Google is getting into the textbook business by selling and renting materials from the top five education publishers in the US. The new service will launch August 8. Continue reading at 'Publishing Perspectives'
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2013-07-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
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App-install ads continue to be a lucrative business for Facebook and Twitter, and now Google wants a bigger piece of the market. Today Google is rolling out two new tools aimed at making it easier for marketers to plug mobile apps. The first change is that advertisers can extend AdMob... Continue reading at AdWeek
[ AdWeek | 2015-03-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Print book sales showed "continuing resilience" in 2014, with overall spending on print and digital titles increasing across the year. Meanwhile, online book buying overtook in-store book buying for the first time last year. In 2014, sales of print and ebooks stood at £2.2bn, up 4% from the... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-03-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The social network, eager to get more out of its booming video player, is testing out a feature that makes it easy to binge.This week, The New York Times reported that Facebook is in talks to host content from BuzzFeed, National Geographic, and the Times within the blue confines of its own site,... Continue reading at Fast Company
[ Fast Company | 2015-03-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
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For its next algorithm change, Google is setting its sites on mobile. As the site's share of mobile searches approaches 50 percent, Google wants to crack down on sites with designs that are hostile to mobile screens. Google's fear is that if it links out to sites that don't work on mobile... Continue reading at Digiday
[ Digiday | 2015-03-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Deborah Emin of Sullivan Street Press discusses the challenges of selling ebooks from her own web site and why she moved to using an ebook distributor. The post Losing Your Illusions About Selling Ebooks On Your Own Site appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2015-03-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Ahead of the Bologna Children's Book Fair, a look at the international licensing market. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-03-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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eBooks by Sainsbury’s is launching a new national promotion offering customers £3 off all ebooks when they buy a paperback chart title in-store. All of the titles in the Paperback Chart in Sainsbury's stores will have a sticker with a unique code that gives customers £3 to spend on ebooks at... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-03-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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To mark the opening of the 'Insurgent' film, HarperCollins and Twitter are partnering to offer fans of Veronica Roth's Divergent trilogy a discounted hardcover of the 'Insurgent' movie tie-in edition via Twitter links. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-03-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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It has become a rite of passage for new authors in the digital age to obsessively check Amazon to track book sales and tweet positive reviews in the hopes of picking up new readers. But for one author, whose book was on the New York Times best-sellers list for three weeks, this isn’t possible.... Continue reading at Slate
[ Slate | 2015-03-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Companies like Amazon and Google which move their profits overseas will be charged a “diverted profits tax” the Chancellor confirmed this afternoon (18th March). Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-03-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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(Reuters) - A little-noticed change in the way Google selects search results has allowed company statements to top the list of news links shown when users search for information on businesses. The measure may cost news publishers web traffic a ... Continue reading at Editor & Publisher
[ Editor & Publisher | 2015-03-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Amazon has opened a flagship store on Chinese competitor Alibaba Group Holding’s consumer-to-consumer site, Tmall.com. Amazon’s store on the site launched this week and so far offers a limited range of products including imported food, women’s shoes, toys and kitchen equipment, the Wall Street... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-03-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Facebook continues its campaign to invade Google's ad-tech turf.Facebook is building an ad exchange that would automate the sale of other publishers' ads, according to people familiar with the matter. LiveRail, the online video ad-tech firm that Facebook bought last summer, will be the one... Continue reading at Advertising Age
[ Advertising Age | 2015-03-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
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For those attending the 52nd annual Bologna Children’s Book Fair, there’s plenty happening in addition to the usual round of rights appointments. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-03-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
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For those attending the 52nd annual Bologna Children’s Book Fair, held from March 30 to April 2, there’s plenty happening, in addition to the usual round of rights appointments. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-03-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Throughout this morning’s earnings call, the thought reoccurred: Jack Griffin’s new Tribune Publishing Company is playing catch-up. Then, toward the end of the call, one a little more informative than average, the CEO said it plai ... Continue reading at Editor & Publisher
[ Editor & Publisher | 2015-03-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The JS Group has seen “significant” growth in the take-up of e-textbooks last year, helping it to a 14.5% increase in higher education UK revenues. However, a decline in legal print sales and the reduction in value of a contract with the Ministry of Justice meant the Hammicks legal arm saw a... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-03-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
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From snowy Great Barrington, Mass., in the Berkshire Mountains, bookseller Lauren Losaw talked about what she's been recommending to customers for fireside reading. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-03-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Five years ago, the National Association of College Stores issued a white paper that looked forward to what the state of the college store would be in 2015. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-02-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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'Deliciously Ella,' which has topped charts and set records in the U.K. since its January release, will go on sale in the U.S. next week. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-02-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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