It was a busy year for digital media companies. New features like Facebook Live and Instagram Stories introduced publishers to new content formats and the potential to reach massive audiences. On the flip side, platforms’ priorities constantly seemed to be shifting, which often led to dramatic changes in strategy and audience for digital publishers. It’s a sign of the times as the allure of scale comes with the understanding that audience and revenue are not guaranteed. The post The year in new platform features and tweaks, ranked appeared first on Digiday. Continue reading at 'Digiday'
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For the first time since Publishers Weekly began singling out outstanding sales representatives more than 15 years ago, a children’s rep has been named PW Rep of the Year. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-05-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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In the late 1970s, Mitchell Kaplan dropped out of law school in Washington, D.C., with the dream of opening an independent bookstore in South Florida, where he grew up. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-05-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Tolino, a German alliance of booksellers, launched a self-publishing platform, Tolino Media, which has already attracted notable, self-published authors in Germany. The post Tolino Launches Self-Publishing Platform in Germany appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2015-04-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Bloomberg Media made a case to advertisers today that it could target consumers of various generations across distribution platforms at its first Digital Content NewFronts presentation. Part of the 34-year-old media company's pitch revolved around a message that suggested we're all acting like... Continue reading at AdWeek
[ AdWeek | 2015-04-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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April 23, Dia de Sant Jordi, the Catalan festival dedicated to books and roses, accounts for 5–8% of annual book sales in Catalonia. The post Catalonia Celebrates Biggest Book-Giving Holiday of the Year appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2015-04-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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In this week's Digiday Podcast, Troy Young, president of digital media at Hearst Magazines, joined us to discuss how traditional media companies change -- and what will determine the winners in the fast-changing digital media market. "The whole publishing mechanism for digital is very different... Continue reading at Digiday
[ Digiday | 2015-04-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Google is testing a new advertising product seen as the last piece it needs to complete its ad tech superstructure. The search giant is building a data management platform to help target ads and connect brands with people online more effectively, according to sources familiar with the plans. ... Continue reading at AdWeek
[ AdWeek | 2015-04-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Facebook today unveiled changes to the way its news feed algorithm distributes page posts, giving more credence to posts by users' friends than from publishers. For instance, news articles with many likes and comments have typically appeared high up in users' news feeds, but that is being... Continue reading at AdWeek
[ AdWeek | 2015-04-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The platform approach has become a favorite tactic of publishers in the quest for scale. But while multi-title publishers Time Inc. and Condé Nast are cautiously rolling out platforms at an individual brand level, Hearst is taking a shortcut to scale. Hearst has created a centralized contributor... Continue reading at Digiday
[ Digiday | 2015-04-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Amazon started mending its tattered relationship with the big five publishers last year, signing deals with Macmillan, Simon & Schuster and even Hachette. Now it's HarperCollins' turn to make peace with the e-commerce giant, according to The Wall Str... Continue reading at Engadget
[ Engadget | 2015-04-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
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If you don't have a Kindle to read your books on then there's no worries, as apps exist on other platforms like Android. Amazon isn't standing still on this either, now offering customers on Google's mobile platform some new features already available on the stand-alone device. Included are two... Continue reading at Betanews
[ Betanews | 2015-04-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The founders of the UK's Literary Platform reflect on the changes they've seen in digital publishing over the 5 years since launching their consultancy. The post London’s Literary Platform on A Half-Decade of Digital Change appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2015-04-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Penguin Random House UK is hoping to engage with 16-19 year-olds with targeted teen content across social media platforms. The publisher, which closed its online teen book community Spinebreakers last September, will now produce targeted content for branded spaces on Tumblr, Twitter, YouTube... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-04-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
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He showed up for work, the magazine kept paying him, but he published nothing for over 30 years. One of the great literary mysteries is finally solved. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-04-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The winners for the Best Children's Publisher of the Year were announced in Sala Borsa in Bologna on Monday, March 30. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-03-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
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At Digiday’s Publishing Summit in Vail, Colorado, the big issues crowding publishers’ minds included viewability challenges, mobile and programmatic. So we wondered: What will we be talking about in a year from now that’s not getting much attention now? Publishing execs predicted growing ad... Continue reading at Digiday
[ Digiday | 2015-03-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Given the outsized influence of the 33-year-old South Florida bookstore and owner Mitchell Kaplan, the biggest surprise was that it hadn't received the award earlier. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-03-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Once one of the leading titles in a booming lads mag sector, it hit print sales of 350,000 in 2000Loaded, one of the titles synonymous with the mid-1990s lads’ mag boom, is to close after 21 years.The last issue of the monthly magazine, which launched in 1994, is the April edition which is on... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2015-03-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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For its next algorithm change, Google is setting its sites on mobile. As the site's share of mobile searches approaches 50 percent, Google wants to crack down on sites with designs that are hostile to mobile screens. Google's fear is that if it links out to sites that don't work on mobile... Continue reading at Digiday
[ Digiday | 2015-03-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Hodder is the big winner at this year’s Peters Book of the Year award, taking home book of the year for both the junior fiction and teen fiction categories. A Room Full of Chocolate by Jane Elson and A Song For Ella Grey by David Almond, both published by Hodder, were announced as the Books of... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-03-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
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