LinkedIn offloaded presentation-sharing service SlideShare to ebook and audiobook platform Scribd for an undisclosed price. The professional network acquired SlideShare for $118.75 million in May 2012. Scribd will begin operating SlideShare Sept. 24, managing accounts and content, and Scribd said its general terms of use and privacy policy will apply, but the experience will not... Continue reading at 'AdWeek'
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Books that showed strong on English language bestseller lists in recent months populated the top spots on foreign charts in November. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2013-12-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Late Thursday afternoon, the American Booksellers Foundation for Free Expression issued a statement defending the right of booksellers to sell The Anarchist Cookbook and Happy Happy Happy. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2013-12-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Barnes & Noble chairman Len Riggio sold 2 million of his shares in the bookstore chain on Tuesday for $13.81 a share. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2013-12-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
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In the week after Alice Munro won the Nobel Prize for literature, sales of her books jumped 6,650% in Canada, and saw significant bumps around the world. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2013-12-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Jennifer Brenninger of the Doylestown Bookshop in Doylestown, Pa., talks about several books she's enjoying handselling during the holiday season. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2013-12-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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News UK red-top outsold by rival by more than 20,000 copies in November, but remains the UK's top-selling title across six daysThe Daily Mail overhauled the Sun in November to become the UK's biggest-selling Saturday paper for the first time.However, the News UK red-top remains by some distance... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2013-12-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Johnston Press is trying to dispose of its Irish newspapers. According to the Sunday Times in Ireland, the company "is in advanced talks" to sell its 12 Irish titles to the British advertising executive Malcolm Denmark.The indebted publisher paid about £115m in 2005 to acquire the stable of... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2013-12-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Forbes Media LLC, the closely held publisher founded by the family of former U.S. presidential candidate Steve Forbes, is exploring a sale after getting interest from potential buyers.The New York-based publisher of 96-year-old Forbes magazine and Forbes.com is working with Deutsche Bank AG on... Continue reading at Crains New York
[ Crains New York | 2013-11-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Amazon's new program invites indies to sell Kindles and receive a commission from ebooks bought by their customers (if the store is eligible). Many stores are unimpressed, with one bookstore worker likening the program to 'being complicit in your execution.' Continue reading at The Christian Science Monitor
[ The Christian Science Monitor | 2013-11-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
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US manga titan Viz Media is seeking growth in non-traditional manga markets and is launching its first list in India, after starting in the Philippines this year. Will it work? Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2013-11-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Amazon, which has been blamed in part for the decline of independent bookstores, said it has a new program called Amazon Source to allow them and other retailers to resell Kindle devices and accessories, and also give them 10 percent on every ebook bought on them for two years. "With Amazon... Continue reading at AllThingsD
[ AllThingsD | 2013-11-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
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As USA Today celebrates the 20th anniversary of its bestseller list, the organization says romance novels, children's books, and inspirational books defined the last two decades of reading. Continue reading at The Christian Science Monitor
[ The Christian Science Monitor | 2013-11-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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McLean, Va. – USA TODAY celebrates the 20th anniversary of the USA TODAY Best-Selling Books list, crowning not one, but three No.1 books for three different eras that reflect the changes in publishing over the past two decades. Given ... Continue reading at Editor & Publisher
[ Editor & Publisher | 2013-10-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Taken by the T-Rex might sound like a joke book title to you, but it's part of an odd and oddly popular self-publishing subculture of monster erotica. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2013-10-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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According to Scribd's early analysis of user data of its ebook subscription service, 4.5 books were browsed for every book read. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2013-10-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
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When it comes to referral traffic from social networks, there's Facebook and Pinterest — and then there's everyone else. Facebook accounted for more than 10% of overall traffic to publishers in September, by ... Continue reading at Editor & Publisher
[ Editor & Publisher | 2013-10-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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What does it take to sell a new edition of a national dictionary? In Australia, one publisher is hoping a year-long guerilla marketing campaign and the birth of a word will be enough.Over the past year, McCann Melbourne has quietly been seeding a new word across the world-"phubbing." It's a term... Continue reading at Advertising Age
[ Advertising Age | 2013-10-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The content on Scribd, the San–Francisco based startup that aims to create the digital library of the future, is available on a range of devices, from laptops to smartphones to tablets. But CEO Trip Adler tells Fast Company we won't be reading e–books in our hands in the future––they'll be... Continue reading at Fast Company
[ Fast Company | 2013-10-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Scribd formally launched ebook subscriptions today and the company CEO said he believes the service could eventually produce $1 billion in annual revenue. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2013-10-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Many of us associate Scribd with embedded documents on websites, but the company has been quietly building an ebook platform -- first by selling content and later by soft-launching a subscription service. The company is now making its strategy clear by formally launching the ebook service and... Continue reading at Engadget
[ Engadget | 2013-10-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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