Self-publishing platform CreateSpace recently laid off 50 employees—its second round of layoffs in the last two years—and shoe seller Zappos recently cut 30 people. Last year, Amazon subsidiary Quidsi laid off 250 employees. While Amazon has performed cutbacks in some areas, the company has
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”Hundreds” more will be laid off elsewhere in the tech giant's global operations including at self-publishing unit Createspace and footwear seller Zappos. The layoffs primarily focus on the consumer retail business. Insiders say rapid growth left some units over budget and overstaffed. Amazon broadly
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Self-publishing in 2008 was basically left to people at the bottom of the bottom. I set a unique book deal with Harper Studios when it was a start-up within Harper Collins, which allowed me to get a headline in the Wall Street Journal that said, “Gary Vaynerchuk, signs a 10 book, one million dollar deal”,
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Murdoch was concerned that companies like Facebook and Google had been vacuuming up much of the online advertising money that news publishers had relied upon. According to the report, Murdoch shared his concerns at a meeting with Zuckerberg and suggested that his company would push
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At the end of each month, we share lists of B&N's current bestsellers in the genre, from new hardbacks, to trade paperbacks, to mass markets and media.
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Video ad serving platform SpotX and independent video platform JW Player said they are launching Video Player Bidding, which enable header bidding and other features in a single-click system. Publishers who use JW Player can use Video Player Bidding to reduce latency and improve monetization
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