The future of the Brontë Parsonage Museum is at risk following an estimated loss of £500,000 during lockdown, the Brontë Society has said. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'
[ The Bookseller | 2020-09-01 03:33:28 UTC ]
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Instagram's cautious roll-out of its in-stream ads is now underway.U.S. users who open the app in the coming week will see an "educational ad" from Instagram itself, according to a blog post. Confirmed advertisers to follow it are Adidas, Ben & Jerry's, Burberry, General Electric, Levi's,... Continue reading at Advertising Age
[ Advertising Age | 2013-10-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Concern is mounting among the publishing community, in London and elsewhere, over a possible relocation of the London Book Fair to the ExCel Exhibition Centre in Docklands, the far east of the capital. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2013-10-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Library campaigners have reacted angrily to new government guidance which offers advice for... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2013-10-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Helen Fielding's new Bridget Jones novel, Mad About the Boy (Jonathan Cape), has become one... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2013-10-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Just two weeks after announcing a $50 million dollar round of funding, mobile news reader Flipboard revealed growth numbers that may explain investors' eagerness to get behind it.The company now claims 90 million users, a jump from the 85 million Flipboard CEO Mike McCue confirmed early last... Continue reading at Advertising Age
[ Advertising Age | 2013-10-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
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In the waning weeks of summer, debut titles began to populate the top spots on the international bestseller lists. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2013-09-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Quercus has recorded a 10.9% rise in turnover to £10.2m for the six months to end June 2013... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2013-09-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Rep. Anna Eshoo (D-Calif.), ranking member of the House subcommittee on communications and technology, just made Wednesday's upcoming hearing interesting by publishing a discussion draft of a bill intended to eliminate TV blackouts caused by retransmission consent disputes. The bill, nicknamed... Continue reading at AdWeek
[ AdWeek | 2013-09-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Even as federal antitrust lawyers proposed a slight reduction in their proposed penalties in the Apple ebook case, they stepped up their criticism of the company for continuing to insist it did nothing wrong. Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2013-08-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
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“I’ll corroborate what you’ve probably been hearing,” says Abrams CEO Michael Jacobs, when asked to discuss the state of digital publishing in the art and photo book market. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2013-08-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The LSU Libraries' Special Collections division was recently awarded $210,000 from the National Endowment for the Humanities, or NEH, to digitize an additional 100,000 pages of Louisiana newspapers published from 1836 through 1922. This marks ... Continue reading at Editor & Publisher
[ Editor & Publisher | 2013-08-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Online writing community Wattpad has launched a fan funding experiment to allow members to pledge... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2013-08-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The Quarto Group reported a small decline in sales for the six month period ended June 30, with revenue falling to $72.2 million from $73.2 million in the comparable period last year, while operating profit inched ahead to $4.0 million from $3.9 million. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2013-08-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Inkling, which helps publishers make interactive books for the Web and iOS, has raised $16 million in Series C funding led by Sequoia Capital, just about exactly two years after it raised slightly more than that -- $17 million -- in Series B funding from the same investors. The San Francisco... Continue reading at AllThingsD
[ AllThingsD | 2013-07-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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NEW YORK -- Apple Inc. conspired to raise the prices of ebooks, a judge ruled Wednesday morning, after a trial in which the Department of Justice accused the technology giant of aggressively pressuring publishers to raise prices and weaken Amazon.com. Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2013-07-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Waterstones is to pull out of its Wakefield shopping centre location when the mall redevelops... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2013-06-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The Boy Scouts of America are cutting more than 30 positions from the staff of its two flagship magazines—Boy's Life and Continue reading at Folio Magazine
[ Folio Magazine | 2013-06-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Magnify, a video distribution and curation startup, has raised $1 million from a group of investors that includes TED conference producer Chris Anderson and Chris Kelly, Facebook's former chief privacy officer. Magnify, which has previously raised $4.2 million over five years, helps publishers... Continue reading at AllThingsD
[ AllThingsD | 2013-06-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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As print magazine and book publishers struggle to stay afloat, Not Safe For Work, a print magazine and news startup in Las Vegas, has raised $250,000 in seed funding from Base Ventures, VentureWire has learned. The company offers a monthly print ma ... Continue reading at Editor & Publisher
[ Editor & Publisher | 2013-06-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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NEW YORK -- Apple and major publishers conspired in a scheme to fix prices on ebooks, costing consumers hundreds of millions of dollars, a U.S. Justice Department attorney argued during the first day of a marquee antitrust trial. Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2013-06-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
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