How Facebook Could End Up Controlling Everything You Watch and Read Online

Given that links appear to be more clickable when shared on Facebook, online publishers have scrambled to become savvy gamers of Facebook’s News Feed, seeking to divine the secret rules that push some stories higher than others. But all this genuflection at the altar of Facebook’s algorithms may be but a prelude to a more fundamental shift in how content is produced, shared, and consumed online. Instead of going to all this trouble to get people to click a link on Facebook that takes them somewhere else, the future of Internet content may be a world in which no video, article, or cat GIF gallery lives outside of Facebook at all. The post How Facebook Could End Up Controlling Everything You Watch and Read Online appeared first on WIRED. Continue reading at 'Wired'

[ Wired | 2014-10-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
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[ The Bookseller | 2013-02-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Facebook Eying Movies, Books, TV as Next Dominant Social Content

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[ AdWeek | 2013-02-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Hearst's David Carey on How People Are Still Reading Magazines. Really!

Despite what you have read, probably online, print isn't dead insists the magazine exec, speaking at D: Dive Into Media. Hearst's digital subscriptions are also up to 900,000. Continue reading at AllThingsD

[ AllThingsD | 2013-02-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Egmont UK launches reading research project

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[ The Bookseller | 2013-02-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Interview - HuffPo CEO Jimmy Maymann: 'We Don't See Traditional Online Ads as the Future'

In the face of stagnant growth in traditional advertising, digital publishers are looking to sponsored content as an alternative route, something Buzzfeed has been doing well, and The Atlantic has been doing less well recently. It's an approach ... Continue reading at Editor & Publisher

[ Editor & Publisher | 2013-01-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Turning Tide: As E-reading Catches On, Boys Gain on Girls

More children are going digital, according to Scholastic's latest study, and the percentage of boys reading passionately and for fun is up, while girls are down. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives

[ Publishing Perspectives | 2013-01-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Read for My School competition launches today

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[ The Bookseller | 2013-01-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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5 Academic Publishing Trends to Watch in 2013

George Lossius forecasts a year of significant change for academic publishing, including more consolidation, improved digital textbooks and the rise of mobile. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives

[ Publishing Perspectives | 2013-01-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Publishing cheer for interesting reads

Which writers (apart from EL James and Suzanne Collins) are dominating the best-selling book lists? Continue reading at BBC News

[ BBC News | 2013-01-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Is Online Book Discovery Broken? Here’s How to Fix It

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[ Publishing Perspectives | 2013-01-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The Predecessor To Google Books, Facebook Graph Search, And Rewind.me--In The Early 1900s

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[ Fast Company | 2013-01-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Children still prefer reading physical books, finds Scholastic

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[ The Bookseller | 2013-01-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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[ The Bookseller | 2013-01-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Kobo claims 20% of global e-reading market

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[ The Bookseller | 2013-01-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Bloomsbury reports end-2012 profit rise

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[ The Bookseller | 2013-01-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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5 Trade Publishing Trends to Watch For in 2013

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[ Publishing Perspectives | 2013-01-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Condé Nast Time Ends for Maurie Perl

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[ AdWeek | 2013-01-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Reuters Gutting Web Infrastructure for 'Reuters Next,' its Big Online Retooling

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[ Editor & Publisher | 2013-01-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Ether for Authors: Can’t See the Reading for the Devices

Porter Anderson curates the best web clips for authors, including Random House's Facebook success, male vs. female genre writing, self-publishing success in the UK and more. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives

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France Rejects Plan to Block Online Ads

The Internet service provider Free restored the ads after meetings with French online publishing and advertising groups, which had complained about a loss of revenue. Continue reading at The New York Times

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