Category: Publishing
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Don’t Keep Readers Out, Make Them Want to Come in
According to a Guardian executive, thanks in part to the growth of the Facebook app, social sharing is now close to generating as much traffic to the paper’s website as search does — a fairly incredible statistic, considering that social produced just 2 percent of the traffic to the site as recently as six months ago. The Washington Post has seen…
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A Long Read on The Google Art Project
From the Google Art Project. Image by dalbera via Flickr Google Art Project has enabled museums to put high res images and video on line, that complement the actual art objects themselves, rather than try to replace them. This is a long read, but interesting from the perspective of a curator, about whether Google is…
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New “Standout” Tag Syntax to Reward Good Journalism in Google
Image via CrunchBase Google has announced a new piece of code that you can add to posts that you think should be featured. Every day, news organizations and journalists around the world dedicate significant time and resources toward some of the most critical types of coverage: exceptional original reporting, deep investigative work, scoops and exclusives,…
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But I’m sure they didn’t do that in the US…
Brown joins a long list of Labour politicians who are known to have been targeted by private investigators working for News International, including the former prime minister Tony Blair and his media adviser Alastair Campbell, the former deputy prime minister John Prescott and his political adviser Joan Hammell, Peter Mandelson as trade secretary, Jack Straw…
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eBooks And The Ease Of Self-Publishing
Author tells why it was easier, faster, and can have bigger payback going with epublishing Since professionalism is essential, we hired a cover artist and an ebook formatter. A publisher providing these services takes 52.5% of an ebook’s cover price, and the retailer gets 30% through the agency model. That leaves only 17.5% for the…
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Gibson, Epstein see Print on Demand as Future of Bookstores
My dream scenario would be that you could go into a bookshop, examine copies of every book in print that they’re able to offer, then for a fee have them produce in a minute or two a beautiful finished copy in a dust jacket that you would pay for and take home. Book making machines…
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The Time it Takes to Load a Page and Viewer Behavior
Interesting side note: “Generation Y” generally gets slapped with the label of being impatient when it comes to page load times, but did you know that mobile web users over the age of 45 are actually the most impatient of all? The folks at Equation Research tell us this is so. via Cheat Sheet: Everything…
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Our Goverment Committed to Engagement
These are the remarks of Judith A. McHale, Under Secretary for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs , Vilnius, Lithuania mad on Dec. 11, 2009 This means that the old hierarchies and barriers to communication are melting away. No one holds a monopoly on information. Those who try to control it can never be successful in the…
Barbara K Iverson 