Stora Enso Restructures to Drop $63.6 Million in Costs

Stora Enso has announced a restructuring plan that aims to cut costs in its annual magazine paper operation by about $63.6 million by third quarter 2013, with the goal of improving efficiency and productivity. Continue reading at 'Folio Magazine'

[ Folio Magazine | 2012-02-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Zonderkidz's Berenstain Bears Line Sells Five Million Copies

The Living Lights brand from Zonderkidz and author/illustrator Mike Berenstain recently passed the five-million unit sales mark. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-11-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Snapchat getting 6 billion video views daily, but how does it compare to Facebook's 8 billion?

Days after Facebook announced that its users watched videos 8 billion times a day,  Snapchat told the Financial Times on Sunday that its smaller set of users opened videos 6 billion times a day. See the most-read stories this hour >> The statistics reveal fast growth: Since the spring,... Continue reading at Los Angeles Times

[ Los Angeles Times | 2015-11-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Authors on the Air November 6, 2015: John Leguizamo

John Leguizamo, author of 'Ghetto Klown' (Harry N. Abrams, 978-1-4197-1518-1) will appear on 'The Wendy Williams Show' on Friday, November 6. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-11-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Bookselling Roundup, Week Ending November 6, 2015

This week saw the opening of an art bookstore in Chicago, and the reopening of a Michigan indie. Further south, in Raleigh, N.C., a bookstore-restaurant-brewery-florist shop is in the works. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-11-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Tribune Offers $3 Million to Fund Freedom Bankruptcy Case

Tribune Publishing Co., the owners of the Los Angeles Times, offered $3 million to fund Freedom Communication Inc.’s bankruptcy case during the newspaper publisher’s first bankruptcy hearing Wednesday.   A lawyer for the ... Continue reading at Editor & Publisher

[ Editor & Publisher | 2015-11-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Milkweed Editions Raises $1.5 Million For Its 35th Anniversary

Milkweed Editions is celebrating its 35th anniversary by completing a highly successful fund-raising effort. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-10-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Amazon Commits $10 Million to Translations, Prompting Questions

As Amazon invests $10 million its translation project, Susan Bernofsky ask if Amazon is turning translation into a 'glorified form of self-publishing.' The post Amazon Commits $10 Million to Translations, Prompting Questions appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives

[ Publishing Perspectives | 2015-10-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Microsoft's 1TB Surface Book appears with a jaw-dropping $3200 price tag

The 1TB Surface Book Microsoft teased at the laptop’s reveal is finally available for preorder, and boy, it’s expensive. For $3,200, the highest-end Surface Book packs an Intel Core i7 processor—Microsoft previously said the specific model would be the i7-6600U, a 2.6GHz dual-core processor with... Continue reading at PC World

[ PC World | 2015-10-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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At Frankfurt: AmazonCrossing's new $10 million translation bid

Meet Sarah Jane Gunter today, Wednesday, 3 p.m. Frankfurt Book Fair In a move that answers a constant question both from independent authors and from publishers, AmazonCrossing has announced that it now is accepting submissions.  Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2015-10-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Playboy to Drop Nudity From Its Magazine

Playboy will stop running photographs of naked women in its print edition after more than six decades, the magazine said Tuesday.Although it will continue to publish "sexy, seductive pictorials," as Playboy put it in a statement, the magazine will end more than six decades of full nudity when a... Continue reading at Advertising Age

[ Advertising Age | 2015-10-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Graphic Novel Sales Hit $460 Million in 2014

Graphic novel sales hit a high of $460 million in 2014, and remain strong this year, even as comics periodical sales have hit a soft patch. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-10-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Medium Raises $57 Million for the ‘Best Stories and Ideas on the Internet’

Medium, the publishing platform hatched by Twitter co-founder Ev Williams, has raised $57 million in a round led by Andreessen Horowitz.   It’s the three-year-old company’s second funding round, and people familiar with Medi ... Continue reading at Editor & Publisher

[ Editor & Publisher | 2015-09-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Has Amy Schumer signed an $11 million book deal?

Comic darling. Tick. Feature film debut, Trainwreck. Tick. Emmy for cable channel sketch show. Tick. Continue reading at Stuff

[ Stuff | 2015-09-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Hearst Invests $21 Million in Pop-Culture Network Complex Media

Hearst has made another bet on an emerging pop-culture brand, investing $21 million in Complex Media, a digital-media company that operates websites devoted to music, fashion, food and movies.Hearst, the publisher of Cosmopolitan and Esquire magazines, last year acquired a 25% stake in... Continue reading at Advertising Age

[ Advertising Age | 2015-09-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Axel Springer Wants to Buy Business Insider for Around $560 Million

German publishing giant Axel Springer is closing in on a deal to buy Business Insider, in a deal that would value the Web publisher at around $560 million.      Sources familiar with the two companies think a transaction could close w ... Continue reading at Editor & Publisher

[ Editor & Publisher | 2015-09-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
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L.A. arts groups get $4.5 million from Michael Bloomberg's foundation

Michael Bloomberg, the publishing mogul and former New York City mayor, will pump $4.5 million into L.A.'s nonprofit arts scene over the coming two years, as part of a national initiative by his Bloomberg Philanthropies to help small and mid-size arts organizations. Continue reading at Los Angeles Times

[ Los Angeles Times | 2015-09-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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News Corporation to Buy Unruly for Up to $176 Million

News Corporation announced Wednesday that it was buying Unruly, a video ad technology company, in a deal worth up to $176 million that underscores the publishing company’s continued push to remake itself for the digital age.   Fou ... Continue reading at Editor & Publisher

[ Editor & Publisher | 2015-09-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Inside the Hidden Costs of Programmatic

Agencies, for example, require more expensive people to work more often on smaller buys. Five full-time employees are needed to spend a $100 million national broadcast budget, one media agency executive said, while the same number would be needed for a $5 million programmatic buy. Those... Continue reading at Advertising Age

[ Advertising Age | 2015-09-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Ness's Fundraiser Raises Half a Million Pounds for Save the Children

American-born English author Patrick Ness's fundraising appeal for Save the Children, instigated last week with his offer to match up to £10,000, has now raised more than half a million pounds. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-09-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
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AOL Scoops Up Mobile Ad Network Millennial Media for $238 Million

After two months of speculation, AOL has acquired mobile ad network Millennial Media for $238 million, or about $1.75 per share. The Millennial deal is the newest step in building out AOL's tools to compete in mobile advertising against behemoths like Facebook, Yahoo and Google. With the deal,... Continue reading at AdWeek

[ AdWeek | 2015-09-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
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