Medium is recruiting sports publications, leagues, teams and athletes to use its publishing platform. Italian soccer A.S. Roma plans to run two publications on Medium: one covering the team and another for its captain’s final season. Roma sees Medium as a way to reach new audiences, especially those who speak Arabic. Meanwhile, sports publishers like Medium’s ease of use as well as the fact that it’s free, allowing them to devote resources elsewhere. The post ‘Network effect’: Why Medium is courting the sports world appeared first on Digiday. Continue reading at 'Digiday'
[ Digiday | 2016-06-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
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A ruling by the District Court in Berlin has put an end to one of the most acrimonious power struggles in the history of German publishing and secured the future of one of the country’s best-known literary publishers - Suhrkamp. The company can finally now go ahead with much needed reforms,... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2014-10-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
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HarperCollins has launched HarperCollins Presents, a global podcast network that incorporates the publisher’s existing podcast programs such as BookD and HarperAudio Presents. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-10-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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On October 17, the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals reversed and remanded a key fair-use ruling in a long-running case over digital course readings on college campuses. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-10-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The 11th Circuit Court of Appeals last Friday reversed a lower court’s fair use finding in the GSU e-reserves case. But as the dust settles, library supporters says the 129-page decision may not be the significant blow publishers had hoped for. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-10-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The UK publishing market led the world in terms of the number of new titles published relative to population size in 2013, as well as in 2013 export revenue, according to new figures from the International Publishing Association (IPA). Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2014-10-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Last month Facebook analyzed a user meme looking at '10 books that have stayed with you.' Now the company's data scientists have done another analysis looking at responses from foreign-language users and have found some different results. Continue reading at The Christian Science Monitor
[ The Christian Science Monitor | 2014-10-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Roy Keane and Roddy Doyle will be among the big names appearing at the second London Sports Writing Festival, taking place next week at Lord's Cricket Ground. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2014-10-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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What are publishers doing in Namibia, Jordan, Senegal and Indonesia? We interview four publishers at the Frankfurt Book Fair to find out. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2014-10-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Facebook is taking the wraps off its mobile ad network after saying the early results helped lead to big gains for apps like Shazam and game makers like Glu Mobile, the developer behind Kim Kardashian: Hollywood. The company said today that the Facebook Audience Network is now open to all... Continue reading at AdWeek
[ AdWeek | 2014-10-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Akashic Books is teaming with 'The Nation' sports writer David Zirin, to launch Edge of Sports Books, a new imprint devoted to sports titles with a progressive political slant. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-10-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
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A look inside Gabriele Galimberti's 'In Her Kitchen,' portraits of grandmothers from all over the world, who posed with their favorite dishes. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-10-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
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At Thursday's Future of Digital Sports Media panels during Advertising Week, the topic of abundance kept coming up: the ever-expanding array of content platforms and networks, a national appetite for live sports programming that shows no signs of satiation, and the rapidly diversifying... Continue reading at Advertising Age
[ Advertising Age | 2014-10-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Outbrain and Taboola are doing battle over the real estate at the bottom of article pages, and premium publishers are cashing in. The post Publishers reap the rewards of content ad network bidding wars appeared first on Digiday. Continue reading at Digiday
[ Digiday | 2014-10-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The social network has built a formidable group of former journalist and publishing execs to forge partnerships with media companies new and old. The post How Facebook is courting publishers appeared first on Digiday. Continue reading at Digiday
[ Digiday | 2014-09-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Penguin Books for Young Readers will launch a Cartoon Network imprint that will include books tied to existing and future Cartoon Network–owned shows and serve as a launchpad for new content. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-09-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The European Union's highest court has ruled that libraries can digitize books without the permission of copyright holders. The court argues that libraries have the right to provide free information to the public and don't need to obtain licensing if they want to make books available to users... Continue reading at The Christian Science Monitor
[ The Christian Science Monitor | 2014-09-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Medium now has Substance. The popular publishing platform recently started hosting Substance, a new student publication at Mt. San Antonio College that doubles as a totally reinvented version of The Mountaineer campus newspaper. It is the first ... Continue reading at Editor & Publisher
[ Editor & Publisher | 2014-09-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) has ruled that libraries have the right to digitize books and distribute them to dedicated reading terminals without first obtaining the publisher's permission. The decision rests on exceptions built... Continue reading at Engadget
[ Engadget | 2014-09-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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In a directive issued this week, a European Union court held that European libraries can digitize works in their collections but, without an explicit exception by a member state, are limited to displaying digitized works at dedicated reading terminals. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-09-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
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European libraries may digitize books and make them available at electronic reading points without first gaining consent of the copyright holder, the highest European Union court ruled Thursday.The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) ruled in a case in which the Technical University of... Continue reading at PC World
[ PC World | 2014-09-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
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