Speakaboos Adds Content from Scholastic, Jim Henson

Speakaboos, a mobile educational platform for children that offers subscription access to interactive ebooks and songs, is expanding its digital inventory with new content from Scholastic, the Jim Henson Company, and HIT Entertainment. Continue reading at 'Publishers Weekly'

[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-08-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Inkling Adds Deals With Wolters Kluwer, McGraw-Hill

Inkling, an online publishing platform, has entered into separate agreements with Wolters Kluwer Health and McGraw-Hill Education to use its digital authoring platform Inkling Habitat. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-05-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Distribution: Midpoint Adds Essential

Midpoint Trade Books has signed Florida-based Essential Publishing, effective immediately. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-05-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Toon Books Adds Imprint for Older Readers

Françoise Mouly, New Yorker art director, cofounder (with husband Art Speigelman) of the seminal comics magazine RAW, and founder of the award-winning Toon Books line of comics for early readers, is launching Toon Graphics for Visual Readers, a new imprint for older readers. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-05-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Scholastic Debuts Storia School Edition

Scholastic is launching Storia School Edition and Core Clicks, two institutional ebook services that provide access to a database of fiction and nonfiction ebooks designed for pre-K through grade six. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-05-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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RH Adds Bookstore to Its Cooking Blog, TasteBook

Random House's food blog and online cooking community, TasteBook, has added a new bookstore called The BookShop. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-04-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Sequential App Adds Top Shelf Graphic Novels

Sequential, the digital comics storefront app focused on literary graphic novels, is adding a selection of Top Shelf graphic novels for purchase. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-04-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
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SMP's Baldacci Moving to Scholastic

St. Martin’s marketing executive Matthew Baldacci will move to Scholastic April 28 as v-p of marketing for the Scholastic Trade Publishing division. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-04-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
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B&N Adds Board Member

Barnes & Noble announced Thursday that Scott Cowen, president of Tulane University, has been elected to its board of directors. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-04-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Distribution: PGW Adds Divine Arts

Publishers Group West has signed mind-body-spirit publisher Divine Arts to its list of clients. The deal went into effect April 1. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-04-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Technology or Content: Which Comes First?

Marshall McLuhan's famous dictum tells us that the form of a medium is inherently part of the message itself. Content in printed magazine form, for example, dictates many aspects of the story-from its written style and word count to the subtleties of fixed page design. Continue reading at Folio Magazine

[ Folio Magazine | 2014-03-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Sequential Adds NBM Graphic Novels

Sequential, the graphic novel retail app that specializes in literary comics, has added a selection of graphic novels from the New York indie comics publisher NBM. NBM will add ten titles to the Sequential list including works by Rick Geary, Stan Mack and Margreet de Heer. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-03-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Content Aggregator Apps and Publishers: A Complicated Dynamic (Infographic)

Many publishers already have their own native apps, while others are in development. Although they can be expensive to launch, apps have helped some publishers establish a foothold within the mobile frontier. Continue reading at Folio Magazine

[ Folio Magazine | 2014-03-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Scribd Adds Lonely Planet to Subscription Service

Scribd has reached an agreement with Lonely Planet to add hundreds of its travel guides to the Scribd ebook subscription service. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-03-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Brands should welcome entry of news publishers' into content marketing

The industry can learn about quality, and maintaining readers' loyalty, from the arrival of the Guardian and New York TimesThe recent, dramatic arrival of tanks – in the form of some of the world's biggest news organisations, including of course the Guardian – on the content marketing industry's... Continue reading at The Guardian

[ The Guardian | 2014-03-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Driving the Content Industry Forward: Digital Publishing in Korea 2014

Nothing gets the work done faster, or makes the word travel further, than having the might of the government behind it or the united action of a group of individuals with shared interests. In the Korean publishing industry, such synergy is evident and has been very effective. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-03-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Soft Quarter for Scholastic

Scholastic reported a small drop in third quarter sales for the period ended February 28, 2014, and a higher operating loss compared to a year ago. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-03-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Scholastic revenues fall in third quarter

Scholastic's revenues fell 1.3% in the third quarter for fiscal year 2014 to $373.5m but... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2014-03-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Perseus Adds 4,000 Titles to Oyster

The Perseus Book Group is expanding its agreement with Oyster, the ebook subscription service, and will make an additional 4,000 titles available to Oyster subscribers. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-03-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Video: A Tactical Guide to Content

The consumer appetite for video is well-acknowledged. But video is emerging as a critical component of b-to-b sales and marketing strategies. Skyrocketing viewership, exceptional storytelling, and effortless sharing form the bulk of the evidence for b-to-b publishers. Continue reading at Folio Magazine

[ Folio Magazine | 2014-03-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Festival of Books Adds IndieBound Buy Buttons

Following a vociferous response by SCIBA members to the "L.A. Times" decision to exclude their stores from its Festival of Books website, IndieBound buy buttons will be added this week. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-03-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
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