Skewing the News, Native Ads’ Bad Rap, Amazon and Hachette’s Ongoing Dispute, DPS Tip: Break the Linear Content Paradigm, InDesign Tip: Does Your Ebook Need an ISBN?, Women in Media Hiring News, Two Infographic Picks
Welcome to TFP’s roundup of news and tips for media industry pros. This week, we have stories on curation experiments by Facebook and Google, a survey on native ads, choosing sides in Amazon’s dispute with Hachette, and more.
- Given recent reports that Facebook manipulated Newsfeed content to see if that would affect users’ moods, and that Google has deliberately emphasized a positive perspective in presenting data about World Cup search trends, Ken Doctor has written an analysis piece that warns both companies to stop playing mind games with their users.
Fortune reported on a study by Contently in which two-thirds of survey respondents said that they felt “deceived” when they realized they were reading or viewing sponsored content. That doesn’t seem to be a problem at Upworthy, though; the site says that its native ads get triple the shares and attention time compared with its editorial content.- In an article on Gigaom, Mathew Ingram explains why consumers should be rooting for Amazon, not Hachette, in the companies’ ongoing dispute over ebook pricing. That sparked a good debate in the article’s comments section that’s worth a read too.
- Meanwhile, in a letter to Hachette authors and their agents, Amazon said that while the negotiations continue, it will give authors 100% of the revenue from its Hachette ebooks sales.
- In this week’s DPS Tip, we explain how to design your app in a way that best utilizes the tablet medium to engage your readers and make them come back for more.
- Does your ebook need an ISBN? TFP’s latest InDesign Tip addresses the question and explains how to get one.
- See our latest Women in Media roundup for hiring news from Twitter, the Guardian, Gawker Media, Condé Nast, Hearst and more.
- We have two infographic picks for you this week: one that offers a handy reminder of five key metrics that publishers should be consistently tracking, measuring, and analyzing, and a second that shares some stats on email use that paint a rather bleak picture of work/life balance for many employees.
This Week in Publishing appears every Friday on the TFP blog. Every week we compile interesting and noteworthy stories from the publishing world and put together a wrap-up to help our readers stay up-to-date. Think we missed something great? Leave a comment below and let us know!
Posted by: Gina Barrett