Christmas is coming; a time of yuletide cheer, festive fun, carols and…a massive headache deciding exactly what presents to buy loved ones! But help may be at hand with this Christmas giveaway! To coincide with the season of giving, we've teamed up with Chindi, a group of independent authors
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The inspiration to write her book came to Mrs. Moffatt when her son was studying history in school. She felt that students should be given an overarching framework upon which to place everything they learn. After an extensive 30-year study of the Bible, history, and scientific facts, Nelda Moffatt
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In the same way that the platform's large-scale image identification and language translation projects keep things on the internet running smoothly, Mechanical Turk Poetry is a near-frictionless exercise in the commodification of creative writing; with its lightning-quick first-thought-best-thought approach,
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Mashable, once a fast-growing digital publisher with big ambitions, has been sold at a fire sale price. Ziff Davis, a digital media subsidiary of tech company J2, is buying Mashable for less than $50 million, according to people familiar with the transaction. In the spring of 2016, Time Warner's Turner led a
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Tracking expenditure for a group of 10 universities and a sample of seven publishers, the expenditure on subscriptions rose 20% over the four-year period (from £13.4m to £16.1m), but expenditure on APCs rose fourfold, though from a much smaller base (from £689,000 to £2.7m). Total expenditure
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“Academics are good at writing long-form, thoughtful articles that reach a small audience, much of which is disciplinary or sub-disciplinary,” said Dr. Ross, an assistant professor in history at Université du Québec à Montréal. Freed of the restrictions of traditional academic publishing, such as the lengthy
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Publishing saw revenue growth of 9.2 percent, to $572 million from $524 million in the prior year. Publishing operating income was $81 million, up 19.1 percent from $68 million the prior year. OIBDA rose 10.1 percent to $152 million from $138 million in the prior year. At $187 million, digital revenue
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Details. We are looking for a creative writer to write well written and readable articles of about 1500 words each in both english and in spanish. This is for a water toy and boat rental company with 2 location. One in Cartagena, Colombia and the other in Miami, Florida so the articles will be on topics like:
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Emporia publisher, Meadowlark Books, will host an Author Meet-and-Greet at Ellen Plumb's City Bookstore 5 – 7 p.m. Friday. Authors will read, visit with readers and sign books for this come-and-go event. There will be snacks and drawings for giveaways. The author lineup for the event includes Kansas
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This needs to be possible within legacy systems, supporting a process of publishing a document in a way which keeps the data structured for better use when someone reads the document or interacts with it as a whole document or pieces of the document. Our solution is a process of encapsulation,
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