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Songwriters, streaming companies strike landmark deal on music licensing

Songwriters and music publishers have fought with streaming companies like Spotify, Google, Apple, Pandora and Amazon over digital royalties for years, while the issue has gotten bogged down in Congress. But a bevy of lawsuits — and subsequent multi-million-dollar settlements — claiming the
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Thoughts From The Publisher's Desk – December 22, 2017

It's that time of year to evaluate the predictions I made the last week of 2016 for the year 2017. As usual, it's a mixed bag of results. I was right on some and blew it on others. x. On The Money. •It turns out I was correct when I said a federal judge would disqualify the first-place white marlin in 2016 for
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In Its 'Third Innings', Header Bidder Ready To Bat For Mobile: Oath's Gillis

Header bidding, the technology which now allows publishers to entertain bids for ads from multiple demand sources simultaneously to gain higher prices, has been operating for just about two short years. But in that time it has gained much favor amongst display ad sellers. Now it is ready to shake up
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FreeWheel's Neil Smith On The Publisher Benefits Of Unified Ad Decisioning

One of the biggest yields has been a unified solution for publishers that have traditionally sold most of their inventory through direct-sale insertion orders. Now, having added a programmatic sales channel facilitates “a unified ad decision against any demand that publisher has access to,” says Smith.
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Along the Gila: Good Things Happening

Volunteers Clayton McPherson and Mark Johnson build a gutter ball table for the new Teen Center in Kearny. Some good things happened along the Gila this week. The new center behind Kearny's town library was dedicated last Friday. The Pinal County Courthouse, also in Kearny, has received
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A Roundup of 2017's Best Book Lists for Kids and Teens

As the year draws to a close, critics, reviewers, websites, and awards committees have been presenting their roundups of the year's favorites. We've gathered a list of the more prominent best-of-the-year lists for children's and YA books published in 2017. Publishers Weekly's Best Children's Books of
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Facebook signs Universal Music licensing deal for music, video and more

Music labels and publishers have spent much of 2017 wondering what Facebook's plans were for licensing music. Today the social network announced its first major-label licensing deal, with Universal Music Group. The companies are describing this as a “global, multi-year agreement” that will license
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Smathers Graduate Internship in Library Publishing with Florida Online Journals

The Smathers Graduate Intern will develop knowledge and skills in the emerging field of library publishing, with an emphasis on digital publication of open access scholarly journals. The intern will be trained in use of the Open Journal System digital publishing platform and perform quality control of
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Clifford Irving, Howard Hughes book prankster, has died at 87

“That was so classic Cliff. He was just conspiratorial to the end.” A novelist of little note in 1971, Irving conned McGraw-Hill publishers into paying him a $765,000 advance for a book about the reclusive Hughes. His elaborate ruse became the subject of the 2006 movie “The Hoax,” starring Richard Gere.
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A few 2017 literary standouts

Genaro Ky Ly Smith, a professor of creative writing at Louisiana Tech, sets his novel “The Land South of the Clouds” in the summer of 1979, a turning point for 10-year-old Long-Vanh, the novel's narrator, when his mother decides to return to Vietnam. Award-winning author Arlie Russell Hochschild,
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Book fair amid strike

Workers set up installations at the Guwahati Book Fair on Thursday. Picture by Manash Das. Guwahati: The 31st edition of Guwahati Book Fair will get under way at the Assam Engineering Institute playground here from Friday amid the boycott by the Assam Publishers and Book Sellers Association over
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Three Predictions for the Affiliate Marketing Industry in 2018

Having been forecasted to reach $6.8 billion by 2020, affiliate marketing is a rapidly growing channel that advertisers and publishers are increasingly using to get in front of the right audience and monetize their content. As consumers add more devices and their shopping experiences become more
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The Publicity and Communications Manager will oversee public relations efforts for Harvard Business Review Press, the book division of HBR, and will be responsible for publicity and social media campaigns for Press books and authors. This position works closely with marketing, sales, editorial, and
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