How this Phoenix software startup is spending its $1.2 million in funding

ClearVoice Inc., the Phoenix-based content marketing software startup, has raised $1.2 million in its seed round. The company will use the money to hire about 15 people in sales, marketing and product development by the end of the year. ClearVoice will use the extra help to publish data-driven studies related to digital marketing, content creation and authoring white papers and ebooks, said co-founder and co-CEO Joe Griffin. “This will show how to best create content for social media and search… Continue reading at 'Silicon Valley Business Journal'

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Nadine Dorries' novel The Four Streets reaches No 1 in the charts

Ebook sales for the Conservative MP in May topped 100,000, ahead of John Green and Jo NesboDigested read: The Four Streets by Nadine DorriesExtract: The Four StreetsNadine Dorries' first novel, a "heartbreaking family saga set in 1950s Liverpool", has sold more than 100,000 copies, according to... Continue reading at The Guardian

[ The Guardian | 2014-07-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
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iBooks Bestellers: 'Unbroken' Shows Up at #2

'Unbroken,' Laura Hillenbrand’s testament to the spirit of Louis Zamperini, jumped to the #2 slot after Zamperini’s recent death, returning to Apple’s iBooks Bestseller List for the week ending July 7. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-07-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Print Unit Sales Up 1% in First Half of 2014

Sales of both hardcovers and trade paperbacks, the industry’s two largest print categories, were up 2% in the first six months of this year, compared to the first half of 2013, leading to an overall 1% gain in print unit sales at outlets that report to Nielsen BookScan. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-07-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Kickstarter Diary Chapter 2: Rewards and Goals—Running the Numbers

Once I’d made up my mind I was going to do a Kickstarter campaign, the first thing I needed to do was figure out how the math was going to work—and there were a lot of numbers to run. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-07-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Disappointment from losers in ACE funding round

Manchester based writers' development organisation Commonword is among the organisations... Continue reading at The Bookseller

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NextBigBook, Qlovi, and BEA’s Startup Challenge

In the spirit of fostering book industry innovation, this year’s BookExpo America featured the first-ever BookExpo Startup Challenge, a contest in which 20 book-related startups compete for prize money and the opportunity to pitch their business model directly to venture capitalists. A digital... Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-06-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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A Kickstarter Drive to Fund AEON and ‘Black Jack’

The comics character Aaron Day, better known as Black Jack, is an African American adventurer created by comics writer, playwright and educator Alex Simmons. A Kickstarter campaign has been started to support Black Jack and the launch of AEON, a new online gaming, comics and animation platform. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-06-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Mobile Marketing Startup Taps Data Firm to Measure Sales Impact

Mobile marketing startup SessionM, trying to prove its efforts can help spur sales, announced a partnership with Datalogix to measure the success of digital campaigns. SessionM says the partnership is the best way to show marketers that mobile is effective, which many question. Datalogix... Continue reading at AdWeek

[ AdWeek | 2014-06-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Binc Launches Matching Funds Pilot Program

The Book Industry Charitable Foundation is launching a matching grant pilot program that will add to the Foundation’s existing financial assistance programs. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-06-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Diary of a Kickstarter Campaign Part 1: What Am I Getting Myself Into?

Thinking of Kickstarting a book? Follow along with this weekly diary of what works, what doesn't, and how to figure costs and navigate the Kickstarter process. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-06-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Dispatches From Book Leave, Part 2

Slate correspondent Justin Peters is on leave this year while he writes a book based on his February 2013 Slate profile of the Internet activist Aaron Swartz. He has been sending regular progress reports to friends, family, readers, and others interested in getting an inside look at the... Continue reading at Slate

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Time Inc. Shares Slip Nearly 1% on First Day of Trading

Shares in Time Inc., owner of People, Sports Illustrated and Time magazines, were off nearly 1% to $23.30 Monday, its first day of trading as a public company.The company's share price had tumbled about 4% after trading began but regained much of the lost ground during the afternoon.Time Inc. is... Continue reading at Advertising Age

[ Advertising Age | 2014-06-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Apple iBooks Category Bestsellers, June 1, 2014

The bestselling iBooks in mystery, romance, sci-fi, biography, fiction, children & teens, and more for the week ended June 1, 2014. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-06-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The war on Amazon is Big Publishing's 1% moment. What about other writers? | Barry Eisler

More people are buying more books than ever, and more people are making a living by writing them. Why do millionaire authors want to destroy the one company that's made this all possible?As an author of ten novels legacy-published, self-published, and Amazon-published I'm bewildered by the... Continue reading at The Guardian

[ The Guardian | 2014-06-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Authors on the Air June 2, 2014: A.J. Baime

A.J. Baime, author of "The Arsenal of Democracy: FDR, Detroit, and an Epic Quest to Arm an America at War" (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 9780547719283), will appear on NPR’s "The Takeaway" on Tuesday, June 3. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

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Smorgasbord: Links of Note, June 2, 2014

This week, we’re reading about the cookbook legacy of Dr. Maya Angelou, Michael Ruhlman’s top egg dishes in New York City, and more. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

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Job Moves: June 2, 2014

Long-time adult frontlist book buyer Bill Cusumano, who has been with Nicola’s Books in Ann Arbor, Mich., for the past two decades, is heading South. Later this month he will become a bookseller at Square Books in Oxford, Miss. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-06-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Togather Startup Suspends Operations

In an email sent to clients and users of Togather.com founder Andrew Kessler said the site was suspending all operations due to a dispute with its investors. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-06-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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