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Writing a book will never be easy, but FastPencil's mission is to make things easier for authors by bringing this process online and to collaborate with others. FastPencil takes writers from idea to published book. The service offers features for collaboration, editing and design, as well as professional consulting services (Read More)
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Newspaper websites’ ad revenue got progressively worse in Q3, as the declines reached nearly 17 percent to $623 million, according to the latest Newspaper Association of America stats. In comparison, newspaper sites’ Q308 decline was only 3 percent; sequentially, Q2 newspaper (Read More)
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The Daily Beast has named publishing vet Stephen Colvin as the site’s president. Colvin CNET was president and CEO of lad mag purveyor Dennis Publishing for 11 years, will oversee all aspects of the business, the company announced. He will report directly to Tina Brown, the ye (Read More)
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Anyone can write a paragraph, but not everyone knows how to write one that other people want to read.You’ve seen it:You open a book, and the whole page is one long block of text.Each sentence in the paragraph makes exactly the same point, said in a slightly different way, and you wonder why they didn’t just say it once and (Read More)
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Times Publishing Co. has sold Governing magazine to e.Republic, a publisher of titles focused on state and local government and education. Terms of the deal weren’t disclosed. The sale comes a few months after The Economist Group paid over $100 million to acquire Congressional (Read More)
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Romance Writers of America and other writer associations yesterday spoke out against the announcement earlier this week that Author Solutions had teamed up with Harlequin to form Harlequin Horizons, a new imprint for self-published romance authors. RWA has deemed Harlequin no longer eligible for RWA-provided conference reso (Read More)
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Quinstreet, the Foster City, CA-based vertical media and marketing firm that recently bought Insure.com and Internet.com, has filed for an IPO to raise as much as $250 million, according to its S1. Last month Quin paid $16 million for Insure.com, and its related media assets, (Read More)
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Publisher's Weekly Latest News:
A daily roundup of book and publishing news from across the Web: Oprah to Go Off Air; Palin Sold 300,000; Canadian Publishers Scramble for Kindle; Google Hearing 3; More Apple Tablet Rumors. (Read More)
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Glenn Beck has a plan, and he's deadly serious about it.The mega-popular Fox news host/evangelist will unveil an initiative called "The Plan" in Florida tomorrow while on tour to promote his book, "Arguing With Idiots."Read the rest of this story »See Also:Now Even Glenn Beck Is Freaking Out About The Dollar Carry TradeGlen (Read More)
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Once the service for those serious enough to pay for the privilege to post, TypePad recently released a free "Micro" service. The company made the decision to offer a free product realizing the demand for a platform more formal than Twitter and less formal than Wordpress or Typepad's original product. ReadWriteWeb compared (Read More)
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Harbinger Capital Partners continues to slice its stake of the New York Times (NYSE: NYT). Co., selling its second batch of stock in two months. The activist hedge fund that spent more than a half-billion accumulating nearly 20 percent of the publishing company’s stock in 200 (Read More)
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Smashwords, which was one of the first eBook distributors to be have its self-publishing platform included in the new Sony (NYSE: SNE) digital bookstore, has acquired author community site Bookhabit. Terms weren’t disclosed, but a source told paidContent the deal was done for (Read More)
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Catherine Balsam-Schwaber has left her post as a senior marketing exec at MTV Networks (NYSE: VIA) to take on a similar role at NBC Universal’s iVillage. This is the second big hire for iVillage within the past two months. In September, publishing vet Joe Lagani defected from (Read More)
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The Associated Press’ layoffs this week, combined with earlier cuts, have trimmed payroll costs by 10 percent, the wire service said in a statement. The final tally of the layoffs was 90 news department staffers, the AP said. About 71 jobs were represented by the Newspaper Gui (Read More)
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Online author Web site directory FiledBy—which provides information on more than three million authors—has added a tech feature to its site from the online “social publishing company” Scribd. The new technology will allow FiledBy authors to use Scribd’s document reader to publish content on FiledBy and Scribd simultaneously (Read More)
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