Sony/ATV signs Luke Laird to worldwide deal

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Sony/ATV signs Luke Laird to worldwide deal

Grammy award-winning songwriter and producer Luke Laird has signed a worldwide publishing agreement with Sony/ATV Music Publishing and Creative Nation. As a songwriter, Laird has had numerous hits including Fast and I See You (Luke Bryan), American Kids (Kenny Chesney), One of Those
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Feature: Argentina to embrace more Chinese culture by book translation

BUENOS AIRES, Jan. 30 (Xinhua) — Argentine readers will soon be able to read Chinese works of literature in their own language. The Chinese Cultural Center in Buenos Aires, in conjunction with the China Intercontinental Press (CIP) publishing house, has opened the first publishing venture in
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Cassandra Clare Launches a 'One-Shot' Publishing Collaborative

As a result, Clare does not face the same challenges in getting books to readers faced by small presses and self-publishers.” Clare and the others jumped at the idea. “It's a cool project and exciting to have this level of minute control that we don't normally have when we publish,” said Clare, who formed
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Local students named to University of Iowa Dean's List

The UI is known around the world for its leadership in the arts, sciences, and humanities. It is home to the first and best creative writing program in the world, a world-class academic medical center and one of America's top teaching hospitals, and a can-do culture that fosters a campus-wide dedication to
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The Sims 4's Cats & Dogs is 2014 game's most popular expansion

It's impressive that Cats & Dogs is a best-seller, considering that it only launched on November 10, less than two months before the end of the quarter. Though The Sims 4 launched in September 2014, it still has an active fan base. In EA's Q1 report for fiscal year 2018, it noted that its monthly active users
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Head of Content Development

You inspire new talent to create amazing stories for women in their teens, twenties and thirties, while thinking critically about product metrics and performance. You are someone who thinks more like an entertainment studio executive rather than a literary editor in a publishing house. You follow the latest
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Filmmaking course at IIT

Professor G.V. Sreekumar, the head of the IDC, said it could take a year to finalise the details of the proposed course on filmmaking. The Pune-based Film and Television Institute of India (FTII) has been offering diploma courses in acting, cinematography, editing, direction and screenplay writing and art
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An Indie Publisher In Oregon Is Only Publishing Books By Women In 2018

Although readers and writers have been waiting three years to celebrate the Year of Publishing Women, this equality-driven initiative has failed to take root in the major book world. The Big 5 may be ignoring the challenge, but one independent publisher in Oregon, Not a Pipe Publishing, is only selling
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Q & A with John August

I had had this nascent idea, and I wasn't quite sure where it fit, and he helped me understand, “Oh, that really is a middle grade idea,” and that a book could be the right way to do it. Where did you go from there? How did you get serious about publishing a book? The life of a screenwriter is you're
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BASCA responds to "unfounded allegations" by members of Songwriters' Committee

BASCA has become embroiled in a major row with four members who quit the songwriters' organisation in the wake of a bullying enquiry. In an unprecedented move, the leadership at BASCA (the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors) has today hit back with a robust statement
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January 28, 2018 Los Angeles Times Best Sellers Available at the Library

Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward returns to the top of the Los Angeles Times Fiction Hardcover List for the week of January 28, 2018, while Fire and Fury by Michael Wolff remains #1 on the Hardcover Nonfiction List. Debuting on the Fiction Hardcover List are: The Immortalists by Chloe Benjamin;
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'The X-Files' WILL Return… In Comic Form To IDW Publishing

We can fight the future all we want but it looks to be only a matter of time until its case closed for 'The X-Files,' but we've learned that they'll at least be returning in comic form. This June we'll see IDW Publishing take over releasing comics on the property just about the time that the current season comes
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Cutting Through the Data Wilderness: Next-Gen Communicators Preach Data With a Human Heart

Ethan McCarty, global head, employee & innovation communication at Bloomberg, for example, has an undergraduate degree from Ohio University in creative writing. His graduate degree from the New School for Social Research in liberal studies had him “taking classes with Christopher Hitchens and
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Literacy Spotlight: An Open Book Foundation

The organization relies upon a small staff of three full-time and three part-time employees, and is based in D.C. La Porte stores the books to be distributed to classrooms “in my den, dining room, and my children's old bedrooms.” The books supplied by AOB come directly from publishers as well as
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UAE sets global standards in publishing, says Bodour

Discussing the achievements of the Emirates Publishers Association over the past few years, Sheikha Bodour added, “The Association has accomplished so much in recent years. The quality of book design, content, and printing has significantly improved. The number of publishing houses has doubled
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