Who wore it best? Take your pick of Zuckerberg-as-Gulliver covers

Citizens of Lilliput, unite! We must subdue the evil Gulliverer, Zuckerberg!Variety's just-released cover story doesn't exactly say that, but that's the subtext of the trade magazine's "Gulliver's Travels"-inspired cover illustration (above right). In his piece headlined "Facebook Under Fire: How Privacy Crisis Could Change Big Data Forever," Variety's Todd Spangler quotes Daniel Ives, chief strategy officer and head of technology research at GBH Insights, as calling the Cambridge Analytica scandal "the darkest chapter in Facebook's 14-year history." Spangler then notes that,The regulatory aftershocks could rattle companies beyond Facebook. In the big M&A deals in play in the media sectorAT&T's bid for Time Warner, Comcast's pending acquisition of Sky, Disney's proposed takeover of 20th Century Foxstreaming media is front and center. And everyone wants to use big data to serve up highly targeted ads over the internet, just as Facebook does. "Hundreds of billions of dollars [in digital ad spending] are at stake over the next several years over this issue," Ives estimates. Continue reading at AdAge.com Continue reading at 'Advertising Age'

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Best Books 2013: Slate Staff Picks

Monday: Slate staffers pick their favorite books of 2013. Tuesday: The overlooked books of 2013. Wednesday: The best lines of 2013, and the best poetry of 2013. Thursday: Dan Kois’ 15 favorite books. Friday: The Slate Book Review Top 10. Continue reading at Slate

[ Slate | 2013-12-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Christmas picks lined up by independent bookshops

Indies hope to highlight 'books that are a bit quirky and a little bit different' and might be overlooked by chain retailersThe nation's independent bookshops have pooled their collective expertise to identify the best of this year's crop of Christmas books, in a bid to pick out the hidden... Continue reading at The Guardian

[ The Guardian | 2013-11-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Indie booksellers pick Christmas 'top 10'

Independent booksellers have chosen the 10 "less ordinary" books they think will become... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2013-11-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Bridget Jones is pick of Super Thursday hits

Helen Fielding's new Bridget Jones novel, Mad About the Boy (Jonathan Cape), has become one... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2013-10-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
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David Ulin picks his top books for fall

Fall is a terrific time to be a reader. Publishers shake off their summer doldrums and get down to business again. And writers? Well, writers settle in also and put out big books.Fall is a terrific time to be a reader. Publishers shake off their summer doldrums and get down to business again.... Continue reading at Los Angeles Times

[ Los Angeles Times | 2013-09-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Alcatel unveils 6-inch One Touch Hero smartphone with E Ink and LED cover options

Alcatel's pen-toting One Touch Scribe HD now has a larger counterpart: meet the One Touch Hero. The new Android 4.2 smartphone upgrades to a 6-inch 1080p LCD, and gets a raft of optional cover accessories that augment the giant display. An E Ink cover lets owners read books without using the... Continue reading at Engadget

[ Engadget | 2013-09-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
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'Harry Potter' new covers will grace trade paperback versions as of Aug. 27

The new 'Harry Potter' covers, by artist and writer Kazu Kibuishi, were created to honor the 15th anniversary of the US publication of 'Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone.' Continue reading at The Christian Science Monitor

[ The Christian Science Monitor | 2013-08-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
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New Wimpy Kid cover revealed

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[ The Bookseller | 2013-08-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Independent booksellers' Christmas picks revealed

Two HarperCollins titles top the Booksellers Association Christmas picks, chosen by independent... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2013-08-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
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25 Crowdsourced Covers For Literary Classics

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[ Fast Company | 2013-08-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Solo cover to sport 'bullet holes'

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[ The Bookseller | 2013-08-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Bridget Jones cover revealed

Jonathan Cape has revealed the cover for Helen Fielding's forthcoming Bridget Jones novel,... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2013-07-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Hawaii Hochi Picks JETLEADER 1500 for Printing Needs

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[ Editor & Publisher | 2013-07-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Rolling Stone slammed for Boston bomber cover

Rolling Stone magazine is getting slammed for a cover featuring accused Boston bomber Jahar Tsarnaev.The magazine's cover subjects have drawn their share of controversy over the years, whether it was Charles Manson or Britney Spears. But Mr. Tsarnaev seems to have drawn a far stronger reaction,... Continue reading at Crains New York

[ Crains New York | 2013-07-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
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[ Engadget | 2013-07-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
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[ The Bookseller | 2013-06-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Amazon Picks Up Bibliophilic Social Platform Goodreads

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[ AdWeek | 2013-03-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
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“Time” Magazine Cover Commemorates One Kind of Gay Marriage Victory

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[ Fast Company | 2013-03-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Elizabeth Gilbert asks fans to help her choose a new book cover

'Eat, Pray, Love' author Elizabeth Gilbert is using her Facebook page to allow fans to pick the cover of her new novel. Continue reading at The Christian Science Monitor

[ The Christian Science Monitor | 2013-03-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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