Jemisin scoops top Hugo award third time running

N K Jemisin’s The Stone Sky has been awarded science fiction's premier award, the Hugo Award for Best Novel, marking the first time any writer has taken home the accolade three years running. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'

[ The Bookseller | 2018-08-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Snapchat Runs Its First App-Install Ad, and It’s for Mobile Game Cookie Jam

Snapchat is getting closer to forking over the data that advertisers want, and the stats will be coming in the form of mobile app-install ads. Today, a short video ad promoting SGN's mobile game Cookie Jam is running within iHeartRadio's Discover channel—the app's hub of daily content from... Continue reading at AdWeek

[ AdWeek | 2016-02-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Ebook sales falling for the first time, finds new report

Research by the Bookseller shows that sales for the ‘big five’ UK publishers dropped in 2015Ebook sales for the UK’s five biggest publishers fell in 2015, according to a new report in the Bookseller, collectively declining 2.4%, to 47.9m units. It is the first drop in numbers of books sold in... Continue reading at The Guardian

[ The Guardian | 2016-02-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Time Inc’s new beauty site is an e-commerce and data play

Time Inc. has launched a personalized beauty service, Powder, serving up recommended products and articles to users for Time Inc. This means it can re-target Powder users across its beauty portfolio, including titles like Marie Claire, InStyle and Look. L'Oreal is the only brand partner on board... Continue reading at Digiday

[ Digiday | 2016-02-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Facebook's latest News Feed overhaul puts stories you want to see at the top

Facebook knows everything about you, from who your friends and family are to what you like and where you’ve been. It even knows the posts you draft but never publish. Combine all that information with the power of the like button, which signals to Facebook that a post should be shared more... Continue reading at PC World

[ PC World | 2016-02-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Ellie Award Winners Honored in 50th Anniversary Event

The Atlantic takes Magazine of the Year, New York wins four, and David Granger gets a standing ovation. The post Ellie Award Winners Honored in 50th Anniversary Event appeared first on Folio:. Continue reading at Folio Magazine

[ Folio Magazine | 2016-02-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Amberley's Hajari wins Colby Award

Nisid Hajari, an author at independent publisher Amberley Publishing, has won the $5,000 2016 William E Colby Award for his book, Midnight’s Furies: The Deadly Legacy of India’s Partition. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2016-01-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Booksellers Pick Their Top Early 2016 Books

What will independent booksellers be handselling this season? We spoke with 12 booksellers throughout North America who are looking forward to pushing everything from buzzed-about debuts and under-the-radar experimental novels. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2016-01-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Snapchat Is Slowly but Surely Letting More Brands Run Long Video Ads

Brands are going long on Snapchat—at least with video. After beginning to test the first "swipe to view" video ad with Activision's Call of Duty in November, a series of brands are now experimenting with ads that promote clips longer than 10 seconds. On Wednesday, three entertainment... Continue reading at AdWeek

[ AdWeek | 2016-01-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The Weekly Beast: police deflate Gold Coast Bulletin's Underbelly-inspired scoop

Mark Scott tipped to throw bombs in final address, Aaron Patrick’s second book on Tony Abbott and Peta Credlin due out and News Corp poaches Fairfax staffThe Gold Coast Bulletin thought it had a big local scoop on its hands when an Arundel businessman told them he had witnessed an... Continue reading at The Guardian

[ The Guardian | 2016-01-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Amazon Sales Top $100 Billion

Total revenue at Amazon hit $107 billion in 2015, a 20% increase over sales in 2014. Operating income jumped to $2.2 billion in the year, from $178 million in 2014. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2016-01-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Marketers, It's Time to Rebalance Your Media Scale

We're going to hear a lot about comparable metrics this year -- finally. As emerging media platforms continue to dominate the headlines -- creating the perception that ad tech is where all the audience is -- smart advertisers will insist on a lens through which the avalanche of charts, claims,... Continue reading at Advertising Age

[ Advertising Age | 2016-01-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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PUC plans a hearing on Charter's purchase of Time Warner Cable and Bright House

California Public Utilities Commission officials plan a public hearing on Charter Communications' proposed $67-billion acquisition of two cable companies, Time Warner Cable and Bright House Networks, which serve Southern California. The PUC hearing is scheduled for 6 p.m. Tuesday in the Junipero... Continue reading at Los Angeles Times

[ Los Angeles Times | 2016-01-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
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How The Times of London is driving digital subscriptions

The Times of London and Sunday Times have a combined 400,000 print-digital subscribers and harbor ambitious plans to grow that figure both domestically and abroad. It has launched its first "entry level" app overseas, with a price tag of £3 ($4.30) a month, compared to the usual monthly £26... Continue reading at Digiday

[ Digiday | 2016-01-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
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International Bestsellers: Nobel Laureate Alexievich Tops Swedish List

Bestseller lists from France, Italy, and Sweden, where Svetlana Alexievich was the #1 nonfiction title in December. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2016-01-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Top Publishing Links of the Week: January 18-22, 2016

Prize-winning authors, ebook sales and pricing, startups and investments: these are some of the top book publishing stories of the week. The post Top Publishing Links of the Week: January 18-22, 2016 appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives

[ Publishing Perspectives | 2016-01-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
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2016 Hans Christian Andersen Award Shortlist Announced

The International Board on Books for Young People has announced the shortlist for the 2016 Hans Christian Andersen Awards. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2016-01-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Reynolds, Kiely Win WNDB's Debut Walter Award

The inaugural Walter Dean Myers Award for outstanding children's literature in the YA category has been given to 'All American Boys' by Jason Reynolds and Brendan Kiely. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2016-01-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The Bookseller launches British Book Industry Awards

The Bookseller has expanded its industry awards, with the 2016 ceremony to celebrate the books of the year as well as the wider trade. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2016-01-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Top Publishing Links of the Week: January 11-15, 2016

From the Guardian's top fiction picks for 2016 to Istanbul's diverse and growing literary festival, we bring you some of the top publishing links from PP and around the web. The post Top Publishing Links of the Week: January 11-15, 2016 appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives

[ Publishing Perspectives | 2016-01-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Time Out travel guides to cease publication

Time Out will no longer produce any Time Out Guide Books in 2016, the company has confirmed. After the story was first reported by The Telegraph,  spokesperson for the company said the decision had been taken “as part of the continued evolution of the business”. The guides' sales have been in... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2016-01-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
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