Day: January 17, 2018

Online replica, enhanced, responsive HTML publishing

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Online replica, enhanced, responsive HTML publishing

Use our intuitive cloud publishing platform to upload, convert and distribute digital magazines, online catalogues and all forms of business documentation to.
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UK: Caught Between A Rock And A Hard Place? Wixen Music Publishing Reluctantly Hits Spotify …

Following the news that Wixen Music Publishing, which controls the publishing rights for the likes of Tom Petty, Neil Young and Stevie Nicks, is suing Spotify for at least $1.6 billion, commercial litigator and music industry expert Simon Conroy examines the complexities of the music publisher's decision.
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Brave browser begins million-dollar token giveaway

Brave developed a technology called the Basic Attention Token (BAT) designed to pay publishers, YouTube contributors and others who today rely on advertising revenue or subscription payments. For now, you can set up Brave to send BATs to websites you visit, but in the future, Brave plans to make
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Slow expansion and store closures could be the new norm for grocers

During the unveiling of the plan last fall, chief technology officer Chris Hjelm used pet products as an example: If the data determines that a particular location has a lot of pet owners, managers might expand the pet aisle or create a special display with best-selling pet food, toys and other best-sellers.
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Commentary: 'Post' comes at good time for industry

For those who don't know newspaper hierarchy, owners and/or CEOs come first, often followed by vice presidents. At the local level, publishers are in charge. Under publishers are editors, whose job it is to plan, assign and push for stories, generally following a philosophical vision from the publisher.
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FREE Computer and Writing Skills Class Offered at ATCC

A FREE Computer and Writing Skills class at ATCC starts February 26. Classes will run Mondays and Wednesdays beginning February 26 and ending April 25. The course will be held from 5:30 PM – 8:30 PM, Room 707. The class will focus on computer programs, using Windows 10 and Microsoft
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4 Emerging Adtech Trends to Watch in 2018

In the past, publishers large and small were wary of taking on the expense of hiring dedicated ad tech developers. Rather, they leaned heavily on internal developers, most of whom had no real experience with ad tech. Today, however, publishers are realizing that good ad tech developers are worth
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New Illustrated Editions Of Harry Potter Are Coming Out, Just In Time For The 20th Anniversary

Best known for his New York Times bestsellers The Invention of Hugo Cabret, Wonderstruck, and The Marvels, Selznick has received a number of accolades over his illustrious career as a writer, creator, and artist, including the Caldecott Medal in 2008. A self-proclaimed Potterhead himself, Selznick
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Tillamook County Pioneer

“Author Deborah Reed (Things We Set on Fire) plies the reader with beautiful sentence after beautiful sentence. Her descriptions of coastal Oregon's trees and wildlife are as lush as the landscape itself. But these lovely words aren't strung together with more regard for the individual than the whole.
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74-year-old author pens first children's book

Hall always enjoyed writing. Experiences at home and at work often got her creative mind churning. '[My husband and I] were fortunate to be able to be around our grandchildren as they were growing up,” Hall said. “Little things that come out of a 3-year-old's mouth that's funny or endearing would spark
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Outskirts Press To Represent Children's Book Authors At The Bologna Book Fair

1-rated self-publishing company according to Top Consumer Reviews, is helping self-publishing children's book authors take their book marketing beyond their local bookstores, libraries and school districts in 2018. The Denver-based company will exhibit juvenile fiction books before a global audience
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MFA Grad Annie Sullivan Shows She Has the Midas Touch

Sullivan, who grew up in Indianapolis and earned her undergraduate degree from Indiana University, began writing her book as an MFA student at Butler. She chose Butler's graduate program in Creative Writing because she found that it was open to many different styles of writing. “People were writing
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A new year, a new Saloon

Whenever one walks into a restaurant and the first sound is the weighty Bonzo drum beat of Led Zeppelin's “When the Levee Breaks,” it's often a palatable omen. Such was true during a recent patronage session I had at The Saloon, one of my very favorite downtown Ventura hangouts. From the moment
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Soundings Series: Dr. Barbara Oakley to share tips on writing well, engaging community

In August 2014, Oakley helped develop and launch “Learning How to Learn,” the massively popular online course focused on giving students “powerful mental tools to master tough subjects.” With nearly 2 million students enrolled to date, it has grown to become the most popular MOOC in the world.
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How Technology Is (and Isn't) Changing Our Reading Habits

About a decade ago, when Amazon introduced its first e-reader, publishers panicked that digital books would take over the industry, the way digital transformed the music industry. And for a while, that fear seemed totally justified. At one point, the growth trajectory for e-books was more than 1,200 percent
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Versus Evil's "developer first" approach to indie publishing

As former marketing director for Zenimax and with 15 years experience in the industry, Escalante knows that publishers aren't a silver bullet solution. He's also acutely aware that it's possible for an indie team, even the smallest one, to bring a game to market without a publisher's help. But the skills
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Vroman's is Sponsoring an LA Appearance by Dr. Deepak Chopra in February

Vroman's Bookstore in Pasadena is sponsoring a presentation and book signing by New York Times bestselling author Dr. Deepak Chopra, of his latest work, “The Healing Self: A Revolutionary New Plan to Supercharge Your Immunity and Stay Well for Life,” at the Wilshire Ebell Theatre, located at 4401
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'Awesome dynamic': Influencer marketing gets a boost with Facebook changes

The Facebook algorithm change that has publishers panicking may be good news for a certain group inside the industry: influencers and their followers. As Facebook decides to favor content from friends and family over posts from (certain) publishers, agency buyers are telling clients to focus more on
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Girl Scouts of Northern New Jersey Kicks Off Next Century of Female Entrepreneurs with 2018 Girl …

RIVERDALE, NJ – After last year's 100th anniversary of Girl Scouts selling cookies, troops in northern New Jersey are kicking off this season with the … with a chocolate and marshmallowy filling, embossed with designs honoring Girl Scouts' outdoor badges – which are sure to be best-sellers again.
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Amazon US to axe 58 jobs from Createspace

Amazon US is reportedly cutting staff from the North Charleston office of Createspace, its print self-publishing platform, this summer. According to local newspaper the Post and Courier, the e-commerce company's self-publishing service is laying off 58 employees and closing its editing, marketing and
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Falls resident Gary Kaunonen releases fourth book

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History is context and the book provides some background for where we have been in terms of workers' rights, and in many ways, where we could backslide to if we don't fight to protect those rights,” he said. “The book has a unique perspective that I developed in working toward my PhD – that 'history
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The Native History We Are Never Taught In School

In the course of my studies, I came across a book publishing company, interested in hearing about independent stories of contemporary Native people. I ended up writing four books in the Native Trailblazers series on Native and Canadian First Nations role models for kids. I then connected with Indian
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Datasette Publish

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Datasette Publish

Datasette Publish combines my Datasette tool for publishing SQLite databases as an API with my csvs-to-sqlite tool for generating them. It's built on top of the Zeit Now hosting service, which means anything you deploy with it lives on your own account with Zeit and stays entirely under your control.
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Pulse Music Publishing extends admin deal with Music Asset Management, celebrates record …

US publishing company Pulse has extended its admin deal with Music Asset Management (MAM) to manages its admin arm, Pulse Publishing Administration. Through the deal, MAM founder Mary Jo Menella (pictured) and her team will continue overseeing Pulse's global administration of more than
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Hodder to publish award-winning Norwegian history of maps

To be published by two such esteemed publishers as Hodder & Stoughton and Little, Brown US assures me that the journey will go smoothly. I'm honoured and deeply moved, and look forward to cooperating closely on the English language version with them.” Despite receiving the proposal for the book
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#TopTrenders: Michigan Meteor Caught on Camera

NBA champion Stephen Curry reigns supreme on the league's list of top selling jerseys this season. Cleveland's Lebron James and Curry's Golden State Warriors teammate Kevin Durant round out the top three best sellers. The results are based on the league's online store sales between October and
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Kendrick Lamar & TDE Field Publishing Deal Offer Worth Millions?

Kendrick Lamar's pen game has long garnered respect for its vivid imagery and impactful storytelling, and his current publishing deal is close to expiring. Billboard reports that sources tell them that the Compton lyricist and the Top Dawg Entertainment camp are entertaining talks of a publishing deal that
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YouTube tightens requirements to tackle problematic content

“Google presents the impression of acting reactively rather than proactively. It needs to get better at acting faster,” said Mark Mulligan from MiDia Research to the BBC. The new strategy includes strict requirement that publishers must obey, including longer clips with attached adverts unless the publisher
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They Are Billions has captured attention on Steam, but what's the appeal?

They Are Billions has been floating in the top ten on Steam's list of best-sellers for a solid month now. SteamSpy has it selling well over 400,000 copies. On the surface, the game looks like a straightforward blend of resource-gathering and tower defense. But play the game for more than an hour or two,
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Kids write book in 24 hours

In a conversation on the sidelines of the book launch, co-founder of Notion Press, Jana Pillay, says, “As we always look for ways to break the current norms in publishing, our goal has been to guide creative authors and give every aspiring writer a fair chance to publish his/her book. The best part is once
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Pubs Seek Alternatives To Facebook Referrals; PE Firm Diversis Capital Buys Marketron

After Facebook said it would deprioritize news content in its news feed last week, publishers are scrambling for new sources of referral traffic. While Apple News is a viable alternative for news, it doesn't do the same legwork for lifestyle publications because Apple News drives a lot of its traffic through
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Two Poems by Yi Won

Born in Hwaseong, Gyeonggido Province in 1968, she holds a BA in creative writing from Seoul Institute of the Arts and a graduate degree from Dankook University's creative writing department. She has published five poetry collections, When They Ruled the World (1996), A Thousand Moons Float in
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'Maze Runner: The Death Cure' review: Out of the Glade, into a city on fire

Begun in 2014 with “The Maze Runner,” nice and compact, continuing a year later with the saggy middle feature, “The Scorch Trials,” the film versions of author James Dashner's dystopian hellhole best-sellers exist alongside “The Hunger Games,” the “Divergent” movies and several others that have
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Behind the Lens with Obama Photographer Pete Souza

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For the past eight weeks, Souza's $50 book, with no sensational revelations or page-turning drama, has been flying off the shelves, securing its place on The New York Times best-sellers' list. And for two weeks before Christmas, Obama: An Intimate Portrait — featuring more than 300 photographs
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Loyola Graduate Looks at Your Brain on Violent Games

Violent games always dominate much of the year's top ten best sellers, and the year's top selling game has been violent for the past nine years. Stockdale emphasized this is a single study, but it opens up a previously unexplored area in the study of media violence by examining its effect at the neural
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PS4 Overtakes Switch in Japan Thanks to Dissidia Final Fantasy According to Media Create

105, 667 units were sold during the week, topping the chart above Nintendo's best sellers. That being said, the Switch certainly hasn't run out of steam, and its games pretty much dominate the rest of the chart, with Splatoon 2 holding the lead over Super Mario Odyssey. Sile of the console certainly have
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Creative Writing courses in Dublin city centre

New term of creative writing courses in Dublin city centre starts soon – evening and weekend classes for part-time learners, including Intro…220447038.
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Fiat Chrysler Automobiles sales in Europe in December and full year 2017

In Italy, the Lancia Ypsilon continued as one of the best-selling vehicles overall and led the B segment for the year. FCA closed 2017 with sales in Europe (EU28+EFTA) totalling nearly 1,045,000 vehicles (+5.2% compared with +3.3% for the industry) and market share 10 basis points higher at 6.7%.
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Debut novel illuminates the boundaries of community, connectedness and identity

… Maryland, Ms. Owens is a graduate of Florida International University's MFA program. ¦. — Phil Jason, Ph. D., United States Naval Academy professor emeritus of English, is a poet, critic and freelance writer with 20 books to his credit, including several studies of war literature and a creative writing text.
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UADY and Colorado State University come together in Research and Scholarly Excellence

JUR accepts research, reviews, journalism articles, creative writing (including fiction, non-fiction, poetry and prose), photography and visual arts, but it is not limited to these type of works. The Journal evaluates writing quality, content, novelty, style, and attention to detail. Students who publish their work
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Here are the top books to watch at Barnes and Noble in 2018

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“But there is a strong roster of books that are likely to catch fire in 2018, including former U.S. President Bill Clinton penning a White House thriller with bestselling author James Patterson, a haunting debut from a senior publishing executive, and one of the most-watched novelists in America, Meg
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Lloyds List publisher Informa and UBM in merger talks to create business information giant worth …

B2B giant Informa was forced yesterday to reveal “preliminary discussions” of a deal worth as much as £3bn to buy events rival UBM, creating the world's biggest company of its kind. Founded in 1998, Informa hosts global exhibitions, conferences, training events and academic publishing.
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Facebook kills off news: Publishers panic, try to remember how to do SEO

On Thursday 11th January, Facebook announced a major change to News Feed that would severely impact the reach of publishers' posts. Deprived of referral traffic.
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WikiTribune: How Reuters Connect helps start-up publishers

WikiTribune: How Reuters Connect helps start-up publishers. Launch editor, Peter Bale tells us all. By Ella Wilks-Harper, contributor. WikiTribune is a new evidence-based media platform from WikiPedia founder Jimmy Wales. Its aim is to turn passive readers into active contributors. Launched on
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Obadiah Israel Yahweh's New Book “A Blessing and a Curse: From a Priesthood to a Slave” Is An …

Recent release “A Blessing and a Curse: From a Priesthood to a Slave” from Page Publishing author Obadiah Israel Yahweh is an enlightening book that looks … Page Publishing knows that authors need to be free to create – not bogged down with complicated business issues like eBook conversion,
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Barbour Publishing Names New President, COO

Mary Burns, a Barbour Publishing veteran of 23 years, has been named president and chief operating officer of the Ohio-based company, which specializes in Christian fiction, devotionals and Bibles. Timothy Martins is stepping aside as president, but retaining his roles as CEO in the company and a
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'Fire and Fury' burns up bestseller lists

Publishers Weekly reported that libraries in New York, Chicago, San Diego and other cities had wait lists in the hundreds. Many libraries were still waiting for their copies to arrive. Because the book was embargoed and had little advance publicity, many libraries ordered few or no copies. On Tuesday
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Global Digital Publishing Market for Education Sector Market 2018 – Cengage Learning, Oxford …

The global Digital Publishing Market for Education Sector market analysis additional consists of a competitive landscape of Digital Publishing Market for Education Sector market, Digital Publishing Market for Education Sector market development history and major development trends granted by Digital
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Publishing and Subscriptions Software Market 2018 Global Analysis, Growth, Size, Share, Trends …

This report provides in depth study of “Publishing and Subscriptions Software Market” using SWOT analysis i.e. Strength, Weakness, Opportunities and Threat to the organization. The Publishing and Subscriptions Software Market report also provides an in-depth survey of key players in the market which
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Route of Creativity Revealed by fMRI

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Like intelligence, it can be considered a trait that everyone – not just creative “geniuses” like Picasso and Steve Jobs – possesses in some capacity. … a birthday present or coming up with a funny joke – to “Big-C” creativity: writing a speech, composing a poem or designing a scientific experiment.
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Book Publishers Africa Report

The Book Publishers Africa Report gives Market Consumption / Products / Services for 54 countries by each Product by 3 Time series: From 1997- 2016 and Forecasts 2017- 2024 & 2024-2028. Countries covered include: Algeria, Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Cape Verde
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Hampstead author Emma Glass: 'I have drawn on some intense feelings'

The book was born ten years ago, as part of a creative writing assignment at university. Her tutor was a “successful commercial writer” and there was much emphasis on plot and themes and metaphor. “I found it really hard to construct anything in such a rigid way, and on the literature side of my degree I
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Giannis Antetokounmpo, Kristaps Porzingis among most popular NBA jerseys

3; Milwaukee's Giannis Antetokounmpo at No. 4, which is his highest ranking on the list yet; and New York's Kristaps Porzingis at No. 5. Philadelphia's Joel Embiid (sixth) and Ben Simmons (eighth) and the Los Angeles Lakers' Lonzo Ball (11th) made their debut on the list. Rounding out the top five in
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Why online publishers are favouring subscriptions

Subscriptions offer publishers, online, and print vital information. Knowing your subscriber base means knowing your audience and its size. Leveraging that information to advertisers possess a predictable income stream. It is a model online news publishers are likely to lean on more in the future.
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Lindy Ryan of Black Spot Books on How to Become a Book Publisher

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Lindy Ryan of Black Spot Books on How to Become a Book Publisher

Black Spot Books is a small-press publisher specializing in speculative fiction. Owner Lindy Ryan talks about how to become a book publisher and choose a niche you're passionate about.
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Kendrick Lamar and TDE Eyeballing New Publishing Deal Worth Over $20 Million

Approximately seven years ago, Kendrick Lamar signed with Warner/Chappell Music and has since become one of the publishing company's most explosive famed acts. His deal with the publisher will soon expire, and now, new publishing deal offers are coming at him from all different directions at
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Can Writing A To-Do List Help You Fall Asleep?

Insomnia and other sleep issues are a common complaint from millions of Americans every year. This makes sense, of course, as stress levels are at an all-time high: longer work days and higher rents leave little time and money for personal well-being, including sleep. But it turns out that getting to sleep
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Free training for out-of-work young people

BT is on the look-out for 15 people in Northallerton aged 16 to 24 who are not currently in education, employment or training to take part in a free work placement. The course provides them with hands-on work experience and training and teaches skills such as CV writing and interview techniques.
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Frank Miller is publishing the long-awaited sequel to '300'

Comic book legend Frank Miller isn't afraid to revisit his most iconic work. After completing a sequel to his Dark Knight comics last year, he's written a follow-up to 300. 300 reached mainstream audiences via the Zack Snyder movie in 2006, a violent and stylized retelling of the Battle of Thermopylae.
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The challenges of publishing in isiZulu are overcome by Izinkanyezi Ezintsha

English literature student Wade Smit, 23, from the University of Cape Town English, recently launched an isiZulu publishing company called Kwasukela Books. Smit has also published his first book, a short fiction anthology titled Izinkanyezi Ezintsha (New Stars) which features several authors, including
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Coach House Books temporarily places poetry program on hiatus

The company, founded in 1965 as Coach House Press, has a history that reads like a who's who of CanLit, publishing luminaries such as Michael Ondaatje, bpNichol, Dorothy Livesay, Ann-Marie MacDonald and Anne Michaels. Its current roster includes Scotiabank Giller Prize and Rogers Writers' Trust
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Homeschooled students learn lessons in writing

Kailee Cox, of Presque Isle, (right), jots down ideas for her concept web during the first session of the Writing for Homeschoolers course taught by Robin Thurston at Presque Isle High School's Adult and Community Education Center on Friday,Jan. 12. During the five-week course, students will explore a
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scheduled publishing is getting interrupted by the plugin

Hello,. It seems that the plugin is interrupting the publishing of a content? If you take a look at these images the only time that the content stayed published and saved in the cache is when there are no errors about SEOChecker. The first image is similar to images 2, 3 and 5 where the content was
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Publisher clearing house

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Publisher clearing house

American Family Publishers was an American company that sold magazine subscriptions. By on | 2,376 Comments PCH – Only a lucky group of people gets to see in the real-time the winning prizes from A Senate committee investigation says Publishers Clearing House may be misleading consumers by
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Unbuilding Frankenstein: designing publishing platforms for an automated, AI-driven future

Unbuilding Frankenstein: designing publishing platforms for an automated, AI-driven future … And that means book publishers and booksellers too. … For example: a new mobile application that enables readers to discover new content, books and articles will have to rely on a lot of shortcuts if the
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The Publishers Association Limited

The Publishers Association Limited. Organisation details – click to Hide Show. Type: Not an SRA-regulated law practice; SRA ID: 645165. Head office; Address: First Floor, 50 Southwark Street, London, London, SE1 1UN, England View in Google Maps. Facilities at this office. Office has no disabled
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Storytelling app Wattpad raises $51M at a $398M valuation

“Wattpad has built a creative community for storytellers and story lovers,” said Martin Lau, President of Tencent Holdings Limited, in a statement (no relation between the two Lau's, it seems). “The company is providing opportunities to new and established writers, transforming how entertainment is
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Big Green Bookshop proposes indie alliance

However, he suggested that to win the same benefits, a group of independent bookshops should get together in a “semi official capacity” to approach publishers to pitch for exclusive deals and offers. “If this happened, I suspect that there'd be quite a few publishers and authors who'd take notice, and
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Bringing Michigan State University students – and poetry – inside prison walls

It advertised a weekly poetry workshop, which piqued his long-held interest in creative writing. “I was afraid of my pen though,” Bryant said. When locked up, Bryant said, men like himself put up walls to shield any sensitivity from those around them. By the second or third week of the workshops, those
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New PC storefront allows players to resell their digital titles, with publishers to set the pricing

Robot Cache's aim is to reduce the fees paid by publishers and developers by 80 per cent according to the official announcement. The newly created firm claims to have the “the lowest transaction fees of any digital PC video game distribution platform” with devs and publishers being able to retain up to
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Orkney author receives New Writers Award

Samantha writes narrative nonfiction and recently completed a PhD in Creative Writing from the University of St Andrews, for which she was awarded the Samuel Rutherford Thesis Prize. She has published in Terrain.Org, Antennae, EcoArt Scotland and Dark Mountain, as well as a pamphlet 'Dark
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David Adés' Afloat in Light

Already a poet of distinction with an extensive publishing history, he quickly became a significant contributor to the local poetry scene, and has won several awards. (Unfortunately, he and his family had to return home last year.) Afloat in Light is a book that straddles hemispheres, and perspectives.
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Universal Music Publishing expands Disney deal

Universal Music Publishing and the Disney Music Group have signed a new deal to expand the number of territories where the Universal publisher administers music owned by Disney Music Publishing. The contract adds the UK, Ireland, Israel and various additional territories in Africa and the
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Could Facebook, Google and Amazon Be Sued Under Antitrust Laws?

But Amazon's aggressively low pricing of ebooks makes it tougher for book publishers to survive, and fewer book publishers means fewer traditionally published books. That's bad for everyone, consumers included. (And good for Amazon, which is itself a book publisher.) But the breadth of Amazon's
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5 Creative Strategies to Stay Inspired to Write All Year [Infographic]

Looking for inspiration to write? Turn these five steps into daily habits, and you'll not only write more consistently — but have fun with it, too.
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Two groups and one melting pot of funny hit Meeting Street this Saturday

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We like the Golden Girls and Cheers insult-style comedy. Those shows relied on a lot of really creative writing.” Hanf and Stocker are kind of over what they call today's “Judd Apatow world,” and they look to incorporate more wordplay, creative sentence structures, and even physical bits. And if you need
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Disney Music Publishing Expands Relationship with Universal Music Publishing Group

Universal Music Publishing Group (UMPG) is expanding their relationship with Disney Music Publishing (DMP) to include the United Kingdom, Ireland, continental Europe, Israel and countries in Africa and the Caribbean. UMPG has handled Disney's music publishing business in Southeast Asia since
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Kendrick Lamar Reportedly Looking at New Publishing Deal in the $20-40 Million Range

Kendrick Lamar is in the midst of negotiating a new publishing deal that could net him well over $20 million, according to Billboard. The move comes as his current deal with Warner/Chappell Music, which he signed years ago, expires. Lamar's management at Top Dawg Entertainment has reportedly
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Book fair remembers Gnani

According to members of the Booksellers & Publishers Association of South India (BAPASI), the book fair saw double the visitors this Pongal when compared to last year. The same time last year, people in large numbers flocked to the Marina where the Jallikattu protests were in full swing, taking the
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#MeToo, Sleeping Beauty and the often controversial history of fairy tales

A little later, the French académicien Charles Perrault published his Histoires ou Contes du Temps Passé (1797), containing such prized tales as Little Red Riding Hood, Puss in Boots, Blue Beard – and Sleeping Beauty. Written for an educated and urbane courtly readership, Perrault's tales smuggle in
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Tencent to take action as world's top-selling video game has cheating issue

is going after the cheaters that infest PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds as it prepares to bring the world's top-selling game to China. Ahead of its debut this year, the biggest gaming company on the planet has enlisted Chinese police to root out the underground rings that make and sell cheat software.
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Female writers dominated 2017's literary bestsellers, figures show

Flying in the face of Norman Mailer's infamous comment that “a good novelist can do without everything but the remnant of his balls”, Haruki Murakami was the sole male writer to make the Top 10 bestselling literary authors of 2017 in the UK. The Bookseller's analysis of literary fiction book sales last year
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MCAA Acquires Masonry Design Magazine From Lionheart Publishing

ALGONQUIN, Ill., Jan. 17, 2018 /PRNewswire/ — Today, the Mason Contractors Association of America has announced the acquisition of Masonry Design magazine from Lionheart Publishing. The acquisition of a second magazine with a different audience provides an opportunity to better spread a
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Toyzor.com the one stop destination for kid's items launches the adorable 'Mommy and Me' collection

Toyzor.com offers Kids clothing and other products from top brands and top sellers of United States at the most affordable prices. It's also a major platform to buy and sell all kinds of kids related products such as children's apparel, toys, headbands, boys outfits, kids boutique outfits and more. The online
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9 Amazing Video Game Developers Killed Off By Their Publishers

For developers, the fear-inducing visage tucked away under Death's shroud of darkness isn't that of a bleached skeleton, but an ordinary human; balance sheet clutched in one hand, big red marker in the other. If a product flops or the sales numbers don't add up, candidate numero uno for the chopping
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