Richard Henry Boyd, commonly known as the Rev. Dr. R. H. Boyd, was a minister and businessman who founded the National Baptist Publishing Board and the National Baptist Convention of America, Inc. Born enslaved in Mississippi, Boyd moved to Texas after the Civil War and was ordained as a
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A Bureau investigation concluded that an anti‑competitive arrangement between four publishers and Apple led to higher e-book prices for Canadian consumers. In January 2017, the Bureau entered into consent agreements with three of these companies – Hachette, Macmillan and Simon & Schuster
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Once America's great magazine company, the much-reduced publisher was bought by Iowa's Meredith Corp. last year, with $650 million in equity from Koch Industries. This week its name was stripped from its headquarters in lower Manhattan, to which it moved in 2014 after abandoning the Mad
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Self-published this week and available on Amazon Digital Services, the book reveals inappropriate and sexist behavior endured by the state's most powerful women, including Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan, Cook County State's Attorney Kim Foxx and Chicago City Clerk Anna Valencia. “In the
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The February edition of the 'Tennessee State Museum's Lunch & Learn' series will focus on Tennessee's African American Music Heritage. On Thursday, February 15 at 12:15 pm at the museum, historians Graham Perry, curator of Social History, and Mike Bell, curator of Popular Music, together with
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“CHA introduced me to the vivid power of Shakespeare through its outstanding theatre program,” Dr. Wenzel, 77, told us last week. “I played Shylock in their production of 'The Merchant of Venice.' CHA inspired creative writing in English and offered rigorous mathematics classes throughout high school.
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The Oaklins D+P Publishing Newsletter summarizes M&A deals, investments, and other interesting news related to companies that provide educational services.
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Concord Music's publishing business was transformed in 2017 when it acquired Imagem Music Group and integrated it with Concord's existing publishing operation, The Bicycle Music Company. This combination resulted in a catalog of over 380,000 copyrighted works, spanning all musical genres and
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The three novels (based on unfinished manuscripts or outlines) published since his death have been best-sellers, and another two books are in the works. Overall he's sold more than 200 million books worldwide. Crichton was also one of the biggest publishing-to-Hollywood crossover successes.
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Medium—best known as an online community where people (often well-known people like politicians, executives, and journalists) can self-publish op-eds, personal essays, and reportage, potentially attracting a large audience—has gone through various iterations since its founding in 2012. The most
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Diving deeper into a particular subject for shelf exams requires a more specialized book series. Publishers—including the Board Review Series, Case Files, Kaplan, Deja Review, and countless others—offer in-depth compositions on family medicine to surgery and everything in between. Yet anxiety
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Organisers attempted to defend the darks arts event by outlining that it did not make a profit, but only covered its costs with the entry fee, and had followed the correct procedure three months prior by applying to book publishers Bloomsbury, but Warner Bros. still refused. It meant that none of the staff
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Millions of authors employ Microsoft Office to write their novel and submit it to self-publishing services such as Kindle Direct Publishing. Microsoft has announced that Office 2019 will ship in Q3 2018 and it will only be compatible with Windows 10. Little is known about what new features Microsoft will
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Feb 1 (Reuters) – “Fire and Fury,” Michael Wolff's scathing book about life inside the Trump White House, held onto the top spot of the U.S. non-fiction bestsellers chart for a fourth consecutive week on Thursday. “Fire and Fury” sold some 28,500 units in its first week of release, more than any other fiction
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The task force was set up in the wake of allegations of lecherous behaviour by some professors in the Creative Writing program. The university also issued new guidelines on professor-student relationships last week. Sutherland said the university has routinely allowed the CSU to name student
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To observe and celebrate Black History Month, and as part of its commitment to celebrate the diversity of America all year long, PBS is offering documentaries and specials that explore the richness and complexity of the African American experience through on-air content on PBS member stations and
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