The 10 Biggest Things That Happened at New York Comic Con

In case you slept through this weekend and missed it, here are the 10 biggest comic book stories from 2013's New York Comic Con.     Continue reading at 'Wired'

[ Wired | 2013-10-15 00:00:00 UTC ]

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ReedPop To Launch New Comics Show at Javits

ReedPop, which produces New York Comic Con, C2E2 and other pop culture conventions, is launching a new and smaller all comics show to be held at the Jacob Javits Center in New York City, June 14 and 15. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-02-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Children are Welcome at the Angoulême Comics Festival

When comics fans invaded the town of Angoulême, France, two weeks ago for the Angoulême International Comics Festival, children were well represented. That's not surprising: Children's comics are big business in France. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-02-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Marvel, iVerse Team to Offer Global Comics App

Marvel Entertainment and digital comics vendor iVerse have launched the Marvel Global Comics App, allowing readers to get Marvel digital comics in twelve foreign languages. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-02-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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10 minutes with: Joanna Prior, managing director of Penguin General

Publishing chief discusses how the rise of the ebook has affected the industry, the value of a good cover design and why there is no glass ceiling in the sectorTell us a bit about your role at Penguin and how you got there.I am the managing director of Penguin General Books, which is one of... Continue reading at The Guardian

[ The Guardian | 2014-02-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Rights Report: Week of February 10, 2014

New deals for Samantha Berger, Tom Angeleberger, Kathi Appelt, Jenny McLachlan, and others. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-02-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Market Watch: Week of February 10, 2014

Just as the Dow Jones Industrial Average pulled back in January following large gains in 2013, the Publishers Weekly Stock Index also got off to a slow start in 2014. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-02-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Should The Washington Post, The New York Times, and other Top Publishers Pool Their Video in a Consortium?

Interested in the business of high-quality web video? There’s a lot of good stuff from Washington Post video GM Steven Schiffman in this Beet.TV interview about the Post’s broad-strokes strategy for the business side of video. ... Continue reading at Editor & Publisher

[ Editor & Publisher | 2014-02-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Facebook: 10 years of social networking, in numbers

Ten years today, the social networking giant has notched up some interesting numbers along the way• How Facebook became the world's biggest social network1.23bn monthly usersBy the end of 2013, Facebook boasted 1.23bn monthly active users worldwide, adding 170m in just one year. According to... Continue reading at The Guardian

[ The Guardian | 2014-02-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Comics Jump International Lines at Angoulême

Europe’s biggest comics festival opened in Angoulême, France Thursday with the streets thronged with avid comics readers and the rights center jammed with meetings from publishers around the world. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-01-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Ka-Pow! Marvel Opens Massive Comic Book Images Archive And API To Fans, Developers

The home of Captain America, Spider-Man, and many other beloved comic book heroes is setting them loose on the world. Hulk fans: happy.What's the sound of 8,000 beloved comic book characters storming the globe? We're about to find out.Read Full Story     Continue reading at Fast Company

[ Fast Company | 2014-01-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
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School Specialized in Comic Books to Open in Paris

Coinciding with the Angoulême International Comics Festival tomorrow, French comics guru Guy Delcourt has announced the opening of a new comic book academy in Paris. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives

[ Publishing Perspectives | 2014-01-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
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10 New Books You Need to Read This Year

From biographies to technical studies and step-by-step guides, here are 10 books that you should look for in the next few months.Of course, we think you can learn a lot online. But, if you're looking to take a deeper dive, there is often no substitute for the kind of thoughtful analysis you can... Continue reading at Fast Company

[ Fast Company | 2014-01-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
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British Library staging exhibition of comics in 'overdue' celebration of genre

Library chief, Roy Keating, says show will explore field from Misty comics and superhero classics to graphic novelsBoys in the late 1970s probably assumed the girls comic Misty was all boring romance, puppies and ponies. How wrong they were. They were full of "incredibly dark, weird,... Continue reading at The Guardian

[ The Guardian | 2014-01-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Comic Book Heroes Get A Gorgeous Native American Makeover

Batman, Superman, and Spider-Man look truly stunning following a traditional, Pacific Northwest makeover.We all know Batman when we see him, but he always looks a little different, depending on the artist. Whereas in the hands of Dick Sprang, Batman is a barrel-chested 1920s strong man, in the... Continue reading at Fast Company

[ Fast Company | 2014-01-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The Future of Reading: 10 Trends for 2014 and Beyond

The Internet has been disrupting the businesses of publishing and bookselling for the past two decades. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-01-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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5 Things We Learned at Digital Book World 2014

A few key take-aways from DBW 2014: teens aren't reading for fun, ebook sales grow overseas, Wall Street discounts publishing and Amazon is like modern art. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives

[ Publishing Perspectives | 2014-01-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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5 Intriguing Things: Monday, 1/13

Web privacy tips, vanilla pollination, robot law, big book data, and the children of a Moscow garbage dump.     Continue reading at The Atlantic

[ The Atlantic | 2014-01-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Comixology: Six Billion Digital Comics Served

The digital comics platform and marketplace Comixology continues to extend the reach of new comics to comics consumers and finished the year as the Top Grossing non-game app for iPad 2013. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-01-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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New York Times Redesign Points to Future of Online Publishing

The last time The New York Times embarked on a wholesale redesign of its Web site, in 2006, the iPhone wasn't on the market. Tablets like the iPad were still years away. So the new design that The Times is unveiling Wednesday is generating mu ... Continue reading at Editor & Publisher

[ Editor & Publisher | 2014-01-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
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PW's Top 10 Library Stories of 2013

For libraries, 2013 was an eventful year. PW takes a look back at the top 10 library stories of the year, and a look ahead to what might be on the horizon in 2014. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-01-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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