T.C. Boyle captures the intersection of folly and progress. This time, it’s the ill-fated Project Nim.

‘Talk to Me,’ by T.C. Boyle, was inspired by a 1970s experiment in which researchers tried to teach a young chimpanzee American Sign Language. Continue reading at 'The Washington Post'

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Jed Hartman Leaves Time Inc. for Washington Post CRO Role

On Dec. 2, Washington Post president Stephen Hills hired two-year Time Inc. group publisher of news and business Jed Hartman as chief revenue officer. It caps an impressive 2014 for Hartman, who directed the successful relaunches and redesigns of Fortune.com, Money.com and Time.com which help... Continue reading at Folio Magazine

[ Folio Magazine | 2014-12-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Veteran Time Inc. Exec Jed Hartman Heading to Bezos's Washington Post

Time Inc., the nation's the largest magazine publisher, is losing one of its top business-side execs to The Washington Post. The executive, Jed Hartman, who is group publisher of news and business at Time Inc., is joining the Post as its chief revenue officer.The departure costs Time Inc. an... Continue reading at Advertising Age

[ Advertising Age | 2014-12-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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New York Times Buyout Requests Don't Meet Paper's Goal

At least 85 New York Times employees applied for voluntary buyouts by yesterday's deadline, falling short of the number the newspaper publisher said was needed to avoid firings, according to a union representative.Grant Glickson, the chairman of the New York Times unit of the Newspaper Guild of... Continue reading at Advertising Age

[ Advertising Age | 2014-12-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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New York Times Deadline for 100 Buyouts Nears

A 5 p.m. deadline bore down on New York Times employees considering whether to accept buyout packages, a bid for the newspaper publisher to trim costs.The company has said there will be forced cuts if 100 jobs can't be eliminated through voluntary buyouts.Like many newspapers, the Times is... Continue reading at Advertising Age

[ Advertising Age | 2014-12-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Chronicle Donates 10,000 Books in Record Time

Chronicle Books completed its third annual #GiveBooks campaign over the Thanksgiving weekend. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-12-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Remote e-lending pilot project reveals half-year trends

Remote ebook lending in libraries leads to a "significant" increase in borrowing, but not to an increase in book buying, according to interim trends noted at the six-month stage of a year-long pilot project. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2014-11-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
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New Content-Driven Ad Network Partners With Time Inc. and Meredith

With the content marketing and native advertising scene getting increasingly crowded with tech players such as Outbrain, Sharethrough and Nativo, just to name a few, OneSpot thinks it's found an edge on those competitors. The Austin, Texas-based marketing vendor, which has big clients such... Continue reading at AdWeek

[ AdWeek | 2014-11-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Brands Are Wasting Time And Money On Facebook And Twitter, Report Says

"Stop making Facebook the center of your relationship marketing efforts," says Nate Elliott, VP and principal analyst at Forrester.Today market research firm Forrester published a report for brands titled "Social Relationship Strategies That Work."Read Full Story Continue reading at Fast Company

[ Fast Company | 2014-11-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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In Shakeup, Time Inc. Names New Publisher of InStyle

InStyle magazine has hired Wall Street Journal executive Nina Lawrence to serve as its publisher. She succeeds Karin Tracy, InStyle's publisher since May 2013.A Time Inc. staffer said the company chose Ms. Lawrence due to her "impressive" digital background.News of the shakeup came Tuesday... Continue reading at Advertising Age

[ Advertising Age | 2014-11-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Time Inc. Locks in Outbrain's Headline Recommendations in $100 Million Deal

Time Inc., the nation's largest magazine publisher, has struck a deal making Outbrain the exclusive external provider of recommended stories for Time Inc.'s websites, including Time.com and People.com. Until now, Time Inc. had worked with a mix of the companies whose ubiquitous... Continue reading at Advertising Age

[ Advertising Age | 2014-11-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Head of Print and Digital Sales at Time Magazine to Exit

Moritz Loew, VP-sales and marketing at Time Inc. and a key architect of Time.com's ambitious redesign this year, is leaving the company, Ad Age has learned. His last day is Friday.A veteran of the digital media world, Mr. Loew led U.S. ad sales for Time magazine in both print and digital. Jed... Continue reading at Advertising Age

[ Advertising Age | 2014-11-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Blackman unveils teenage fan fiction project backed by PRH

Children’s laureate Malorie Blackman has launched a fan fiction-inspired project to find the best teen writers and creatives.   Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2014-11-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Tumblr Captures Human Errors In Digitized Google Books

You can take the book out of the library but you can't take the library out of the book.Krissy Wilson's Tumblr project, The Art Of Google Books, works on our nostalgia for both the printed word and our (now long gone) wide-eyed awe at digitizing it. Google Books was born in 2004, when accessing... Continue reading at Fast Company

[ Fast Company | 2014-11-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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SMP Buys 'Times' Journo's Debut Novel for Seven Figures

St. Martin's Press has acquired the debut novel 'Everybody Rise,' by Stephanie Clifford, in a seven-figure book deal. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-11-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
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PRH's Black Crown project to go offline

Penguin Random House is to take its interactive narrative gaming experience Black Crown offline at the end of this week, with creator Rob Sherman conceding that "the economics do not stand up". The online narrative gaming project, with Sherman's story set in the shady Widsith Institute,... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2014-10-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Watch time at YouTube 'growing 50% a year'

Publishers who do not have a strategy related to YouTube are missing an opportunity, publicists and marketeers were told at a YouTube conference held yesterday (27th October) in association with The Bookseller. The event, held at the YouTube offices in St Giles High Street, and aimed at giving... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2014-10-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Proving Amazon's a Monopoly? Not So Easy 'Seattle Times' Says

According to a report in the 'Seattle Times,' proving that Amazon is a monopoly, let alone an abusive monopoly, will be very difficult, if not impossible. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-10-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Schupf Up at Time Home Entertainment

Margot Schupf has been named publisher of Time Home Entertainment, Inc., the book and bookazine publishing division of Time Inc. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-10-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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What Publishers Really Think About Time Spent

Time-based metrics are used by almost every leading publisher to measure themselves, but there's been hesitancy to transact on the basis of numbers like time spent and ad exposure time. That could change soon though as a member  Continue reading at Folio Magazine

[ Folio Magazine | 2014-10-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The Friday Project signs interview collection

The Friday Project has acquired an “idiosyncratic” collection of interviews with people including Dame Judi Dench and Stewart Lee by author Dan Richards. Publisher Scott Pack acquired World English rights in the book, titled The Beechwood Airship Interviews, from Carrie Plitt at Conville &... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2014-10-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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