Execs Debate Role of Digital Apps, E-books at Licensing Expo

Publishers, intellectual property owners, app and game developers, and other licensing executives are wrestling with how to monetize digital content and distribution, as well as how to use digital media to spur purchases of licensed books and products, synergize physical and digital to sell more of both, slice rights among digital publishing and gaming formats, and more. Continue reading at 'Publishers Weekly'

[ Publishers Weekly | 2013-06-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Denmark’s LEGO Publishing Has Licensing Partnership With Chronicle Books

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Best e-readers for digital-book lovers

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Google unveils holiday season savings on games, apps, books and movies

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Perspectives from Two Digital Players at the Shanghai Children's Book Fair

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Sturgeon signs up to Book Week Scotland digital festival

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Inception Announces Bookful, an AR Platform Licensing Penguin Random House Brands

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Frankfurter Buchmesse and LIMA Open New Partnership on Licensing During Book Fair

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Hummingbird Digital Media in E-book Deal with ABA

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Beijing International Book Fair Emphasizes Its New Digital Zone

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Italy’s Stefano Mauri in Madrid: Three Points of Digital Impact on the Book Market

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With plans for multiplatform development to follow, the allegorical fantasy writings of Italian author Roberto Ricci are coming first to television. The post Finnish Digital Media Fund IPR.VC Backs Development of YA Book Series for Television appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives

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Facebook, New York Times Execs Get Into Heated Debate Over Ad Policy

Campbell Brown, head of global news partnerships at Facebook, said publishers have "welcomed" the company's approach to including them in their political ads policy. Mark Thompson, CEO of The New York Times, called bullshit. Brown and Thompson were discussing the findings in the 2018 Reuters... Continue reading at AdWeek

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