Initial reviews for David Lagercrantz’s The Girl in the Spider’s Web (MacLehouse), the fourth novel in the late Stieg Larsson’s Millennium series, have been largely favourable, with the Telegraph giving the book four stars and the Guardian saying “Lagercrantz has constructed an elegant plot”. The book centres on characters Lisbeth Salander, the hacker who gave the series’ first book its title – The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo – and on journalist Mikael Blomkvist. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'
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Word-of-mouth has long been a driver of small business success (and failure), and these days it takes the form of online customer reviews. But the relative anonymity provided by the Web has added a new wrinkle: review fraud. In fact, fake reviews have been a real problem on Yelp. Last fall the... Continue reading at PC World
[ PC World | 2013-09-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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It may be astonishing that a print publication devoted to book reviews still exists, but it does — and Kirkus Reviews wants to give you a free literary trip to NYC. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2013-09-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Storify, a digital storytelling tool used by journalists to surface conversations that originate on social media, has been acquired by the Web publishing services company Livefyre. Livefyre plans to fold Storify into its StreamHub product, which offers Web publishers tools for commenting, live... Continue reading at AdWeek
[ AdWeek | 2013-09-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
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SAN FRANCISCO — As part of its increasingly aggressive moves to get more people to use Google+ and to keep Facebook and Twitter from dominating the social networking business, Google is rolling out two new tools that it says will help authors and publishers build a bigger audience on the Web. Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2013-09-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Benchmarks are the best way to gauge a notebook’s prowess with applications such as office suites, photo and video editors, video players, games, and the like. Aesthetics are another important consideration, because you'll likely be staring at the thing for the next several years. By those... Continue reading at PC World
[ PC World | 2013-08-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Fake web traffic has long plagued the online publishing world, but Dr. Paul Barford, computer science professor at the University of Wisconsin, is claiming the problem might be worse than suspected. And it's costing some of the top online adverti ... Continue reading at Editor & Publisher
[ Editor & Publisher | 2013-08-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The Bookseller's fiction previewer Cathy Rentzenbrink writes... Having just finished The... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2013-07-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Publishers including Maxim, Radar Online, Guitar World and USA Today Sports Media are experimenting with a pay wall that instead of charging readers requires them to watch an advertiser's video. The tactic, which uses a system ... Continue reading at Editor & Publisher
[ Editor & Publisher | 2013-07-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Melbourne, FL – Atex, a leading supplier of Content Management, Advertising and Audience workflow solutions (www.atex.com), is pleased to announce that Omnipress, provider of educational content solutions for associations, has released its ... Continue reading at Editor & Publisher
[ Editor & Publisher | 2013-07-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
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This morning Upworthy.com, which crested at 30 million unique visitors in May thanks to a runaway viral hit, announced that they've started piloting sponsored posts to generate revenue, and shared with Fast Company a bit of their secret sauce. Founded 14 months ago by Moveon.org's Eli Pariser... Continue reading at Fast Company
[ Fast Company | 2013-07-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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This portable app's website says "Bright Snippet Sire," but everybody calls this open-source favorite Briss for…er…short. Briss crops a section of a PDF file and creates another PDF file of the cropped area. You can crop unwanted areas from PDFs with Briss. It's free, open-source, and portable,... Continue reading at PC World
[ PC World | 2013-06-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Library campaigners are braced for a further round of cuts as the Government unveils the latest... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2013-06-26 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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The Daily Mail's consultant literary editor Jane Mays has predicted that reviewing... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2013-06-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Esquire, Hearst's monthly men's magazine, has revamped its website, in the first step of the brand's digital strategy overhaul. Continue reading at Media Week
[ Media Week | 2013-06-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
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While a high-calibre jury of writers and critics ponders the nominees for this year's Children's Book Awards, we have asked the true experts. Continue reading at Stuff
[ Stuff | 2013-06-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
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As publishers migrate beyond the first phase of the ebook revolution, the IDPF's Digital Book Conference on Wednesday will address ebooks on the web, tablets, phones and more. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2013-05-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Stuff is teaming up with the NZ Post Children Books Awards in an initiative to promote the importance of books and reading, and to inspire New Zealand's future writers and illustrators. Continue reading at Stuff
[ Stuff | 2013-05-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
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A key U.S. lawmaker has unveiled plans for a comprehensive review of the laws surrounding copyright in the United States to determine whether they are still relevant in the digital age.Bob Goodlatte, a Virginia Republican and chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, said Wednesday that his... Continue reading at PC World
[ PC World | 2013-04-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Only newspapers have been given up for dead more often than magazines. But though their print cousins continue to lose advertising at a brisk clip, some magazine publishers are trumpeting a turnaround few could have foreseen in the dark days of 2008 and 2009, when nearly 1,000 titles shut... Continue reading at Crains New York
[ Crains New York | 2013-04-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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