In a b-to-b twist on the e-commerce craze, Penton launched an online auction site that can scale across all the verticals the company targets. Continue reading at 'Folio Magazine'
[ Folio Magazine | 2012-01-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Booktrust will next Monday (1st December) launch an online advent calendar to raise money for books for vulnerable children, featuring authors Malorie Blackman, Julia Donaldson and Chris Riddell. Each day a picture of a celebrity or author will appear behind a calendar window with a... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2014-11-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Curtis Brown is launching an online book group, offering readers the chance to get “a sneak preview of work from some of the agency’s most exciting new and undiscovered authors” just ahead of publication. Applications for readers for the group, the first online reading group to be hosted by a... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2014-11-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The cookbook specialty retailer was one of the first independent, niche online bookstores. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-11-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Oyster, the ebook subscription service, is launching the 'Oyster Review,' an online literary journal that will publish original material on books and writing. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-11-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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With The Pages Project, a designer of early ebooks revels in the inky, intimate musings from the margins of used books.Erik Schmitt's obsession with marginalia—handwritten scribbles or notes in the margins of books—began after he inherited a chunk of his grandfather's library. Handwritten in the... Continue reading at Fast Company
[ Fast Company | 2014-11-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The new consumer website will feature contributions from Scribner authors and editors, as well as from other Simon & Schuster imprints. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-11-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Amazon.com has won a private auction for the right to run the .book domain name, according to Domain Name Wire. The e-commerce giant beat off competition from eight other companies who applied for the domain name, including Google and Bowker, according to the report. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2014-11-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Despite opposition from the AAP, Amazon.com has won the right to operate the .book top-level domain name in a private auction. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-11-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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But he doesn't provide any figures to back up his positive claims about subscriber totalsThe Times "is delivering both volume and higher revenue per subscriber", says the News Corp chief executive and former Times editor Robert Thomson.He added: "Digital, which already accounts for nearly... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2014-11-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
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French trade publication Livres Hebdo has scrapped its monthly distance print book sales barometer, which measured online and mail order sales, as an indirect result of Amazon’s refusal to provide any of its data to market research agencies. This refusal prompted Fnac, the largest cultural... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2014-11-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The PEN American Center is putting 75 one-of-a-kind first editions, annotated by America's most famous authors and poets, on the block. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-10-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Given that links appear to be more clickable when shared on Facebook, online publishers have scrambled to become savvy gamers of Facebook’s News Feed, seeking to divine the secret rules that push some stories higher than others. But all this genuflection at the altar of Facebook’s algorithms may... Continue reading at Wired
[ Wired | 2014-10-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Seventeen authors—including Ian McEwan, Julian Barnes (pictured), Zadie Smith and Hanif Kureishi—are auctioning off the chance for readers to have a character named after them in a forthcoming published work. The venture will raise money for Freedom from Torture, a medical charity which... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2014-10-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The much-maligned and little-clicked banner ad is 20 years old. We talk with its creators about the glory days of online ad innovation.Contrary to lore, there was no "first" banner ad. When HotWired, Wired magazine's digital arm, launched 20 years ago, it did so with not one, but many, banner... Continue reading at Fast Company
[ Fast Company | 2014-10-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Ebury imprint Vermilion is to publish GRIT: Passion, Perseverance and the Science of Success, after winning a “hotly contested auction”. The book, by Angela Duckworth, was one of the big books of this year’s Frankfurt Book Fair. Vemilion publishing director Susanna Abbott bought UK and... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2014-10-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Online writing site Wattpad has partnered with Toronto's International Festival of Authors (... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2014-09-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The organization formerly known as the Online Publishers Association (OPA) has announced a new name, Digital Content Next, a rebrand that signals a renewed focus on defining and confronting critical, big picture issues that its members face when crea ... Continue reading at Editor & Publisher
[ Editor & Publisher | 2014-09-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Penguin Random House’s crime community Dead Good Books and Specsavers have teamed up for #... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2014-09-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
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DoubleDown Interactive, the company behind the popular gambling app DoubleDown Casino, placed its early marketing and media bets on Facebook. It's worked. But as its bettors shift to mobile gambling from desktops, in sync with consumers' migration to mobile devices for all sorts of daily... Continue reading at Advertising Age
[ Advertising Age | 2014-08-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Illustrator Leigh Hodgkinson and her publisher Nosy Crow have launched a charity auction to raise... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2014-08-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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