Publishing NewsAdvertising / airport screening / book clubs / Gmail / Google / History / inbox scanning / movie reviews / privacy7 Comments
ACLU and Academics Concerned over TSA Proposal to Inspect Travelers’ Books – I can’t figure out what news is intended to distract us from the denigration of our constitutional democracy and what truly deserves our attention and outrage. This one hits a middle ground for me, in part because it ... more >
Publishing NewsAdvertising / Apple / Beren and Lúthien / digital publishing / Google / martial arts / TolkienComments Off on Friday News: digital ads, copyright/wrong, Tolkien in love, and martial arts book for women
As Apple and Google take aim at ads, publishers tremble – So with Google now planning to monetize digital advertising to whatever extent possible, and Apple claiming that it will block autoplay (THANKYOUTHANKYOUTHANKYOU) and stop (some) consumer tracking, digital publishers ranging from The New York Times to Vox Media are challenged anew ... more >
Publishing Newsbook reviewing / BookExpo America / digital advertising / digital subscriptions / Google / New York Times Book Review / news / privacy / Scribd3 Comments
Scribd Reports 500K Subscribers, Adds Newspaper Content – With more than 500,000 paid subscribers and an expectation of $50 million in profits for 2017, Scribd is again expanding its content offerings with “selected” content from The New York Times, The Financial Times, The Wall Street Journal, and The Guardian. It does not appear ... more >
Publishing Newsbook buying habits / Comic books / donating books / Google / Native American superheroes / research / YouTube TV2 Comments
How to judge a book by its network – A group of researchers from Cornell (representing Sociology, Information Science, and Computer Science) have published an analysis claiming that consumers tend to buy books along partisan lines, even when the books are not overtly political. Moreover, they have allegedly discerned certain patterns among book ... more >
Publishing Newsbloggers / comic book movies / Free Speech / Google / marketing / proposal / wedding5 Comments
How Google Analytics ruined marketing – Even if you aren’t in the business of marketing a product, Samuel Scott’s article on how Google Analytics changed marketing is worth a read. Not only does Scott argue that Google shifted the landscape to favor online rather than offline marketing, but he also claims ... more >
Publishing News19th century / African American novelists / class action suit / Google / Jonathan Franzen / SCOTUS / X-ray technology7 Comments
U.S. Supreme Court lets Google advertising class action suit proceed – SCOTUS refused to hear Google’s appeal of a 9th Circuit ruling that advertisers could proceed with their class action suit covering the years 2004 to 2008. The appeals court reversed an earlier district court ruling that the suit could not proceed ... more >
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