Love Haruki Murakami? There’s An App For That

In the UK, Vintage Books and Aimer Media have launched a Haruki Murakami inspired diary app for Apple devices. The "Murakami Diary" offers 6 new exclusive short stories for £1.99. Continue reading at 'Publishing Perspectives'

[ Publishing Perspectives | 2013-01-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Harper Inspire novel to tell C S Lewis love story

Harper Inspire has acquired a fictional re-telling of one of the most famous love stories set in the world of books – the love affair between the US writer and poet Joy Davidman and C S Lewis. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2019-01-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Facebook paid kids to download app that monitors their online activity

Facebook Inc. has faced congressional panels, government fines and mounting public pressure over its use and handling of private user data. On Wednesday, after a report said the company had been paying people — some as young as 13 — $20 a month to install a research app on their phones that... Continue reading at Baltimore Sun

[ Baltimore Sun | 2019-01-30 23:35:00 UTC ]
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Facebook paid kids to download app that monitors their online activity

Facebook Inc. has faced congressional panels, government fines and mounting public pressure over its use and handling of private user data. On Wednesday, after a report said the company had been paying people — some as young as 13 — $20 a month to install a research app on their phones that... Continue reading at Baltimore Sun

[ Baltimore Sun | 2019-01-30 23:35:00 UTC ]
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Facebook paid teens to disclose their online activity in research app, report says

For years, Facebook has been paying some users $20 per month to install a research app on their phones that can collect intimate information about their online behavior and communications, according to a report published Tuesday by TechCrunch. Since 2016, users ages 13 to 35 could exchange their... Continue reading at Los Angeles Times

[ Los Angeles Times | 2019-01-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Holly Smale | 'The books you love at that age stay with you forever'

Bestselling YA author Holly Smale returns with a new series that explores perception and reality in the age of social media. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2019-01-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Transworld acquires nostalgic love story Mix Tape for six figures

Transworld has acquired Jane Sanderson's latest novel, a "nostalgic and romantic" story called Mix Tape pitched as perfect for fans of David Nicholls and Laura Barnett, in a six-figure deal. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2019-01-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Lin-Manuel Miranda buys much-loved New York bookshop

New York's Drama Book Shop is taken over by the Hamilton creator and three of his collaborators. Continue reading at BBC News

[ BBC News | 2019-01-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Stephen Fry lends voice to Edtech app series

Edtech startup KalamTech has created an app series about great thinkers from history, voiced by Stephen Fry. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2018-12-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Riley takes Geoffrey Faber Prize for First Love's 'brutal truthfulness'

Gwendoline Riley has scooped the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize for Fiction 2017 for her fifth novel First Love (Granta). Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2018-12-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Ebury acquires Love Island winner Dani Dyer's first book

Ebury Press has acquired the first book from Love Island 2018 winner Dani Dyer for publication in 2019. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2018-12-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
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HC pre-empts Norwegian bestseller 'spreading love for insects'

HarperNonFiction has pre-empted a Norwegian bestseller about insects by life scientist Anne Sverdrup-Thygeson. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2018-11-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Google unveils holiday season savings on games, apps, books and movies

It can't have escaped your attention that -- in the US at least -- holiday season is just around the corner. With Thanksgiving comes Black Friday and other sales, and Google is getting in on the action with a series of discounts in the Play Store. There are great savings to be made on games and... Continue reading at Betanews

[ Betanews | 2018-11-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Peter Rabbit brought to life on augmented reality app Bookful

Peter Rabbit is to be brought to virtual life via augmented reality app Bookful, launched by Israeli immersive content company Inception. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2018-11-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Avon snaps up Williams' 'love story of near-misses'

HarperCollins' Avon imprint has acquired world all languages rights for a debut novel from journalist and author Laura Jane Williams. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2018-10-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Gaiman and Murakami shortlisted for Nobel Prize substitute

Neil Gaiman and Haruki Murakami have been shortlisted for a substitute Nobel literature prize, created by cultural figures in Sweden after the Academy, rocked by a sexual assault scandal, was forced to postpone the awarding of 2018's prize. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2018-09-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Best comic book apps for iPhone and iPad

These comic book readers make it easy to catch up on beloved series, no matter what type of fan you are. Continue reading at PC World

[ PC World | 2018-08-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Producer, singer and DJ Navid 'Izadi' Hakimi, 32, delivered 'crazy, loving energy' to dance floors

One measure of producer, singer, DJ and keyboardist Navid Hakimi’s love of adventurous music could be found in the most basic of places: the influences category on his Facebook page. For the 32-year-old Hakimi, who was among five people — including his mother, Floria Hakimi — killed Sunday in a... Continue reading at Los Angeles Times

[ Los Angeles Times | 2018-08-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Orion to publish Italian tale of love and war inspired by true events

Orion is publishing a story of love, war, family and betrayal, based on the true story of a little-known massacre in Civitella, Italy during the Second World War.   Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2018-07-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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WTF is header bidding for mobile apps?

Once seen as just a glorified hack, header bidding has now become a standard practice in digital media. While this process has been extremely successful at optimizing programmatic ad inventory for desktop publishers, the industry is now shifting toward mobile. So, WTF is header bidding for... Continue reading at Digiday

[ Digiday | 2018-07-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Sky One to screen Aliens Love Panta Claus adaptation

Sky One will this December show an animated adatation of Aliens Love Panta Claus by Claire Freedman and Ben Cort (Simon & Schuster Children’s). Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2018-07-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
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