Day: January 27, 2018

Google's New App Asks Random People to Start Writing the News

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Google's New App Asks Random People to Start Writing the News

Bulletin is still in its early days, of course, but it's interesting to see Google in step with Facebook in thinking on a small scale, in response to the highly public failings of online news networks built on virality and easy shares. There's certainly a dark irony to major companies pivoting to the blog tools of 10
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Third Graders Publish Book to Raise Money for Hurricane Victims

A group of third-grade students at Stone-Robinson Elementary School has a personal interest in helping families in Puerto Rico. The students are raising money for people still suffering from the effects of last year's hurricane while also practicing their reading skills. The students wanted to help families in
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English Writing skills workshop

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English Writing skills workshop

Islington Centre for English provide English writing skills workshops. Students focus on spelling, punctuation, register, style & different areas of vocabulary.
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After tumultuous five-year run, Sports on Earth is permanently shutting down

On Friday, longtime columnist Will Leitch, who has been the de facto face of SOE for most of the its history, announced on the site that SOE would cease publishing after 2,009 days and over 14,000 stories. Leitch noted that SOE lasted five and a half years, longer than The National and Grantland
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Walmart takes aim at another of Amazon's core businesses in e-book push, but it might already be …

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Walmart takes aim at another of Amazon's core businesses in e-book push, but it might already be …

The company's e-books — which include 6 million titles, from best-sellers to children's books — can be read on Kobo devices or on a new co-branded Walmart-Kobo app. According to Hildick-Smith's analysis, Kobo accounted for fewer than 1 percent of e-book purchases last fall, while purchases from
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Comic Legends: What Was Captain America's Original Name?

The comic book superhero boom was well under way, and comic book publishers were fighting each other to get to the next great superhero idea. The top creators in the industry were suddenly very hot commodities, as everyone wanted to get a piece of the next great idea that, say, Will Eisner came up
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An Upbeat Winter Institute—With Some Caveats

In a powerful address, which he titled “In the Time of the Wolf and Fox I Dream of Books” (the “wolf” being conservative whites and the “fox” liberals), he elicited many tears and a standing ovation. Díaz criticized the book industry for being a business in which predominantly white gatekeepers publish
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Nanofibers with diameter below one nanometer from electrospinning

Sub-nanometer materials have received wide attention due to their unique properties in recent years. Most studies focus on the preparation and properties investigation of the inorganic sub-nanometer materials, while there are few reports on organic especially polymeric sub-nanometer materials such
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CNHI publishing company forms regional editor system

Alabama-based publishing company CNHI announced Friday that it is restructuring its leadership. CNHI said in a statement that it is moving to a regional editor system for its more than 100 community newspapers. The company said it has been working on the regional structure for six months. Sunbury
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Publisher with a deep spirituality rooted in Gaelic tradition

The death of Sean O'Boyle in a Dublin hospital after a long illness ends an era in Irish publishing. He was founder of Columba Press, which specialised in religious books. Columba Press's motto “thinking books for a thinking church” expressed its mission. Columba Press provided a platform for writers
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Writing, Rejection, Depression and The Inspiration

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Writing, Rejection, Depression and The Inspiration

Don't let rejection kill your dreams in 2018; keep on writing because you are not alone. Many great writers have walked that road … In Nigeria, where a growing army of creative writers has only few publishers to pitch their works with, many are forced to self-publish. But poor sales become their rejection
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Book Deals: Week of January 29, 2018

Bestselling author Melissa de la Cruz (Someone to Love) sold her first work of domestic suspense, The Birthday Girl, to Dutton. Jill Schwartzman bought world rights to the book from Richard Abate at 3 Arts. The publisher said Birthday Girl was pitched as “Gone Girl meets Flowers in the Attic” and follows
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Jennifer Kren

A fascinating Review on how animals navigate by using the stars and the way they interpret the sky, has been… Notes and Records appoints a new Editor. 2 January 2018 by Jennifer Kren. We are pleased to welcome Anna Marie Roos, from the University of Lincoln, as the new Editor of Notes and…
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Sarah Perez/TechCrunch

Twitter now lets advertisers sponsor Moments from select publishers — Twitter has added a new advertising product to its lineup. The company announced today it's offering brands the ability to sponsor Moments – the “Stories”-like feature that includes a series of tweets, often including images …
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1912 Electric Truck for Sale

This particular Commercial Truck Company Model A 10 Standard was built in Philadelphia in 1912 and used locally by the Curtis Publishing Company for more than 50 years to deliver The Saturday Evening Post, Ladies' Home Journal, and other publications to the post office and area newsstands,
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Drone2Map Image Service Publishing Best Practice

Hey D2M Pros, Just wondering what might be the best practice for Drone2Map Image service publication with the Data Store registration. Since D2M.
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Need content creative writer

Posted 20 minutes ago. Details. We need someone who has financial background and work in top-tier investment banking to write how did they apply or prepare or networking to get current internship/ jobs experience. This job was posted from a mobile device, so please pardon any typos or any missing
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This Week's Bestsellers: January 29, 2018

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This Week's Bestsellers: January 29, 2018

Fire and Fury is the #1 book in the country for the third week in a row. As the U.S. passed the first anniversary of President Trump's inauguration, four books debuted on our hardcover nonfiction list, each taking a critical view of the current political moment. #2 It's Even Worse Than You Think by David Cay
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Why Students Are Still Spending So Much for College Textbooks

Publishers, which are increasingly investing in digital products for college classrooms, are making a concerted effort to help faculty members adapt to that change. McGraw-Hill for its part employs several hundred consultants who are charged with helping faculty members integrate technology into their
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Bonnier Publishing USA's Five Pillars of Positive Children's Books

During an all-hands planning meeting this past fall, the children's team at Bonnier Publishing USA realized they'd hit a critical point. Their titles were coalescing around five themes, which they dubbed their “five pillars”: acceptance, anti-bullying, awareness, diversity, and empowerment. According to
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Walmart Launches Online Grocery Delivery in Japan

This partnership will also allow Walmart to sell 6 million e-books and audiobooks offered by Rakuten's Kobo brand in the U.S. Titles will include fan favorites including New York Times best sellers and children's books. “Rakuten is a strong e-commerce business and we're excited to collaborate with the
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NZ Poet Laureate Selina Tusitala Marsh visits Hawke's Bay

She now lectures in both creative writing and Maori and Pacific literary studies, where the late Maya Angelou's “A bird does not sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song” hangs on her office door. “That's what I want to pass on to students; that for me them figuring out what their song
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Error publishing

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Error publishing

Hi there! We've updated and saved our profile information, but are getting an message “Error Publishing” each time we attempt to publish.
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Green launches publishing company

HAMILTON – Hamilton native Chad Green has, over the years, gone from weekend band gigs at Hamilton Skate Land as a high school student, to signing songwriters as a publisher in Music City. In September, Green, 46, son of Wayne and Evelyn McCracken, Hamilton, launched Shoalsville Music
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Publishing Now! – George Thompson

George has been a professional editor since 1984, beginning his career at Johns Hopkins University Press as an acquisitions editor. At JHUP, George deve…
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Rolling Stone Australia's Future Unsure After Publisher Goes Into Liquidation

“Paper Riot is in liquidation and will no longer be publishing Rolling Stone in Australia. The license has reverted back to the owner, Rolling Stone International,” Coyte said in a statement. “I can't tell you what their plans are moving forward or make any further comment.” Manned by a small team of staff
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CHNI publishing company forms regional editor system

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama-based publishing company CNHI has announced that it is restructuring its leadership. CNHI says in a Friday statement that it is moving to a regional editor system for its more than 100 community newspapers. The company says it has been working on the regional
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Israeli fossil rethinks human history

Researchers spent the last decade-and-a-half looking for more remains and other fossils before publishing their study. They say the jaw belonged to a young adult of unknown gender. The Science paper suggests modern humans could have left Africa 220,000 years ago, with some of the authors saying
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