Now Is the Time to Finally Close the Digital Divide

The incoming president of the Association of Rural & Small Libraries argues that Covid-19 has shown us the urgent need for a national broadband strategy and a more equitable, sustainable digital library market. Continue reading at 'Publishers Weekly'

[ Publishers Weekly | 2020-11-20 05:00:00 UTC ]
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‘Reach and return': The Financial Times is making its paywall leakier

Typically it's tougher for paywalled publishers to capitalize on the additional scale the likes of third-party platforms like Facebook can offer. But the Financial Times is "experimenting in earnest" with new ways to unlock the reach potential of the major platforms, but without undermining its... Continue reading at Digiday

[ Digiday | 2016-03-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Barnes and Noble to close its Nook ebook store in the UK

Barnes and Noble has decided to lay down its arms and stop competing with Amazon for ebook and e-reader sales in the UK. The bookstore operator has announced it will stop selling digital content, including fiction and non-fiction, magazines and video... Continue reading at Engadget

[ Engadget | 2016-03-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Digital and Data Drive Growth in Fulfillment Services

Non-traditional products and services are key for fulfillment providers, publishing clients alike, according to the 2016 Fulfillment Services Bureau Survey. The post Digital and Data Drive Growth in Fulfillment Services appeared first on Folio:. Continue reading at Folio Magazine

[ Folio Magazine | 2016-03-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Free Speech, Digital Piracy Headline AAP Annual Meeting

A collection of speakers at the Tuesday event discussed suppression of free speech in public schools, the protection of intellectual property, and how some educational software is now being crafted in the form of social media. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2016-03-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Hachette to acquire Perseus' publishing arm, finally

Hachette will acquire Perseus' publishing arm, both publishers announced Tuesday. The deal is the culmination of an effort that started and was stopped in 2014 when details proved too complicated. Now things have been simplified by separating Perseus' publishing business from its distribution... Continue reading at Los Angeles Times

[ Los Angeles Times | 2016-03-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Time Inc. is trying to win over millennial women

Time Inc. has had a string of acquisitions and launches aimed at young women over the past year, from HelloGiggles to homegrown startups Mimi and Motto. Like the publishing giant itself, the Gen Y strategy reflects the awareness that young people aren’t all alike. So each site targets audiences... Continue reading at Digiday

[ Digiday | 2016-02-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Narbonne topples Fairfax to reach first City Section Open Division final

Harbor City Narbonne basketball Coach Anthony Hilliard is always smiling while wearing a suit and tie at games. Nothing seems to faze him, even when seemingly half of his team was busy playing for the state champion football team. He knew those players eventually would return, get into basketball... Continue reading at Los Angeles Times

[ Los Angeles Times | 2016-02-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Barnes & Noble to launch 'digital-physical' store

Barnes and Noble has revealed plans to launch a new "prototype" store later this year, a US conference has heard. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2016-02-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Good Book Guide closes, subscriber list moves to Lovereading

The subscriber list and review archive for mail-order book business the Good Book Guide has been acquired by book review and recommendation site Lovereading, following a “turbulent” decade for the Guide. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2016-02-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Final Umberto Eco book publication pushed forward after author's death

Pape Satàn Aleppe: Chronicles of a Liquid Society is a collection of essays that was originally set to be published in May 2016The release date of the final book by the Italian novelist Umberto Eco, who died on 19 February, has been pushed forward from May 2016 to come out this weekend in... Continue reading at The Guardian

[ The Guardian | 2016-02-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The Art of the Publisher by Roberto Calasso review – a timely insight into the identity of a publishing house

An important riposte to digital culture, these essays by the Italian publisher and author argue that a publisher’s list is a literary work in its own rightThis collection of essays by the Italian author and publisher Roberto Calasso, translated by Richard Dixon, is a paean to publishing. Calasso... Continue reading at The Guardian

[ The Guardian | 2016-02-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Digitization First: Russia’s Moscow and St. Petersburg Libraries

The Russian government has embarked on a plan to merge the collections of the St. Petersburg and Moscow State Libraries. The post Digitization First: Russia’s Moscow and St. Petersburg Libraries appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives

[ Publishing Perspectives | 2016-02-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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How Ozy leans on The New York Times and Wired to build its newsletter subscriptions

"A rising tide raises all boats" is the new distribution strategy for many publishers. While many sites have inked cross-promotion deals to get their content on other publishers' Facebook page, millennial news site Ozy is targeting partners' inboxes. With its co-branded emails, Ozy is... Continue reading at Digiday

[ Digiday | 2016-02-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Rights Platforms: Can Digital Match the Human Touch?

Calling rights agents, directors, scouts: With the rise of digital rights platforms, what happens to the person-to-person nature of publishing rights transactions? We'd like to hear from you. The post Rights Platforms: Can Digital Match the Human Touch? appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives

[ Publishing Perspectives | 2016-02-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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TV War and Peace puts Tolstoy's book on bestseller list for first time

Epic novel, whose length has long discouraged readers, has made it on to the Bookseller’s top 50 after the BBC’s acclaimed new adaptationBritain is racing to address the fact that only 4% of Britons have read War and Peace, with Leo Tolstoy’s doorstopping epic entering the UK’s book charts for... Continue reading at The Guardian

[ The Guardian | 2016-02-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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What’s in a name? With growth, digital publishers face tough branding questions

New digital media companies have to figure out how to scale an audience, but along the way, they face crucial branding decisions. The Huffington Post grew to top 100 million monthly uniques by stretching its mother brand across myriad subject areas, but Bustle and Vox Media say individual brands... Continue reading at Digiday

[ Digiday | 2016-02-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Time buys MySpace parent

Time Inc. is the latest old-media giant to add new-media has-been MySpace to its portfolio. The New York publishing company of Sports Illustrated, People, InStyle and Entertainment Weekly has acquired Viant Technology Inc., an Irvine, California, ad-tech company that owns MySpace. Time (NYSE:... Continue reading at Silicon Valley Business Journal

[ Silicon Valley Business Journal | 2016-02-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Cengage ups the digital ante

Being “late to the party” in terms of digital development is not proving a disadvantage for Cengage Learning as it transforms from textbook publisher to education technology company, according to its bullish c.e.o. Michael Hansen. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2016-02-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Tough Times For Men’s Magazines

Have we returned to the days when mass-circ men's magazines were an oxymoron? The post Tough Times For Men’s Magazines appeared first on Folio:. Continue reading at Folio Magazine

[ Folio Magazine | 2016-02-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Another first for the Independent as it plots a digital-only future

Meanwhile, Evgeny Lebedev’s rival newspaper publishers must go on riding two horses galloping in opposite directions The switch from print to screen is well advanced. Plenty of newspapers in the US have made the move or are in the process of doing so by reducing the number of days in which they... Continue reading at The Guardian

[ The Guardian | 2016-02-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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