App launches paper on ‘stopping abuse’ in India, home to more than 200m of its usersWhatsApp says it is deleting 2m accounts per month as part of an effort to blunt the use of the world’s most popular messaging app to spread fake news and misinformation.The Facebook-owned service published the data as part of a white paper on “stopping abuse” that was launched on Wednesday in India, the biggest market for the company with more than 200m users. Continue reading... Continue reading at 'The Guardian'
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Un-psyched by the photo-sharing service's new TOS, National Geographic is one of the first big names considering dropping the app. Instagram's revamped terms and conditions, which seemed to say Instagram and/or its parent company, Facebook, could sell your images for profit and not give you a... Continue reading at Fast Company
[ Fast Company | 2012-12-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Rupert Murdoch says News Corp. was not convinced the digital publishing experiment would be viable long-term. The firm also announces a sweeping restructuring.Rupert Murdoch has pulled the plug on News Corp.'s high-profile experiment to create a digital national newspaper. Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2012-12-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Robert Thomson has been named as the head of the separated publishing business soon to be formed... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2012-12-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
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News Corporation's The Daily was to have been a vanguard of the future, based on the past -- a tablet-focused newspaper that could get us back to paying subscriptions for our regular news fix. Not enough of us were as enthralled with the retro-future concept, however. While CEO Rupert Murdoch... Continue reading at Engadget
[ Engadget | 2012-12-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
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News Corp. said on Monday that it is shutting down The Daily, its ambitious but expensive attempt to create an iPad newspaper, on Dec. 15. The decision follows a 22-month effort that delivered both some significant achievements—developing the iPad as a publishing platform, for example, and... Continue reading at Crains New York
[ Crains New York | 2012-12-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
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OverDrive surveyed library users and found they buy an average of 3.2 books (both print and ebooks) each month, with 35% buying after borrowing. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2012-11-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Editor's Note: This story originally appears on FOLIO: sister site, minonline.com Continue reading at Folio Magazine
[ Folio Magazine | 2012-11-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Graphicly abandoned their iTunes-like comic book marketplace to develop a full suite of online publishing tools for visual storytellers. As Adrian Tomine has pointed out, the one-time subculture of comics and graphic novels has migrated into the mainstream over the past decade. The... Continue reading at Fast Company
[ Fast Company | 2012-11-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The publication of J K Rowling's The Casual Vacancy and ebook sales growth helped Hachette... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2012-11-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Random House parent-company Bertelsmann has reported a year-on-year increase in revenues and... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2012-11-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Participants at the African Media Leaders Forum in Dakar, Senegal, today heard how twinning partnerships between African newspapers, and newspapers elsewhere, are leading the way to developing successful business strategies and strengthening financia ... Continue reading at Editor & Publisher
[ Editor & Publisher | 2012-11-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Simon & Schuster UK has acquired world rights to a “stop-press” publication by... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2012-11-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. has expressed interest in buying book publisher Penguin Group, potentially undermining merger discussions between Penguin and Random House, people familiar with the situation said. Continue reading at AllThingsD
[ AllThingsD | 2012-10-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Sales of adult and children’s trade titles rose 13.8% in the first six months of 2012, according to statistics released last week by the Association of American Publishers as part of its StatShot program. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2012-10-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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In splitting News Corp. into two companies, Rupert Murdoch is creating something he hasn't had in years: an Australian media company. By some measures, the publishing company to emerge from the division of News Corp. sometime next year will have ... Continue reading at Editor & Publisher
[ Editor & Publisher | 2012-10-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The Kindle Paperwhite is go on sale through Waterstones stores by the end of the month, the... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2012-10-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Amazon's Kindle Owners' Lending Library has grown considerably since launching in the US, and it looks like the company's finally decided it was time to let some other countries in on the service as well. It announced today that Amazon Prime members in the UK, Germany and France would all have... Continue reading at Engadget
[ Engadget | 2012-10-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
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VIENNA, Austria -- Austrian newspaper publisher Christoph Dichand apologized after Kronen Zeitung was caught using a faked dramatic photograph of a family fleeing Syria's civil war-torn city Aleppo. The picture - published in the country& ... Continue reading at Editor & Publisher
[ Editor & Publisher | 2012-10-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The deals between four publishers, Apple and the European Commission over its ebook price-... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2012-09-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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British crime writer R.J. Ellory is the latest author to be caught out writing glowing online reviews of his own work. Continue reading at The Christian Science Monitor
[ The Christian Science Monitor | 2012-09-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
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