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Booked for the holidays

This summer the Association of American Publishers pronounced the U.S. book publishing industry in remarkably good health, deeming religious and inspirational categories as some of the best-selling. This despite the continued shuttering of brick-and-mortar bookstores, including Christian shops.
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Toronto Real Estate Board sends cease-and-desist letter to website publishing sales data

Shortly after, websites began publishing or sharing online the selling price of particular houses, which TREB has argued violates consumers' privacy. Select/Plan Real Estate Inc., which operates Sold.Watch and other websites, began offering a daily email with homes sold data and access online to
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MFA Creative Writing Faculty Alumni and Faculty Land on New York Times, NPR Best Book Lists

2017 was a big year for alumni and faculty authors from the MFA Creative Writing program. Of the 37 books published by those authors this year, 10 of them landed on several Best Books of 2017 lists. Among the most listed was faculty member Katie Mitamura, whose book, A Separation was named to
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This Penthouse is closed: The end of its Black Label

But today the publisher of Penthouse Australia says Australians are no longer interested in reading the salacious letters from the lovelorn and sex … and poor sales were behind the icon's demise, adding it was sad to see any part of Penthouse's publishing history disappear but “we move with the times”.
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Illustrated Book Editor

For 25 years, we have been at the forefront of storytelling, publishing 28 New York Times best sellers, winning Apple's award for best designed app of the year, and garnering numerous industry accolades for our print and digital titles. We're known for developing the best and most innovative illustrated
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Facebook Wants Publishers To Stop Begging For 'Likes' And 'Shares'

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — Facebook is clamping down on so-called “engagement baiting.” In the future, users will be seeing less asks in their news feed for “likes” and “shares” and other actions. Facebook will begin demoting individual posts from people and Pages that use engagement bait.
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Patterson Offers 'Happy Holidays' for 320 Indie Booksellers

For the third year in a row, bestselling author James Patterson has made the holidays a bit brighter for independent booksellers through his Holiday Bookstore Bonus Program. This year Patterson upped the total dollar amount of the bonuses by $100,00 over previous years for a total pool of $350,000.
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Social Media/Psychology Pearl Medical Publishing LLC

Looking for a great internship at Pearl Medical Publishing LLC? Learn more about the Social Media/Psychology position right now!
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Publisher's Letter: The Year Ahead

With popular books titled Dude, What's My Job, Not Everyone Gets a Trophy and Managing Millennials, along with the rise in consulting companies that concentrate entirely on what makes millennials tick, there's a lot of hype about the attitudes of millennials in the workplace and the new modern mindset
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Lawrence J. DeNardis: Why People Still Read Books

The decline of books in our lives has been predicted for several years because of digitization and changed reading habits. It has been nearly 10 years since Amazon.com Inc. introduced its Kindle e-book reader and challenged the well-developed business models of publishers. Currently, however, U.S.
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Kashmir's engineering dropout self-publishes debut novel

Kashmir's engineering dropout self-publishes debut novel … Illustrating his thoughts by weaving a provocative narrative, Faheem Bhat, a young author from Kashmir Valley has published his first book under the … He self-published his book with the aid of Notion Press, a self-publishing company in India.
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