It has been a banner year for U.S. stocks, and particularly tech stocks, as investors rushed into growth-oriented names. The Nasdaq Composite Index COMP, -0.31% has gained 29% so far in 2017, outpacing the Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA, -0.16% and S&P 500 index SPX, -0.19% up about 26%
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“Subscription' sounds transactional, 'membership' sounds like a two-way relationship that gives you access to things you can't get elsewhere,” Yost told Publishers Daily. Gannett has a number of paid membership products. It released an ad-free mobile membership in October, in which readers can pay
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In keeping with our theme of not looking at just the latest best sellers I've decided for this week we will take a look at a book published back in February, 2017. This page turning thriller, The Couple Next Door is about a young suburban family with an infant, Cora. The opening of the book centers around a
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Dave Limp, senior vice president of Amazon's devices and services division told CNBC: “Customers purchased millions of Amazon's Alexa-enabled devices this weekend, and Alexa devices were the top sellers across all of Amazon.” Adding that millions of Echo Dots were shipped leading up to the start
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… of your Prime subscription, you get access to the Kindle Owners' Lending Library, which lets you check out one e-book per month and read that book on any Kindle e-reader or Fire tablet. The catch: This particular library offers a relatively small selection; don't expect a lot of new titles or bestsellers.
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In the United States, more than 6,000 trailers and 32 Amazon Air planes helped ship holiday orders to customers this season. In fact, between Thanksgiving and Christmas, Amazon Air carried enough packages to equal over a billion Echo Dots, according to Amazon. Here's Amazon's list of best-sellers
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In 2013, a digital media and marketing company based in South Africa, Adclick Africa, was looking to run online advertising campaigns with African publishers. The company, too, turned to Dochase. “Working with them has been very beneficial for us,” Publisher Relations and Campaign Management
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Similarly the world is awash with literary book awards recognising authors and publishers but nary a mention of the editors who fashioned them. The Institute of Publishing Editors (IPEd) runs almost a similar programme in Australia. It administers several prizes for editorial excellence. One of them is The
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