Independent comic book publisher, Boom! Studios, has just been acquired by Penguin Random House (PRH). As a result of this acquisition, Boom! is expected to conclude its current partnership with Diamond Comic Distributors and join the ranks of Marvel, IDW, Dark Horse, and Tokyopop as an exclusive partner of Penguin Random House Publisher Services. While initial reports … [Read more...] about Boom! Studios Joins Penguin Random House
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Uplifting Publisher Chicken Soup for the Soul Bankrupt
Chicken Soup for the Soul Entertainment, known for its uplifting books and diverse media ventures, including Redbox, has been dealing with significant financial challenges. Despite its optimistic ethos, positive thinking wasn’t enough to keep the company from filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection last week in Delaware. As reported by CBS news, the company had extensive … [Read more...] about Uplifting Publisher Chicken Soup for the Soul Bankrupt
Internet Archive Launches MTV’s 460,000 News Articles
Recently, after Paramount Global disabled mtvnews.com and mtv.com/news, Internet Archive assembled a searchable index of 460,575 web pages that were published at mtv.com/news. You can search the MTV News archive on the organization’s Wayback Machine here. Prior to Internet Archive aggregating the MTV News pages into a collection, there was no way to locate articles based on … [Read more...] about Internet Archive Launches MTV’s 460,000 News Articles
Goodreads Founder Launches Smashing – AI and Human Recommendations
Goodreads‘ co-founder Otis Chandler is back to build the next big app community. But this time, his focus isn’t on books; it’s on the content you can find online, including news articles, blog posts, social media posts, podcasts and more. With Smashing, an AI and community-powered content recommendation app, now launching into an invite-only beta, the goal is to help connect … [Read more...] about Goodreads Founder Launches Smashing – AI and Human Recommendations
How Leeanna Morgan Utilizes AI for Effortless Audiobook Creation
Creating an audiobook is a lot easier than it used to be before. It isn't as time-consuming or expensive as it used to be thanks to the use of cutting-end AI voice generation technologies. Take for instance ElevenLabs which offers voice conversion, speech generation, and automatic dubbing technology for creating the most natural-sounding audiobooks. Now, noted author Leeanna … [Read more...] about How Leeanna Morgan Utilizes AI for Effortless Audiobook Creation
Introducing New Penguin Random House Imprints
Over the last year our publishing groups worldwide announced or launched exciting new imprints. The imprints’ goals and mission range from giving more diverse voices a platform and publishing home to providing tailored content for digital devices and offering ancillary products that leverage the power and impact of our greatest authors. Here is a roundup of some of our new … [Read more...] about Introducing New Penguin Random House Imprints
Latest Book Publishing Trends in 2024
Book publishing trends keep evolving as the technology shapes the industry and self-publishing shifts, presenting both opportunities and challenges for authors, publishers, and even readers. Here are the top 5 book publishing trends shaping the future of the industry: 1. The Rise of Audiobooks An increasing number of book lovers are choosing to listen to books instead of … [Read more...] about Latest Book Publishing Trends in 2024
Fujitsu Quaderno Receives massive update for musicians
The Fujitsu Quaderno line of writing tablets has been going strong for many years and is primarily aimed at the business crowd. There is a new demographic that can find value in the A4 and A5 musicians. Fujitsu has released a significant update that turns it into a sheet music player, including Bluetooth support for foot pedals. With the new function of foot pedal linkage, … [Read more...] about Fujitsu Quaderno Receives massive update for musicians
Why Digital Textbooks aren’t Helping Students
Textbook prices have almost tripled over the past four decades, turning these books into financial burdens. Moving from print to digital college textbooks was supposed to address the problem. But it seems to create more problems than it was expected to solve. First of all, textbook prices continue to increase despite digital access. Students need access codes from publishers … [Read more...] about Why Digital Textbooks aren’t Helping Students
Apple News+ is growing faster than traditional media
Apple News+ is a monthly subscription that gives users premium access to articles from major media outlets and hundreds of digital magazines. A new Consumer Intelligence Research Partners report shows Apple News+ is growing its subscription rate about four times faster than major news sites. This latest report has revealed that News+ subscriptions in the United States rose 15% … [Read more...] about Apple News+ is growing faster than traditional media