More than most people, Jonathan Taplin has seen firsthand how the rise of digital behemoths like Google and Facebook has irrevocably transformed the life of artists and musicians. A former tour manager for Bob Dylan and the Band and a movie producer for Martin Scorsese, Taplin has become an expert in digital media, and has observed how the original decentralized vision of the internet in the 1990s has morphed into an industry controlled by monopolistic companies that wield inordinate influence over the future of music, film, television, book publishing, and journalism. This concentration of power has decimated those industries—newspaper and music revenues have plummeted 70% since 2001, while Google’s YouTube pays for only 11% of the total streaming-audio revenues received by artists though it controls 60% of the streaming-audio business, according to Taplin. Taplin, who now spends his time focused on the challenges that new methods of distribution present to creative types, sits on California’s Broadband Task Force and is the director emeritus of the USC Annenberg Innovation Lab. He just came out with a new book, Move Fast and Break Things whose subtitle sums up his thesis with a punch to the gut of Silicon Valley’s self-righteous posture: “How Facebook, Google, and Amazon Cornered Culture And Undermined Democracy.” This interview has been lightly edited for clarity and length. Fast Company: Reading your bio, I was struck by the fact that you co-produced one of my... Continue reading at 'Fast Company'
[ Fast Company | 2017-04-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Administrator for collapsed firm has been informing rival bidders they are out of runningLadBible has moved closer to taking control of rival Unilad after administrators handling the fire sale of the collapsed viral Facebook publisher informed several bidders they were out of the... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2018-10-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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[caption id="attachment_138663" align="alignright" width="150"] Jessica Pels[/caption] Hearst Magazines announced several changes to its editorial and leadership staff this week, including appointing Jessica Pels, most recently the digital director of Cosmopolitan.com, as editor-in-chief of... Continue reading at Folio Magazine
[ Folio Magazine | 2018-10-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The Literary Agents & Scouts Centre is moving to a new location next year, a change publishers and agents worry may make their time in Frankfurt less productive. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2018-10-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The bookseller will leave its 52 Prince Street location, in Manhattan's SoHo neighborhood, at the end of June 2019, but plans to stay in the area. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2018-10-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Gill Hornby is moving from Little, Brown to Century for her next novel, Miss Austen, about the relationship between Jane and Cassandra Austen. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-10-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Ahead of Frankfurt, Finnish publishing house Siltala has seen record-breaking sales for a book that brought in a six-figure deal at the London Book Fair in April. The post Record-Breaking Sales and More Rights Deals for Finnish Sports Biography appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2018-10-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
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'In five years' time, I want to feel like I'm publishing the widest possible range of book,' says this year's 'Shooting Star' among The Bookseller's UK Rising Stars. And she'd like to see the industry embrace diversity faster. The post The 2018 ‘Shooting Star’ Sophie Jonathan: Frankfurt-Bound... Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2018-09-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Jonathan Cape has acquired a third book from writer and neurosurgeon Henry Marsh, author of the hugely successful Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Death and Brain Surgery (2014) and its follow-up Admissions: A Life in Brain Surgery (2017), both published with Weidenfeld & Nicholson. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-09-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Waiting for the Maison Margiela spring and summer 2019 runway show to begin Wednesday, I ran across a TED Talk a friend had posted to her Facebook feed. Titled “How Your Language Shapes the Way You Think,” it featured cognitive scientist Lera Boroditsky explaining how the Kuuk Thaayorre people... Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2018-09-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Katy Olson is joining Condé Nast as the editor of AD Pro, Architectural Digest's digital destination geared toward design professionals. Olson is currently the executive editor at Business of Home, where she runs the brand's website and contributes to its quarterly print edition. Earlier in her... Continue reading at Folio Magazine
[ Folio Magazine | 2018-09-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Facebook announced Monday that its Ad Breaks <span aria-describedby="tt" class="glossaryLink " data-cmtooltip=" Monetization Monetization is utilizing existing website traffic or app users to produce revenue, often via ads or affiliate links. Influencers monetize their social media profiles... Continue reading at AdWeek
[ AdWeek | 2018-09-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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After a decade's publishing with Orion, Linwood Barclay is moving to HQ, HarperCollins, in a new three-book, seven-figure deal. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-09-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Time’s sales and profits, like those of most print publications, have been shrinking every year, a situation that made it difficult to sell the magazine, even with its storied past. Continue reading at The New York Times
[ The New York Times | 2018-09-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Trapeze commissioning editor Emma Smith is joining Ebury Press as editorial director, covering maternity leave for Sara Cywinski. She takes up her new role in October, reporting to deputy publisher Andrew Goodfellow. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-09-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Jenny McLachlan has moved to Egmont for her middle-grade debut, in a six-figure pre-empt. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-09-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
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More than two years into its controversial plan for library system consolidations, staff leadership shakeups at Russia's leading state libraries are part of a plan to eventually streamline and digitally network libraries across the country. The post Russian State Libraries’ Consolidation Program... Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2018-09-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Rachael Bland’s memoir, For Freddie, was submitted to publishers at the start of the week, and already has one publisher offer on the table, Bland's agent has confirmed. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-09-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The former Guardian editor details a revolution in journalism. Can it still perform its vital, truth-telling role?Truth is a small word liable to sanctimonious overuse and philosophical dispute, but in its humblest sense of accurate and verifiable information we like to think we know it when we... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2018-09-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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[caption id="attachment_134577" align="alignright" width="150"] Alex Hardiman[/caption] The Atlantic continued its ongoing expansion this week with the hire of Facebook’s head of news products, Alex Hardiman, as its new chief business and product officer. Starting this fall, Hardiman will be... Continue reading at Folio Magazine
[ Folio Magazine | 2018-08-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Omarosa Manigault Newman's 'Unhinged: An Insider's Account of the Trump White House'—the second White House tell-all this year whose publication President Donald Trump has attempted to stymie—sold 33,484 copies in its first week on sale at outlets that report to NPD BookScan. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2018-08-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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