The new service, which Amazon is billing as the first of its kind with a publisher, also enables customers to get immediate access to their... Continue reading at AdWeek
[ AdWeek | 2013-08-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Editor's NoteScroll down to see a full ranking of all of New York's neighborhoods by perceived class and perceived safety. In 1921, a young Swiss psychiatrist named Hermann Rorschach wrote a book called Psychodiagnostik containing 10 inkblot images he used to gauge mental patients' emotional... Continue reading at Fast Company
[ Fast Company | 2013-08-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The women's glossy magazine sector reported continued declines in circulation in the first six months of 2013, with Hearst Magazines UK's Company magazine plummeting 36.7 per cent. Continue reading at Media Week
[ Media Week | 2013-08-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Textbook rental company Chegg has filed to go public in the US, hoping to raise $150m (£97m... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2013-08-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The music industry’s lawsuit against a popular YouTube channel this week could indicate that publishers are looking for savvier ways to attack piracy besides going after YouTube itself, a legal expert said. The National Music Publishers Association Tuesday filed a copyright infringement suit... Continue reading at PC World
[ PC World | 2013-08-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Russia supplies 90% of the books in the Ukraine, but the government wants to change this by investing over $60 million to support the indigenous book business. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2013-08-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Get it now as an ebook, or from our iPad app. Hacking Hollywood: The Creative Geniuses Behind Homeland, Girls, Mad Men, The Sopranos, Lost, and More is a special edition of Fast Company that is available starting this month. Besides chronicling the tales of disruptive entertainment startups,... Continue reading at Fast Company
[ Fast Company | 2013-08-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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A report from the University of Illinois shows that copyright laws have squashed the market for books from the middle of the 20th century. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2013-08-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Ken Michaels is to join Macmillan Science and Education at the end of the month as its chief... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2013-08-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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A book published during the presidency of Chester A. Arthur has a greater chance of being in print today than one published during the time of Reagan. Continue reading at The Atlantic
[ The Atlantic | 2013-07-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Rogue Legacy, from the makers of Don't S**t Your Pants, is the sort of indie game that should have traditional game publishers staining their pants indeed. Continue reading at Wired
[ Wired | 2013-07-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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