Welcome to the latest edition of Ad Age Publisher's Brief, our roundup of news from the world of content producers across digital and print. Got a tip? Send it our way. Joining us late? Here's the previous edition. Facebook II: Wired is out with a sequel of sorts to its widely-read March 2018 deep-dive feature about Facebook that came with a cover photo-illustration of a bruised and bloodied Mark Zuckerberg. That story, written by Editor-in-Chief Nicholas Thompson and Contributing Editor Fred Vogelstein, was titled “Inside the Two Years That Shook Facebook—and the World,” and was also promoted online with the alternate headline “Facebook’s Two Years of Hell.” Fast-forward to the May 2019 cover, which carries the headline “15 Months of Fresh Hell Inside Facebook.” For their follow-up, the authors spoke with 65 current and former Facebook employees. As Thompson and Vogelstein write, Facebook’s powerful network effects have kept advertisers from fleeing, and overall user numbers remain healthy if you include people on Instagram, which Facebook owns. But the company’s original culture and mission kept creating a set of brutal debts that came due with regularity... The company floundered, dissembled, and apologized. Even when it told the truth, people didn’t believe it. Critics appeared on all sides, demanding changes that ranged from the essential to the contradictory to the impossible. Keep reading here. Incidentally, Condé Nast spokesman Corey Wilson tells Ad Age... Continue reading at 'Advertising Age'
[ Advertising Age | 2019-04-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The company, which is headquartered in Miramar, Florida, and focuses exclusively on Christian titles, has seen significant growth in the U.S. market over the past quarter-century, with the U.S. now accounting for 52% of its total business, a testament to the growing Spanish-speaking population... Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2024-07-16 04:00:00 UTC ]
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The 14th Sharjah Publishers Conference opens its registration for November's staging ahead of Sharjah's International Book Fair. The post Sharjah’s 2024 Publishers Conference Opens for Registration appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2024-07-15 23:09:08 UTC ]
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Small publishers can contribute to the green transition, publisher Marie Tomičić says: 'Connect the change to your brand.' The post Sweden’s Marie Tomičić: A Small Publisher Goes Green appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2024-07-11 18:30:22 UTC ]
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With the debut of Webtoon on the U.S. stock market dominating comics world headlines last month, South Korea’s other webcomic and webnovel giant, Kakao Entertainment, and its Tapas platform are eyeing ambitions of their own. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2024-07-10 04:00:00 UTC ]
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The Random House Publishing Group has signed an agreement, expected to close later this summer, to acquire comic book and graphic novel publisher Boom! Studios. Boom! will become part of Random House Worlds. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2024-07-10 04:00:00 UTC ]
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The Publishing Perspectives Forum in Frankfurt this year features Hachette CEO David Shelley and Les Nouveaux Éditeurs' chair and CEO Arnaud Nourry. The post Shelley and Nourry Headline Publishing Perspectives Forum appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2024-07-09 20:45:24 UTC ]
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The Publishers Association enumerates promising appointments for the creative industries just made by the UK's new Labour government. The post In London: Publishers Say They’re ‘Optimistic’ About Labour’s Victory appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2024-07-08 22:21:50 UTC ]
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Dozens of jobs to be cut as the Nine-owned media company announces plan to stop licensing overseas titles and focus on wholly owned brandsFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastTech and culture news websites... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2024-07-08 03:27:57 UTC ]
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Sometimes a book’s journey to publication is straightforward. Other times, it’s a bit more circuitous. We asked publishers to tell us their fun or unusual behind-the-scenes stories. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2024-07-05 04:00:00 UTC ]
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Now that we’re at the midway point of 2024, let’s look back at five of the top stories that defined H1. Continue reading at Digiday
[ Digiday | 2024-07-04 04:01:00 UTC ]
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Samuel Roth was the sort of bookseller whose wares came wrapped in brown paper. Titles like Gershon Legman’s The Sexual Conduct of Men and Women, Maxwell Bodenheim’s My Life and Loves in Greenwich Village, and most notoriously his anthologized periodical of high-brow smut, American Aphrodite: A... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
[ Literrary Hub | 2024-07-03 08:56:41 UTC ]
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After the entertainment company of the same name filed for bankruptcy, some in the book business wondered how the closure would impact the publisher. It won't. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2024-07-03 04:00:00 UTC ]
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The Audio Publishers Association, based in the United States, hosts a first 'International Summit of Audio Publishers' in September. The post Audio Publishers Association Stages an ‘International Summit’ appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2024-07-02 20:55:06 UTC ]
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What are the personal, ethical, and moral considerations that go into books published posthumously? Continue reading at Book Riot
[ Book Riot | 2024-06-28 11:30:00 UTC ]
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Shani Gonzales of Warner Chappell says that although people are ‘having fun’ with creating AI songs, ‘what happens when someone tries to sell it?’Arriving in London in the teeth of the pandemic to take a top music industry job, Shani Gonzales had few opportunities to immerse herself in British... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2024-06-25 13:00:26 UTC ]
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No Village Voice, no Village home.Peter Barbey, a billionaire apparel mogul who led a failed effort to revive the storied Village Voice newspaper in the mid-2010s, is looking to say goodbye to the neighborhood in the publication’s name.Barbey has listed his 4,000-square-foot duplex condo at 140... Continue reading at Crains New York
[ Crains New York | 2024-06-24 17:26:41 UTC ]
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Publisher frustration is mounting at AI search startup Perplexity, which is backed by Jeff Bezos and other tech titans, for circumventing attempts to block its crawlers from accessing and serving up media content, potentially cutting publishers out of billions in ad... Continue reading at AdWeek
[ AdWeek | 2024-06-21 17:04:46 UTC ]
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Adapt, adopt, assimilate—that is the way digital solutions vendors are going about making technologies, new and proven, work for them and their publishing clients. This method also applies to their stance on three hot industry topics: accessibility, artificial intelligence, and automation.... Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2024-06-21 04:00:00 UTC ]
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Frustrated by the difficulties of finding and keeping traditional distributors, members of the IBPA came together last week for a webinar led by Microcosm Publishing CEO Joe Biel to discuss the merits of forming their own distribution cooperatives. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2024-06-21 04:00:00 UTC ]
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Real numbers on diversity in publishing, AI garbage comes to your Kindle screen, New Adult returns: all in today's book news. Continue reading at Book Riot
[ Book Riot | 2024-06-19 18:45:34 UTC ]
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