Welcome to Ad Age's Wake-Up Call, our daily roundup of advertising, marketing, media and digital news. You can get an audio version of this briefing on your Alexa device. Search for "Ad Age" under "Skills" in the Alexa app. What people are talking about today: Time magazine is getting new ownership, again. Salesforce co-founder Marc Benioff and his wife, Lynne Benioff, are buying the venerable magazine from owner Meredith Corp. for $190 million, as Bloomberg News reports. Once the deal closes, the magazine will be a personal family holding, but the Benioffs say they won't take a role in journalism-related decisions. In a tweet, the Salesforce chairman and co-CEO called Time "a treasure trove of our history and culture."Can the Benioffs do for Time what Amazon CEO Bezos did for The Washington Post five years ago? As Vanity Fairrecently wrote, Bezos has been seen as the "shining hero of dead-tree media, the face that all struggling print publications see in their dreams at night."Meredith Corp., owner of Better Homes and Gardens, acquired Time Inc. earlier this year; it intends to shed some of Time Inc's most iconic titles because they don't fit Meredith's emphasis on lifestyle brands. Besides Time, what about the other former Time Inc. publications that Meredith is still trying to sell? Recode asks: "Are there any other billionaires out there to buy Fortune or Sports Illustrated?" Continue reading at AdAge.com Continue reading at 'Advertising Age'
[ Advertising Age | 2018-09-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Bloomsbury Children’s Books has acquired a new series for middle-grade readers from debut... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2014-03-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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In advance of today’s hearing before the U.S. House Committee on the Judiciary, RILA and NRF urge lawmakers to level the playing field. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-03-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Viral site’s CEO Eli Pariser talks curation, algorithms and data versus intuition in news publishing. By Stuart DredgeStuart Dredge Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2014-03-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
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In Dickens's day, serialized novels were all the rage. Rooster aims to revive that trend, making it easier than ever to find good books (and the time to read them).In the age of abbrevs., sitting down to read a novel can feel like gearing up for a marathon, no matter how much you love books. The... Continue reading at Fast Company
[ Fast Company | 2014-03-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Mondadori has acquired social reading service Anobii, which has more than a million users worldwide, with its strongest base in Italy. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-03-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Following a vociferous response by SCIBA members to the "L.A. Times" decision to exclude their stores from its Festival of Books website, IndieBound buy buttons will be added this week. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-03-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The film rights to Tom Rob Smith’s newly published The Farm (Simon & Schuster) have... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2014-03-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Tor in the UK and US have acquired a “thrilling” YA/adult fantasy adventure series.... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2014-03-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Simon and Schuster Children’s Books has acquired two novels for nine to 12-year-olds from... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2014-03-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Newsweek has a big scoop in print -- print! -- this week. The revived weekly has generated a significant amount of online buzz with its claims to have unmasked the creator of Bitcoin. Yesterday, as it happens, Time magazine unveiled its own splashy new Website. You'd be forgiven for asking... Continue reading at Digiday
[ Digiday | 2014-03-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Time Inc. has raided the digital world to land a new publisher for Fortune magazine, naming Eric Danetz to the post on Friday. Mr. Danetz had been chief revenue officer at Defy Media, the web video and branded entertainment company created when Break Media and Alloy Digital merged last fall.The... Continue reading at Advertising Age
[ Advertising Age | 2014-03-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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When the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books unveiled its list of participating authors on Tuesday, the event caused a stir among local booksellers who immediately noticed the list featured buy links to Amazon. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-03-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Egmont has bought two YA novels by Brighton-based author Lisa Heathfield. Fiction editorial... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2014-03-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Hot Key Books has bought UK and Ireland rights in We Are Liars, a YA novel from National Book... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2014-03-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
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In deal that unites two of the largest players in the digital college textbook field, Ingram’s VitalSource Technologies has acquired the assets of CourseSmart. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-03-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Signs from the UK Independent Publishers Guild conference signal a move toward bolder experiments with with content, DRM, and engagement to foster a brighter future. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2014-03-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
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News UK extends digital sport offering beyond Premier League and Champions League football, with BT retaining TV rightsSun and Times publisher News UK has snapped up the online and mobile clip rights to Aviva Premiership rugby, bolstering its online sports content following its aquisition of... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2014-02-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Haven't finished a book since college? Between work, family, and social lives, trying to find time to read can be more effort than relaxing hobby. Here's how to make more time for your favorite page-turners.Reading is one of the most pleasurable activities out there. On a scale of human... Continue reading at Fast Company
[ Fast Company | 2014-02-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Fran Hauser and John Cantarella, two top digital executives at Time Inc., are leaving the company ahead of its spinoff, each said this week.Ms. Hauser has spent 10 years with the publisher, rising to digital president of Time Inc.'s Style and Entertainment Group, which included People,... Continue reading at Advertising Age
[ Advertising Age | 2014-02-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Simon & Schuster UK has won the won the UK rights to two novels by journalist, director and... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2014-02-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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