For social publisher LittleThings, Facebook's âprioritization of friends/family content over publishers …
The happy-news-focused, video-dominant, Facebook-dependent publisher LittleThings has some unhappy news. After four years spent accumulating more than 12 million followers on Facebook, doing a lot of video programming (including investment in Facebook Live shows), and building a team of
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Indie Booksellers Grapple with Sherman Alexie Sexual Harassment Charges
Spring disclosed that a friend, who is a children's book publishing professional, had confided in her a few months ago about several instances in which she experienced Alexie's inappropriate behavior. It was then, she said, that she decided then to stop selling his books. âThe main reason this behavior
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Unusual Purim Art
After surviving the Holocaust, Shevo graduated from Bezalel School of Art in Jerusalem and, after serving in the Israeli army for two and a half years, studied in New York at the School of Visual Arts and worked as freelance artist for American book publishers. A resident of Moshav Bet Gamliel, where his
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Bradley Walsh Shares Hilarious Donald Trump Impersonation Via Instagram
The actor-turned-TV presenter has already made a habit of entertaining fans on the platform and has now delivered his best Insta moment yet – a weird yet hilarious impression of Donald Trump. CHECK OUT WALSH NAILING HIS TRUMP IMPRESSION BELOW:
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Book detailing BTK family horror â and daughter's forgiveness â gets publication date
The daughter of BTK serial killer Dennis Rader is planning to release her memoir next year that details the trauma of finding out about his crimes â and her road to forgiveness. Kerri Rawson, over the weekend on Twitter, announced a January 2019 publication date for the book. It's title has yet to be
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Why Etsy's Stock Jumped 24% Amid Some Complaints From Sellers and Buyers
Silverman, a veteran of eBay's (ebay, -0.49%) Shopping.com site, has emphasized simple improvements like adding âbest sellerâ badges and site-wide sales for Labor Day and Cyber Monday last year, as well as deeper changes that improved customer searches using artificial intelligence and machine
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In a New Movie Totally Coming Out This Year, a Middle-Aged Professor Is Seduced by an …
… played by Kyra Sedgwick, and Angela (Addison Timlin), the creative writing student who pens erotic poetry and asks him to read her novel and then, well, oh, you just guess. Writer-director Richard Levine's adaptation of Francine Prose's somewhat reactionary 2000 novel Blue Angel exhibits satiric wit
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Are e-books "stupid" or "a revolution"? (Survey)
A big publisher says the former; an author says the latter. What do you think? Every couple of years we ask the question: Paper or e-book? This is long been an issue of interest on TreeHugger, both in terms of energy and resources, but also the question of how people absorb information. The head of
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The UAE's First Women-Only Restaurant is a Burger Joint!
âThe women along with kids head to the new outlet and the men catch up with each other at the first branch,â he says. According to Khaleel, the spicy 'Xalapa fries' and Mac 'n Cheese with crushed Cheetos are the best sellers. âAfter we opened this [ladies only] branch we have noticed women love
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Vietnamese Embassy participates in Brunei Book Fair
Le Tuan Anh, the Counsellor at the Vietnamese Embassy in Brunei Darussalam, told the Bulletin, âAt our booth, we are showcasing some books and publications published by The Gioi Publishers, the Vietnamese Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Viet Nam News Agency. We are also distributing free
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Metallica Rules the Roost on Tuesday Best-Seller Rundown
If there was any question about the continued popularity of venerable metal outfit Metallica, today's list of top sellers in the secondary market should put that to bed, as the California-based rockers took nearly every spot in the Top 20 from Tuesday's data courtesy of Ticket Club. The rematch between
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Sherman Alexie Latest Author Facing Harassment Allegations
National Book Awardâwinning author Sherman Alexie, whose prominence in the Native American writing community is perhaps unparalleled, is the latest author to have been accused of sexual and general misconduct. The accusationsânone of which have yet been made on recordâfirst appeared in
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EA Games â The Mr. Krabs of Publishers
Many of us have fond memories of our golden years on the PS2 and the memorable quote, âEA Sports. It's in the game.â Most of us loved EA as a company during those days. Even the Mass Effect and Dragon Age series were amazing (for the first two installments anyway.) This, of course, was before
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We Are Journalists Not Terrorists â Online Publishers Association Tells Police In Nigeria
The Online Publishers Association of Nigeria, OPAN has expressed concern over claims by the Nigeria Police Force that two of it's members conspired to commit terrorism offences and cyber crime because they approved an opinion article on their website which the police sees as uncomplimentary and
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Forum Will Explore Media Challenges for Junior Faculty
In addition to Wu â who recently published an editorial in Scientific American â the panel includes Laila Lalami, a UCR creative writing professor who writes a column for The Nation and has appeared on the BBC and National Public Radio, or NPR, and Assistant Professor S. Hollis Woodard,
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Daughter's sweet tooth inspires children's story
While this experience has given her plenty of writing material, her true muses are her children Cami and Wyatt. Bauer has since taken courses in creative writing and a course online on how to write a children's book. She finds the whole adventure fun and hopes to keep writing for as long as she can.
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Learn more about this author who chronicled life in the founding era of French Louisiana
His âHistoire de la Louisiane,â published in 1758, blends travel narrative, ethnography, natural history and colonial field guide into an encyclopedic compendium of colonial life. The book's first volume is on display at âNew Orleans, The Founding Era,â a new exhibition at The Historic New Orleans
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Why Video Ads Still Load Slowly
A lot of times it is because of technical issues and resource constraints from the publishers. eMarketer: Can you elaborate? Brian Rifkin: For some reason, publishers have difficulty getting header bidding live with video. It just isn't set … Most publishers are not implementing video in the most optimal way.
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Hawks raid Jacques Pauw's house
NB Publishers said in a statement on Tuesday that it would continue to support Pauw and that it stood by the book. âWe are proud to say we will defend our author and the book vigorously [SARS'] application because there is clear and compelling public interest in The President's Keepers revealing that
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Rajkumar Hirani's Wife Manjeet Hirani to Launch a Book Titled 'How To Be Human – Life Lessons …
She added, âOnce I was wandering in WH Smith bookstore at Delhi airport and asked Rajmal Sharma, a salesman if he knew any publishers as I have written a book on my dog. He happily gave me numbers of a few publishers. I called up Penguin and spoke to them about the idea of my book and sent
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