Eric Hirshberg is exiting Activision Publishing in March after eight years working as its CEO. No reason was given for his departure. In the role, Hirshberg reports directly to Activision Blizzard chief Bobby Kotick. Hirshberg is known for ushering along sales of the “Call of Duty” video game series, as well
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Outskirts Press, the No. 1-rated self-publishing company according to Top Consumer Reviews, has announced the release of a new and improved Author Marketing Calendar for 2018. The calendar is a compilation of effective promotion tactics, important book competition dates in 2018, social media tips
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Universal Music Publishing has announced the launch of a pilot programme with Auddly, the songwriter-led digital start-up that is trying to ensure the music industry gets decent music rights data quickly whenever new songs are written. Good data means more efficient payment for songwriters.
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Then Eric Hirshberg announced that he was leaving the top job of Activision Publishing in March. He's going out on a high note after big success with Call of Duty: WWII and Destiny 2. Over eight years, he has had an epic ride in shepherding the biggest of the industry's billion-dollar franchises. Activision
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Since its publication, “How Fast Can You Run” has won a 2017 Independent Book Publishers Award Bronze Medal for War/Military Fiction and a 2017 Living Now Award Silver Medal for Inspirational Fiction. More recent chapters in Kuch's life include his return home to South Sudan in 2010, where “for
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It has been announced that Eric Hirshberg is leaving Activision after serving eight years as CEO of Activision Publishing. He will continue to stay on until March and once a replacement has been found. Activision Publishing CEO Eric Hirshberg. Hirshberg ran a major division of Activision Blizzard where
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Ya-Nan Cao, Li-Juan Feng, Yuan-Yuan Liu, Kui Jiang, Mao-Jun Zhang, Yi-Xin Gu, Bang-Mao Wang, Jia Gao, Ze-Lan Wang, Yu-Ming Wang. World J Gastroenterol 24(3):338-350. Published online Jan 21, 2018. doi: 10.3748/wjg.v24.i3.338. Abstract (3) | Core Tip (4) | Article Highlights (3) | Full Article
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I have the first 3 manuscripts finished for a new mystery series which have great reviews, have won awards as manuscripts, and I have an agent and several publishing offers. But they seem to be rights grabs and I've turned them down, thinking about going “indie” on KDP Select and Creative Space.
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The Federation of European Publishers (FEP) released its latest statistical report, which covers 2016 and aggregates data from 29 national associations across Europe. The report indicates that total annual sales for reporting members was approximately €22.3 billion ($28.21 billion), the same level it
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From these simple roots, NP Nutra is now recognized as a leading wholesale supplier of premium ingredients, supplying a loyal worldly clientele with a growing portfolio of both trending and classic best-sellers, while simultaneously developing their own signature ingredient brands and proprietary
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He goes to explain he has lungs “filled with smoke” and “yellow teeth” like a creative writing school drop-out forgetting the advice to show not tell. Other songs shrug off any hint of role-play. “Concrete” skims by with fast, precise guitar riffs, meaty bass and vocals that switch between calm voiceover and
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Author of the BLACKTOP SERIES (under the pseudonym LJ Alonge), Lanre Akinsiku's FLY WITH ME, the story of a boy who has been an outcast in town ever since his sister flew away, but things change when he begins to dabble in her special kind of magic, to Rosemary Brosnan at Harper Teen in a
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Street Fight Daily: Faltering Snap Courts Publishers, WhatsApp Rolls Out App for Small Biz. January 19 … Publishers still reeling from the Facebook news feed-pocalypse might find comfort in Snapchat. The disappearing messages app is stepping up efforts to curry favor with publishers. TechCrunch:
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British Publisher Releases Book On Chandrababu. Noted British Publisher Bloomsbury published a book titled ' Chandrababu – India's Global Leader ' on Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu. The book explained how Chandrababu promoted Andhra Pradesh as global destination to
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The FinELib consortium and Elsevier have signed an agreement making Elsevier's globally published research articles available to Finnish academic institutions, while providing Finnish researches with incentives to publish open access if they so choose. The three-year contract applies to 13 Finnish
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“Facebook's head of news partnerships, Campbell Brown, also wrote to some major publishers that the changes would cause people to see less … In Slovakia, where right-wing nationalists took nearly 10 percent of Parliament in 2016, publishers said the changes had actually helped promote fake news.
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