FRANKFURT (Reuters) – The market debut of Springer Nature (SPGG.DE) will likely value the publisher of science magazines Nature and Scientific American at 3.2 billion euros ($3.8 bln), less than originally targeted, one of the bookrunners organizing the deal said. The company has guided investors
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Springer Nature, which says it is the largest English language academic book publisher with 13,000 new books every year, reported adjusted
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The games industry is full of horror stories of bad publishing deals that developers have signed. One man who has over 30 years of experience in working with publishers is Jon Hare of Sensible Software fame. Speaking at Games First Helsinki 2018, Hare advised developers looking for a deal to have
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Q: Have publishers' efforts to deliver media stalled as a result of the limitations that GDPR could potentially place? A: They haven't stalled yet, but they could. This is because that up to this point, a solution hasn't been presented that could connect consent to the digital media ecosystem as a whole.
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Publishers traditionally spend a lot on fact-checking, which usually involves hiring reporters to sniff around to make sure news items are accurate. But because aggregators don't claim the material they distribute is accurate, they can pass off the task of deciding “what's news” into a mathematical model,
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First announced in August 2017, the Singapore Media Exchange (SMX), a publisher co-op jointly formed by both Mediacorp and Singapore Press Holdings goes live today as both publishers look to revive their sluggish traditional advertising revenues. SMX will follow the path of existing programmatic
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France's Libération is among the many publishers bolstering subscription revenue, but in this case, it's looking to kids to meet that need. Last September, the left-leaning title launched Le P'tit Libé, a weekly digital edition and iOS app geared toward children 7 to 12 years old. Each Friday, Le P'tit Libé
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Mic's publisher, Cory Haik, calls it “deliberate distribution.” Faced with a steep fall in video traffic from Facebook, Haik has partnered with Apple News and Twitter Moments to highlight some of its best journalism. Haik cut production by two-thirds and its Facebook videos by half, pushing more distinctive
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Bona Fide Books, the South Shore-based independent press that specializes in nonfiction and poetry, recently welcomed a new publisher — only the
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