More Tablet Owners Want Free Apps, With Ads, Instead of Paid

Both the number of people who use tablets and usage per tablet user are exploding. But tablet users' appetite for paid apps isn't following the trend.   A new study commissioned by the Online Publishers Association found that 54% of tabl ... Continue reading at 'Editor & Publisher'

[ Editor & Publisher | 2012-06-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
News tagged with: #free apps #tablet user #tablet users #study commissioned

Other Publishing stories related to: 'More Tablet Owners Want Free Apps, With Ads, Instead of Paid'


Authors call out John Lewis for 'similarities' between Christmas ad and children's books

John Lewis' Christmas advert has come under fire as author and former bookseller Jen Campbell highlighted the similarities between the advert and her children’s book Franklin’s Flying Bookshop (Thames & Hudson). Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2019-11-18 10:24:18 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with: #christmas advert #authors call #john lewis #christmas ad #bookshop #children’s book #bookseller


Politico owner rolls out new tech-focused media venture

Politico Publisher and media executive Robert Allbritton is launching a new digital media and events company it's dubbed Protocol, focused on “people, power and politics of tech,” bringing on high-profile names to run the latest entry in an increasingly competitive landscape. The new company,... Continue reading at Silicon Valley Business Journal

[ Silicon Valley Business Journal | 2019-11-13 17:43:49 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with: #digital media


Nestlé Is Doubling Down on Ad Tech

Nestl?, the consumer-packaged-goods parent of such brands as Gerber, Poland Spring and Haagen-Dazs, recently unveiled its Global Digital Media Center of Competencies (DCoC), which brings together all of its agencies to deliver greater transparency in its media investments. It makes sense,... Continue reading at AdWeek

[ AdWeek | 2019-11-13 11:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with: #ad tech #recently unveiled #makes sense #ad spend #digital media


Digital Media’s Future Lies Beyond Ads and With Direct Consumer Revenue

The long-predicted digital media consolidation has finally come to pass. More than 100 online publishing companies are on pace to be sold this year, highlighted by the recent purchases of Refinery29, PopSugar and New York Magazine. The impetus for the sudden deal velocity is the direct result of... Continue reading at AdWeek

[ AdWeek | 2019-11-11 16:49:21 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with: #york magazine #direct result #online publishing #digital media


Was Oliver Wendell Holmes Right About Free Speech?

The director of the National Coalition Against Censorship reflects on the Supreme Court justice’s defense of freedom of expression. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2019-11-08 05:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with: #free speech #national coalition


HarperCollins partners with The Sun in free books for schools campaign

HarperCollins and newspaper The Sun have partnered up to hand out two million free books to school children across England, Wales and Northern Ireland.   Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2019-10-31 18:36:19 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with: #harpercollins partners #school children #northern ireland #harpercollins #free books


New scheme to offer free training for aspiring editors

A new scheme developed between The Literary Consultancy (TLC) and the Publishing Training Centre (PTC), funded by novelist Jude Cook, is helping to train aspiring editors in a series of free workshops and events. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2019-10-30 18:24:06 UTC ]
More news stories like this |


Benjamin Percy, owner of the most distinct voice in literature, reads Goodnight Moon.

On this All Hallow’s Eve eve, let Benjamin Percy, who has the most notable voice in American letters (if you don’t know what I’m talking about, smash that play button), lull you to sleep with a reading of the surprisingly controversial classic children’s book Goodnight Moon, which he posted on... Continue reading at Literrary Hub

[ Literrary Hub | 2019-10-30 15:15:53 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with: #american letters #play button #twitter today #children’s book


Vertebrate sends free Fantastic Female Adventurers book to schools

Indie publisher Vertebrate is sending out free copies of Lily Dyu’s Fantastic Female Adventurers to schools. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2019-10-30 13:16:08 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with: #free copies #lily dyu #indie publisher


Duolingo adds short stories to its language-learning iPhone app

Duolingo's library of interactive short stories is finally available for mobile, particularly for iPhones. The language-learning portal's Stories feature, which offers over 100 fully voiced bite-sized stories designed to test your reading and listeni... Continue reading at Engadget

[ Engadget | 2019-10-29 11:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with: #short stories


Little Free Library, Founder's Family Clash Over Organization's Direction

After Little Free Library, the Wisconsin nonprofit launched 10 years ago by the late Todd Bol, recently applied for three trademarks, Bol's family called foul, claiming that the literacy organization is dishonoring Bol's legacy. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2019-10-29 04:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with: #free library


BookLife Launches Paid Review Service for Self-Pubbed Books

BookLife, Publishers Weekly's website and monthly supplement dedicated to self-publishing, has launched BookLife Reviews, a paid reviews service open exclusively to self-published authors. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2019-10-29 04:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with: #self-published authors


A Glorious Picture Book Free-for-All: Spring 2020 Edition (shelftalker)

Booksellers talk color trends, tell terrible jokes, and happily sort through stacks of new books. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2019-10-25 12:00:47 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with: #picture book


WPP returns to growth and Facebook News offers publishers ‘free money’: Friday Wake-Up Call

Welcome to Ad Age’s Wake-Up Call, our daily roundup of advertising, marketing, media and digital news. If you're reading this online or in a forwarded email, here's the link to sign up for our Wake-Up Call newsletters. You can get an audio version of this briefing on your Alexa device; sign up... Continue reading at Advertising Age

[ Advertising Age | 2019-10-25 10:25:54 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with: #profits fell #anthony crupi #silicon valley #final season #parting gift #hearst


Facebook News debuts with 'free money' for publishers

Facebook opened a news hub today, where it pays publishers to host their headlines and drive visitors to their websites as a way to make amends with the industry that has been battered by the rise of the social network and other platforms. CEO Mark Zuckerberg is due to host media partners at an... Continue reading at Advertising Age

[ Advertising Age | 2019-10-25 10:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with: #extensively covered #dark side #measure audiences #wide range #driving forces #machine learning #hearst


Interactive storybook app Pickatale launches in UK

Pickatale, a mobile audiobook and storybook app for children aged 0–12, has launched in the UK. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2019-10-23 08:27:37 UTC ]
More news stories like this |


FutureBook Live to explore publishing freedom and free speech

Issues around publishing freedom and free speech are to be debated at FutureBook Live, with a panel of industry insiders, including publishers, agents and authors to discuss how today's political climate and the rise of social media has changed what is permissible and possible to publish today.   Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2019-10-22 22:49:03 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with: #futurebook live #free speech #publishing freedom #industry insiders #including publishers #political climate


Amazon's Fire tablets and Kindles are on sale for everyone

Last month, Amazon introduced some hefty discounts on its Fire tablets and Kindle e-readers, but those discounts were only available to Prime subscribers. Now, the company has made those savings available to all customers in the US, with up to $40 of... Continue reading at Engadget

[ Engadget | 2019-10-21 12:02:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with: #amazon introduced #fire tablets #kindle e-readers #prime subscribers #kindle


Tributes paid to 'inspiring' Deborah Orr after death aged 57

Tributes have been paid to "inspiring" author and journalist Deborah Orr after she died of cancer at the age of 57. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2019-10-21 07:10:47 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with: #tributes paid #deborah orr


Natural Light Seltzer runs first TV ads as it chases market leader White Claw

Anheuser-Busch InBev is putting more marketing muscle behind Natural Light Seltzer as the brewer tries to make up ground in the hot-selling category dominated by White Claw and Truly. The line extension, which hit stores in August, will run its first TV ads starting this weekend during college... Continue reading at Advertising Age

[ Advertising Age | 2019-10-18 21:39:48 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with: #senior director #ab inbev #ll continue #hard lemonade #nielsen data #bon viv #nielsen