Wal-Mart Tries to Catch Up With Amazon Prime but Lacks the Speed, Streaming Video

Wal-Mart Stores' planned competitor to the Amazon Prime service will have a price advantage, but catching up with its e-commerce rival won't be easy.Wal-Mart announced plans yesterday to give online customers unlimited free shipping for $50 a year, half the cost of Prime. What it lacks is Amazon's speed of delivery, along with the bevy of other perks that come with a Prime account."Prime is about so much more than shipping," Matt Nemer, an analyst at Wells Fargo & Co., said in a report on Thursday. It offers digital music, ebooks, TV shows, photo storage and other benefits, helping keep customers loyal. And Wal-Mart is late to the party, he said. "Frankly, we're surprised it took Wal-Mart this long to launch any sort of loyalty program." Continue reading at AdAge.com Continue reading at 'Advertising Age'

[ Advertising Age | 2015-05-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Radio 2 Book Club moves to prime-time Steve Wright show

The Radio 2 Book Club, now marking 10 years on air, is moving to a prime-time daytime slot on Steve Wright's show. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2020-12-18 12:29:27 UTC ]
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The Polish Book Institute’s New Video: ‘To Lure Attention’ to Available Rights

Filmmaker Grzegorz Jankowski's new video for the Polish Book Institute introduces New Books from Poland to international book publishers. (Sponsored) The post The Polish Book Institute’s New Video: ‘To Lure Attention’ to Available Rights appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives

[ Publishing Perspectives | 2020-12-16 12:20:13 UTC ]
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Trade bodies look to proposals for new pro-competition regime to check Amazon

Publishing trade bodies have welcomed advice from the Competition & Markets Authority (CMA) that a new pro-competition regulatory regime "fit for the digital age" be rolled out to hold the most powerful tech firms to account through a new enforceable code of conduct.  Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2020-12-08 23:35:11 UTC ]
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Amazon Charts: A Promised Land puts down roots at the top

Barack Obama's A Promised Land (Penguin) has once again charted top of both the Amazon Most-Sold and Most-Read: Non-Fiction charts, as it claimed a third week as the UK Official Top 50 number one through Nielsen BookScan's TCM. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2020-12-08 21:17:24 UTC ]
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Nielsen Will Overhaul Video Measurement, Creating Single, Cross-Media Offering

Farewell, Total Audience Measurement. Hello, Nielsen One. In a major overhaul of its video measurement, Nielsen said today it is preparing to offer a new cross-media solution, called Nielsen One. The new video analytics tool will enable publishers and marketers to transact on a single metric... Continue reading at AdWeek

[ AdWeek | 2020-12-08 11:00:33 UTC ]
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Amazon Publishing in Talks to Offer E-books to Public Libraries

The potential deal would be a breakthrough moment in the library e-book market as Amazon currently does not make its digital content available to libraries. It would also be a major coup for the Digital Public Library of America's upstart e-book platform and its SimplyE library reading app. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2020-12-04 05:00:00 UTC ]
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Pacey keeps Open University up to speed as list adapts to post-Covid market

The pandemic has put the kibosh on innumerable events this year, one of which was a big 50th anniversary bash for the Open University Press (OpenUP). Half a century is a good innings for any publisher, but it was to be a particularly celebratory occasion for OpenUP and its boss, head of... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2020-11-27 22:33:33 UTC ]
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Amazon discounts the Kindle Paperwhite to $85 for Black Friday

If the pandemic has helped you rediscover the joy of reading, Amazon’s latest Kindle deal may be exactly what you’re looking for. For Black Friday, the retailer has discounted the base 8GB Paperwhite with ads by $45 to $85. That’s the same price the... Continue reading at Engadget

[ Engadget | 2020-11-26 05:01:14 UTC ]
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Amazon Charts: A Promised Land breaks ground

Barack Obama's A Promised Land (Penguin) has risen into the Amazon Charts' Most-Sold: Non-Fiction top spot, after debuting a week ago, ahead of its publication.  Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2020-11-24 22:23:24 UTC ]
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The Hugo Awards will have a video game category in 2021

For the first time in its storied history, the Hugo Awards will honor a video game. The annual literary award has avoided recognizing the medium for years, but present circumstances being what they are, it will make an exception at the next World Sci... Continue reading at Engadget

[ Engadget | 2020-11-23 22:04:25 UTC ]
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Amazon adds X-Ray features to its music service

Amazon is bringing over a popular feature from Kindle and Prime Video to its Music service. The company announced today the Music X-Ray experience is now available for tens of millions of songs in its catalog. According to the company, this will “off... Continue reading at Engadget

[ Engadget | 2020-11-20 16:45:39 UTC ]
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Amazon's Kindle drops to $60 again in Black Friday sale

You can now start shopping for Black Friday deals on Amazon devices, and one of the first models you can get at a discount is the company’s Kindle e-reader. The latest version of the company’s basic e-reader is now on sale for $60, down $30 from its... Continue reading at Engadget

[ Engadget | 2020-11-20 11:45:42 UTC ]
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Embrace streaming to stay relevant, Tellander tells publishers

Hesitant UK and US publishers need to move into audiobook streaming to stay relevant, and maintain premium pricing in the face of interest from music services such as Spotify, Storytel's c.e.o. Jonas Tellander has warned. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2020-11-18 09:52:56 UTC ]
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Amazon gives rugby £20m lifeline and could spark Six Nations bidding war

Amazon may not be in it for the long term but its investment in Autumn Nations Cup is likely to prompt interest from othersThere has been little cheer for unions and clubs this year as restrictions imposed by the pandemic have reduced cash flow to a trickle, prompted wage cuts and led to a run... Continue reading at The Guardian

[ The Guardian | 2020-11-12 19:00:30 UTC ]
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10 Manga Like THE GAMER To Read After Catching Up With The Series

These are our favorite manhwa and manga like The Gamer to check out if you can’t get enough of this popular manhwa. Read on. Continue reading at Book Riot

[ Book Riot | 2020-11-11 11:39:00 UTC ]
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Amazon Charts: Walliams slips into Most-Sold: Fiction top spot

David Walliams and Tony Ross' Code Name Bananas (HarperCollins) has bounced up five places to claim the Amazon Charts' Most-Sold: Fiction number one spot, in the same week it sold 89,558 copies through Nielsen BookScan's TCM. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2020-11-10 16:20:16 UTC ]
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EC brings anti-trust charges against Amazon

European Union regulators have brought anti-trust charges against Amazon, accusing the retail giant of using sensitive data from the third-party sellers who use its marketplace to gain unfair advantage for its own retail business.  Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2020-11-10 15:04:25 UTC ]
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DoubleVerify Authentic Brand Safety Targeting Comes to Google Display & Video 360

DoubleVerify said Monday that its Authentic Brand Safety targeting is now available on Google Display & Video 360, Google Marketing Platform's demand-side platform. The digital media measurement, data and analytics platform said Authentic Brand Safety enables consistent activation of brand... Continue reading at AdWeek

[ AdWeek | 2020-11-02 18:20:24 UTC ]
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Can a Video Game Express Modernist Values?

AS AN EXPRESSIVE MEDIUM, video games have a strange way of reducing central concepts of modernist art and theory to basic operational elements. The technical specifications of “point of view” that have preoccupied novelists since the turn of the 20th century are crudely literalized within game... Continue reading at Los Angeles Review of Books

[ Los Angeles Review of Books | 2020-10-31 17:00:02 UTC ]
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Amazon Rolls On, Seeing Massive Revenue Surge in Q3

Third-quarter sales rose 37% over 2019 and earnings soared at the e-commerce giant. The company said it has seen signs that customers are indeed shopping early, something retailers of all kinds are pushing for to avoid lost sales if Covid-19 cases surge closer to the end of the holiday shopping... Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2020-10-30 04:00:00 UTC ]
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