Microsoft has promoted Matt Booty to the role of corporate vice president of Microsoft Studios, as it seeks greater cohesion between the various parts of its games business. According to Gamesbeat, Booty will oversee game development and publishing for console, PC and mobile, which includes brands
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Sheikh Ajaz, the owner of the publishing house, said that they have been preserving the work of local authors and also book written on Kashmir for the past 80-90 years. “My great-grandfather started this work. I am fifth in the line carrying it. Our family is in this profession from past 80-90 years.
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The result was a trilogy of photography books – Dubai: Behind the Scenes, Memories of Satwa, and The Best of Dubai Shop Names – all self-published under Inside Dubai and described by Abuthina as a “labour of love”. The books provide a photographic journey through the older districts and
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Writing on her blog, Publishing For Humans, the leading literary agent described how she was asked by colleagues for her views on what an industry behavioural code might look like, after stories of sexual harassment in the book trade in the UK and US emerged following the Harvey Weinstein scandal,
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I spend a lot of time working with small publishers —especially niche and community publications with editorial teams of less than 15 people (and usually closer to one), and with audiences of less than 500,000. They're scrambling, amid mounting frustration and a dash of despair, to figure out what this
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Best-selling author Anita Shreve among Club Book's spring roster of guest readers … N., Golden Valley. April 19: Anita Shreve, author of nearly two dozen books including Oprah's Book Club pick “The Pilot's Wife,” as well as the best-sellers “The Weight of Water” and “Sea Glass.” 6:30 p.m., R.H. Stafford
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And Herzog's dialogue is funny and smartly observed, but this is a mid-career piece by a writer who needs to develop her craft in new directions. Alas, her trophy collection has driven her into the university system where she works as a creative writing lecturer. And once you enter the teaching business
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Remember in 2015 when everyone laughed at the idea of Donald Trump being the commander in chief? Then he knocked down everyone, and now we are in a Twitter battle with the leadership of North Korea. There were numerous factors involved in the election of Donald J. Trump, but one we forget to
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In an effort to avoid telling others' stories for them, Smith-Wright does her research before starting a piece of creative writing. After graduation, Smith-Wright hopes to spend a year as a bartender in Detroit, gathering fodder for a fiction piece she's working on in which one of the characters is a bartender.
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At least two former students in Concordia University's creative writing program have filed formal complaints of harassment with the university's Office of Rights and Responsibilities against a professor who is still in the English Department, CBC News has learned. The allegations outlined in the
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And why wouldn't viewable video on a fraud-protected, brand-name domain command in real time the same premium pricing these publishers secure upfront? One hears some complicated answers to this simple question. Programmatic is nothing if not complicated! But the truth here is simple: Private
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These tariffs will force publishers and printers to cut costs and likely will lead to more job losses in both the newspaper and newsprint industries, including Gatehouse Media, publisher of the Observer-Dispatch. And it could hasten the transition from print to online in the not-so-distant future. The case
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