The best things on the Internet this week, curated by Fast Company employees. Erica BoekePhoto: Celine Grouard for Fast Company Name: Erica Boeke Role at Fast Company: Associate publisher, Global Marketing. Among other things, I get to work with our partners on the fun stuff—like the Fast Company Grill at SXSW, FC/LA: Creativity Counter-Conference, and of course, the Fast Company Innovation Festival in New York this November. Twitter: @ejboeke Titillating Fact: I once quit my life to go write a book about sports. To stave off the isolation of writing, I talked my father into becoming an usher with me for the Lehigh Valley IronPigs—a AAA minor league baseball team in Bethlehem, Penn. We did it for practically no money and one free hot dog a day. It was the best summer of my life—and at age 38!Read Full Story Continue reading at 'Fast Company'
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The Booksellers Association in the UK latest membership figures for the year 2012 revealed 79 stores closed, 39 opened and total membership was 3,580. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
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The stores charge that secret agreements made between the publishers and Amazon give Amazon the advantage in selling ebooks, but some industry observers find flaws in their logic. Continue reading at The Christian Science Monitor
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The Moray Council in Scotland has announced the closure of seven libraries as it looks to make... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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A number of independent bookshops are to close in the first quarter of 2013 ahead of the business... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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HMV is to close 66 of its stores, making 930 of its staff redundant, as it puts its Oxford Street... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Liverpool City Council is considering closing half its libraries as it looks to make another... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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By incorporating trillions of calculations, Bookish.com, the new online bookstore financed by Hachette, Penguin and S&S, promises to apply Big Data to book discovery. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
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The staff of Westminster libraries have written an open letter to their council bosses, urging... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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The value of the children’s physical books market last year was marginally up on 2011,... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Parsing through the top 10 bestsellers of 2012 in a number of major publishing categories reads like a usual suspects list, as a small number of authors filled a large number of spots. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
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Over the past few years, the media arm of Thomson Reuters has been trying to polish its 160-year-old brand to a more contemporary sheen by recruiting A-list journalists and pundits and expanding into areas like blogging, Internet TV and magazines. I ... Continue reading at Editor & Publisher
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Reader's Digest UK will no longer produce or sell books, following a restructuring of the... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Pearson is to exit its UK adult training business, Pearson in Practice. After launching a... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Led by a 44.9% increase in the stock price of Amazon, the Publishers Weekly Stock Index jumped 23.5% in 2012, easily beating the 7.3% gain posted by the Dow Jones Industrial Average in the year. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
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Between December 3 and December 14, Amazon ran its “12 Days, 12 Books” promotion, which saw limited supplies of 12 books reduced to bargain prices over 12 days. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
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Appearing on all three November lists highlighted this week is Jesus of Nazareth: The Infancy Narratives by Pope Benedict XVI. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
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Puffin Post is to be discontinued in the new year after Penguin brought the brand back in house... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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North London independent The Big Green Bookshop is teaming up with Angry Robot Books to offer... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Random House US employees will all be receiving a $5,000 bonus this year due to the... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Wordclay.com, an online, bare-bones Do-it-Yourself service for print book publishing owned by Author Solutions, Inc. announced that it will close its virtual doors on December 31. In a statement, Worldclay said the increased preference for ebook publishing over print by self-published authors... Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
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