Guinness World Records Amazing Animals is the first book from the famed reference-book publishers to focus just on animals. It is colourful, packed full of photographs and information about record-breaking animals, peculiar pets, and notable animals, including heroic dogs, surfing pigs and a rabbit that
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While the majority of the U.K. market is awaiting final direction on how to obtain consent and share data from the Information Commissioner's Office, German publishers are conducting business as if the law is already being enforced. Some U.K. data specialists at publishers have already pointed out that
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Kathryn Heyman has won the Copyright Agency's 2017 fellowship for mid-to-late career authors, worth $80,000. Heyman received the fellowship for her forthcoming memoir Words to Live By. The memoir explores how Heyman 'ran away from her life and ended up lost in the middle of the Timor Sea with
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Dropbox has acquired New York-based publishing platform Verst that helped web publishers and creators make money through features like paywalls. Notably, the acquisition only includes the Verst team, not its assets or intellectual property. Verst's service will be shutting down on December 21.
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Maggie primarily writes creative nonfiction and about student life for The Pitt News. Write to her at mmk93@pitt.edu. The Pitt News is looking for students interested in creative writing, including creative nonfiction, poetry and short stories to write for the Opinions section. If interested, please contact
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Other publishers maintain that, in a profitable sector such as music publishing, such figures show an imbalance at the heart of Kobalt's business model. So Music Week sat down with Kobalt president and chief revenue officer Laurent Hubert to get to grips with the figures… Where will the future growth in
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I expected they obtained the same study habits and writing skills from difficult courses at their schools as well. While many students did come from comparable backgrounds, I encountered freshmen who were not as fortunate. Their high schools had fewer resources and held lower expectations. As one
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“With print, it's a different kind of creativity, and it's all about the language. You have more of a blank canvas. I think that audio — podcasting and the audio radio — can be very creative, but it's a sonic creativity.” Sweeney said she loves writing creative nonfiction as opposed to straight journalism because
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News organizations, McClatchy included, willingly turned over our content to the technology giants in exchange for readership many times larger than a decade ago. Only now are publishers thinking in earnest about what readers need to navigate this chaotic environment. An ambitious project called the
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