Written By: Bookseller Staff Publication Date: Thu, 13/10/2011 - 15:25 Authors will benefit from increased pricing on digital content, rather than by raising royalty rates, the global c.e.o. of HarperCollins has claimed. Brian Murray said authors were getting a better digital royalty than on print. He said: When we looked at our print royalties, we saw they averaged about 16%-18% so we knew we could afford to pay a higher royalty rate. That was almost a 40% increase in the royalty rate. read more Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'
[ The Bookseller | 2011-10-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Hot Key Books has bought Carnegie Medal winning author Jennifer Donnelly’s YA “subversive retelling” of Cinderella. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-10-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
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A memoir from Rose Tremain, a slew of upmarket psychological thrillers and arguably the highest-ever representation of black, Asian and minority ethnic authors are some of the major highlights in this year’s Frankfurt Book Fair Agents’ Hot Lists. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-10-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Marian Keyes’ The Break is not taking any time away from the top of the chart - for the second week in a row, it charted in the Weekly E-Book Ranking’s number one spot. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-10-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Facebook's still testing mid-roll ad breaks with a limited number of publishing partners -- and, yes, the dollars are still low. The post Pivot to pennies: Facebook’s key video ad program isn’t delivering much money to publishers appeared first on Digiday. Continue reading at Digiday
[ Digiday | 2017-10-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The UK book market is “hot” and “buoyant” ahead of the Frankfurt Book Fair 2017, with the fight for audiobook rights fiercer than ever, The Bookseller has been told. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-09-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Sphere has acquired a blockbuster survival thriller and love story set in space called Across the Void by S K Vaughn. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-09-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Cambridge University press c.e.o. Peter Phillips explains how the publisher is working ever more closely with other university departments to capitalise on 'the Cambridge Advantage'. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-09-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Star Wars and the Marvel comic book movies will join Disney's upcoming streaming service, potentially giving it broader appeal beyond families with young children. Continue reading at Stuff
[ Stuff | 2017-09-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Brian Aldiss' family will first discover the “revelations” of the late writer's diaries at the same time as the rest of the world when they are revealed at a Bodleian Library exhibition. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-08-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Facebook introduced an easy way for users to tell when articles in its Trending feature and search originate from publishers. Product manager Andrew Anker said in a blog post that the social network eventually intends to expand these publisher logos to "all places where people consume news on... Continue reading at AdWeek
[ AdWeek | 2017-08-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Credit: Illustration by Mary Ellen Forte/Ad AgeTwenty years ago, "content" was something we paid for, and so we savored it. We'd take time to flip through the magazine for which we had just paid $4.00.Today, content is increasingly free, thanks to cheap content-creation tools, like Android and... Continue reading at Advertising Age
[ Advertising Age | 2017-08-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Veteran consultant Howard Rauch produces a surprisingly contemporary book of best practices. The post The Original Evangelist for B2B Content Analytics appeared first on Folio:. Continue reading at Folio Magazine
[ Folio Magazine | 2017-08-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Publisher John Wiley has launched a content sharing initiative across its research portfolio, following a successful four-month trial run earlier this year. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-08-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Scribe UK has acquired three new titles from its existing authors Marina Benjamin, Jeremy Gavron and Tommy Wieringa. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-07-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Digital advertising is Google and Facebook's market to lose, where the safety (and scale, and data and automation) of a walled garden have allowed them to grab 77% of gross spending online and nearly every new dollar spent. Unless a media buy goes through Facebook or Google, buyers rightly worry... Continue reading at Advertising Age
[ Advertising Age | 2017-07-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Two new reports from the UK's Academic Book of the Future call for stakeholders in academic publishing tto formalize their collaboration in order to make advancements and improvements. The post The UK’s ‘Academic Book of the Future’ Project: Two Key Reports appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2017-07-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Bonnier Zaffre imprint Hot Key Books has acquired a “romantic and relevant” debut Love, Hate & Other Filters, by Samira Ahmed, about being a Muslim American teen. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-07-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Everything is different, and yet the same. Think about Polaroid cameras, which were first replaced by digicams and later smartphones for snapping instant photos. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2017-06-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Facebook wants users to "lean back." No, that's not the sequel to Sheryl Sandberg's book "Lean In"; it's how people watch TV, unlike the way they scroll through the News Feed.For months, Facebook has been talking to its biggest media and publishing partners to introduce TV-worthy programming to... Continue reading at Advertising Age
[ Advertising Age | 2017-06-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Instagram Wednesday introduced a clearer way for users to determine when posts by influencers or publishers are the results of commercial relationships with the businesses they are posting about. The Facebook-owned photo- and video-sharing network said in a blog post that users will begin seeing... Continue reading at AdWeek
[ AdWeek | 2017-06-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
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