Online football network Copa 90 is the latest publisher to create a Facebook Messenger chatbot, in time for the 2016 UEFA European Championships kick-off. The company has grand plans for messaging apps in general, and chief strategy officer James Kirkham believes bots can "100 percent" be monetized within the next year, via pay-per-view or merchandising opportunities. The post Chatbots take the pitch for Euro 2016 appeared first on Digiday. Continue reading at 'Digiday'
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A graphic novelist who once had a fledgling Hollywood career was sentenced Tuesday to life in prison for the brutal torture killing of his fiancee — a murder prosecutors say took cues from a gory book he worked on years earlier. Blake Leibel, 37, was convicted last week of the 2016 slaying of... Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2018-06-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Media agencies are receiving a barrage of pitches from TV networks and digital publishers as this year's upfront parties and pitches start in earnest. But Initiative, turning the tables, hosted its second annual presentation on Tuesday to a room of media sellers.The IPG-owned agency provided... Continue reading at Advertising Age
[ Advertising Age | 2018-04-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Europe's major markets - the UK, Germany, France, Spain and Italy - all experienced growth in turnover in 2016, according to a Federation of European Publishers' report. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-01-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The Federation of European Publishers reports gains across much of its membership's markets in 2016 but acknowledges that the British pound's softness renders the result fairly flat. The post Trends in the European Marketplace: 2016 Numbers Stable, and Affected by Pound Sterling Slump appeared... Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2018-01-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Led by solid gains through the retail and club channel, unit sales of print books rose 7% this Christmas week over last year. 'The Getaway' remained the season's most popular book, while Rupi Kaur sold a combined 136,000 copies of her two books in the week. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2017-12-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Illustrated publisher Thames & Hudson saw a 7.4% revenue increase in the 12 months ending 31st December 2016, although post-tax profits were down by almost 30% in the same time. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-12-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Sales of print books got off to a slow holiday season start at outlets that report to NPD BookScan: units were 3% lower in the 2017 Thanksgiving week than in the comparable week last year. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2017-12-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Kim Moore has won the 2016 Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize for her poetry collection The Art of Falling (Seren Books). Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-12-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Sephora is becoming something of a chatterbox. The beauty retailer regularly converses with customers, whether that's by sharing prom tips with teens on the social media platform Kik, or helping shoppers book in-store appointments via Facebook Messenger. This type of interactive exchange--in... Continue reading at AdWeek
[ AdWeek | 2017-11-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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National Book Award nominee Carmen Maria Machado thinks the positive response to her short story collection is partly a reaction to the 2016 election. Continue reading at Wired
[ Wired | 2017-11-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
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An 11% increase in the number of print ISBNs issued to self-publishers last year, offset a decline in the number of digital ISBNs issued. In total, 2016 saw an 8% jump in the number of ISBNs issued to self-publishers, over 2015. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2017-10-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Simon & Schuster UK made a profit before tax of £3.76m last year, coming back from a loss the year before, with c.e.o. Ian Chapman telling The Bookseller the company is looking "really strong financially". Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-10-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Now with a 'pitch slam' event in which writers present projects to agents, the November 'Writer's Summit' is co-chaired by The Guardian's Alison Flood. The post ‘Writer’s Summit’ from London Book Fair and Writer’s Digest Announces Pitch Slam Agents appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2017-09-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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At outlets that report to NPD BookScan, unit sales of print books were 1% lower in the week ended Sept. 3, 2017, than in the comparable week in 2016. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2017-09-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
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With sales down in three of the four major publishing segments, unit sales of print books at outlets that report to NPD BookScan were 2% lower in the week ended Aug. 27, 2017, than in the similar week in 2016. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2017-09-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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DHH Literary Agency is holding its second round of pitching sessions for unrepresented writers in November. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-09-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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In February, we ran a listing of the country’s largest publishers ranked by print units sold through outlets that report to NPD BookScan. While that approach has its limitations (it doesn’t include ebook sales or sales at outlets that don’t report to BookScan), it does provide a look at how the... Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2017-08-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
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What Happened, due out in September, will tell her story of the electoral battle with Donald Trump in ‘a deeply intimate account and a cautionary tale for the nation’Hillary Clinton has promised that she will be “letting [her] guard down” in the most personal book she has yet written: a memoir... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2017-07-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Led by $590 million in sales of book-format graphic novels, the combined graphic novel and comics sales in North America grew 5% to $1.085 billion in 2016, according to a joint estimate by industry news sites Comichron and ICv2.com. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2017-07-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The book by former Democratic National Committee chair Donna Brazile will examine the scandals and disputes surrounding last year's presidential election. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2017-07-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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