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Business Insider
Newspapers are dying, and the internet is rising.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics recently highlighted a stark indicator that this generational shift in the nature of media is happening: Since October of last year, there have been more people employed in internet publishing than by traditional newspapers, according to the Bureau's Current Employment Statistics program, also known as the "establishment survey" in the monthly jobs report.
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Poynter
Blendle, the Dutch "iTunes for News," has competition.
The new entrant is Tibit, a London-based firm that expands the concept of micropayments beyond news, according to its website. Using "tibs," the company's digital currency, users can contribute to a variety of enterprises — journalism, charities, open software and art, among other things.
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Vearsa
As a veteran of the digital publishing era (slightly depressing at my age) one question has persistently bothered me. It's about the limited routes to market for publishers. It's not, "why does Amazon have such market share?" That answer is pretty obvious — innovative, aggressive, admirable focus. Instead, we should be asking is: why Apple and Google (two of the biggest companies in the world) only sell somewhere in the region of 8% of book publishers' e-books?
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Nursery Management
The AmericanHort Board of Directors has named Ken Fisher as the company's next President and Chief Executive Officer, effective immediately. Fisher has 20 years of experience leading public and privately-held companies, including iconic consumer brands with The Coleman Company and Elmer's Products Inc. Ken's diverse business experience will further the vision and strategy of AmericanHort while bringing proven organizational management to achieve the desired results.
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The Independent
Self-published authors are sometimes ill-prepared or don't know what to expect when they approach booksellers about selling their titles, signing events, policy, etc. To be successful in pitching their books to booksellers, self-published authors should have a sense of the resources available to booksellers, what is appealing to them, and how to approach them. Here are eight things booksellers would like self-published authors to know.
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Greenhouse Grower
Plant breeding might be better termed The Amazing Race, for all its similarities with the popular television show. It's a globetrotting business where competitors hurdle through mental and physical challenges, deduce clues, and negotiate with major industry players, all to dash ahead of the competition in a fast-paced market. Because of this, the breeding world is in a constant state of flux. This year is no different.
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American Nurseryman
Let's get right to the point: Gardeners are spending more these days — to the tune of a reported $36.1 billion in 2015. That's what the National Gardening Market Research Company tells us, and we should take heed. The NGMRC once was part of the National Gardening Association, which took great pains to produce a thorough and exhaustive survey of gardeners in the U.S.
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AlterNet
Wouldn't that bowl of cereal in the morning taste a lot better with fresh strawberries that you grew yourself? How about an apple pie made from apples picked right in your own backyard? The fact is, you don't need to have an orchard to enjoy a steady supply of fruit all year round. Growing fruits in your backyard or even indoors isn't that hard at all.
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Digiday
Snapchat is not just redesigning its key Discover section for media companies. It's also rethinking Live Stories, too.
Snapchat is expected to unveil a redesign of Discover by mid-June, according to sources. It will meld Discover and Live Stories into one content experience, sources said. Snapchat also is planning to introduce a "subscription" feature so users can have a say in what content is more visible in their version, sources said.
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The Verge
In March, Instagram began testing a new feed sorted by an algorithm, promising to show you the photos you're most likely to enjoy rather than the ones that were posted most recently. This triggered a global thirst crisis in which desperate Instagram celebrities, terrified that their selfies would be buried beneath users' actual friends, began begging followers to turn on push notifications for their accounts.
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The Guardian
Trinity Mirror regularly publishes the numbers of its Facebook and Twitter followers and likes. Archant has also boasted of its social media success when doing the same.
Many journalists find this less than uplifting, but Trinity Mirror's digital guru, David Higgerson, argues that this "currency of endorsement" has value.
"We live in a world in which revenue follows endorsement," he writes. But does it?
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