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  Man Booker Prize to use ebook distribution

  1098 readersAccording to a tweet from one of the five members of the Man Booker judging panel: “We are to be given Kindles for Booker judging so they won’t have to post us tons of real books”. According to The Age, judges last year had to deal with 138 hardback books. The article goes on to

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  Essential Reading: The Future of the Book from O’Reilly’s Mike Hendrickson

  1049 readersBy Hannah Johnson ESSENTIAL READING: The future of the book by Mike Hendrickson In the wake of the opportunities and challenges discussed at the Tools of Change conference, O’Reilly’s VP of Content Strategy Mike Hendrickson urges the publishing industry, “Let’s change the The Book of the Future before we have to.” What a great and, in my

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  Working at a Big-Six Publishing House: Culture, Pay, Advancement and Getting In

  662 readers By Jeremy Greenfield, Editorial Director, Digital Book World, @JDGsaid Competitive compensation, generous benefits and access to top authors and top industry talent are why human resource professionals at big-six publishing houses say you should come work for them. Following up on our Best Publishing Companies to Work For list, we caught up with human resources at both

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  FutureBook Digital Innovation Awards going well

  1472 readersFrom the Bookseller’s FutureBook, by Sam Missingham: I’m delighted to say that we have had 93 entries to our first Digital Innovation Awards. Publishers, booksellers, authors and developers from UK, USA, Canada, France, Australia and Holland are all represented. Major players, niche companies and start-ups will all be competing for our first FutureBook awards. The

• iMonitor List of Best Magazine Apps, #DPS #PressRun #WoodWing Top List

  1832 readers McPheters & Company has released the iMonitor™ List of Best Magazine Apps for iPad. The list is based on the iMonitor rating system which scores each app based on its design, functionality, and use of rich media content. The apps on this list, which come from a variety of

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  Tabby Awards Looking for Judges

  164 readersTabTimes is looking for judges for the 2013 edition of The Tabby Awards. These judges will help pick the top consumer apps in the world of tablets, exploring some of the best mobile content. Here’s more from the company: In November 2012, TabTimes presented the first edition of THE TABBY AWARDS. An expert panel of judges picked the top

• Javascript and the DOM: innerHTML, createElement and appendChild

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  Jeff Bezos Makes MediaGuardian 100 List

  1009 readersAmazon chief Jeff Bezos made The Guardian’s MediaGuardian 100 list for the first time ever this year. Coming in at No. 12, the Amazon chief joins Mark Zuckerberg, Jack Dorsey, Larry Page and Steve Jobs, as one of the “most powerful people in television, radio, newspapers, magazines, digital media, media business, advertising, marketing and PR.”

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  Accenture study finds media and entertainment execs saying their companies are still struggling with digital

  1874 readersA recently released study by the Media & Entertainment Group of Accenture claims to find that nearly half of executives surveyed still say their companies are struggling to convert their operations from analog to digital. The Global Media & Entertainment Study also found that media executives are anticipating even more rapid change to come, 85

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  Best Publishing Companies to Work For

  1135 readers By Jeremy Greenfield, Editorial Director, Digital Book World, @JDGsaid The book publishing industry is populated by intelligent, hard-working people, many of whom are delighted to have the opportunity to turn their passion – the printed word – into a paying job. Those working at places like Random House, John Wiley, Oxford University Press and Penguin might be