O'Reilly Donating Millions to Tech Education

O'Reilly Media and Safari Books Online are donating over $100 million in "educational content and tools" to K-12 schools across the U.S. Continue reading at 'Publishers Weekly'

[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-02-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Cengage Learning among bidders for McGraw-Hill Education

Cengage Learning is among the companies that have put in initial bids for McGraw-Hill... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2012-08-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
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News Corp launches Amplify educational unit, with help from AT&T (video)

In light of recent scandals, it's hard not to see this as a bit of image rehabilitation, but we'll do our best to take it at face value. News Corp is bringing its 18-month-old educational division to the fore by rebranding it Amplify and teaming up with AT&T to put tablets in the hands of... Continue reading at Engadget

[ Engadget | 2012-07-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Department for Education backing Reading for Pleasure

Representatives from across the industry met yesterday (19th July) to discuss reading for... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2012-07-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Erotic book passes million mark

Erotic book Fifty Shades of Grey has become the fastest adult paperback novel to sell one million print copies, smashing previous records. Continue reading at BBC News

[ BBC News | 2012-06-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Fifty Shades fastest to a million, obliterates records

All three books in E L James' Fifty Shades trilogy (Arrow) last week surpassed the single... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2012-06-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
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EL James hits one million mark on Kindle in UK

EL James has been revealed as Amazon.co.uk’s bestselling ebook author ever, with her debut... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2012-06-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Unified Scores $10 Million from Conde Nast Parent Advance Publications

It looks to be a good time for tech investments, with enterprise marketing company Unified receiving $10 million from Conde Nast parent company Advance Publications. Continue reading at Folio Magazine

[ Folio Magazine | 2012-06-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Future plc iPad App Sales Hit $5 Million Since Newsstand Debut

In its interim statement for its fiscal half-year ending March 2012, enthusiast publisher Future plc is reporting a quickly growing digital operation. Continue reading at Folio Magazine

[ Folio Magazine | 2012-05-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The Atavist Lands $1.5 Million in Funding

Long form digital journalism publisher and app developer The Atavist secured a round of funding worth $1.5 million. The first million was confirmed last week, while founder Evan Ratliff says the rest is committed and “will happen over the coming weeks.” Continue reading at Folio Magazine

[ Folio Magazine | 2012-05-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Daunt: 'tens of millions' going into Waterstones refit

The Waterstones decision to sell Amazon Kindles and ebooks has provoked widespread discussion in... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2012-05-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Microsoft Invests $300 Million in Upcoming Barnes & Noble Subsidiary

After announcing plans to possibly spin off its NOOK business in January, Barnes & Noble enters into a partnership with Microsoft. The tech company invested $300 million in the new subsidiary (currently under the working title NewCo), a post-money valuation of $1.7 billion, equating to a... Continue reading at Folio Magazine

[ Folio Magazine | 2012-05-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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[ Betanews | 2012-04-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
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CUP repositions education publishing

Cambridge University Press’ Education publishing arm has been renamed International... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2012-04-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Vatican, Bodleian Libraries will publish millions of ancient texts online

Works that will be available for perusal will include Gutenberg's Bible, believed to be the first text ever printed. Continue reading at The Christian Science Monitor

[ The Christian Science Monitor | 2012-04-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Hughes to help HarperCollins 'grow Education'

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[ The Bookseller | 2012-04-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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RR Donnelley Invests $2.5 Million in CoffeeTable

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[ Folio Magazine | 2012-04-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
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RR Donnelley Invests $2.5 Million in Catalog App

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[ Folio Magazine | 2012-04-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
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[ Editor & Publisher | 2012-03-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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A regional NSW company that was on track to becoming extinct has emerged as a global digital photo printing powerhouse, selling $20 Facebook photo books to customers in over 80 countries including Afghanistan. Continue reading at The Sydney Morning Herald

[ The Sydney Morning Herald | 2012-02-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Libraries, Tech-Smart Authors, and the Coming Digital Apocalypse

Whatever else can be said about Tools of Change, O’Reilly Media’s traveling road show on publishing and technological change, it seems to come along just when a concentrated dose of discussion—or perhaps muted confrontation—is needed. Over the course of the three-day conference in New York City,... Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2012-02-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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