Germany’s biggest publisher sales houses unite to fight Google, Facebook and Amazon

Axel Springer and Funke Mediengruppe’s joint sales house Media Impact has joined forces with the joint sales house of fellow publishing juggernauts RTL Groupe and Gruner+Jahr to solidify an advertising alliance that sells the combined inventory of all four media groups. The post Germany’s biggest publisher sales houses unite to fight Google, Facebook and Amazon appeared first on Digiday. Continue reading at 'Digiday'

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Bringing Tools of the Trade to Self-Publishing

In Publishing Perspectives' Issues on the Ether, Porter Anderson asks #EtherIssue participants to focus on tools needed by entrepreneurial authors. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives

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Why Amazon's Next Conquest Will Be Your Television

Amazon started as an online bookseller and transformed the entire publishing industry. Now it's assembling the pieces it needs to do the same to an even bigger medium: television.     Continue reading at Wired

[ Wired | 2014-02-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Neknominate needs health warnings on Twitter and Facebook, say councils

Local Government Association calls on websites to highlight dangers of drinking game linked to several deathsTwitter and Facebook should introduce warnings about the drinking game neknominate, which has been linked to several deaths, councils have said. The Local Government Association (LGA),... Continue reading at The Guardian

[ The Guardian | 2014-02-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
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WhatsApp is the first of several big acquisitions for Facebook

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Melville House signs Mayor of Reykjavik

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Time to rethink the publishing internship?

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Amazon takes on Netflix with rebrand of LoveFilm video-on-demand service

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[ The Guardian | 2014-02-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Yellow Kite to publish Ella Woodward

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The Way Publishers Cash In Twitter Referrals Now (Hint: More Ads)

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Do publishers need a WhatsApp strategy?

WhatsApp, Facebook's bold $19 billion acquisition, may be best known as a cross-platform instant messaging service for smartphones. But it could become an invaluable distribution tool for publishers.The post Do publishers need a WhatsApp strategy? appeared first on Digiday. Continue reading at Digiday

[ Digiday | 2014-02-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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LinkedIn opens its blog publishing platform to everyone

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Steam's Linux game count explodes in one year, big publishers still absent

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Amazon extends Coin use to Android devices

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Cornerstone buys four from self-published Tracy Bloom

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