Twenty years of Harry Potter marked with year-long campaign

Bloomsbury is set to celebrate 20 years of Harry Potter with a year-long campaign, including special anniversary publishing and new projects with key partners. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'

[ The Bookseller | 2016-08-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Total Moblie Ad Spend Almost Doubled Last Year

Mobile may be next frontier for publishing, but readers have migrated to the platform faster than advertisers—that gap could be closing though. Global mobile advertising revenue nearly doubled in 2013, totaling $19.3 billion, according to a report from the Intera Continue reading at Folio Magazine

[ Folio Magazine | 2014-08-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
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There Are More Scented Ads in Magazines this Year

Magazines have been more fragrant than usual this year. During the first six months of 2014, magazines ran 17 more perfume and cologne ads with scent strips than they did a year earlier, good for a 10% increase, according to a report from analytics firm MediaRadar.The report, which looked at 177... Continue reading at Advertising Age

[ Advertising Age | 2014-08-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Delta Faucet’s New Campaign Goes Heavy on Digital

The Delta Faucet Company has launched a new, cross-platform marketing campaign called HappiMess.  In addition to airing on network television and cable programming, and appearing in Southern Living, HGTV, and Real Simple magazines, HappiMess' campaign will have a heavy digital presence.... Continue reading at AdWeek

[ AdWeek | 2014-08-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Bookstores celebrate the release of Haruki Murakami's newest novel 'Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage'

Celebrations include karaoke and a film contest that will enable the winner to go on his or her own Tsukuru Tazaki-like pilgrimage. Continue reading at The Christian Science Monitor

[ The Christian Science Monitor | 2014-08-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Self-publishing becomes larger focus at this year’s Frankfurt Book Fair

The Frankfurt Book Fair will organize a two-day self-publishing and author program at the 2014 fair this year, aimed at an international audience. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives

[ Publishing Perspectives | 2014-08-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
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LifeWay Pulls Mark Driscoll’s Books from Shelves

In a move that had been rumored for some time, LifeWay Christian Resources has suspended sales of Mark Driscoll’s books, pulling them from its website and from the shelves of its 180 Christian bookstores. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-08-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Kickstarter Diary, Chapter 4: Promoting the Campaign

Now that the campaign has been launched, it's time for the next and longest phase of a Kickstarter campaign: using email, media contacts and social media to promote it. Also known as “30 days of obsessive compulsive disorder and stress.” Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-08-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Cameron refuses prison campaigners' meeting

The prime minister David Cameron has refused to meet with campaigners and authors seeking to... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2014-08-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The Daily Dot goes long and slow with relaunch of The Kernel

Count The Daily Dot as the latest digital publisher getting into the "magazine" business. The post The Daily Dot goes long and slow with relaunch of The Kernel appeared first on Digiday. Continue reading at Digiday

[ Digiday | 2014-07-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Dynamite Entertainment's Surprising 10 Years

Celebrating its 10th Anniversary with a panel starring director Quentin Tarantino in front of a packed house at the San Diego Comic-Con, it was hard to remember that when Dynamite Publishing launched 10 years ago, no one was sure what to expect. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-07-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Archant journalists surprised as chief executive resigns after six years

Adrian Jeakings, the chief executive of the regional newspaper publisher, Archant, has resigned.In what many of the company's journalistic staff view as an unexpected turn of events, he is to depart at the end of the month. He is also to step down from the board. Continue reading... Continue reading at The Guardian

[ The Guardian | 2014-07-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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40 Years After Resignation, a Wave of Nixon Books

With the 40th anniversary of Richard Nixon's resignation approaching, five books on Nixon are coming to market. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-07-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Writers unite in campaign against 'thuggish' Amazon

Nearly 900 authors across world back criticism of online retailer's business tactics in ebooks dispute with US publisher HachetteThey include some of the biggest literary names on the planet, among them Stephen King, Donna Tartt, Paul Auster, James Patterson and John Grisham; a Pulitzer prize... Continue reading at The Guardian

[ The Guardian | 2014-07-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Top-Authors Lobby for Long-Term Strategy Against Amazon

Numerous top authors are enlisting fellow writers to formulate a "long-term" strategy to combat Amazon's dominance of the market, writes The Bookseller. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives

[ Publishing Perspectives | 2014-07-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Target Mobilizes Back-to-School Print Campaign With Image Recognition

Target wants to prove that traditional media like print and TV can drive e-commerce sales, highlighted in its new back-to-school marketing push. Target is launching a mobile app that works with the retailer’s fall print catalog to trigger sales for its Room Essentials collection, aimed at... Continue reading at AdWeek

[ AdWeek | 2014-07-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
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'Authors United' promises long-term Amazon strategy

Authors United, the group of writers who signed a letter calling on Amazon to resolve its dispute... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2014-07-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Kickstarter Diary Chapter 3: How to Use the Site to Run Your Campaign

Here's the author's step-by-step guide to getting your campaign set up on the Kickstarter website, quirks and all. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-07-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Elmore Leonard's unpublished stories to be published next year

From small-town New Mexico to a military base in Kuala Lumpur, publisher promises 'razor-sharp dialogue and headlong pacing'A collection of previously unpublished short stories by the late Elmore Leonard will be released next year, his publisher has said. Continue reading... Continue reading at The Guardian

[ The Guardian | 2014-07-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Don't put your daughter on the page. She'll only earn a measly 11k a year

A survey of nearly 2,500 writers has shown that median income of a working author last year was just £11,000, down by 29% since 2005A new breed of publishing event, a secretive curtain-raiser, designed to tease the book trade and the critics, is to take place somewhere in London on Monday... Continue reading at The Guardian

[ The Guardian | 2014-07-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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For Lynne Rienner, 30 Years and Counting

The year was 1984, and things were about to get interesting for a young publishing executive at the academic Westview Press, in Colorado, named Lynne Rienner. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-07-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
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