There's always been a loyal base of listeners who download podcasts weekly, but thanks to the popularity of shows like Serial, more people are paying attention to the digital format. And the digital media company The Slate Group is betting demand will only continue to increase. In late February, Slate announced Panoply, a full-service podcast network made up of media companies, authors, personalities and organizations. The new venture, led by Slate podcast chief Andy Bowers and general manager Brendan Monaghan, launched with a dozen outlets that host 18 shows, with more on the way. Programming from The New York Times Magazine, HBO Documentary Films, New York magazine (Vulture), The Huffington Post, Food 52 and FX's The Americans was included, in addition to Slate's 15 established podcasts. "I don't know of anyone who started listening to podcasts and stopped," Bowers explained. "Once you are able to control how you spend your time rather than do it on somebody's schedule, the time-shifting elements and the power of being able to start and stop when you want is kind of addictive." Monaghan explained the idea for Panoply started when he and Bowers realized just how successful Slate's podcasts were. In 2014, downloads for Slate's podcasts more than tripled from approximately 2 million at the beginning of the year to over 6.5 million by December 2014. The media company also completed a survey of its listeners and found that 60 percent hear more than seven podcasts per... Continue reading at 'AdWeek'
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British writer and two-time Booker Prize winner Hilary Mantel has been named novelist of the year at Britain’s Costa Book Awards for ‘Bring Up the Bodies’. Continue reading at Stuff
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The magazine industry’s faith in the future of tablets is not easing up, even though advertiser support for digital editions has been slow in coming and these platforms still represent a small fraction of overall distribution for most books. Continue reading at Folio Magazine
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Authors including previous winners Anne Fine, Melvin Burgess, Frank Cottrell Boyce and David... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Hilary Mantel has been named the winner of the 2012 Man Booker Price for her novel, Bring Up The Bodies, making her the first British author to win the prestigious award twice. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
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Aurum Press has won a five-way auction for a non-fiction title about the Golden Age of... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Hodder and Hodder Children's Books have jointly acquired two titles from the daily blogger of... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2012-09-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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A Monster Calls (Walker Books) written by Patrick Ness and illustrated by Jim Kay, has become the... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Eight of the top 10 publishers saw double-digit drops in printed book sales year-on-year in the... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Red magazine is launching the Red Book Club and doubling the amount of space it dedicates to... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2012-04-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The Web magazine will publish an expanded look at books on the first Saturday of each month, as stand-alone book review sections in newspapers have dwindled. Continue reading at The New York Times
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The director of World Book Day has said she hopes to double the number of tokens redeemed this... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Transworld titles earn pride of place in both the Mass-market and Original Fiction charts this... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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The share of adults in the United States who own tablet computers nearly doubled from 10% to 19% between mid-December and early January and the same surge in growth also applied to ebook readers, which also jumped from 10% to 19% over the same time ... Continue reading at Editor & Publisher
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The emergence of author podcasts as a viable and entertaining marketing tool is apparent in the success of three such efforts originating from literary Web sites on the West Coast: Brad Listi’s the Nervous Breakdown, Tom Lutz’s Los Angeles Review of Books, and Tyson Cornell’s company Rare Bird... Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
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Anova Books has signed two deals for books marking the Queen's diamond jubilee next year,... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Little, Brown non-fiction publishing director Tim Whiting has sealed two "strong" deals... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Written By: Graeme Neill Publication Date: Thu, 03/11/2011 - 09:55 Penguin's ebook sales have more than doubled in the first nine months of 2011, as parent Pearson reported an increase in total sales of 3% and operating profit of 13%. Total sales at Penguin for the nine months to 30th... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Written By: Graeme Neill Publication Date: Wed, 21/09/2011 - 09:05 The number of Americans using an ebook reader has almost doubled during the last 12 months, according to a new survery. read more Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Written By: Graeme Neill Publication Date: Wed, 03/08/2011 - 09:20 Digital sales more than doubled at Simon & Schuster in its second-quarter but did not offset the decline in print. However, the publisher reported an increase in profits of 12% off the back of the shift to digital and... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2011-08-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Written By: Bookseller Staff Publication Date: Tue, 28/06/2011 - 09:15 E-reader ownership in the US has doubled over the past six months, the first time ownership of e-readers has reached double digits among US adults. According to a report carried out by the Pew Internet Project, the share of... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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