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Derik Dupont

Google digital book ambitions hinge on settlement - washingtonpost.com - 0 views

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Google Publishers Digital Books Settlement Copyright Justice Department Authors Open Book Alliance Orphan Works

shared by Derik Dupont on 13 Nov 09 - Cached
  • Derik Dupont on 13 Nov 09
     
    Google's plan to add millions of books to digital library riding on new settlement
Allison Begezda

Amazon Acquires UK's Top Online Bookstore - 0 views

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shared by Allison Begezda on 05 Jul 11 - No Cached
  • Allison Begezda on 05 Jul 11
     
    Amazon announced Monday that it will acquire The Book Depository, a UK-based online bookseller that offers more than 6 million titles and shipping to more than 100 countries. The Book Depository claims on its site that it is the fastest-growing bookseller in Europe and the UK's largest dedicated online bookseller, with more than a million customers.
Derik Dupont

2 million iPads sold in under 60 days | Apple - CNET News - 0 views

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Apple iPad

shared by Derik Dupont on 01 Jun 10 - Cached
  • Derik Dupont on 01 Jun 10
     
    Apple touts its latest sales figures for the buzz-generating tablet and acknowledges difficulty in keeping up with demand. Read this blog post by Jim Dalrymple on Apple.
Derik Dupont

Twitter Tops 50 Million Tweets Per Day - mediabistro.com: BayNewser - 0 views

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Twitter Tweets Social Media Social Networking

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  • Derik Dupont on 24 Feb 10
     
    Jobs and recruiting for media professionals in journalism, on-line content, book publishing, TV, radio, PR, graphic design, photography, and advertising
Derik Dupont

The Million Follower Fallacy: Audience Size Doesn't Prove Influence on Twitter - 0 views

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Audience Twitter Tweets Aggregation

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  • Derik Dupont on 26 Mar 10
     
    A group of researchers have proven something we already expected to be the case: your Twitter follower count is somewhat of a meaningless metric when it comes to ...
arnie Grossblatt

Getting Google to notice your ebook - 0 views

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publishers ebooks Google metadata ONIX SEO

shared by arnie Grossblatt on 20 Dec 10 - No Cached
  • but Google eBookstore suddenly gives booksellers a reason to at least wade into SEO.
  • But what about new books and ebooks? How does Google determine which new titles, and the more than 15 million books that have been scanned, float to the top of its search results pages: in the web search box and in the ebookstore. The challenge, for Gray and other Google engineers on the Books project, is that the best known component of Google's algorithm for determining the the value of a web resource -- the number of links to it by others -- does not apply to books and ebooks. Although it is possible to link to a selection in certain books on Google Books (here's a hyperlink into the aforementioned Galbraith title) people don't generally create links to the contents of a book or ebook. So linking is not a reliable indicator of quality.
  • One strategy that Google employs is to tap into the book industry's "rich tradition of metadata.
  • ...5 more annotations...
  • Google also looks at what Gray referred to as "market signals:" how often a book has been reprinted, web searches, recent book sales, the number of libraries that hold the book, etc.
  • 2. Create quality content outside the book
  • 1. Use descriptive titles and chapter headings
  • 3 best practices for getting Google to notice your book
  • 3. Book covers matter
  • arnie Grossblatt on 20 Dec 10
     
    With the opening of the Google Bookstore, it's time for publishers to start thinking about search engine optimization (SEO)
CoCo Massengale

Barnes & Noble, others to buy Borders Group's intellectual property - 0 views

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retail borders b&n

shared by CoCo Massengale on 26 Sep 11 - No Cached
  • CoCo Massengale on 26 Sep 11
     
    Barnes & Noble and other bidders purchased parts of Borders Group's intellectual property in an auction that raised $15.7 million. Hilco Streambank, the intellectual property valuation and disposition arm of Hilco Trading, LLC, said the auction included more than 50 rounds before the winning bidders emerged.
Allison Begezda

Newspapers Gain A Larger Share of Internet Audience - FishbowlLA - 0 views

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  • Allison Begezda on 13 Jul 11
     
    By Matthew Fleischer on July 12, 2011 1:14 PM Newspapers are increasingly staking their claim to the Internet and its emerging advertising bounty. According to a recent comScore study for the Newspaper Association of America, newspapers attracted an average monthly audience of 110.8 million unique visitors over the age of 18 to their websites in the second quarter-that's 64.6 percent of all adult Internet users.
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