Day: February 10, 2017

Publishers clearing house catalog

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Publishers clearing house catalog

poptropica hacked version game Most people think of sweepstakes and magazines when they think of Publishers Clearing House, but we offer
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Activision Has Big Layoffs Despite Surpassing Financial Targets

Activision Publishing laid off a number of employees across several companies this week, Kotaku has learned. The publisher let go of staff at Infinity
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Activision Publishing cuts staff

Activision Publishing's website puts its headcount at more than 4,000 people, so a 5% cut would involve at least 200 people. Kotaku reports that the
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Activision Division Cuts Jobs After Parent Company Activision Blizzard Sets New Earnings Record

Activision Publishing, the division of Activision Blizzard that publishes Call of Duty and Destiny, has enacted a round of layoffs. A statement provided to
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Valve Is Shuttering Steam Greenlight, Will Allow Direct Game Publishing For Developers

Five years after announcing Steam Greenlight, Valve today said that it will be pulling the plug on the “democratic” system that allows Steam users to
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Trump order for publishing weekly list of immigrant crimes draws praise and outcry

Some call it a witch-hunt. Others say it's a much-needed reality check. President Trump, who during his campaign frequently spoke of illegal
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A new wave of books on Turkey reaches New York bookstores

Thomas Madden's “Istanbul: City of Majesty at the Crossroads of the World” was among the bestsellers in the bookstore's “Just Arrived” section.
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Wardlaw-Hartridge First Graders Share Books at Publishing Parties

EDISON, NJ — First graders at The Wardlaw-Hartridge School in Edison presented their own written work and illustrations at class publishing parties
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Lagardere's (LGDDF) Management on Q4 2016 Results – Earnings Call Transcript

Thanks for joining us for our conference call today. We have with us Gerard Adsuar, the Group CFO; Arnaud Nourry, the CFO of Lagardere Publishing
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Advice for app publishers: Making money with apps may mean utilizing freemium model

It's almost become cliche, but “there's an app for that” is often true. In fact, as of June 2016, Android users had access to an astonishing 2.2 million
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Man Charged with Publishing Intimate Visual Material

LAREDO, Texas (KGNS) – A man is under arrest for allegedly sharing intimate pictures of a woman online. Police say Raul Vasquez, 18, was sharing
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Egypt's publishers hope book fair can boost slumping sales

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Egypt's publishers hope book fair can boost slumping sales

Egypt has launched the region's largest book fair late last month despite hard economic times, which have led to a decline in the number of publishers
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Snapchat Discover picks up Entertainment Weekly, Essence

For publishers, the Discover portal offers access to Snapchat's user base that skews toward younger demographics. The fact that Time Inc. is bringing
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Physical video game releases see an increase after a five-year slump

Gaming's digital future is inevitable but publishers ensure that physical … sudden recovery to GameStop's newly introduced publishing initiative and
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Finalists Announced for ATX-Black List Second Annual TV Writing Program

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Finalists Announced for ATX-Black List Second Annual TV Writing Program

Finalists have been announced for the second annual television writing …. BA in Comparative Lit: Columbia College; MA in creative writing, City
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National Account Manager

Our American publishers include Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Henry Holt & Company, W.H. Freeman and Worth Publishers, Palgrave Macmillan,
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Q&A site Quora clamps down on anonymity – will review content before publishing, restrict actions

Quora, a crowdsourced Q&A site that's generally smarter than Yahoo Answers, is making a big change to how anonymity works on its service.
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Acquisition Editor-Science and Technology

Artech House is an independent company with an ethos of publishing high level professional books for working engineers and scientists to help them
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Apple iBooks Category Bestsellers, February 5, 2017

… Underground Railroad (National Book Award Winner) (Oprah's Book Club) by Colson Whitehead – 9780385537049 – (Knopf Doubleday Publishing
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Valve says goodbye to Steam Greenlight, hello to “Direct” publishing

“Our goal is to provide developers and publishers with a more direct publishing path and ultimately connect gamers with even more great content.”.
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Plasmon-induced charge separation: chemistry and wide applications

Recent development of nanoplasmonics stimulates chemists to utilize plasmonic nanomaterials for efficient and distinctive photochemical applications
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Steam Eliminates Greenlight, Will Let Devs Publish Games Directly This Spring

“Along the way, it helped us lower the barrier to publishing for many developers while delivering many great new games to Steam. There are now over
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Summer program lets high school students learn directly from The Concord Review

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Summer program lets high school students learn directly from The Concord Review

The Concord Review [tcr.org] is offering several two-week intensive expository writing workshops. The workshops will be held on the campus of Regis
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News Corp.'s Upbeat Results Underscore National-Local Divide Among Publishers

Publications that have unique, high-quality content can attract digital … Even book publisher Harper Collins showed a 4% uptick in sales, as digital
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Changes at 'PW'

Taking over Rosen's bookselling duties is Ed Nawotka who returns to PW after starting Publishing Perspectives for which he served as editor-in-chief.
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tech-life-game-news

If you've been given a message that you know you need to deliver, then one of the best ways to do is by publishing a book. There are a great number
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kwäləfəˈkāSH(ə)n/ or, How Meaningful Are Degrees, Really? or, Why I'm not eligible for an MA in …

Anthea Rowan Wife, mother, writer; order changes depending on the demands …. If you do not have a background in creative writing, you are strongly
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Humble Bundle launches games publishing and funding arm for all platforms

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Humble Bundle launches games publishing and funding arm for all platforms

Digital games retailer Humble Bundle has launched a new publishing arm to … The games will be “presented by Humble Bundle” under the publishing
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Publishing 'Fan Fiction'

They're in business to make money. KDP Select members are allowed to offer their books for free, as a promotional special, for up to 5 days out of
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Big Machine Music Signs Jessie Jo Dillon To Publishing Deal

BIG MACHINE MUSIC (BMM) has signed songwriter JESSIE JO DILLON to an exclusive co-publishing agreement. DILLON has had cuts by GEORGE
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Humble Bundle announces move into publishing

Games published by the company will bear the label “presented by Humble Bundle” and the plan is to publish titles on multiple platforms, although the
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Spin Master signs Hatchimals publishing partner

World publishing rights (excluding North America) for Spin Master's hit toy property Hatchimals have been acquired by Penguin Random House
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Faber CEO speaks out after winning trade publisher of the year

'Rumours of the death of literary fiction are always exaggerated' … Faber CEO Stephen Page. Photograph: Eamonn McCabe for the Guardian.
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RESTAURANT NEWS: Table 310 closing after Valentine's Day

Table 310, the pioneering downtown bistro that paved the way for many of the Lexington's fine dining destinations, is closing after seven years and two
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INSIDE MEDIUM'S MELTDOWN: How an idealistic Silicon Valley founder raised $134 million to …

Medium, a blogging and publishing site, gained instant fame when it was launched in 2012 because of its well-known founder. Williams said its
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College denies condoning drugs after publishing guide on snorting coke

A COLLEGE has denied condoning drug use after it gave students detailed advice on how to snort cocaine and take other drugs. Students at Ayrshire
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This is the law that could be used to imprison journalists for publishing leaks

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This is the law that could be used to imprison journalists for publishing leaks

Under the new law, journalists could be imprisoned for up to 14 years for publishing information that is “capable of benefiting a foreign power.”.
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Magazine publishing masterclass

Join our publishing masterclass at The Design Museum in London, from 25 to 26 February. A few years ago I ran a series of magazine publishing
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ACS Publications join CCC's RightFind® XML for Mining solution – 10 Feb 2017

… Technical, and Medical (STM) content, enabling publishers to offer life science companies controlled access to full-text articles in native XML format
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SPF-051: The Value of a Reader Survey – An SPF Master Class with Mark Dawson

A reader survey is a significant tool in helping you make educated decisions about what to write, where to publish, and how to market your book.
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Gosnell 'serial killer' abortion book is a bestseller

Gosnell 'serial killer' abortion book is a bestseller … While Gosnell landed on the “Combined Print & E-Book Best Sellers” list (at #13), the Times
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