The iPad has not really taken off as a platform for ebooks yet. Thus far the screen resolution has been high, but still no match for the various e-ink screens available on dedicated ereaders. All this could well change with the release of the new iPad, tomorrow, thanks to its high-resolution Retina display that packs more pixels than ever before. Kindle for iOS is among a host of apps being updated to take advantage of the increased resolution. The new version helps to ensure that books and magazines look as crisp as ever but there are few other updates or improvements… [Continue Reading] Continue reading at 'Betanews'
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U.S. stocks are mixed Wednesday as the price of oil rose to a three-year high but banks declined along with interest rates. Stocks rallied a day earlier on signs the trade tensions between the U.S. and China were easing. Facebook stock continues to rise as CEO Mark Zuckerberg testifies to... Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2018-04-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The number of Bologna Children’s Book Fair attendees totalled 27,642 last month, up 3% from 2017, according to the organisers. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-04-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Having staged its Special Guest City program at Paris' Salon du Livre, Sharjah this week has formalized its collaboration with Conakry, Guinea's World Book Capital, and is in production with its Gallimard translation exchange. The post Sharjah Supports Guinea Library’s Restoration, Opens... Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2018-04-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Cigar Aficionado, New York magazine and Allrecipes on the ways they developed new business with existing assets. The post How 3 Publishers Grew Revenue By Repurposing Content appeared first on Folio:. Continue reading at Folio Magazine
[ Folio Magazine | 2018-03-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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SpaceX and Tesla Chief Executive Elon Musk supported the call to #deletefacebook, as the Facebook pages of his two most prominent companies vanished Friday morning. Musk was not the first prominent name in technology to line up against Facebook in the wake of the widening Cambridge Analytica... Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2018-03-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The Midwest Indie Booksellers and the Great Lakes Indie Booksellers associations have issued a joint statement condemning Kentucky's governor for cutting the funding for the University Press of Kentucky. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2018-03-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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There was plenty of drama on the opening night of the City Section Open Division basketball playoffs. At one point Saturday night, the Nos. 2, 3 and 4 seeds all trailed in the second half. At halftime in Woodland Hills, with No. 3 Taft down by eight points to No. 6 Crenshaw, standout guard Kihei... Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2018-02-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The Document Foundation has unveiled LibreOffice 6.0 64-bit and LibreOffice 6.0 32-bit, a major new release of its open-source office suite for Windows, Mac and Linux. LibreOffice 6.0 adds a host of new and improved features, including support for OpenPGP signing and encryption, an ePUB filter... Continue reading at Betanews
[ Betanews | 2018-01-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
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An East London bookshop's decision to put a sign in its window highlighting it is "proud" to sell books by authors from so-called "sh*thole" countries, in reference to a remark allegedly made by US president Donald Trump, has been met with a "phenomenal" response from the trade and customers. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-01-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
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'A sad irony to see the so-called leader of the free world trying to limit freedom to publish.' The International Publishers Association slams the Trump cease-and-desist effort and libel law comments as 'a new and worrying development.' The post Fire and Fury: International Publishers ‘Throw... Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2018-01-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Will this be the year magazine media turns itself around, or should we expect more doom and gloom? The post 3 Predictions for Magazine Media in the Year Ahead appeared first on Folio:. Continue reading at Folio Magazine
[ Folio Magazine | 2018-01-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Rather than compete for dwindling display ad revenue, local digital news publishers are pursuing branded content and consumer revenue instead. The post Local digital news publishers are ignoring display revenue appeared first on Digiday. Continue reading at Digiday
[ Digiday | 2018-01-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Stories should come from all parts of society – not just from the well heeled and the middle classLiterary fiction, you might think, is in wonderful health. Book festivals, from Edinburgh and Wigtown in Scotland, to Hay-on-Wye in Wales, to Cheltenham and Bath in England, are flourishing. There... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2017-12-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The Society of Authors has distributed more than £140,000 between 61 authors to help support them in the development and completion of new work. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-12-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Connect Books m.d. Justin Adams has promised it will be "business as usual" at the distributor as its acquisition by private equity company Aurelius is completed, and has said the well-funded buyer's "firepower" can support the business' future plans. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-12-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
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A decade after the first Kindle, Amazon looks toward disrupting books themselves. Continue reading at Wired
[ Wired | 2017-12-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The bestselling iBooks in mystery, romance, sci-fi, biography, fiction, and more for the week ended December 3, 2017. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2017-12-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Sales of print books got off to a slow holiday season start at outlets that report to NPD BookScan: units were 3% lower in the 2017 Thanksgiving week than in the comparable week last year. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2017-12-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Print unit sales were down 9% to mass merchandisers, and off 1% in the retail and club channel, in the Thanksgiving week. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2017-11-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
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European publishers are twice as likely as U.S. publishers to have laid off staff or plan to do so to support their pivots to video. The post Digiday Research: 33 percent of European publishers report layoffs to support the pivot to video appeared first on Digiday. Continue reading at Digiday
[ Digiday | 2017-11-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
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