Surprising stats from around the magazine industry. The post The Minute-to-Minute Battle for Consumer Attention | By the Numbers appeared first on Folio:. Continue reading at 'Folio Magazine'
[ Folio Magazine | 2017-07-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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In anticipation of Sunday's debut of "Fear the Walking Dead," AMC released the first three minutes of the pilot on the show's Facebook page. Serving as a companion series to the most-watched show in cable television history, "The Walking Dead," the new series opens with an unsettling look at one... Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2015-08-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Kik, a chat app that claims 40% of U.S. teenagers as users, announced a $50-million investment Tuesday from Chinese tech company Tencent that values the start-up at $1 billion. Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2015-08-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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This weekend's damning 'New York Times' article painting Amazon as a "bruising workplace" continues to draw attention, this time from the government. According to the AP, House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi has assured the public that the company will be complying with various labor standards. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-08-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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E L James has retaken the Official Top 50 number one from Harper Lee, as Grey (Arrow) sold 17,171 copies to Go Set a Watchman's (William Heinemann) 15,476 in the chart this week. Grey’s sales were down 25.8% week on week, but Watchman dropped further, with a 42% decrease in volume. Despite... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-08-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Free content on the web can only survive if consumers stop using ad blocking software but advertisers need to stop their ‘pay and spray’ approachThe sale of the Financial Times marked an important milestone in traditional media continuing it transformation into the digital world. Many... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2015-08-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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We look some of the innovative techniques online publishers are using to hold the attention of their readers for longerIn a world of finite time and apparent infinite choice, how are publishers encouraging readers to stick around? And how, especially, are they persuading them to stay for the... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2015-07-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
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First the Serial podcast became wildly popular. Then President Barack Obama sat down for an interview with Marc Maron for the comedian's WTF program, and the audio-only format that is podcasting was validated like never before. The developments largely flew in the face of the increasingly... Continue reading at AdWeek
[ AdWeek | 2015-07-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
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A British speed reader has finished Harper Lee's much anticipated novel, Go Set A Watchman, in less than half an hour. Continue reading at Stuff
[ Stuff | 2015-07-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Led by sales of comics, revenue at Diamond Distributors rose 10% in the first half of 2015 over the same period in 2014. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-07-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Premium publishers have been pushing the idea of selling ads based on attention time, saying that the longer people spend on a site, the more value there is for advertisers. But some ad buyers aren’t biting. Too few publishers are selling this way. For some advertisers, the goal isn’t to be in... Continue reading at Digiday
[ Digiday | 2015-07-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Random House Germany had argued against paying to publish Nazi propaganda minister’s diaries in new biography on moral groundsDescendents of Joseph Goebbels, Adolph Hitler’s propaganda minister, are to be paid royalties for extracts from his diaries published in a new biography, following a... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2015-07-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The Quarto Group has launched QuartoKnows.com, a new consumer facing site that showcases and promotes the U.K.-based company’s entire global publishing program. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-07-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Jason Fox, VP of digital, explains where the flagship magazine is headed after ancillary brands shut down. The post How Consumer Reports Is Planning Its Digital Future appeared first on Folio:. Continue reading at Folio Magazine
[ Folio Magazine | 2015-07-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The president will get to appoint a new librarian of Congress, the first in the digital information age. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-07-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
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E L James’ Grey had its second straight 300,000-plus weekly print sale—pushing the book's combined UK ebook and physical sales over the 1 million unit mark—while the overall British print books market has experienced its first half-year rise in seven years. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-07-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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A bookseller explains how Kamila Shamsie’s call for gender equality in the industry, and the fiery debate it provoked, could lead to greater diversity all aroundKamila Shamsie calling for a year of publishing only women has certainly unleashed a storm. Some disagree that gender bias exists,... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2015-06-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
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At the end of 2014, after a groundswell of media attention and public protests, New York Public Library officials abandoned a controversial renovation dubbed the Central Library Plan. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-06-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Victoria Hislop proved tougher than the American Sniper, with the British author’s newest release seeing off a single-channel promotion to earn her first number one in six years. Hislop’s The Sunrise (Headline) sold 26,055 units through Nielsen BookScan’s Total Consumer Market in its first week... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-06-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Attorneys for the Salinger Literary Trust argue that a copyright suit filed by indie publisher, The Devault-Graves Agency is without merit and should be tossed. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-06-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Kensal Rise Library is set to open for the first time in five years this weekend, with a community open day. The library was closed by Brent Council in 2011 and denied permission for a community library in the space, becoming a flashpoint for library campaigners, with authors such as Alan... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-06-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
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