Three sites buck annual trend, but Mail, Guardian and Telegraph report month-on-month declines in daily unique browsersMirror Group Digital, Independent.co.uk and Standard.co.uk enjoyed month-on-month traffic gains in December, when the festive holiday usually results in newspaper website user numbers dipping.Sure enough, the UK's three most popular newspaper websites – Mail Online, theguardian.com and Telegraph.co.uk – reported some decline in average daily unique browsers over the festive period compared with November.Mirror Group Digital cracked the 2 million daily unique browser mark for the first time in December, rising 8.61% month on month to hit 2,023,770, according to the latest Audit Bureau of Circulations figures published on Thursday.Trinity Mirror's digital business, which also saw a 5.29% rise in monthly web browsers to 42,880,543, also revealed the number of readers who opt for an e-edition of the Daily Mirror for the first time.MGD reported 33,935 readers of the Monday to Friday version of its free e-edition, which is defined as a replica of the print newspaper read on devices such as tablets and does not include app usage, and 5,048 punters who paid £3.99 for the weekend digital edition.Independent.co.uk had a strong month with a 5.45% rise in daily browsers to 1,355,770, and 7.94% growth in monthly browsers to 29,894,151.Lebedev-owned stablemate Standard.co.uk saw daily browsers rise 1.77% to 197,930, and monthly browsers grow 6.53% to 4,550,485.The... Continue reading at 'The Guardian'
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Children's publishers remain confident that the printed book will be the dominant format for... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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The earnings of German book retailer Thalia's parent group Douglas Holding will be hit by the... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Simon and Schuster will release blockbuster writer Jackie Collins’ backlist in digital... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Sales of Charles Dickens' Great Expectations have rocketed thanks to the BBC's lavish... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2012-01-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Wenner Media has named a new chief digital officer, David Kang, who becomes the third person to hold the position in less than a year. Wenner hired its first chief digital officer, Steven Schwartz, in 2009. He left in May for his old employer, Reuters. The next person in the job, Michael... Continue reading at AdWeek
[ AdWeek | 2012-01-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Independent Booksellers Week is to take place over the first week of July, with the Booksellers... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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The first category of this year's Bookseller Industry Awards opens next week, with... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Strong ebook sales over the festive period compensated for the decline in physical sales,... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Physical book sales in the final week of the year totalled £22.5m — down 70% week on... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Wales is set to launch its first bilingual literature festival this year. The Dinefwr... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Indie booksellers have reported a “surprise” increase in sales over Christmas in... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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At just five years old, the Savannah Book Festival, in the genteel coastal city of Savannah, Ga., is carving a space for itself among the book festival big leagues, boasting not one but two of the nation’s current #1 bestselling authors: Stephen King (for 11/22/63) and Walter Isaacson (Steve Jobs). Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
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E-books and audio books on the Web site of the New York Public Library. Publishers are waiting for an industrywide approach to e-lending to gel. Continue reading at The New York Times
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The website offering resources for National Libraries Day, the national day to celebrate... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Ealier this month, Ziff Davis Enterprise [ZDE] completed a significant step in its OmniDigital strategy, rolled out earlier this year. Continue reading at Folio Magazine
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E-books are expected to account for 17% of Simon & Schuster's total revenue in 2011,... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Health and fitness publisher Rodale is bringing in a new executive to oversee the digital division it created as part of October's shakeup. Former Barnes & Noble GM Anthony Astarita will become Rodale's general manager of digital and new brand development, one of three divisions CEO Maria... Continue reading at AdWeek
[ AdWeek | 2011-12-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Eighty publishers have joined the Independent Publishers Guild this year, with digital companies... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Publishers are planning to up their marketing campaigns over the crucial festive period,... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Trinity Mirror has restructured the management structure across its regional division and is creating 20 new digital positions as it looks to increase its focus on digital publishing and streamline its reporting structure. Continue reading at Media Week
[ Media Week | 2011-12-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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