Campus bookselling chain Follett in the US has made 570 people redundant as part of a move to shift... Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'
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Gannett hopes to make $50m a year in savings from takeover of Tribune PublishingGannett, which owns local newspaper publisher Newsquest in the UK, has made a $12.25 (£8.44) per share offer to take over Tribune Publishing.The all-cash offer, a 63% premium on Tribune’s closing share price on... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2016-04-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Follett Corp.’s acquisition of Baker & Taylor marks the end of B&T’s 188-year run as a standalone company. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2016-04-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
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In a major development in the publishing industry's wholesaling segment, Follett Corp. has acquired Baker & Taylor for an undisclosed price. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2016-04-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Facebook is trying to sweeten the deal for Instant Articles publishers. At its F8 developers conference today. the social network showed off expected new video ads, which can go right into Instant Articles. It also discussed its new branded content policies, which allow publishers to create... Continue reading at Digiday
[ Digiday | 2016-04-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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People desire excellence. We want to be healthier, well-liked, and successful. So we soak up articles instructing us how to get promoted, be more productive, and become better liked. We read books like Charles Duhigg's recent Smarter Faster Better in order to learn what science can tell us about... Continue reading at Fast Company
[ Fast Company | 2016-04-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Writer and film-maker Hannah Rothschild is the only British author to have made the 2016 Bailey’s Women’s Prize for Fiction shortlist, released tonight (11th April). Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-04-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Ads have been a staple in your Facebook News Feed for quite sometime. Today, the social network announced changes to its branded content policy that will make it more obvious when a celebrity or other publisher posts about third-party goods and servi... Continue reading at Engadget
[ Engadget | 2016-04-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Lexus dealers were so unnerved by online ad fraud a couple years back that they began urging Monica Mellier, group media director at the agency Team One, to redirect their ad dollars from digital media to legacy platforms such as TV or outdoor signs."We had a lot of conversations about how we... Continue reading at Advertising Age
[ Advertising Age | 2016-04-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Lee Child’s Make Me (Bantam) has held the number one spot for a second consecutive week, selling 36,697 copies for £138,058, according to Nielsen BookScan’s Total Consumer Market. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-04-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
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From football reports to clickbait, programs are changing the way the news is createdLook closely at what many journalists write about artificial intelligence – from AlphaGo’s triumph at the ancient Chinese board game Go to Microsoft’s accidentally racist Twitter bot – and you might detect some... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2016-04-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
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School library expert Suzanna L. Panter shares the latest trends and issues affecting librarians in the field, ahead of the Texas Library Association annual conference. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2016-04-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Bylines by women at the New York Times Book Review and the New Republic are among the ‘dramatic increases’ over the last year, according to Vida’s annual survey of the publishing gender splitFemale authors and reviewers have found more room on literary pages over the last year, according to the... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2016-03-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The acquisition includes Wobo, Inc.’s assets, most notably BookVolume, an online sourcing and buying tool for booksellers aimed at the higher education campus market. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2016-03-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Genius is growing up. The Brooklyn-based startup also said its hired its first CRO in an attempt to make money through events, ads and publishing deals. The annotation service is also adding a 'report abuse' button to combat criticism that the annotation tool could be used nefariously to harass... Continue reading at Digiday
[ Digiday | 2016-03-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Innovation still matters, but sometimes it helps to be a follower, too. The post “Traveling” Ideas Make Regional Magazines the Place to Be Seen appeared first on Folio:. Continue reading at Folio Magazine
[ Folio Magazine | 2016-03-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The 2016 Association of National Advertisers (ANA) Masters of Media Conference earlier this month in Florida felt more like a trial. And technology was the defendant. Arguments from the ANA and White Ops revealed just how bad the bot fraud situation is and how it's getting worse. Forrester's Jim... Continue reading at Digiday
[ Digiday | 2016-03-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Audrey Carlan, bestselling author of the erotic Calendar Girl series, landed in third place on the iBooks bestsellers chart for the week ended March 13 with her book 'February.' Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2016-03-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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http://www.thebookseller.com/news/baileys-renews-women-s-prize-fiction-sponsorship-323395Kate Atkinson and Hanya Yanagihara are among the 20 longlisted authors for the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction, announced today. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-03-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
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At Digital Book World, Kelly Gallagher showed just how effective data analysis can be and how it can help you make decisions that will lead to more book sales. The post Kelly’s Efficiency Index, or Using Data to Make Smarter Publishing Decisions appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2016-03-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Typically it's tougher for paywalled publishers to capitalize on the additional scale the likes of third-party platforms like Facebook can offer. But the Financial Times is "experimenting in earnest" with new ways to unlock the reach potential of the major platforms, but without undermining its... Continue reading at Digiday
[ Digiday | 2016-03-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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