In London: Publishers Say They’re ‘Optimistic’ About Labour’s Victory

The Publishers Association enumerates promising appointments for the creative industries just made by the UK's new Labour government. The post In London: Publishers Say They’re ‘Optimistic’ About Labour’s Victory appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at 'Publishing Perspectives'

[ Publishing Perspectives | 2024-07-08 22:21:50 UTC ]
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Pronoun Sets New Self-Publishing Author Royalty Rate

Pronoun, a Macmillan self-publishing subsidiary acquired in 2016, has set new author royalty rates and is launching a program to offer its authors customizable author pages. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2017-01-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Facebook stops paying publishers to stream live video

For a while, Facebook was obsessed with live video -- it even paid publishers to make sure there was a steady flow of professionally-shot streams on offer. However, Zuckerberg and company appear to be tempering their enthusiasm a little bit. Recode s... Continue reading at Engadget

[ Engadget | 2017-01-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Five Welsh publishers receive £250k funding

Five Welsh publishing companies have received a grant of £250,000 from the Welsh Books Council. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2017-01-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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‘It helps build that daily habit’: Publishers use Instant Articles bundle for daily must-reads

Facebook Instant Articles update, allowing publishers to post multiple articles in each post, is a way of replicating daily email newsletters right in Facebook’s platform. Ten publishers, among them BuzzFeed, The Washington Post, The Sun and El País, are testing out the new feature before a... Continue reading at Digiday

[ Digiday | 2017-01-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Best of the week: Publishers weigh in on mid-roll Facebook ads and earlier start times

A roundup of some of our best stories this week: We spoke with publishers about reports that Facebook will start showing ads in the middle of videos. And we spoke with publishers who insist their reporters get an earlier start to their days. Publishers have also found a way to frack more traffic... Continue reading at Digiday

[ Digiday | 2017-01-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Headline to publish Food for a Happy Gut

Headline is publishing a foodies' cookbook catering to gut health, Food for a Happy Gut: recipes to calm, nourish and heal by nutritionist Naomi Devlin. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2017-01-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Particular Books to publish crowd-funded feminist storybook

Particular Books, an imprint of Penguin Press, is publishing a crowd-funded feminist storybook, Goodnight Stories for Rebel Girls, comprising 100 tales of "extraordinary women" from around the globe, including Michelle Obama and Jane Austen. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2017-01-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Former Publishers Association president Robin Hyman dies

Robin Hyman, former chairman of Laurence King and former president of the Publishers' Association, has died peacefully in his sleep.  Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2017-01-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Central Recovery Press Buys Assets of Mac Publishing

Las Vegas-based Central Recovery Press has acquired the assets of Mac Publishing, a publisher of materials of works on family systems and addictive disorders. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2017-01-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Publishers See More Good Times Ahead for Audiobooks

The audiobooks story of the year in 2016 was—again—the continued strong sales growth of the digital audio market, and many audio publishers expect to see more gains in 2017. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2017-01-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Piatkus to publish new urban fantasy series by Lindsay J Pryor

Piatkus has acquired three books from paranormal romance author Lindsay J Pryor, including two books in a spin-off series called Lowdown to her dystopian Blackthorn series published by Bookouture. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2017-01-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The Potential of Virtual Communities in the Publishing Ecosystem

The Internet, and the platforms now available to create various online gatherings, have changed our world and continue to do so. New ways to combine the power of assembled individuals—financially, socially, creatively—are being introduced all the time. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2017-01-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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‘Consumers will rebel’: Publishers face creative challenges with Facebook’s mid-roll video ads

Publishers are hopeful about the chance to finally turn their Facebook videos into a revenue stream, but creative challenges await them. Ads could bring a welcome source of revenue, but videos will have to be edited with breaks in mind. And most online video that's out there now isn't good... Continue reading at Digiday

[ Digiday | 2017-01-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Publishers see short-form video views on Facebook cut in half

Publisher’s short-form Facebook videos have been on the wane after the algorithm has prioritized Facebook Live and the news feed has become flooded with content. Six months ago a well-performing video from The Sun would fetch 250,000 views, now it’s good to get over 100,000. In 2016, The... Continue reading at Digiday

[ Digiday | 2017-01-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Picture this: Joe Wicks and his Instagram peers are strengthening publishing

The Body Coach is a million seller and other web stars’ books are selling very well. Publishers in profit is good news for readers – and some of these books are actually worth readingJoe Wicks. Heard of him? You’ve undoubtedly seen him: also known as the Body Coach, the eternally cheerful Wicks... Continue reading at The Guardian

[ The Guardian | 2017-01-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Facebook Expands Instant Articles to Help Users Discover More of the Publisher's Content

In a move likely meant to stay on publishers' good side, Facebook is trying out a new way to help users discover more news (real news). Starting Thursday, Facebook will let nearly a dozen publishers—including BuzzFeed, El Pais, Fox News and The Washington Post—include more than one Instant... Continue reading at AdWeek

[ AdWeek | 2017-01-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
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How publishers squeeze new traffic out of their old content

Older, evergreen content has always been a nice traffic source for digital publishers. But two years after The New York Times identified archival content as an untapped source of traffic, several publishers have grown it into something substantial, with some now generating nearly 40 percent of... Continue reading at Digiday

[ Digiday | 2017-01-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Emerald Publishing delves into archives to mark 50th anniversary

A prediction of how computers will impact businesses from the 1960s, a view on how the UK should integrate with Europe as it joins the common market from the 1970s and the effects of using sex in marketing are among the journals made free to read by global research publisher Emerald as it marks... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2017-01-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Did BuzzFeed Go Too Far in Publishing a Salacious, Unverified Report About Donald Trump?

On Tuesday evening, BuzzFeed chose to publish 35 pages of documents about President-elect Donald Trump. Those documents contain, as BuzzFeed reported, "memos written over a period of months, [including] specific, unverified and potentially unverifiable allegations of contact between Trump... Continue reading at AdWeek

[ AdWeek | 2017-01-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Publishers Encounter Political Storms in Turn to Right

Milo Yiannopoulos, an editor at the conservative news site Breitbart News, received a six-figure publishing contract from Threshold Editions, a conservative imprint at Simon & Schuster. The move prompted criticism from some of Simon & Schuster’s authors and calls for a boycott. Continue reading at The New York Times

[ The New York Times | 2017-01-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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