Day: December 1, 2017

YouTube music videos back online in Finland after blockage

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YouTube music videos back online in Finland after blockage

Some music content was not available on YouTube in Finland for less than 24 hours as we worked towards a solution with Teosto after our license expired,” said Sami Valkonen, director of international music publishing partnerships at YouTube, in a statement provided to Music Ally. “We appreciate
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Christmas Books: Kiwi picture books

It's that time of year again — when Kiwi kids' book publishers cull forests to bring us tractor-driving Santas and pavlova-munching fairy-tale figures who cheer for the All Blacks. Into this, er, scrum comes Classic Rhymes for Kiwi Kids, a tome re-imagining the Mother Goose nursery rhymes with just enough
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BC: 15 bestselling books of the week, Dec. 2

6. First, We Brunch: Recipes and Stories from Victoria's Best-Loved Breakfast Joints — Rebecca Wellman (TouchWood Editions). 7. Speaking Our Truth: A Journey of Reconciliation — Monique Gray Smith (Orca Book Publishers). 8. On Island: Life Among the Coast Dwellers — Pat Carney (TouchWood
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Our View: An unlikely site for the library of an under-appreciated president

The connecting link that led to Thursday's celebration is MSU professor of history emeritus, Jim Marszalek, a nationally recognized expert on the Civil … the office for personal gain: His primary motivation for writing his memoir (published by Mark Twain's publishing company) was to provide for his family.
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Study shows global diversity of OA book readers

The research group, funded by the University Presses of UCL, Cornell, University of Michigan and University of California, studied how 2,542 open and closed books from four publishers hosted on the JSTOR platform were being downloaded and read. Traditional measures of book usage focus on print
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Start-up of the week: Dalston's Burley Fisher bookshop sets up 'pocket' publisher Peninsula Press

A bunch of bookshop managers are taking the plunge and publishing their own series of pocket essays. Sam Fisher, who owns Burley Fisher Books in Kingsland Road, Dalston, is collaborating with Will Rees and Jake Franklin from the shop to launch Peninsula Press. A crowdfunder to raise £6,000
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Inspiring women the name of the game at Runaway

Runaway went on to develop games in partnership with National Geographic, the World Wildlife Fund and, more recently, the global mega-publisher DeNA. In 2015, the company made the move to self-publishing, bringing more elements such as player support and user acquisition in-house, and
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You can watch this artist's odd 'devotional' to creative writing in Chapel Hill

Can you experience a book more deeply by re-creating its words in a place that inspired the author? That's the question performance artist Tim Youd will explore over the next week as he brings his “100 Novels” project to UNC's campus. The 10-year project has taken Youd to over 50 locations in the
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IAB Europe GDPR Consent Mechanism; AppNexus to Enforce Ads.txt

Townsend Feehan, IAB Europe CEO, comments: “Advertising is a critical revenue stream for online services of all shapes and sizes, be they news publishers, mobile apps, or other online media. It is an important step that affected players have come together to develop a robust response to the new
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AI Enters Medicine, But Can Doctors Be More Human?

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AI Enters Medicine, But Can Doctors Be More Human?

The Swiss daily Le Temps reported this week on Alexandre Wenger, a literature professor at the University of Geneva, who is trying to combat this problem by encouraging medical students to take literature and writing courses — part of a movement called “narrative medicine” that traces its roots to
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Georgia Copyrighted Its Own Laws. Now, It's Suing a Non-Profit Group for Publishing Them.

A similar attempt by Georgia to copyright its statutes was struck down in Georgia federal district court in 1982, with the judge citing Supreme Court Justice John Marshall Harlan's 1898 statement concluding that “it cannot be doubted” that “no one can obtain the exclusive right to publish the laws of a state
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We Publish Lots Of Different Opinions. Get Over It

However, this one particular article appears to have touched a nerve, so I want to make one thing very clear: We make absolutely no apologies for publishing it. I understand full well why people do not like this piece. Every day we publish articles at The Federalist with which I disagree. It's an impossibility
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Insights: Bitcoin Goes One Way, The FCC Another – Will Creators And Publishers Get New Tools …

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Insights is a weekly series featuring entertainment industry veteran David Bloom. It represents an experiment of sorts in digital-age journalism and audience engagement with a focus on the intersection of entertainment and technology, an area that David has written about and thought about and been
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Alliances Forged

After being the youngest Wallace Stegner Fellow in Creative Writing at Stanford University, Paul spent time in Louisiana in the 1970s, writing fiction in time away from his day job. In 1980 he went back to the Bay Area, making a name in San Francisco as a performing poet and record producer.
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A country taken over by women? Rosalie Morales Kearns talks about her provocative new book

A product of Catholic schooling from kindergarten through college, Kearns has a B.A. in theology and an MFA in creative writing. On the occasion of her book's release, we discuss with the author such topics as religion, politics and the book's fantastic premise of her book: women take charge of the
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U.Va. professor accused of sexual harassment won't teach at university in spring

A spokesman for the University of Virginia says a creative writing professor accused of sexually harassing several former students and a faculty member will not teach at the university this spring. John Casey had been set to teach two graduate-level courses in the English department. Three complaints
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UW-Stevens Point student publishing house to launch newest book

STEVENS POINT – A student-run publishing company at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point will launch its newest book, a collection of short stories, with several activities this coming week. Cornerstone Press will release “The Appointed Hour” by Susanne Davis at 7 p.m. on Thursday in The
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DigiPub Pundits Ponder Next-Stage Opportunities for Catalogs, Magazines

Conley, a magazine as well as a catalog panelist, said that experiments in short-run, personalized magazine production should be taken seriously. He compared it to desktop publishing, which was laughed at by some until it disrupted an entire industry; and self-publishing, once scorned by mainstream
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10 Best-Selling Notebooks on Amazon This Holiday Season

The computing world is dominated by HP, Dell, and Lenovo. But if one were to examine the best-selling notebooks on Amazon—one of the world's biggest online retailers—the list of sales leaders looks strikingly different. Amazon's current slate of notebook best-sellers is dominated by Acer and Asus,
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How publishers can tell better stories for mobile audiences

Publishers need to be able to engage audiences on-the-go, but how does that change how we tell stories on mobile? From video to longform articles, there are a range of techniques and formats that journalists are employing to grab and keep the attention of audiences. Speakers at the latest
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Digital Publishing Awards – 2018 Program Unveiled

TORONTO, Dec. 1, 2017 /CNW/ – The National Media Awards Foundation (NMAF) is pleased to announce the lineup of categories for the third annual Digital Publishing Awards, the most prestigious program recognizing excellence in digital editorial content in Canada. This year, awards in 24 categories
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Spike Chunsoft Establishes North American Subsidiary to Publish and Localize New Titles

The publisher has been self publishing titles in the west for a few years, albeit digitally on PlayStation 4, PlayStstion Vita, and PC. Now, the company will be able to focus on their own in house localization as well as be in direct contact with their growing western fan base. The office will be located in Long
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Toy nail-biter: People's Play Awards winners announced

TTPM, the toy review web site, asked consumers, kids, and toy fans to vote for best toy in 12 categories. The winners were presented today in a live reveal on the company's website. Most of the winners on the list are already best sellers, and a number of them are sold out in stores and online. Jim Silver
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Oxford University Press and the Canadian Association of Gastroenterology announce publishing …

iScience (@iScience_CP), an interdisciplinary, open-access, peer-reviewed journal, will publish on a continuous basis starting early 2018. The journal promises fast and fair decisions and will promote rigorous research that advances a field and reporting with transparent methods, replication studies,
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UVA Professor Accused of Sexual Harassment Dropped from Classes

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UVA Professor Accused of Sexual Harassment Dropped from Classes

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) – A spokesman for the University of Virginia says a creative writing professor accused of sexually harassing several former students and a faculty member will not teach at the university this spring. John Casey had been set to teach two graduate-level courses in the English
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Global deals are 'way of the future' says Restivo-Alessi

Publishers need to embrace a global rights acqusition strategy HarperCollins' chief digital officer and executive v.p Chantal Restivo-Alessi has said, hours after the publisher announced its second worldwide deal with Karin Slaughter. Restivo-Alessi emphasised the opportunities of burgeoning digital
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MOVIES & BOOZE: Planning a cinema trip this weekend?

Meanwhile, his wife Catherine (Morfydd Clark) is pregnant with the couple's fifth child, and a deadline from his book publishers looms. There are tall tales aplenty in how the author came to be inspired, and the film doesn't concern itself with truth – this is a slice of family entertainment rather than a biopic.
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Be wary of 'sexy' tech such as AI and VR, says Tribe

Educational publishers should be focusing on technology that can actively help improve teaching and learning as opposed to the “sexy” new developments such as artificial intelligence (AI) and virtual reality (VR), Hodder Education m.d Liz Tribe has told The Bookseller's FutureBook conference.
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'Reach out to ignored readers', FutureBook panel urges

Publishers can't afford to be complacent if they are to help authors get more of their books into the hands of readers, agreed a panel of industry voices on how to navigate a “distracted world”. Part of a Futurebook 2017 Conference that had already touched on the issue of diversity in its first keynote by
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Publishers And The Inevitable Pivot To Video

Unless you are Cheddar, which I have a lot of respect for, most publishers are not able to produce and monetize hours of live programming per day. So, for the sake of this article, I am going to assume that most video segments are short-form in the two- to five-minute range. That still means pubs are
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NIH to researchers: Don't publish in bad journals, please

RW: The guide notice says: “The NIH has noted an increase in the numbers of papers reported as products of NIH funding which are published in journals or by publishers that do not follow best practices promoted by professional scholarly publishing organizations.” Can you tell us any more about the
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Crowd funding helps Czech author tell Gnome story

There is much more to the story, hidden in the beautiful illustrations to be discovered by children and their parents when reading the book. Petr Horáček, photo: Czech Television In the meantime, Petr Horáček also continues to publish in Britain, most recently a book called The Greedy Goat? So what are
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Carolyn Reidy Named Publishers Weekly 2017 Person of the Year

The selection of Reidy for the annual honor, featured in a cover story in the magazine's December 4 issue, comes as she completes her tenth year at the helm of the distinguished global publishing company. In its article, Publishers Weekly cited Reidy for having “steered the publisher through the Great
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Carolyn Reidy: PW Person of the Year 2017

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Indeed, the publisher is on track to have another highly profitable year, and in November Jesmyn Ward won her second National Book Award in Fiction for Sing, Unburied, Sing, released by S&S's Scribner imprint. For her steady leadership in guiding one of the country's Big Five trade publishers, Reidy
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Going Swimmingly: Biotemplates Breakthrough Paves Way for Cheaper Nanobots

As reported this week in APL Materials, from AIP Publishing, the group's biotemplated nanoswimmers spin their flagella thanks to rotating magnetic fields and can perform nearly as well as living bacteria. “We have shown for the first time the ability to use bacterial flagella as a template for building
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The Story Studio

Max Booth III is the Editor-in-Chief of Perpetual Motion Machine Publishing, the Managing Editor of Dark Moon Digest, and the co-host of Castle Rock Radio, a Stephen King podcast. He's also the author of many novels such as The Nightly Disease and frequently contributes columns to both LitReactor
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Treat Your Skin with It Bestsellers – IT Cosmetics

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Treat Your Skin with It Bestsellers – IT Cosmetics

Shop IT Cosmetics' Treat Your Skin with It Bestsellers at Sephora.
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John Allocca's New Book “Sniffles, Tummies and Tooth's” Is A Creatively Crafted And Vividly …

Published by New York City-based Page Publishing, John Allocca's enjoyable work teaches children about the importance of one's health and wellbeing. … Page Publishing knows that authors need to be free to create – not bogged down with complicated business issues like eBook conversion,
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Brandon Ross And Michael Kidd's New Book “The Raven Conduit” Is A Unique Reference Guide In …

Page Publishing knows that authors need to be free to create – not bogged down with complicated business issues like eBook conversion, establishing wholesale accounts, insurance, shipping, taxes and the like. Its roster of authors can leave behind these tedious, complex and time consuming issues,
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NY Times Scales Back Free Articles to Get Readers to Subscribe

Other publishers have experimented recently with tightening their paywalls. The Boston Globe in May reduced its number of free articles to two from five, leading to a surge of new subscribers. The Washington Post tested requiring readers to enter their email address and sign up for its daily newsletter to
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Brienza, Casey. Manga in America: Transnational Book Publishing and the Domestication of …

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Brienza, Casey. Manga in America: Transnational Book Publishing and the Domestication of Japanese Comics London, New York: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc. 2016. ISBN: 978-1-4725-9587-4 Katherine Marazi The case of cultural production appears to be one focused only on products. As I write this
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How To Make Money From Your Self-Published Book

Recently, I wrote a post about how to self-publish a book, offering a stress-free guide for those who are new to the world of indie publishing. After the book is uploaded to the chosen retailer, thoughts will be turning to how to make money, increase sales and reach prestigious chart positions. There are
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publishing event delete the content

I have a MainSidebar Document Type and I've written code in the publishing event to prevent more than one of these being created, code below. This works, and the publishing is prevented, but a faded content document still exists in the content area that needs to be deleted. How can I also delete,
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Observe, Write, Share

For me, careful observations require discipline in deferring certain judgements, calling for thorough, objective research; insightful writing challenges me to organize my thinking logically and take on creative approaches, before sharing discoveries with others, who guide me as I constantly refine
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How To Self-Publish A Book – Your Step By Step Stress-Free Guide

Whichever road you decide to take to make your work available to the public, there is plenty of help available online, but if you're specifically looking for tips on how to self-publish a book, let this blog be your stress-free guide! I'll be introducing you to the different software you can use to get that novel
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Professor accused of sexual harassment dropped from classes

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) — A spokesman for the University of Virginia says a creative writing professor accused of sexually harassing several former students and a faculty member will not teach at the university this spring. John Casey had been set to teach two graduate-level courses in the
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Nova Offers Digital and Physical Music Distribution Services

In addition, best sellers appear in Music Week Indie Sales and Club Charts so that artist profiles are effectively promoted. Thirdly, Nova has their own in-house sales team so that they can report quickly and accurately for their clients. This includes full reporting of sales of digital and physical titles.
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Publishing Frequency

Our new publishing frequency. Instead of posting to the blog every day of the week, we're moving to a Monday through Friday schedule. Our daily alerts will continue to land in subscribers' inboxes every weekday morning, but we'll leave space on the weekends for you to pause and reflect.
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Franco-American stories in anthologies

Goose River Anthology 2018, published in Waldorboro Maine, by Deborah J. Benner, is in print and includes excellent articles from Maine authors, including one from “yours truly”. It's becoming increasingly difficult for writers to find publishers who will put our work into print. Which is why I continue to
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When Did Poetry Speak to Us? When We Were Very Young

Obviously, say more than 850,000 copies of “Goodnight, Goodnight Construction Site,” among many, many other rhyming best sellers. Can poetry be widely recited and remembered? Indubitably, say half a million nightly tours of a great green room containing mittens, kittens, a bowl full of mush, and a
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South Korean author Han Kang on her new novella The White Book

Before the end of the year Han will leave her job as a creative writing professor at the Seoul Institute of the Arts. “I'm going to become a full-time writer,” she says. Han has given herself a year to focus on her writing, time she says she desperately needs. She plans to start a new novel in 2018. “What do I
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Uk music publishers accepting submissions

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Uk music publishers accepting submissions

We also accept CD-Rs, but an MP3 or link to stream is preferable If you are submitting material via email, please include a link to your website/social media Music publishers help to develop songwriters and to place their tracks with artists. A list with publishing companies accepting submissions. Like any
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Lockwood Publishing opens new UK studio in Leamington Spa

Lockwood Publishing says the aim is to attract console and PC developers as it looks to grow its hit mobile project. The new office will be led by Modern Dream co-founder Ollie Clarke. Avakin Life is a virtual world simulation game where players can connect, design homes, dress up and visit locations.
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Pelfreys deliver next Davis Morgan mystery

Danny has published many articles for national publications and written a weekly newspaper column. His first book was “One-Way Choices In A Wrong Way World.” He also compiled stories about Adairsville and helped author “Life In Adairsville, An Anecdotal History Of A Small North Georgia Town.”.
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Spot.IM raises $25 million for a better comments section

Social media has become critical to the online publishers. It drives a lot of traffic and helps brands build a following. But it also means that a lot of the engagement happens on another platform, like Twitter or Facebook, instead of the actual news site. New York-based Spot.IM saw an opportunity to help
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Publishers have 'huge opportunity' in content marketing says Chowney

There is “huge opportunity” for the publishing industry to make money out of content marketing, an industry predicted to grow to $413bn (£305bn) by 2021, delegates to The Bookseller's FutureBook conference have heard. Speaking about the future of content formats, Vikki Chowney, chief content
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Croat War Criminal Left Death Note Two Years Before Poisoning Himself

He graduated from the University of East Anglia with degrees in English Literature and Creative Writing before completing his NCTJ Diploma in Multimedia Journalism. Chris has previously written for the independent culture magazine The Skinny, among other publications. Powered by Sponsored
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Bloomsbury Publishing (BMY) Hits New 12-Month High at $186.00

Bloomsbury Publishing logo Bloomsbury Publishing plc (LON:BMY) reached a new 52-week high during trading on Wednesday . The company traded as high as GBX 186 ($2.49) and last traded at GBX 183.50 ($2.46), with a volume of 8260 shares. The stock had previously closed at GBX 183.50
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Police demands journalists acquire comment before publishing stories about them

The Maldives Police Service has demanded journalists acquire a comment from them before publishing or broadcasting content that has to do with the law enforcement body. In a series of tweets sent out early Friday morning, the police said that recent reports have warped the public perception of the
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Comic strips on Delhi streets to educate citizens?

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Comic strips on Delhi streets to educate citizens?

At the 7th edition of FICCI's PubliCon 2017 today, Pathak called for publishers to help them advocate the message of safety of women, senior citizens, children, and a better society at large. “Initially the idea was about posting small cartoons, or comic books of 4-5 panels on road safety using social media
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SPF-095: How to Defeat Imposter Syndrome – with Katie Cross

Author, mother, and nap-time entrepreneur Katie Cross offers an explanation for why it's normal for indie authors to struggle with Imposter Syndrome, and also specific strategies for how to deal with it. This week's highlights include: Katie's success as a YA author and her move into chick lit via Wattpad.
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Johnson slams industry's 'obsession with targets and quotas'

Richard Johnson, Bonnier Publishing's group chief executive, has slammed the industry's “obsession with targets and quotas” when it comes to addressing lack of diversity in the book world as “nonsense”. Delivering the opening key note at the FutureBook 2017 Conference this morning (1st December),
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'Early Days in Yass' book launched by pro-bono publishers and historical society

RECOUNTING HISTORY: Anthony MacQuillan, Maureen Collins and Peter Bindon with the Early Days of Yass by Mary Yeo at Yeo Crescent, which was named after the Yeo family. Photo: Toby Vue. Community and pro-bono publishers Peter Bindon and Anthony MacQuillan and the Yass and District
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HarperCollins inks second global deal with Slaughter

HarperCollins has inked a “major” world English and foreign language publishing agreement with thriller writer Karin Slaughter. The deal is for four more books in English as well as more than a dozen additional languages. The titles are scheduled to be published annually through to 2022, and will
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HQ scoops postnatal thriller for six figures

Golding recently graduated from the MA in Creative Writing at Bath Spa University with distinction. This year she won the short story prize at the Mid Somerset Festival, as well as the Evelyn Sanford trophy for highest mark in the prose class. Her short stories have been featured at the Leicester-based
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Sheffield publisher wins prestigious mountain literature award

McDonald was announced as the winner of the £3,000 prize at the Kendal Mountain Festival on Friday evening. Vertebrate Publishing books have won the Boardman Tasker Award on three prior occasions with The Bond by Simon McCartney scooping last year's award, Cold Wars by Andy Kirkpatrick
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Writers bring experiences alive for VRMS students

Geraldine Becker, a professor of English and creative writing at the University of Maine at Fort Kent, along with publishing essays and creative writing in various journals and anthologies. Her first book of poems is “Glad Wilderness.” Scott Wheeler of Derby, Vt., the publisher of Vermont's Northland
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New Immunotherapy Report Package by La Merie Publishing Now Available at MarketPublishers …

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New report package “Immunotherapy with Oncolytic Viruses and mRNA Vaccines & Therapeutics” (available at http://bit.ly/2BmZFyG) drawn up by La Merie Publishing offers an up-close look at the global immunotherapy landscape, with a focus on oncolytic viruses and mRNA vaccines and therapeutics.
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Comic Con India founder explains why Bengaluru loves Star Wars while Delhi prefers Marvel heroes

The need to be a jack of all trades, to be self-published, printing on your own, creating a website, selling your work – unfortunately, these are the needs of the day, and not everyone is able to do it. That's where we're stuck. I always encourage newcomers to try and put their work outside India too, as you
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In Japan, Ohtani Is a Special Player but Definitely Not Babe Ruth

In sporting goods stores, Ohtani-model gloves are best sellers, going for about $450 each. Kumiko Konno, who was recently shopping at the Fighters' team store next to the Sapporo train station, wanted to purchase as much Ohtani merchandise as possible before it went out of stock, since items for
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