Customers rally to support Imagined Things after shop's 'worst day'

An independent bookshop in Harrogate has experienced a "phenomenal" response to a desperate Twitter plea for sales after only taking £12.34 in a day. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'

[ The Bookseller | 2018-06-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Reinventing Book Printing: The Next Generation of Custom Textbooks

A number of new developments and new technologies suggest that custom textbook publishing is on the cusp of a boom not seen since the early 1990s. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-11-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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A&U signs novel on Fitzgerald's final days

Allen & Unwin has signed a novel following the final years of The Great Gatsby author F Scott Fitzgerald. The publisher signed Stewart O'Nan's West of Sunset in a deal for UK, Commonwealth and Australia and New Zealand rights with Rachel Clements at Abner Stein on behalf of The Gernert Company. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2014-11-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
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National Readathon Day will take place this January

Groups including the publisher Penguin Random House and the National Book Foundation encourage bibliophiles to read between 12 and 4 p.m. on Jan. 24 and to raise money for the event. Continue reading at The Christian Science Monitor

[ The Christian Science Monitor | 2014-11-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Lets get over the whole 'newspapers are dying' thing

Dividing the digital publishing industry into legacy and new media falsely undermines newspapers capacity for innovation Continue reading... Continue reading at The Guardian

[ The Guardian | 2014-11-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Stirring Things Up

HarperCollins and Simon & Schuster had a busy few days last week: the two companies announced their quarterly earnings, received words of encouragement from their corporate owners, and made changes in their Canadian operations. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-11-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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New York Magazine digs into Hawaii media owner Pierre Omidyar, Civil Beat digs on buying nice things

New York Magazine has just come out with an in-depth profile of the intensely private Honolulu resident Pierre Omidyar. It quickly gets beyond the basics—"the programmer who created eBay, is one of America's richest men, a 47-year-old philanthropist intent on giving away the fortune he made when... Continue reading at Silicon Valley Business Journal

[ Silicon Valley Business Journal | 2014-11-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Political parties pledge to support literacy campaign

The three leading UK political parties have pledged to support the National Literacy Forum’s campaign to improve literacy in the UK.   The National Literacy Forum, led by the National Literacy Trust and supported by organisations such as Booktrust and The Reading Agency, yesterday (29th... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2014-10-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The More Things Change, The More They Stay The Same The 2014 Consumer Magazine CEO Survey

It's not a shocker that print ad revenue has fallen while the pile of dimes from digital advertising has been growing. Continue reading at Folio Magazine

[ Folio Magazine | 2014-10-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
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ICv2 Confab Showcases New Comics Customers, Growing Sales

The ICv2 conference offered data on the new comics customer, the explosive growth of comics festivals, and a discussion of what this new customer is reading. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-10-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Frankfurt Book Fair 2014: 'You Have to Try Things,' Says HarperCollins' Murray

It's been a time of expansion, and experimentation, HarperCollins CEO Brian Murray told a Frankfurt Book Fair audience, from the acquisition of Harlequin, to new strategies such as direct to consumer models, and subscription access. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-10-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Six Things You Didn't Know About CP&B Brazil's Andre Kassu

It was a big shock when Andre Kassu and Marcos Medeiros, leading executive creative directors at Brazil's renowned Almap BBDO agency, suddenly quit to do a startup with CP&B seven months ago in Sao Paulo. With a third partner, Vinicius Reis, they used the Fasano luxury hotel as a temporary... Continue reading at Advertising Age

[ Advertising Age | 2014-10-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Frankfurt Book Fair 2014: The Next Big Thing

As the publishing world gathers at the 2014 Frankfurt Book Fair, the book business sits on the brink of some major changes, with a wave of new services and devices poised to take digital publishing—and digital reading—to another level. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-10-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Japanese bookstore invites customers to stay overnight

A Junkudo location in Tokyo is inviting six guests to sleep over at their store.  Continue reading at The Christian Science Monitor

[ The Christian Science Monitor | 2014-10-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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ICv2 Confab Examines ‘The New Comics Customer’

This year's ICv2 Conference, a half-day event to be held the day before New York Comic Con opens, will examine “The New Comics Customer," and look at the forces behind a resurgent comics marketplace that is attracting new readers. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-10-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Random House Offers 2-Day Transit for the Holidays

For the third year in a row, Random House (but not its Penguin side, because the warehouses aren't integrated yet) will provide express shipping, starting November 1. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-09-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The High Holy Days: New Books Take Fresh Approaches

Readers with introspective and questing spirits have three new books for the Jewish High Holy Days--beginning with Rosh HaShanah at sundown on September 24--offering poetry, alternative liturgies, theological essays, and thoughtful explorations of Jewish identity. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-09-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The First 100 Days Of ClickHole: How Creativity (And George Takei) Keep The Onion-Y Site Sizzling

There's a reason everyone you know is obsessed with the quirky site that makes content parodying viral content--and then makes it go viral.Getting George Takei to share something you made with his 7 million Facebook followers is like crushing a piñata filled with free pageviews. It's a huge... Continue reading at Fast Company

[ Fast Company | 2014-09-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Wearables Present a Huge Challenge to News Publishers, and That’s a Good Thing

In the early 90s people balked at the idea of reading the news on a computer, yet if you looked at online services of the day (Compuserve and AOL), user demand would say otherwise. News was consistently among the top activity. Eventually that same demand drove Web 1.0 and by the time Web 2.0... Continue reading at Wired

[ Wired | 2014-09-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Amazon Customers Notified of Apple Settlement

Amazon this week emailed Kindle customers court-mandated notice of the terms of Apple’s recent deal to settle damages in its ebook price-fixing case. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-09-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Major publishers support press council chairman against the Australian

Media companies say much of what the newspaper wrote about Julian Disney and the council was untrue Continue reading... Continue reading at The Guardian

[ The Guardian | 2014-09-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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