The demise of the well-respected technology news site highlights the pressures faced by venture capital-funded publishersStop all the clocks, cut off the telephone … it is the end of Gigaom. With many apologies to WH Auden, when the news broke last week that the well-respected technology site Gigaom was closing, it gave the publishing world sudden and unwanted pause. Dogs were hushed, Apple watches were powered down.Companies close and change all the time, particularly in the perilous world where journalism is your key product. But no one, not even the relatively well-informed writers at Gigaom itself, expected the afternoon call from the management last Monday to result in immediate closure. Continue reading... Continue reading at 'The Guardian'
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The book is a sumptuous scrapbook of photographs, magazine covers, artwork and hundreds of articles. Continue reading at The Washington Post
[ The Washington Post | 2020-03-04 17:19:27 UTC ]
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Two new memoirs reveal harassment, discrimination and intimidation, among other abuses, at large tech companies. Continue reading at The Washington Post
[ The Washington Post | 2020-03-02 17:47:51 UTC ]
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Pan Macmillan has commissioned Financial Times lead writer Gavin Jackson to write Money in One Lesson: How it Works and Why. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-02-28 03:21:29 UTC ]
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German news publisher Krautreporter has produced a resource to help other news organisations with audience engagement. The publisher is a Continue reading at Editor & Publisher
[ Editor & Publisher | 2020-02-26 19:15:09 UTC ]
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Sphere is publishing "life lessons" from the last surviving prosecutor at the Nuremberg Trials, Benjamin Ferencz. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-02-18 01:45:26 UTC ]
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“Nobody Does It Better” dishes dirt from directors and stars, among others in 007’s orbit. Continue reading at The Washington Post
[ The Washington Post | 2020-02-12 13:04:35 UTC ]
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Scores of authors including Neil Gaiman, Ali Sparkes, Pauline Rowson and Philip Hoare have signed an open letter to Hampshire County Council calling for it to ditch its "shameful" proposal to close 10 libraries. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-01-10 13:57:46 UTC ]
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Ten libraries could be closed across Hampshire with others having their opening hours reduced after the local authority announced plans to slash £1.76m from the service’s budget. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-01-10 01:00:51 UTC ]
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As the lines between journalism and advertising become increasingly blurred, media companies must be on high alert for potential pitfalls around the failure to properly disclose sponsored content. The proper characterization of content as commercial advertising, and the proper disclosure of... Continue reading at Folio Magazine
[ Folio Magazine | 2020-01-09 00:40:34 UTC ]
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Darlington Borough Council will pay £2.9m to keep one of its libraries open after abandoning plans to close it. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-01-05 21:59:32 UTC ]
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HMV plans to close three stores by the end of the month as the retailer enters negotiations with landlords in 10 locations as "extortionate business rates mean that certain locations are no longer viable". Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-01-05 15:27:06 UTC ]
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World Book Night will expand its audiobook offering in 2020, after a successful pilot with John Green’s Turtles All the Way Down in 2019. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-12-10 07:35:35 UTC ]
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Margaret Atwood writes about the influence that the “Little Lulu” comics had on her as a young writer and storyteller. Continue reading at New Yorker
[ New Yorker | 2019-11-29 11:00:00 UTC ]
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Watkins Media is offering its first paid internship scheme starting in January 2020. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-11-27 12:12:16 UTC ]
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Store owners from BXsellers, PW's bookstore Facebook group, are prepping special promotions for Black Friday and Small Business Saturday, focusing on loyalty discounts and gift card bonuses. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2019-11-26 05:00:00 UTC ]
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Networking happens outside of Brooklyn, and New York isn't the only game in town: a list of lessons about publishing a book and making it worthwhile. The post Lessons: The Less-Traveled Road to Getting a Book Published appeared first on The Millions. Continue reading at The Millions
[ The Millions | 2019-11-21 11:00:05 UTC ]
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At the WIRED25 Festival in San Francisco last weekend, author N.K. Jemisin gave attendees a real treat: a two-hour crash course in imagining and building future worlds. Jemisin is the Hugo, Nebula, Locus, etc. Award-winning author of the Broken Earth series and the Inheritance Trilogy. (Literary... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
[ Literrary Hub | 2019-11-13 16:55:20 UTC ]
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Penguin Random House has joined forces with Royal Military Academy Sandhurst to publish an "inspirational book of life lessons" this Christmas. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-11-13 12:52:30 UTC ]
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Amazon has opened a storefront and publishing platform for people to buy and sell K-12 educational materials. People who create such resources can upload them for others to purchase. Continue reading at Engadget
[ Engadget | 2019-11-12 15:32:00 UTC ]
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A new scheme developed between The Literary Consultancy (TLC) and the Publishing Training Centre (PTC), funded by novelist Jude Cook, is helping to train aspiring editors in a series of free workshops and events. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-10-30 18:24:06 UTC ]
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