Day: December 13, 2017

NENI's Rutberg takes publisher's reins

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NENI's Rutberg takes publisher's reins

Since November 2016, when he joined New England Newspapers as publisher, English quickly earned respect throughout the company, not only for his business acumen and innovative ideas from new events to mobile applications, but also his passion to accomplish the local news mission. He often
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'More isn't always better': Publishers cut their SSPs by 20 percent this year

Ad tech is full of overblown hype, but one area publishers are making headway in is reducing the number of vendors they use to sell their inventory. On average, the 500 largest publishers in the U.S. use about six such vendors, down from about eight a year ago, according to aggregate data from ad
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Sports publisher GiveMeSport is growing revenue by cutting ads

The digital native sports publisher has cut all six ads from its homepage, four ads from each article page, and all ads from its vertical pages, which include football, boxing, cricket and tennis. Its NBA vertical still features ads from the league. Nick Thain, CEO of GiveMeSport parent Breaking Data, said the
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Emily Danforth Is Drawn Back to Montana and We're Drawn Back to “The Miseducation of Cameron …

Danforth is writing her next novel on a yearlong sabbatical from teaching creative writing and literature courses at Rhode Island College, and took some time out of her busy day to chat with Autostraddle staff writer Molly Priddy, also a Montanan, about the upcoming film. And to help set the mood of
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RealTime publishes its last edition

'There was the hypertext revolution from 96-97 to the early 2000s … online, new media creative writing work which then kind of disappeared from view. There was also internet art, which didn't come to much in the long run, but there was some great work there. Things like that, where people invested a
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CSArts-SGV presents First All-School Musical, PIPPIN at Arcadia Performing Arts Center

CSArts-SGV students study in one of the 10 arts conservatories offered, including acting, classical & contemporary dance, commercial dance, creative writing, instrumental music, integrated arts, musical theatre, production & design, visual arts and vocal arts. Students receive opportunities to participate
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Current Research In Urban And Regional Studies

Format: Hardback; Publisher: Elsevier Science Ltd; Publication Date: 03 Mar 2008; Availability: Available. Jacket Image For: Diverging Mobilities; Current Research in Urban and Regional Studies Diverging Mobilities: Devolution, Transport and Policy Innovation Vol: 4; Danny MacKinnon: List price
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Google reclaims title of top traffic referrer, and search-focused publishers are enjoying the moment

Search-focused publishers are having an I-told-you-so moment now that Google is once again publishers' biggest source of referral traffic. On Dec. 11, Parsely data showing that Google now accounts for 44 percent of referral traffic for publishers made its way across the internet. That share represented
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Bridget Baker Kincaid, Guard Publishing Co.'s corporate public relations director, to retire after 40 …

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Bridget Baker Kincaid, Guard Publishing Co.'s corporate public relations director, to retire after 40 …

For the past 29 years, she has headed corporate public relations for Guard Publishing Co., the parent company of RG Media Co./The Register Guard. … Her father is Edwin “Ted” Baker, who worked at The Register-Guard for 40 years and was publisher from 1982-1987. Her mother, the late Patricia
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AnyFlip's Powerful Flipbook Maker for HTML5 Publishing Is Set to Become Even Better

AnyFlip flipbook maker will become more efficient in 2018 with the powerful digital publishing platform, which is mobile friendly and search engine friendly. Having created the flipbook that is currently the talk of the digital publishing market this year, Anyflip flipbook maker now has its sight set on making
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How a 30-Day Vegan Bet Turned Me into a Media Powerhouse

Then, one day, literally from out of nowhere, I received an email from a New York City publishing house asking if I ever thought about writing a book. The editor who reached out to me was charged with finding a mix between Thug Kitchen and Main Street Vegan. She typed in “meaty” and “vegan” and,
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Foldout books help children delve into stories

“Urashima Taro,” a popular Japanese folk story featuring the eponymous fisherman, is the first in Fujimoto's “Big Book” series from Seigensha Art Publishing, Inc. The sheet, measuring 118.8 centimeters by 102.5 centimeters, is mostly filled with a drawing of a sea turtle that carries Urashima Taro to a
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New, fully comprehensive and adaptable publishing agreement templates

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New, fully comprehensive and adaptable publishing agreement templates

New, fully comprehensive and adaptable publishing agreement templates. 13.12.17. We are busy updating all the Contract Templates available on our website, but are pleased to announce three are ready and available. These include: · Template Trade Publishing Agreement between Author and
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Creating authors out of children, Mumbai sees novel initiative

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Creating authors out of children, Mumbai sees novel initiative

According to Jerajani, the idea for the initiative came to their mind when their self publishing arm The Write Place started getting a lot of talented young authors who would approach them to publish their books. He adds, “There is a plethora of writing talent all over the country. And teen authors are on the
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Why Every Book Lover Should Steal Iceland's Christmas Tradition

The months of September to November are the most popular time of the year, by far, for book sales in Iceland. According to Icelandic journalist Hildur Knútsdóttir, the beginning of November marks the official start of the Christmas season in Iceland. That's when the Iceland Publishers Association delivers
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Orinda Junior Women's Club Announces Youth Ink 2018

The Orinda Junior Women's Club recently announced details for Youth Ink 2018, the annual creative writing contest open to all sixth-, seventh- and eighth-grade students who live in or attend school in Orinda. The Youth Ink 2018 prompt is “My World.” This prompt was chosen because it encompasses
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SA book Burial Rites to be Hollywood movie directed by Luca Guadagnino and starring Jennifer …

It had been a decade in gestation, finally emerging after an intense five months' writing to an urgent deadline for her creative writing PhD thesis at Flinders University. She had no inkling then that the manuscript would go on to become the subject of an international auction for the publishing rights that
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Austinmer author finally gets a children's book deal with Brolga Publishing in Melbourne

After self-publishing her first three books, Dianne Ellis is “over the moon” her fourth foray into children's picture books has finally been picked up by a … Melbourne based Brolga Publishing has has taken on Mr Crocodile's Cooking Class which follows the mishaps of a lovable croc who's learning a new
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Idaho Falls Post Register gets new publisher

IDAHO FALLS — A Pocatello newspaper publisher will be taking the helm of the Idaho Falls Post Register. Andy Pennington was announced by Minnesota-based Adam Publishing Group as the new leader of the Idaho Falls newspaper on Tuesday, according to a report in the Post Register. Pennington
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ISJ publisher to head Post Register, other area papers

Former Post Register publisher Roger Plothow, left, introduces Jeff Patterson, president of APG Media of the Rockies LLC, center, and Andy Pennington during a meeting to address changes to the newspaper's operations Tuesday at the Post Register. Pennington has been named the Post Register's
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'Endlessly long': Nobel prizewinning book turned down by 19 publishers

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'Endlessly long': Nobel prizewinning book turned down by 19 publishers

Simon, one of the fathers of the “nouveau roman”, was notorious for his meandering prose, with sentences often going on for pages in his masterpiece The Georgics (1981). Volle, 70, claimed the refusals showed the philistinism of modern publishing, which was “abandoning literary works that are not
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Idaho State Journal publisher promoted to expanded role

“Andy is a dynamic leader and a creative force for new revenue opportunities,” said Eric Johnston, chief operating officer for PNG Media, a division of Adams Publishing Group. “Those talents, paired with his experience in managing multiple markets will produce great opportunities in this region.”.
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December 10, 2017 Los Angeles Times Best Sellers Available at the Library

December 10, 2017 Los Angeles Times Best Sellers Available at the Library. Artemis by Andy Weir is the new #1 book on the Los Angeles Times Fiction Hardcover List for the week of December 10, 2017, while Leonardo Da Vinci by Walter Isaacson returns to the top spot the Hardcover Nonfiction List.
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Meet the the few Penn students who are pursuing three majors

Yao currently plans on completing both a Communications major and a Science, Technology and Societies major, in addition to two minors in Fine Arts and Creative Writing. ”I have absolutely no idea what I want to pursue after college,” Yao said. “I am doing all these majors just because I am interested
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7 Tips for Writing Totally Tear-Jerking Vows

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7 Tips for Writing Totally Tear-Jerking Vows

“Of course, it shouldn't be to the point where people are wondering why you're getting married! But sprinkling the lows amongst the highs will confirm what everyone wants to hear and feel at a wedding: that love is not simply a feeling but a choice, and that you and your partner are choosing to love one
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How Blockchain Could Allow China's Netizens To Reclaim Online Publishing

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How Blockchain Could Allow China's Netizens To Reclaim Online Publishing

As blockchain technology works its way into Chinese society, we at DECENT wonder– what possible effect could this technology bring to online publishing in China? Blockchain has the potential to transform the online media and publishing industry by cutting out middle man controls, simplifying
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Tom Phillips: Plastic fantastic, machine dream

“Whether they're younger and just starting out, or older and established, I think the Calgary music scene has always been about writing good songs. When I met Lorrie, we were both working at A&B Sound downtown. I was writing songs, and he was writing songs, completely different styles of course, but
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Book blogger spotlight: Book Bloggers Australia

It's a place to help strengthen the publishing industry within Australia. Why did you create the database? When and how did you get started? A small team of three of us took over managing the directory in June 2014. We'd been to the National Book Bloggers Forum (#NBBF14) in Sydney earlier that year
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Effective time management tips for writing a dissertation

Writing a dissertation is without a doubt the hardest part of a university course. It can feel never ending and is a stressful experience even if you enjoy academic writing and your course. As most of us have never written a dissertation before, it can be hard to know where to start, what to spend your time on
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The Fempire Strikes Back

Not long after my run-in with Toback, a university professor from whom I was taking a writing course came calling to discuss my “extraordinary work” and emerged from that same Chinatown bathroom in a similar state of nakedness. (Do they follow some instruction manual I've never seen?) By then I was
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Maine East teacher helps reacquaint students with signature skill: cursive

Last month, Conlon invited Maine East students to drop in after school for a refresher course in cursive writing and reading. Though only three students attended, each expressed an eagerness and desire to get better acquainted with a style of writing that was once commonplace. Sophomore Damaris
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Film Studies Minor Added to FSU Catalogue

One issue that occurred during her journey to complete the minor was that one of the required courses, Writing Film Criticism, is only run every couple years. Worried about not being able to graduate in time, with the help of Lee as her advisor, she came up with the idea to take Writing Film Criticism as a
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Creative Writing Tenure Track Position

The Department of English at Kutztown University invites applications for a tenure-track position with an emphasis in poetry writing and creative writing beginning Fall 2018. In accordance with the Collective Bargaining Agreement, performance review and evaluation of faculty is based on effective
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Scouting Course

The course is purely theoretical (i.e. classroom based), all course candidates should bring writing material (e.g. pen/ pencil and pad, or electronic notepad) and will be expected to actively participate in football-related discussion for the full duration of the course. The Scottish FA Live LMS (Learning
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AP Capstone classes bring study of academic research to Westlake

Westlake recently introduced two new Advanced Placement classes that give students the opportunity to study and analyze academic works, as well as work … “The first year course is also learning how to present that research, both in writing and in oral presentation,” said Valerie Taylor, who co-teaches
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EastEnders' Scott Maslen hails John Yorke for getting the show "back on track"

And of course the writing team.” He then posted another tweet, clarifying: “Bloody spellcheck!!! I meant to say! Big respect to John Yorke for Steadying the ship and getting us back on track! Well done to the writing team and all the fantastic crew without whom it would all be impossible!!! Love you guys.”.
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Essay creative writing

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Natasha Lester signs four-book UK deal

Hachette Australia has sold UK and Commonwealth (ex ANZ) rights to four historical fiction novels by Natasha Lester to UK publisher Sphere. Rights were acquired by Sphere commissioning editor Viola Hayden, following a two-way auction negotiated by Sarah Brooks at Hachette Australia. Sphere will
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Google Beats Facebook in Traffic Referral Metrics

CNBC reports that Google has beaten Facebook to the title of the largest traffic referrer in 2017. For a brief period, Facebook was the highest referrer of traffic to web publishers, but Google has once again taken the top spot as the year draws to a close. Digital analytics company Parse.ly recently
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Former White House Press Secretary Sean 'Spicy Facts' Spicer is Writing a Tell-All Book. Let's …

I imagine that Sean “Spicy Facts” Spicer still feels indentured to his master Donald J. Trump, so that news that he's writing a tell-all book about his months in the White House isn't that appealing … In fact, this is kind of par for the course of what we could expect from the one time mouthpiece of one of the.
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Sean Spicer is writing a book about the Trump administration because of course he is

He's writing a book, a tell-all memoir to “set the record straight” about the Trump administration, from the 2016 campaign to the transition and his short time behind the world's most famous podium. Despite our best hopes, though, the book is unlikely to shine a revelatory light on all the lies,
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As J&K tops the country in jobless rate, these four youths offer a chance at employment

The institute currently offers six-month and one-year courses, and will soon start three-year courses in various skill-based programmes. Moreover, the institute will launch three-month courses on video editing, citizen journalism, acting, film making and script writing, for which classes will be held every
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Why Writing A Letter To Santa Will Bring Your Child More Than Just Gifts

The Children's Literacy Charity said physically writing a letter to Father Christmas is “what this time of year is all about”, despite 'Email Santa' sites being … “We know a lot of stuff is happening online and digitally, and of course being digitally literate is important, but we believe writing is paramount to a
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Christmas predictions: Cat Schulz from Fullers Bookshop in Hobart

The book everyone wants is the second volume of Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls but no Australian publisher is yet taking it on, copies won't ship from the States until 20 November, and we'll probably all have to import our own stock direct from the Rebel website and without knowing about freight
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Outskirts Press Announces the Release of New Thriller — The UDM Protocol: Stalked Seduction …

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Outskirts Press Announces the Release of New Thriller — The UDM Protocol: Stalked Seduction …

October 22, 2017 Denver, CO and New York, NY Outskirts Press, the fastest-growing, full-service self-publishing and book marketing company, is pleased to announce the release of The UDM Protocol: Stalked Seduction by Keith Gumbs. Stalked Seduction is the first in a series in which the meaning of
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Oz middle-grade novel 'The Shark Caller' optioned for film

Wolfer's novel centres on a 14-year-old girl, Izzy, and blends magic inspired by Papua New Guinean legends and traditions with contemporary issues such as environmental conservation in the Pacific. New Zealand director Veialu Aila-Unsworth is also attached to the adaptation. Warkia and
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Local children's authors to read at East Longmeadow Public Library

Behnk, a Baystate Noble Hospital nurse and a member of the MOMS Club of East Longmeadow, said in a email she spent two years writing and self-publishing her book, which is meant to teach children why parents sometimes have to leave during the day or night. “Being a parent is the greatest gift but
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Publishing | Oxford Art

Family of Dutch engravers and publishers. Both (1) Boetius Bolswert and (2) Schelte Bolswert began their careers in Amsterdam but moved south c. 1617–18, working as book illustrators in Antwerp and Brussels and producing religious prints (e.g. the joint work on Saints of the Order
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David Stanley named DCN General Manager

Rust Publishing, NWIA is pleased to announce the addition of David Stanley to the position of General Manager at The Dickinson County News in Spirit Lake. Stanley succeeds Jason Lindsay, who relocated for a career opportunity in Missouri. “Dave is well-respected within the Iowa newspaper
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Jerseyville man self-publishes second coloring book

On Oct. 8, a self-published coloring book “An Extraordinary Collection of Curious Creatures,” by Jerseyville native Brandon Hayes went live on Amazon. This isn't a regular coloring book, but geared toward all ages — young to young-at-heart. It features different animals in Victorian era clothing with
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My money… Maxicorp Entrepreneur Zef Eisenberg

I spent all my money on self-publishing the book and advertising it. It sold very well — it cost me 50p to produce and sold for £11. Back then fitness was quite niche, so I advertised in the relevant niche magazines, and sold it via mail order. That gave me the funds to start Maximuscle. □ maxicorp.co.uk.
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Local artist creates his first calendar

He and his mother Shirley are also in the process of self-publishing a book, something that has taken more than three years to complete. The book is a chapter book for children from grades four to nine called the Dragon and the Princess. “It's a faith based classic fairy tale with a twist,” said Shirley, who
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Sweet mystery of life: Morristown author sets kids book in the Creamery

For now, Pfeifer said she will be happy to earn back her self-publishing fees, and find an agent and publisher. While aspiring writers of children's books dream of emulating the late author Kay Thompson and illustrator Hilary Knight, creators of the Eloise series set in the Plaza Hotel of the 1950s, it's a
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Surviving Times of Stagnation

You might even be tempted to strike out on your own and self-publish. Yet, there is a depressing fear that it could be worse. That you could put your own work out there and get nothing in return. That no one would buy you Amazon novel or KDP published short story collection. So you forgo that risk.
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World Book Night titles focus on mental health

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World Book Night titles focus on mental health

PRH books make up eight of 23 titles on the list, including My Name is Leon by Kit de Waal (Penguin), with Hachette boasting seven titles, including Martina Cole's Dangerous Lady (Hodder) and Andrew Michael Hurley's The Loney (John Murray). Four books from independent publishers including
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Publishing and Recording Industry

A mathematical term meaning 'contained in another a certain number of times without leaving any remainder' (OED); for example, 2 is an aliquot part of 6. The wavelengths of the harmonic partials of a tone are thus aliquot parts of the fundamental wavelength. Aliquot strings are .
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Joe Pasquale on stepping into Michael Crawford's shoes in Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em stage show

“I've been doing an Open University degree for the past few years on geoscience and before that, I took a module on creative writing, and I enjoyed it so much, I did advanced creative writing. “I've always been into horror. I love horror stories, books, films, magazines and television series, particularly
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Historiographia Linguistica

Titles. A Dictionary of English Normative Grammar 1700–1800 (DENG). Bertil Sundby, Anne Kari Bjørge and Kari E. Haugland. [Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 63] 1991. x, 486 pp.
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Stability in the book marketplace does not mean commercial publishers continue to maintain their …

Publishing reporters doing wrap up stories occasionally call me for impressions. From those conversations I have gleaned that the prevailing impression of where the book business is now is of “stability”. The consensus about adult trade is that ebook sales have stalled or perhaps even receded, that
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Honing the craft at writers' workshops

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Honing the craft at writers' workshops

“We have thousands of writers who come to us for classes and workshops, and we work regularly with the students and faculty associated with Regis University's Mile-High MFA and the University of Denver's creative writing Ph.D.” For writers of all ages, skill levels, and genres of interest, there are
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Hispanicize Media Group invested in Megan Media for development of AI platform

The AI tech has automatically discovered and analyzed publisher content and promotes it across social media channels in a highly targeted way — driving video views, engagement, audience growth, and website traffic. Further, by integrating Athena, publishers increased engagement on original
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CABLE & HOPE Reunited – With New Creative Team To Boot – In March

Marvel Comics' Cable series is reloading just like the mutant's famous guns – with an old friend and some new faces. March's Cable #155 will bring Hope Summers back into contact with her surrogate father, while also introucing the new creative team of writers Zac Thompson and Lonnie Nadler and
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Echo acquires world rights to d'Alpuget's fiction backlist

Bonnier Publishing Australia's Echo imprint has acquired world rights to bestselling novelist Blanche D'Alpuget's backlist. Echo will publish the last two titles in D'Alpuget's 'Birth of the Plantagenets' series in February and August 2019, following publication of new-look editions of the first two books in the
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New Australian fiction podcast 'Six Cold Feet' debuts

Told as a series of found audio recordings, each episode 'takes the listener inside the strange and secretive town of Ullara and the surrounding countryside'. Donellan told Books+Publishing that Six Cold Feet made it to number 37 on the arts charts in iTunes a week after it debuted in late November.
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International Hot Book Properties, Week of December 11, 2017

(Inkwell Management is handling North American rights on behalf of De Bezige Bij, and will submit the novel to U.S. publishers when an an English translation is available.) The book follows a Russian fighter pilot who, during the Cold War, crashed into the cornfield of a Dutch man and his father.
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ContentOro and NewsCred Partner Bringing the Power of Books to Enterprise Content Marketing

In gaining instantaneous, exclusive access to thousands of articles from books across unlimited subjects, NewsCred customers will see a reduction in time needed to launch, for example, a new content hub, easier buildout of new verticals on existing hubs, an increase in publishing cadence, and
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Publishers tackle video ad fraud

NEW YORK: Publishers are losing up to $3.5m a day to counterfeit video inventory, according to a new study, which calls on advertisers to demand their programmatic campaigns run only on authorised inventory as defined by publishers' ads.txt files. The study was conducted in partnership with 16
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Meghan Markle's Half-Sister Samantha Grant Is Writing A Tell-All & The Title Will Make You Cringe

She is listed by The Sun as a “52-year-old former actress and model, who lives in Florida,” and her Twitter bio states that she is also a vegetarian and holds several degrees, including an MA in Creative Writing and a BA in Criminology/Psychology. Her Twitter account also provides a lot of details
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Poetry rules at KHS

Enich has been involved in creative writing and poetry reading events like these since she was in high school, and passing that love on to her students has been something that she has enjoyed, but getting the students to be comfortable with sharing their writing was an obstacle that Enich had to
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Twitter will now let you publish an entire tweetstorm all at once

They required users to publish each tweet in a thread one by one, which took time and could get complicated, depending on how long the tweetstorm was. The new feature should make sending a thread of tweets much simpler, meaning more people will actually do it. Twitter's belief is that longer posts,
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Idaho Falls Newspaper Names New Publisher

IDAHO FALLS, Idaho (AP) — Andy Pennington has been named the new publisher of the Idaho Falls Post Register. The eastern Idaho newspaper reports that Adams Publishing Group announced the new hire on Tuesday. Pennington was the publisher of the Idaho State Journal in Pocatello since 2012.
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AMP referrals to publishers are increasing, and not just from Google

Though sometimes it seems like we've been talking about it forever, Facebook became a leading referrer to publishing websites only in mid-2015, according to Parse.ly data. Around that same time, other news broke that was poised to impact traffic drivers: Google officially launched AMP. Today, the two
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