Sainsbury's launches 99p ebook promotion

Sainsbury’s has launched a month-long promotion offering ebooks for 99p each. The... Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'

[ The Bookseller | 2013-10-02 00:00:00 UTC ]

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Introducing Our New eBook Collection: Advertising Age Essentials

Advertising Age's new eBook collection is informative, practical and easy to read. These guides, available on Amazon's Kindle, expertly cover current marketing topics and are designed to be a resource for marketers at every level, in any business.In "Winning with Facebook Advertising," readers... Continue reading at Advertising Age

[ Advertising Age | 2013-10-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Scribd CEO Aims for $1 Billion in Revenue from Ebook Subscriptions

Scribd formally launched ebook subscriptions today and the company CEO said he believes the service could eventually produce $1 billion in annual revenue. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives

[ Publishing Perspectives | 2013-10-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The Abomination of Ebooks: They Price People Out of Reading

The real problem with ebooks is that they're more 'e' than book, so an entirely different set of rules govern what someone can and can't do with them compared to physical books, especially when it comes to pricing. The collusion in pricing has been a public issue for a while, but we need to talk... Continue reading at Wired

[ Wired | 2013-10-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Scribd, HarperCollins Launch $8.99 Subscription Book Service

For a small monthly fee, consumers are used to getting unlimited access to all types of content: movies, TV shows, music, news, video games. Could that same model soon become popular in the world of publishing? Given the success of Netflix in video and Spotify in music, it's inevitable that... Continue reading at Fast Company

[ Fast Company | 2013-10-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Google Play Ebooks Expands to 9 New Asian Countries

Google has expanded Play ebook sales to Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam, and New Zealand. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives

[ Publishing Perspectives | 2013-09-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Random House Launches Curated Magazines on Flipboard

Random House has launched new magazines aimed at exploring worlds created by their authors. First up: Margaret Atwood and George R.R. Martin. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives

[ Publishing Perspectives | 2013-09-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
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R.I.P. @Horse_Ebooks, The Human–Run Twitter Bot That Fooled Us All

@Horse_ebooks is the Twitter account that, until today, spewed frequent bouts of eerily poetic nonsense to more than 213,000 followers: @Horse_ebooks was widely believed to be a Twitter bot whose tweets were sent out by a robot that scraped text from obscure parts of the Internet. That is, until... Continue reading at Fast Company

[ Fast Company | 2013-09-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Ebooks and Libraries in the Spanish-speaking World

In Mexico City librarians from Colombia, Mexico and Spain agreed there remained numerous challenges to libraries offering digital content and lending ebooks. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives

[ Publishing Perspectives | 2013-09-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Boyd's Solo novel launched at London's Dorchester Hotel

William Boyd signed seven copies of his heavily embargoed new Bond novel Solo (Jonathan Cape) to... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2013-09-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The Horse is a Lie: 'horse_ebooks' Twitter spam is performance art

Twitter is quite the medium. An endless source of looping GIFs, "viral" videos, and, sadly, bad advertising. Most of the latter category is quickly dismissed by the block and report spam features of Twitter, but the occasional spambot elevates its "craft" to a level of surreal bliss which begs... Continue reading at Engadget

[ Engadget | 2013-09-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Author Bryson urges ebook tie-up

Author Bill Bryson calls on publishers to give away ebooks with printed copies in order to tempt readers back to buying physical books. Continue reading at BBC World

[ BBC World | 2013-09-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Data Giant Acxiom Launches Data Management Platform

It's a day for launching advertiser tools: not just Tremor Video but data leviathan Acxiom, as well, is bringing a new tool to the digital marketplace, and where Tremor has extensive publisher relationships to leverage its new DSP, Acxiom has all the information anyone could ever want about more... Continue reading at AdWeek

[ AdWeek | 2013-09-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Tesco launches cut-price Hudl

Tesco has confirmed its widely anticipated tablet launch, bringing out "Hudl", a 7-inch... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2013-09-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Bodley Head and FT launch essay prize

The Bodley Head and the Financial Times have launched their annual essay prize. The award will... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2013-09-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Sage launches social science campaign

Sage has launched a transatlantic campaign with other social science bodies to raise awareness of... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2013-09-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Time Inc. Is Ready to Launch Its Ambitious New Video Strategy

Last November, then-Time Inc. CEO Laura Lang announced that the company was gearing up to launch a digital video unit complete with new studios and programming, plus a new leader in former Meredith video exec J.R. McCabe, Time Inc.’s first svp, video. It wasn’t exactly a revolutionary move—other... Continue reading at AdWeek

[ AdWeek | 2013-09-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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PA welcomes launch of IP crime unit

The City of London Police have launched an intellectual property crime unit backed by £2.5m... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2013-09-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Amazon has '79% of ebook market in UK'

An Ofcom study into consumers' digital consumption has found that Amazon has a dominant 79%... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2013-09-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Hanley Wood Launches TileExpo and International Surface Event East

Hanley Wood unveiled details for two new events, The International Surface Event East and TileExpo, in an effort designed to enhance the relationship between the flooring and surfaces i Continue reading at Folio Magazine

[ Folio Magazine | 2013-09-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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