A range of titles celebrating this hard-to-translate aspect of the country’s culture is being lined up to tap the appetite for all things NordicForget the bloody crime novels of Henning Mankell and Jo Nesbø and the bleak crime television of The Bridge and The Killing. The latest Scandinavian export is the Danish concept of “hygge”, and it will be all over bookshops come Christmas.Pronounced, approximately, hue-ga, hygge loosely translates as cosiness, but means more than that. It’s about a feeling of wellbeing, about enjoying life, whether through time spent with close friends or family, sitting by a fire with a hot chocolate, or putting on warm socks and dry clothes after a rainstorm. If that’s not clear, perhaps the flurry of books out this autumn exploring the concept will help clarify it: whether it’s The Little Book of Hygge by the chief executive of Copenhagen’s Happiness Research Institute, Meik Wiking, How to Hygge or The Art of Hygge, all out in September, it could be the biggest trend in publishing this Christmas.What freedom is to Americans, hygge is to Danes. Continue reading... Continue reading at 'The Guardian'
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Lorene Cary is the author of the memoir Black Ice, three novels, a book for young readers, and a play, My General Tubman. Her one-act opera and memoir, Ladysitting, explores the author’s relationship and time spent with her grandmother Nana, a fierce and independent woman who managed a business... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
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Her new book, “Morning Glory on the Vine,” brings together lyrics and drawings that she once gave to close friends. Continue reading at The Washington Post
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In today’s information-rich, mobile-centric world, people are more distracted than ever. Marketers used to be able to rely on TV ads or billboards to get in front of consumers. Now they must think mobile-first. Earlier this year, we hit a remarkable milestone: According to eMarketer, Americans... Continue reading at Advertising Age
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Atlanta Inno reports on Atlanta's biggest local tech and startup stories. For more innovation news and to stay plugged into the city’s ecosystem, check out Atlanta Inno and sign up for its daily newsletter, The Beat. If you’re on social media at all, you probably saw plenty of advertisements... Continue reading at Silicon Valley Business Journal
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While there’s been much deliberation over the best marketing strategies of direct-to-consumer brands, and how those have evolved as the main digital channels like Facebook and Google have become oversaturated and increasingly expensive, there’s been less time spent on the early-days PR... Continue reading at Digiday
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The millennial-aimed publisher has cut its editorial output by two-thirds and now measures videos and stories based on time spent rather than view counts. The post After years of chasing Facebook traffic, Mic goes for ‘deliberate distribution’ appeared first on Digiday. Continue reading at Digiday
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Newspaper publishers hunting for subscriber revenue have keyed in on new metrics. The post In an era of loyalty, newspaper publishers focus on time spent and frequency appeared first on Digiday. Continue reading at Digiday
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In 2015, BuzzFeed tasked five employees with a single objective: Craft the perfect viral Facebook video. To ensure maximum share-ability, such a video had to be short — no more than 40 seconds long — and enjoyable either with or without sound as users scrolled their feeds. The team found its... Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
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From a memoir of time spent in space to the latest works by well-known authors such as Rupi Kaur and Jennifer Egan, the books being released in October are a varied group. Check out the titles that Amazon editors liked the best, with thoughts from Amazon senior editor Chris Schluep. Continue reading at The Christian Science Monitor
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For most news publishers, their audiences increasingly prefer visiting them on mobile devices. Forbes faced this problem acutely, with half its audience coming to it on mobile devices. So it created card-like formats to replace text-based stories. The financial news publisher said its new... Continue reading at Digiday
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At Gawker Media, co-founder Nick Denton has made commenting a particular obsession, even building an in-house online commenting system, Kinja. The quality of that discussion doesn’t always carry over to Facebook, though. So Gawker built a tool to pull in comment threads to run at the end of its... Continue reading at Digiday
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A range of titles celebrating this hard-to-translate aspect of the country’s culture is being lined up to tap the appetite for all things NordicForget the bloody crime novels of Henning Mankell and Jo Nesbø and the bleak crime television of The Bridge and The Killing. The latest Scandinavian... Continue reading at The Guardian
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Publishers are starting to see the results of Facebook Instant Articles, which launched widely last month, giving them a way to post fast-loading content directly to the social network. One publisher, on background, shared a week’s worth of data that showed the reach of Instant Articles versus... Continue reading at Digiday
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French publisher Libération has gone all in on Facebook Instant Articles, publishing all 150 daily articles to the platform, according to Libération's head of digital, Xavier Grangier. Since January it has found time spent on articles has increased 33 percent to over four minutes, according to... Continue reading at Digiday
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The celebrated author's close friends and family gathered Saturday at a church in the small Alabama town of Monroeville, the basis of the setting of her Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, "To Kill a Mockingbird." Continue reading at The Christian Science Monitor
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Random House Books has bought a book about the importance of spending time alone. Senior editor Harry Scoble bought UK and Commonwealth rights to Solitude by Michael Harris from Anne McDermid at Anne McDermid and Associates. Harris’ début, The End of Absence (Portfolio Penguin), explored the... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Since Tumblr first introduced in-stream sponsored posts in Spring 2013, more than 300 paid advertisers have gotten on board. The brand publishers contribute to an ecosystem of content creators and users who have posted more than 98.4 billion items, at an average rate of 83.3 million posts a day.... Continue reading at AdWeek
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Time-based metrics are used by almost every leading publisher to measure themselves, but there's been hesitancy to transact on the basis of numbers like time spent and ad exposure time. That could change soon though as a member Continue reading at Folio Magazine
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