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The Wall Street Journal
Here are some key numbers for content licensors in digital media: Netflix will pay approximately $3 billion in licensing and production fees this year to the television and film industry; Hulu is paying $192 million to license South Park; Spotify pays out 70 percent of its gross revenues to the music labels that hold the underlying rights to Spotify's catalogue. Now here's what Facebook is guaranteeing publishers who are posting articles in its new "instant articles" feature: $0.
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The Washington Post
The list price for the bestselling book "H is for Hawk" is $26. The price is printed right on the inside jacket. And that's what the nonfiction hardcover sells for at The King's English Bookshop in Salt Lake City, Utah.
The same book sells for $15.60 at Amazon.
Amazon has been discounting books for so long that it hardly surprises. Readers expect it from the online retailer.
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GWA
Save money on your symposium registration: Take advantage of the $207 savings over the late registration fee by registering by July 20. Act now!
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GWA
For more than 25 years, the GWA has conducted an annual awards program for talent and products published or aired in the field of garden communications. We are pleased to announce the recipients of the 2015 GWA Silver Garden Media Awards of Achievement.
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GWA
An electronic version of the GWA membership directory is available for download. As a read-only PDF, you can electronically search for information using the PDF find function to locate member information, websites and blogs.
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GWA
A special block of rooms has been set aside for GWA meeting participants at the Hilton Pasadena and the Sheraton Pasadena. The block is available for Sept. 16-23. Room rates start at $129. The deadline for discounted room rates is Sept. 2.
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GWA
You can support the GWAF even if you can't be in Pasadena! Make a donation to the Garden Writers Association Foundation and have your name entered to win a laptop computer, digital SLR camera, TV or an iPad! Save time and sign up online before the meeting. The drawing will take place at the Annual Awards Banquet, and you do not need to be present to win.
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Observer
Readers might think that buying an electronic copy of an author's book on their Kindle delivers more profit to writers. After all, the marginal cost to a publisher for each e-book is effectively zero (that is, the cost to publish an additional unit). It turns out, though, that if you're buying a book from one of the big publishers, the writer earns less than he or she would had the reader purchased a paper copy, according to data collected by The Authors Guild.
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Shelf Awareness
May bookstore sales rose 0.9 percent, to $776 million, compared to May 2014, according to preliminary estimates from the Census Bureau. This was the third consecutive month that bookstore sales increased over the comparable month last year. For the year to date, bookstore sales are still off slightly compared to the first five months of 2014, down 0.3 percent, to $4.193 billion.
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Pew Research Center
More Americans get news on Twitter and Facebook than in the past, according to a new report by Pew Research Center in association with the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. The survey of 2,035 U.S. adults sheds light on Americans' evolving news and information habits on the two platforms.
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Nieman Lab
Two months ago, Digital First Media's deal to sell itself to Apollo Global Management collapsed, and its founding CEO (and would-be industry leader) John Paton said he would leave the company. Now, as of July 1, he's gone. New CEO Steve Rossi, who moved up from the No. 2 position, has taken complete control, and we can begin to see the outlines of what the post-Paton DFM will look like.
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Fast CoDesign
Thanks to technology, we're reading more than ever — our brains process thousands of words via text messages, email, games, social media and web stories. According to one report, the amount people that read tripled from 1980 to the late 2000s, and it's probably safe to say that trend continues today. But as we jam more and more words into our heads, how we read those words has changed in a fundamental way: we've moved from paper to screens.
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Conde Nast Traveler
In 1971 — long before we could all fit 1,000 books in our pockets, before browsing titles became a matter of algorithms rather than thumbing pages — a motley used bookstore opened in Portland, Oregon.
Today Powell's City of Books spans an entire block in the city’s Northwest quadrant, a temple of print so vast that visitors find their way around via fold-up maps (free souvenir alert) and giant directory boards.
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NPR
Why do you do what you do? What is the engine that keeps you up late at night or gets you going in the morning? Where is your happy place? What stands between you and your ultimate dream?
Heavy questions. One researcher believes that writing down the answers can be decisive for students.
He co-authored a paper that demonstrates a startling effect.
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