The Lad Bible has been experimenting with Facebook Live for the past two months across its portfolio and is ramping up output to four a week, plus putting in place a dedicated Facebook Live team. The videos are getting views in the millions, outreaching many publishers that weren’t born on Facebook, like Lad Bible was. The live element is what excited the publisher, which has peak viewers of 65,000 people. It also increases viewer’s likelihood to share their emotions. The post ‘People have shown up for the party’: How the Lad Bible uses Facebook Live appeared first on Digiday. Continue reading at 'Digiday'
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Condé Nast's is closing its Easy Living print edition, despite being the only paid-for glossy magazine from a major publisher to increase its circulation in the last six months of 2012. Continue reading at Media Week
[ Media Week | 2013-05-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The United States celebrated World Book Night on April 23, which meant that over 25,000 volunteers throughout the country handed out half a million free books to promote reading. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2013-04-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
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You might use Google Translate to read a hard-to-find Manga comic book or to decipher an obscure recipe for authentic Polish blintzes. Continue reading at Stuff
[ Stuff | 2013-04-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Publishing houses are Germany's intellectual backbone. For many years, they created a culture of literary abundance and generated healthy profits. But in the age of Amazon, ebooks and self-publishing, they could be facing demise. Continue reading at ABC News
[ ABC News | 2013-03-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Three boys who were camping in Queensland, Australia, escaped from quicksand using information gained in a book. Continue reading at The Christian Science Monitor
[ The Christian Science Monitor | 2013-03-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
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In the UK a new ebook platform Boosh will allow readers to share an ebook with a fellow Facebook user to read for free after its read and deleted from their own account. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2013-03-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Simon & Schuster Children's Books is to run a live-streamed author event with horror... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2013-02-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Outside of photos and status updates, Facebook's original shareable content was game activity. So-and-so just planted a new crop, etc. Next Facebook rolled out the Like button, and news articles became popular. Then Facebook debuted its Open Graph in fall 2011 so that someone could listen to a... Continue reading at AdWeek
[ AdWeek | 2013-02-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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David Carey, president of Hearst Magazines, sat down with AllThingsD's Peter Kafka to kick off Day 2 of D:Dive Into Media here in Dana Point, California, with the interview centering on Carey's take on how digital magazines are working out in a world that seems less and less intrigued by... Continue reading at Engadget
[ Engadget | 2013-02-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Despite what you have read, probably online, print isn't dead insists the magazine exec, speaking at D: Dive Into Media. Hearst's digital subscriptions are also up to 900,000. Continue reading at AllThingsD
[ AllThingsD | 2013-02-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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You want an idea to survive hundreds or thousands of years? Step one: Don’t write it on paper. Alexander Konta believed this deeply. Paper yellows and withers and crumbles; it is the printed form of Alzheimer’s. “Why not make [text] imperishable by photographing the written word after it has... Continue reading at Fast Company
[ Fast Company | 2013-01-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Born out of a British book and funded by Hollywood, The Hobbit is also a movie that has its heart in New Zealand. Continue reading at Stuff
[ Stuff | 2012-11-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Mobile reading may revive entire genres of literature, such as mid-length novels and poems, which have fallen out of favor. Continue reading at The Atlantic
[ The Atlantic | 2012-11-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The PBS Off Book series interviews creators and collectors about their favorite analog formats. Continue reading at The Atlantic
[ The Atlantic | 2012-11-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The battle to keep online advertising yields and returns high in a market of infinite volume and little scarcity rages on. But some publishers are deciding that it's not their fellow broadcasters, magazines and newspaper who are the problem but t ... Continue reading at Editor & Publisher
[ Editor & Publisher | 2012-09-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
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June saw UK retail sales rising 1.4% year-on-year on a like-for-like basis, with sales up 3.5% on... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2012-07-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The Hotel Indigo tries a two-week experiment with leaving Bible-loaded Kindles in hotel rooms instead of paper Bibles. Continue reading at The Christian Science Monitor
[ The Christian Science Monitor | 2012-07-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
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IDG Enterprise looks to better serve their advertisers with the launch of its Premium Data Services, a portfolio of products that will integrate both first and third party data for ad clients looking to more deeply understand their target audiences. Continue reading at Folio Magazine
[ Folio Magazine | 2012-06-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
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British journalist Richard Lloyd Parry skillfully goes beyond the headlines in the 2000 disappearance of fellow Brit Lucie Blackman in Tokyo. It is a dark, unforgettable ride.People Who Eat Darkness Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2012-06-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Self-published writers who have an agent, or who use the DIY route to get a traditional deal... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2012-05-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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