Snapchat is marking Black History Month with a host of in-application features and tools honoring the theme of Black excellence. Snapchatters will have access to Bitmoji, creative tools and lenses highlighting the creativity of Black artists and lens creators on the platform. Black History Month content from publishing partners including NBC News, with "Stay Tuned,"... Continue reading at 'AdWeek'
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Bookstore sales in July fell by just under 1% compared to July 2015, marking the first month in 2016 that sales were down. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2016-09-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Saqi Books has acquired an anthology, edited by poet and playwright Sabrina Mahfouz, intended to be "a creative call to arms for Muslim women in Britain". Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-09-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Jojo Moyes becomes only the third author to claim the monthly ebook pole with multiple titles. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-09-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Lauren Stevenson and Maeve Clarke have been awarded the top prizes at the Creative Future Literary Awards 2016. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-09-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Detailing atheists’ past of social exclusion, legal jeopardy, and other injustices, Schmidt explains how the group found their footing in a nation of a God-trusting, Bible-believing country in ‘Village Atheists.’ Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2016-09-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Wattpad has claimed writers could earn up to $1,000 (£758) a month through its new advertising programme. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-09-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The Telegraph has automated its data-visualization tool for sports, Robologger, in time for the Premier League. Each time a goal is scored an interactive graphic of the goal is published to the site. In the coming months this will extend to Twitter and Facebook Messenger. In time, more rules... Continue reading at Digiday
[ Digiday | 2016-08-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Twitter is on a pre-roll.The service is opening its pre-roll video ad program to popular Twitter users, giving them a way to make money for their efforts.The ads play before the videos that people share on the platform, and they come with a skip button, much like the one on YouTube. Twitter has... Continue reading at Advertising Age
[ Advertising Age | 2016-08-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
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J K Rowling, Jack Thorne and John Tiffany’s Harry Potter and the Cursed Child (Little, Brown) once again easily triumphed at the top of the charts, shifting 86,525 units last week through Nielsen BookScan’s Total Consumer Market. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-08-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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An independent bookseller’s plans to launch a new international online bookseller to rival Amazon, Bookman & Black, have been cancelled. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-08-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The Hill, a hardcore politics news publisher, might not seem like a natural fit for Snapchat. But the site's director of emerging media, Taylor Lorenz, sees potential far beyond the brand-building it's doing now, and it's relying on a mixture of content partnerships and approachable tone to... Continue reading at Digiday
[ Digiday | 2016-08-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
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J.K. Rowling offers additional reading for your commute to Hogsmeade. The post J.K. Rowling Is Releasing 3 E-Books of Secret Hogwarts History appeared first on WIRED. Continue reading at Wired
[ Wired | 2016-08-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Two titles published by Faber, one by James Shapiro and the other by Benjamin Markovits, have won the £10,000 James Tait Black Prizes for fiction and biography. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-08-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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When We Was Fierce by eE Charlton-Trujillo uses invented street dialect slammed by one reviewer as ‘rife with insult and lack of awareness’The publication of young adult novel When We Was Fierce has been postponed by its author and publisher following harsh criticism of the “deeply offensive”... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2016-08-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Ilex Press, part of the Octopus Publishing Group, is publishing the latest book from professional photographer and bestselling author, Michael Freeman, Fifty Paths to Creative Photography, on 6th October. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-08-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Fireside Fiction’s report, #BlackSpecFic, finds less than 2% of SF stories published in 2015 were by black writers The world of speculative fiction publishing is plagued by “structural, institutional, personal, universal” racism, according to a new report that found less than 2% of more than... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2016-08-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Helen Gradwell lay dead on her floor for four months â with a book deal sitting unopened on her doorstep. Continue reading at Stuff
[ Stuff | 2016-08-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Glamour UK has seen a growth spurt in the last six months, thanks to new social media formats like Facebook Live, as well as internal restructuring. While the number of employees in the edit team has stayed at 25, a few new key hires have come on board to direct the growth on platforms. No... Continue reading at Digiday
[ Digiday | 2016-08-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
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North American sales of 'Harry Potter and the Cursed Child' top 2 million copies, UK sales blow past records, all within days of Rowling's new release. The post In the US, UK, and Canada, Harry’s on Another Roll With ‘Cursed Child’ appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2016-08-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Instagram Stories launched Tuesday, and brands are already using the Snapchat-like feature, which lets marketers and the digital platform's 500 million monthly users curate daily moments that disappear after 24 hours. In fact, General Electric is using its first Instagram story to push a video... Continue reading at AdWeek
[ AdWeek | 2016-08-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
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