Few tech entrepreneurs have had the ability to imagine a future just beyond our reach, and to profoundly change how we live our lives. Steve Jobs and Mark Zuckerberg are two such stars, and Jeff Bezos, our Media Visionary for 2016, joins this constellation. From ecommerce and streaming video to artificial intelligence, drone deliveries and publishing, look to Bezos to enable the Jetsons age. Amazon's founder and CEO has spent the past two decades building a global shopping site with an active user base of 304 million. "This year, Amazon became the fastest company ever to reach $100 billion in annual sales," Bezos wrote shareholders in July. In the coming years, Bezos aims not only to expand the retail colossus but also his burgeoning Amazon Prime business. U.S. membership in Prime—which, for $99 per year, provides access to two-day shipping, streaming video and ad-free music, among other benefits—grew to 63 million in Q2 of this year, according to Consumer Intelligence Research Partners. Meanwhile, The Wall Street Journal last week reported the possibility of a premium live sports package—negotiations over game rights with the NBA, NFL and MLB are said to be underway. Prime Video may soon rival Netflix on a global scale, with the streaming business set to launch in 200 countries and territories, including Canada and Australia. (It's currently available in the U.S., the U.K. and a handful of other countries.) As Bezos eyes expansion, he has made an equal commitment to... Continue reading at 'AdWeek'
[ AdWeek | 2016-11-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Dynamic, radical, often female … Irish fiction is flourishing. Gone is the conservative writing – all nostalgia and sexual repression – of the Celtic Tiger years. The writers of the new wave are original and bold“Money kills the imagination,” says the narrator of Claire Kilroy’s 2012 novel The... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2015-10-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The World Book Day Award 2016 (WoBoD), funded by James Patterson, is offering school libraries the chance to win up to £10,000 of new books. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-10-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The Post Co. which includes the daily Idaho Falls Post Register and three weekly newspapers in Shelley, Challis, and Rigby, Idaho will be sold by the Brady family to Adams Publishing Group LLC, according to John Cribb, Cribb Greene & Cope who rep ... Continue reading at Editor & Publisher
[ Editor & Publisher | 2015-10-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Title will stop running nude pictorials with March 2016 issue. The post Playboy Magazine No Longer NSFW in 2016 appeared first on Folio:. Continue reading at Folio Magazine
[ Folio Magazine | 2015-10-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Publishers are kicking off 2016 with débuts they hope to launch as the next big thing. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-10-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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In the new 'Geek's Guide to the Galaxy' podcast author David Wong discusses his latest book and its focus on the dark side of social networks. The post Social Media Could Inspire Horrors—Or Maybe Superpowers appeared first on WIRED. Continue reading at Wired
[ Wired | 2015-10-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Super Thursday and Books Are My Bag celebrations today (8th October) have attracted widespread media coverage from the BBC, Sky and national newspapers. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-10-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The awards were presented tonight at the start of the annual get-together after the first day of the World Publishing Expo in Hamburg. Here is a look at the full list of this year's winners and what made their entries special and succ ... Continue reading at Editor & Publisher
[ Editor & Publisher | 2015-10-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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After two years as publisher at Humanix Books, Anthony Ziccardi is taking over as publisher of Post Hill Press and its pop culture imprint Permuted Press. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-10-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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TV Guide Magazine, once the unrivaled bible for television fans and a powerhouse in the publishing business, has been sold for the third time in less than 10 years. NTVB Media, the Troy, Mich., publisher of the TV listings books Channel Guide and TV Weekly, will announce Wednesday that it has... Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2015-10-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Twitter today unveiled Moments, the long-rumored content-curation feature that industry observers believed for the last several weeks would be called Project Lightning. It's got something for everyone—viewers, media companies and brands. Moments is designed to make it easier to use the... Continue reading at AdWeek
[ AdWeek | 2015-10-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Cumulus Media, the second-largest operator of U.S. radio stations behind IHeartMedia, replaced company co-founder Lew Dickey as CEO after an 84% drop in the stock price this year, naming longtime magazine publishing executive Mary Berner to replace him.Mr. Dickey will remain on the board as vice... Continue reading at Advertising Age
[ Advertising Age | 2015-09-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The editor of 'The Paris Review' is taking on an editor-at-large role at the storied Macmillan division. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-09-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Proposal outlines a plan to create a ‘pure-play’ broadcast company, without ‘significant exposure to publishing.’ The post Nexstar Attempts to Disrupt Meredith Deal with Bid for Media General appeared first on Folio:. Continue reading at Folio Magazine
[ Folio Magazine | 2015-09-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Not so fast, Meredith Corp. Three weeks after the magazine publisher and TV station owner Media General Inc. announced a $2.4 billion merger, Nexstar Broadcasting Group Inc. has swooped in with an unsolicited offer for Media General. Nexstar's proposal sweetens the deal for Media General... Continue reading at AdWeek
[ AdWeek | 2015-09-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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One honoree on our annual Media Mavens list markets cord cutting to millennials while taking a paycheck from a cord company -- well, a satellite company, but you get the idea. Another uses the data in Walmart's vaults to run a media-buying platform that informs hundreds of other advertisers'... Continue reading at Advertising Age
[ Advertising Age | 2015-09-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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There’s a huge problem at the moment in journalism and the publishing industry, which is that no journalism or media company has figured out how to actually fund their content in this new age of the Internet. The big reason is that newspape ... Continue reading at Editor & Publisher
[ Editor & Publisher | 2015-09-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Hearst has made another bet on an emerging pop-culture brand, investing $21 million in Complex Media, a digital-media company that operates websites devoted to music, fashion, food and movies.Hearst, the publisher of Cosmopolitan and Esquire magazines, last year acquired a 25% stake in... Continue reading at Advertising Age
[ Advertising Age | 2015-09-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The National Book Awards will not run in 2015, The Bookseller can confirm. Cactus TV, which has produced the consumer-focused awards since the closure of Publishing News in 2008, said an update about a 2016 ceremony would be issued soon. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-09-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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German publisher joins other media companies faced by 20% ownership limitThe German media group Axel Springer has sold off its media assets in Russia to Artcom Media, a division of the Russian-based publishing group ACMG run by Alexander Fedotov. The assets include the Russian editions of Forbes... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2015-09-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
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