Starting next March, Playboy will stop publishing photographs of naked women. The cheesecake will be dialed back to a “PG-13” rating, the New York Times’ Ravi Somaiya reported Monday night. Playmate photos will look “more like the racier sections of Instagram” than the adult section of the bookstore. In place of nude women, the magazine will highlight its “tradition of investigative journalism, in-depth interviews and fiction.” It will target “young men who live in cities.” According to Playboy CEO Scott Flanders, the Internet is to blame. “You’re now one click away from every sex act imaginable for free,” Flanders told the Times. “And so it’s just passé at this juncture.” Continue reading at 'Slate'
[ Slate | 2015-10-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Tencent and Baidu are only non-US digital media companies in top 10 by revenue, but country has four of top 10 fastest-growing firms, report saysChina is eroding Silicon Valley’s pre-eminent position as the home of the world’s largest internet businesses, with two companies making the top 10 by... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2014-12-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
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That didn't last long. Verizon Wireless has pulled the plug on its newest content marketing venture, a web publication called SugarString, a little over two months after it launched.The website was designed to rival tech-savvy magazines, like Wired, from Conde Nast, and Motherboard, from Vice.... Continue reading at Advertising Age
[ Advertising Age | 2014-12-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Alice Lee was a key figure in Marja Mills's recent bestseller 'The Mockingbird Next Door.' Continue reading at The Christian Science Monitor
[ The Christian Science Monitor | 2014-11-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The rise of the Subscription Economy continues. Little more than a year after launching its all-you-can-read ebook service, the San Francisco startup Scribd has announced that the service now offers more than 30,000 audiobooks, including titles from big-name publishing houses HarperCollins and... Continue reading at Wired
[ Wired | 2014-11-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Josh Spero, author of Second Hand Stories and editor of Spear's Magazine, and the author Erica Wagner, a former literary editor of the Times mull the question of high tech and old books. Continue reading at BBC World
[ BBC World | 2014-10-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Amazon just found a way to put further pressure on Hachette in its ongoing pricing war: strike a deal with another publisher. The online retailer has forged a new agreement with Simon & Schuster that will keep the book giant's digital and physical... Continue reading at Engadget
[ Engadget | 2014-10-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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More brands are publishing video directly to Facebook instead of to YouTube and then using Facebook for distribution. The post Facebook video isn’t killing off YouTube — yet appeared first on Digiday. Continue reading at Digiday
[ Digiday | 2014-10-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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'Killing Patton,' the fourth installment in Bill O’Reilly and Martin Dugard’s Killing series, debuted on Apple’s bestseller list at #2 for the week ended September 28. T Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-10-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Frankfurt Book Fair StoryDrive speaker and Swedish provocateur, Alexander Bard, argues that the internet is engendering a new collective spirituality. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2014-09-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
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In the near decade that's passed since director Robert Rodriguez and Frank Miller brought Miller's noir comic Sin City to the big screen, filmmaking technology has gotten better, comic book movies have become an official Big Deal, and 3-D has become a lot more palatable. What's more surprising... Continue reading at Wired
[ Wired | 2014-08-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Playboy has a new website that the publisher hopes you might even share with your mom on Facebook.Next Monday, the 60-year-old men's magazine will "officially" revamp its 20-year-old website to put a heightened focus on serving up grown-up entertainment that's not overly "adult." The new... Continue reading at Advertising Age
[ Advertising Age | 2014-08-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Specs Who Chris Colfer Age 24 Accomplishments Star of Fox’s Glee; screenwriter; author of The Land of Stories book series (his latest, A Grimm Warning, was just released) Base Los Angeles What’s the first information you consume in the morning? I immediately turn to my cellphone and look to... Continue reading at AdWeek
[ AdWeek | 2014-07-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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'To Kill a Mockingbird,' the 1961 Pulitzer Prize winner that often appears on 'most-loved books' lists, has been released as an ebook for a new generation of readers. Continue reading at The Christian Science Monitor
[ The Christian Science Monitor | 2014-07-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Mark Zuckerberg sees the Internet as a vital service that should be made available to everyone across the world—a service that can be as vital as, say, the ability to call for emergency help on a telephone. In an editorial published Monday in The Wall Street Journal, the Facebook chief outlined... Continue reading at PC World
[ PC World | 2014-07-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The social do-gooder just released its "attention minutes" source code. You paying attention?Clicks and pageviews are still the standard metric most online publishers use in valiant attempts to convince advertisers to write them checks so that they can keep the lights on. When pageviews are... Continue reading at Fast Company
[ Fast Company | 2014-06-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Recently, experts working on ORCID and ISNI, both ISO-standard identifiers, spoke with one of the founders of schema.org to facilitate their use as embedded persona references, particularly through extensions such as BibExtend. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-04-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
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For legitimate online publishers that rely on display on advertising, it's getting increasingly difficult to make ends meet. That's thanks in large part to long-tail sites that have learned to game the online ad system, and the ad tech middlemen that help them do it.The post Is this the worst... Continue reading at Digiday
[ Digiday | 2014-02-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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In genre fiction, going it alone is beginning to look a much more dependable route to successBrenna Aubrey self-published her debut romance novel At Any Price on the Amazon Kindle on 9 December 2013. One month later At Any Price had netted a total profit of £16,588. Aubrey's success is far from... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2014-02-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Japan’s Rakuten will acquire instant messaging and calling app developer Viber Media for US$900 million, the e-commerce giant said Friday, highlighting its moves to penetrate new markets.Rakuten’s purchase of the messaging and VoIP company follows its acquisitions of Canada’s ebook platform... Continue reading at PC World
[ PC World | 2014-02-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Venture capitalists poured more money into Internet companies last year than they have since the dot-com bust, according to a survey published Friday.Internet companies in the U.S. took in US$7.1 billion from VCs in 1,059 deals in 2013, the highest level of Internet investment in terms of... Continue reading at PC World
[ PC World | 2014-01-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
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