Condé Nast, with its famous editors and fabled perks, lost a lot of its pizzazz in the recession. The interest lifted this week, if temporarily, with @CondeElevator, an anonymous Twitter feed that captured the real or imagined elevator chitchat of company employees as they rode between floors of 4 Times Square that houses Vogue, GQ, and The New Yorker. The feed immediately went viral as gawkers signed on to read titillating tweets that captured the infamous New York publishing company's culture, like this one: Girl #1: There should be an elevator that only goes to Vogue. Just up to the 12th floor and back down. Girl #2: totally. News coverage led to speculation about who was behind the feed. A copycat, @HearstElevatorz, soon followed. Then, as quickly as the fun started, it stopped. Five days and 36 tweets later, the author of @CondeElevator shut it down with a brief message that read, This got really crazy. Love my job. Better stop. #sorry. Thats too bad, and not just for the rest of us. Condé Nast took more than a few knocks for being slow to jump on the Web. But the satirical feed amassed 60,003 followers in its short lifespan (Hearst may be the golden child of publishing of late, but copycat feed @HearstElevatorz collected just 403). Even Condé Nast seemed to warm to it; a spokesperson for the company initially struck a sinister tone, saying the publisher was looking into it, but then said it was flattered by the interest people were showing in the company.... Continue reading at 'AdWeek'
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Irish bookseller Hughes & Hughes is to close its Dundrum branch this Sunday (10th March),... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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The Booksellers Association in the UK latest membership figures for the year 2012 revealed 79 stores closed, 39 opened and total membership was 3,580. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
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The Moray Council in Scotland has announced the closure of seven libraries as it looks to make... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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A number of independent bookshops are to close in the first quarter of 2013 ahead of the business... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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HMV is to close 66 of its stores, making 930 of its staff redundant, as it puts its Oxford Street... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Liverpool City Council is considering closing half its libraries as it looks to make another... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Pearson is to exit its UK adult training business, Pearson in Practice. After launching a... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Reader's Digest UK will no longer produce or sell books, following a restructuring of the... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2013-01-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Puffin Post is to be discontinued in the new year after Penguin brought the brand back in house... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Wordclay.com, an online, bare-bones Do-it-Yourself service for print book publishing owned by Author Solutions, Inc. announced that it will close its virtual doors on December 31. In a statement, Worldclay said the increased preference for ebook publishing over print by self-published authors... Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2012-12-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
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It was a mixed week for Future plc who announced record growth for TechRadar's U.S. Continue reading at Folio Magazine
[ Folio Magazine | 2012-11-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Today (31st October) is the closing date for booking a place at the Speak Up for Libraries event... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2012-10-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Veteran cricket commentator Henry Blofeld will release an autobiography next year after a deal... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Harper Voyager has launched an international talent search, with aspiring writers invited to... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2012-09-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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After crossing the 20 million user threshold last week, On Friday, the social magazine Flipboard is looking to capture the imagination of brands by elevating tablet advertising. To that end, Flipboard has unveiled a new digital magazine-like ad treatment for Levi's, which blends elements of... Continue reading at AdWeek
[ AdWeek | 2012-09-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Waterstones in Bromsgrove is to hold its last day of trading tomorrow (27th July) before the shop... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Magazine publishing giant Conde Nast shook up its corporate sales staff Wednesday by placing digital advertising boss Josh Stinchcomb over sales for print, digital, mobile, video and marketing services. Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2012-07-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Banks have been blamed for failing to support small businesses, with four more indie booksellers... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Five of the six parties under investigation by the European Commission over ebook prices... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2012-07-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Twenty-year-old poetry specialist Flambard Press is being wound down following the loss of its... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2012-07-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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