With 90M Users, Flipboard Launches Shopping Magazine Experience

Flipboard, the personalized magazine app, is known for its high–quality news and social content. With its elegant format and simple curation tools, the service has grown to 90 million users. Now, the company aims to open up that massive audience to a new, potentially lucrative vertical: e–commerce. Today, Flipboard unveiled its shopping experience, giving users the ability to follow magazines that curate products or even create their own. Just as users could take advantage of Flipboard to keep up with their social feeds or to stay on top of political or tech news, they'll now have the option of browsing through a whole category of shopping magazines––like a Sears catalog for the iPad era, continuously updated and tailored to your tastes. Flipboard's shopping vertical works the same way as it does for news. Publishers, brands, and users can pull together products from around the web with the click of a button, and instantly create their own glossy, digital shopping magazine on Flipboard. See a lovely scarf for sale on a boutique website? Just use Flipboard's bookmarking tool to automatically add it to your Flipboard magazine devoted, say, to winter style. Followers leafing through your collection can easily purchase the item through Flipboard with just a few clicks. At launch, Flipboard's editors are working to curate a set of shopping magazines. The company has also partnered with brands such as Banana Republic and eBay, as well as celebrities like chef Daniel Boulud... Continue reading at 'Fast Company'

[ Fast Company | 2013-11-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Amazon to End Print Textbook Rentals, Overhaul Magazine and Newspaper Subscriptions

Amazon is discontinuing its print textbook rental program, and will phase out print and digital magazine and newspaper subscriptions as well, though some magazines and newspapers will remain available through Kindle Unlimited. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2022-12-14 05:00:00 UTC ]
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Robin Coste Lewis on Giving the Reader a Poetic Experience

Lit Hub is excited to feature a new series from Poets.org: “enjambments,” a monthly interview series with new and established poets. This month, they spoke to Robin Coste Lewis, the author of To the Perfect Realization of Helplessness (Alfred A. Knopf, 2022) and Voyage of the Sable Venus (Alfred... Continue reading at Literrary Hub

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When Your Book Tour is Interrupted by a Near-Death Experience

I was halfway through my book tour when the pain started. Sharp, but strangely light; like the nub of a feather lodged in my right side. Must be all that signing with my right hand, I joked to my husband, who was traveling with me, along with our two dogs. A six-week book tour of […] Continue reading at Literrary Hub

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Bookends & Beginnings Launches Fundraising Campaign

Bookends & Beginnings in Evanston, Ill., which announced several weeks ago that it was forced to move to another space after its landlord raised the rent 125%, launched a GoFundMe campaign to finance the move. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

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Astra Magazine Had Creative Freedom and a Budget. It Wasn’t Enough.

The literary journal attracted great names. Its issues sold well. And then it was over — a fate that offers insight into the tenuous place of literary magazines in the American publishing landscape. Continue reading at The New York Times

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'AudioFile' Magazine's Best Audiobooks of 2022

The bimonthly magazine, which covers and reviews audiobooks, has named its Best Audiobooks of 2022. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

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Astra House Shuts Its Literary Magazine

After publishing two issues, 'Astra Magazine' will shut down by the end of the year. The closure, the president of parent company Astra House Publishing said, will allow the company to focus on its book publishing business. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

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TikTok to sell books directly to users via marketplace

To further capitalise on the popularity of BookTok the social media giant will let users purchase titles through partnerships with publishers and retailersTikTok has proved to be a hugely successful way to promote books in recent years, with publishers attributing the popularity of books such as... Continue reading at The Guardian

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The Intimate Influences Behind New Queer Lit Magazine, ‘BitterSweet Review’

The new literary magazine is distributed in Europe via Antenne Books in print and online. Founding editor Benoît Loiseau shares how independent literature forms forge new inroads into publishing for minority authors and readers. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

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Entangled Publishing Launches Red Tower Books, a New Adult Imprint

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Drusilla Park Jones, founder of a former antique children’s book shop in Baltimore, dies

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Review: 'Still No Word From You,' a memoir that redefines the experience of reading

Peter Orner's 'Still No Word From You' melds memoir and criticism and, in the process, brings reading to life as a multi-sensory, communal experience. Continue reading at Los Angeles Times

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Amazon Changes Kindle eBook Return Policy, Ends Lending Between Kindle Users, and More

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The Hudson Valley-based Golden Notebook Bookstore will launch its publishing press next year with author Abigail Thomas's memoir 'Still Life at 80: The Next Interesting Thing.' Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

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Social news publisher The News Movement launched in the U.S. Wednesday, following a 10-month period where the startup honed its editorial strategy and accrued more than 80,000 followers across the major social media platforms. The publisher has attracted early attention thanks to both the... Continue reading at AdWeek

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