Day: December 4, 2017

Norwalk Housing Authority Students Publish Book With Silvermine Arts Center

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Norwalk Housing Authority Students Publish Book With Silvermine Arts Center

“This was a unique project that enabled the students to learn photography and editing skills on the visual side and then discover their creative writing talents by composing the accompanying poems,” said Sophia Gevas, director of Silvermine's Outreach Education Program. “At the same time, they gained
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Publishers contribute £3.2bn to economy, report reveals

“The UK is a global publishing superpower”, said Lotinga. “We have a great export story to tell, with sales to North America and Asia seeing double-digit growth and more and more global markets expanding for books and journals alike. With productivity more than double the national average, publishing
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Chilean book chosen for Bocas 2018

Although originally done in Spanish, the novel has been translated to English by Jamaican-based Ian Randle Publishers and it is one of those rare times a translated book is marketed from the Caribbean to the wider English-speaking world. The reverse usually occurs, where translated books are
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ZLTC features holiday classic

The Zionsville Little Theatre Company will present “It's A Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play.” The radio broadcast version, based on the Frank Capra movie, was written by Joe Landry and licensed through Playscripts, Inc. There will be four performances of the holiday classic at 7 p.m. Dec. 15-16 and 2
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Author Gregory M. Blair's New Book “Digger 1; The Beginning” is a Grand Futuristic Adventure of …

Page Publishing knows that authors need to be free to create – not bogged down with logistics like eBook conversion, establishing wholesale accounts, insurance, shipping, taxes, and the like. Its roster of accomplished authors and publishing professionals allows writers to leave behind these complex
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Industry needs 'educating' on audio rights says Kobo chief

Kobo's chief executive Michael Tamblyn has said that an “education needs to happen” in audio rights for publishers and agents to prevent one player dominating the market. Tamblyn, president and c.e.o of Rakuten Kobo, told delegates at The Bookseller's Futurebook Conference in London on Friday
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the broadsheet: 6 publishers reimagining newsprint

Newspaper Club tells us about six creative broadsheet magazines. Though the cost of making a magazine is much lower than it used to be, it is still far from accessible for many aspiring publishers. That's when newsprint can offer a cheaper option, and we're noticing more and more inventive ways
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Globalization 1977-2008

Globalization 1977-2008 by Saddleback Educational Publishing (EDT). Paperback available at Half Price Books® https://www.hpb.com.
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HMLR consider publishing comparative conveyancer data

HM Land Registry are considering the publication of comparative conveyancer data to provide clients with a clearer picture of how their service provider is performing. Forming part of their Five Year Business Strategy, the potential release of this information will be to utilise existing datasets and improve
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Fig Tree signs 'full of heart' debut by WriteNow mentee

Penguin Random House imprint Fig Tree is to publish the first novel by current WriteNow mentee Geraldine Quigley. Juliet Annan, publishing director at Fig Tree, acquired world rights to Music Love Drugs War which tells the story of a group of teenagers and their families in Derry in 1981. The friends'
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Ad Age's Magazines of the Year 2017: See All the Winners

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Ad Age's Magazines of the Year 2017: See All the Winners

When we started working on the annual Ad Age Magazines of the Year package in the fall, there were six large magazine publishers: American Media Inc., Condé Nast, Hearst, Meredith, Rodale and Time Inc. Soon—once Hearst finalizes its acquisition of Rodale, and Meredith swallows Time Inc.—there
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Terrell explores region's bush poetry history

Golden Threads, Poetry from Western Australia's gold rush era, is Terrell's fourth book dedicated to the Goldfields after previously publishing books on the history of Goldfields sport, Goldfields cricket and Kalgoorlie City Football Club. Golden Threads profiles each of the region's leading pioneer poets,
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Digital trends force colleges in Valley, around country to rethink how bookstores do business

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Digital trends force colleges in Valley, around country to rethink how bookstores do business

“It's always open,” Mena said. “And they have a lot of beanies.” Wise said the caps are one of the best sellers in the machine. Miguel Mendoza, a freshman at Heritage, said he hasn't bought anything from the machine yet, but appreciates the fact it is available if he needs to get some supplies for classes.
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie to receive 2018 Barnes & Noble Writers for Writers Award

According to Susan Isaacs, chairman of Poets & Writers' Board of Directors and also the chair of the committee charged with selecting the honorees, “We receive nominations from writers, publishing professionals, and others in the literary community. From the information about the nominees and their
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Victorian Premier's Literary Awards 2018 shortlists announced

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Victorian Premier's Literary Awards 2018 shortlists announced

As previously reported by Books+Publishing, Christian White won the 2017 Victorian Premier's Literary Award for an Unpublished Manuscript for his novel Decay Theory (now titled The Nowhere Child) and will also go into the running for the overall prize. Last year, actor and playwright Leah Purcell's
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Raw Fury to Publish Minimalistic RTS Bad North

Recently, indie publishers Raw Fury Games told everyone that that they will be revealing several new video games, studio partnerships, and information of other games in the works from now until the week before Christmas. And so we have the first of their announcements, namely that they will be
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Author Shaun Tomlinson's new book “The Shattered Line” features an astounding world filled with …

Published by New York City-based Page Publishing, Shaun Tomlinson's gipping novella depicts a tale of uniqueness and out of the ordinary, reflected by the main character's exceptionality due to his ability, and how certain individuals yearn for an extraordinary talent for their own hidden purposes,
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World Journal of Gastroenterology

Nam-Joon Yi, Min-Su Park, Eun Young Song, Hye Young Ahn, Jeik Byun, Hyeyoung Kim, Suk Kyun Hong, Kyungchul Yoon, Hyo-Sin Kim, Sung-Woo Ahn, Hae Won Lee, YoungRok Choi, Kwang-Woong Lee, Kyung-Suk Suh, Myoung Hee Park. World J Gastroenterol 23(45):8017-8026. Published online
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The SSP is Dead; Long Live the SSP

To represent and trade in publisher inventory successfully, SSPs have to be much more than a dumb pipe to the programmatic marketplace. Writing exclusively for ExchangeWire, Emma Newman explains why PubMatic embraces the term 'SSP' and how SSPs have had to evolve as programmatic
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Bharti Airtel buys strategic stake in in e-publishing platform Juggernaut

In May 2017, the writer's platform went live to offer amateur writers an opportunity to digitally publish their content and stand a chance to win publishing contracts. The writer's platform in the past six months has received just under 500 stories with nine of them securing publishing contracts. “Our ambition
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PVUSD Launches Bilingual Early Literacy Initiative

this innovative early learning mobile technology platform that enables PVUSD to provide — free of charge — libraries of eBooks, educational games and activities, and creative writing opportunities to every family with children birth through 3rd grade who reside within the communities of Aptos, Pajaro,
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IPSO launches new logo for member publishers to show their commitment to 'high standards and …

Press regulator IPSO has launched a new logo which it is encouraging member organisations to display “to show their commitment to professional standards and an edited, regulated product”. The industry funded regulator said: “In an era where the public's trust in journalism has been undermined
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Eugene Bolden's new book “A Christmas Wish for Junior – Up in the Inner City Hood in Uptown …

Recent release “A Christmas Wish for Junior- Up in the Inner City Hood in Uptown Harlem” from Page Publishing author Eugene Bolden's touching tale about young people growing up in the ghetto, the love they share, the heartaches they experience, and the community bonds that tie them together.
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Gameflip ICO Goes Live After Achieving 112% Pre-sale Target; Brings Blockchain to Digital Goods

Currently, game publishers offer in-game purchases and digital goods as a source of revenue, and while digital goods have a sizeable market, the end-users, i.e. gamers, do not have complete control over their purchases and lack a platform which allows them to freely trade or sell their purchases later
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Library in Chennai area gets three State awards

For the last few months, the library has also been organising various activities and learning programmes for children every Sunday, like story-telling, painting, arts and crafts, music, robotics, dance, creative writing, etc. 'It would be nice if our library gets the same number of footfalls as the Bougainvillea
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More Evidence Suggests Death Stranding Will Be Shown at The Game Awards

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More Evidence Suggests Death Stranding Will Be Shown at The Game Awards

The evidence is mounting that suggests something big related to Death Stranding will be revealed during The Game Awards show later this month. The upcoming game from video game mastermind Hideo Kojima is still mostly shrouded in mystery, but signs here and there suggest that some questions
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Are the rating agencies wolves in sheep's clothing?

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Are the rating agencies wolves in sheep's clothing?

The two publishing businesses come together to form the McGraw-Hill Publishing Company. 1923. Standard Statistics … Standard Statistics and Poor's Publishing Company merge to form Standard & Poor's. With this merge … McGraw-Hill acquires Warren C Platt's publishing venture. Founded in 1909
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Symposium and Semicolon celebrate student-submitted creative works

The now third-year English and creative writing student hopes others will take the chance to showcase their work. Symposium and Semicolon editor-in-chief, Areesa Kanji, noted that artists and writers may not always get the chance to showcase their talents or feel comfortable doing so. But events like
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The story behind Exam Jam

Designed to help students de-stress while promoting healthy and productive study habits, wellness workshops include activities like chair yoga and mindfulness meditation. There are also study and writing workshops facilitated by the RGASC, along with a new initiative this year, the motivational study
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Creative Writing Kids Need Inspiring Books and Supplies for Projects

My students need books, ink, computer speakers and supplies for creative writing projects. Our public, arts-focused magnet school is the most diverse school in our Detroit-area county. This school, of 350 students is an experiment that is working, and has for over 15 years. We celebrate…
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A Writer's Experience in the Game World

In addition to English creative writing, Crockett chose to major in emergent digital practices (EDP), “because I came to a realization that playing video games, writing, and reading were no longer simply hobbies for me but passions.” After reading a book about game writing, Slay the Dragon: Writing Great
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More Czech books translated into German before Leipzig trade fair

Prague, Dec 2 (CTK) – The Czech state has registered domestic and foreign publishers' rising interest in a subsidy in support of book translations from Czech into German, evidenty linked the Leipzig book trade fair in 2019 with the Czech Republic as the main guest, Deputy Culture Minister Katerina
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Bharti Airtel invests in e-publishing platform Juggernaut

Speaking of the fund raise, the founder & publisher, Chiki Sarkar said, “We are excited to partner with Airtel in our journey ahead. Airtel has a great understanding of digital content consumption and we have much to learn and benefit from this strategic partnership”. “Our ambition is to get many more
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Airtel acquires Digital Publishing startup Juggernaut

Bharti Airtel Monday announced that it has acquired a strategic stake in Juggernaut Books, a digital mobile-first book publishing startup based out of New Delhi. The financial details are not disclosed. “The investment is in line with Airtel's endeavour to build an open content ecosystem and bring
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News Corp Australia falls out of Commonwealth Games 2018

The restrictions compel publishers to obey a 30-minute delay for broadcasting content collected at news conferences and limit digital news bulletins to a maximum of 60 seconds a day across no more than three bulletins a day. The restrictions imposed by the Commonwealth Games Federation are to
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'Save B&T': Former publisher urges title to return to AMAA audit for brand credibility

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'Save B&T': Former publisher urges title to return to AMAA audit for brand credibility

He said while he understood the “feeble” reason – readership is a more relevant measure – for consumer publishers to exit the audit, the same could not be said for trade titles. Knibbs went on to point out B&T's last recorded circulation figure is 16,000 but they use the CAB logo to state the last audited
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Gameflip ICO is now live! Launch comes after a pre-sale that achieved 112% of its goal

One way Gameflip stand out from other ICOs is with its focus on game publishers. Gameflip has reserved 40% of the total supply of FLIPs to incentivize publishers by allowing them to sell these FLIPs to their community and keep up to 100% of the proceeds. Gamers will also be incentivized by having
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Gameflip ICO is Now Live! Launch Comes After a Pre-sale that Achieved 112 percent of its Goal

Gameflip has reserved 40 percent of the total supply of FLIPs to incentivize publishers by allowing them to sell these FLIPs to their community and … an experienced team among them, or an outward focus on publishers guiding them — and that's simply impossible,” said JT Nguyen, CEO of Gameflip.
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Australia investigates Facebook and Google over media impact

Internet giants may be trying to make nice with publishers, but that's not completely reassuring to Australian regulators. The country's Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) is investigating Facebook, Google and other “digital platform providers” to see if their search engines and social sites are
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How to Build a Major Label Payment Platform on an Indie Label Budget

Want to know the secret to building a great payment system? It all boils down to three key factors — all of which any label, publisher or music group can now afford. Once upon a time, bigger labels and publishers could beat smaller labels and publishers with better infrastructure. Actually, that went for
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When a journo mixes his metaphors

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When a journo mixes his metaphors

Women are using, evolving their own language in creative writing, whereas men are stuck with the given, traditional, archaic language where the nuances are gender specific and they are not yet able to overcome that. No woman writer nowadays describes her books as “my baby” but men continue to
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News Corp to boycott Gold Coast Commonwealth Games, and Winter Olympics

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News Corp to boycott Gold Coast Commonwealth Games, and Winter Olympics

The decision comes after the parties failed to reach a deal to relax restrictions around the use of pictures and video from events online. The restrictions compel publishers to obey a 30-minute delay for broadcasting content collected at news conferences and limit digital news bulletins to a maximum of 60
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Mt. Pleasant historian, researcher embarks on close-to-home journey

Vivian first realized she could write when she was a sophomore at Monessen High School. At California University of Pennsylvania, she honed those skills, eventually earning a master's degree in English and teaching in the area for several years. “I was in the creative writing class and I kept getting As,”
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How Facebook is pitching Watch to advertisers

The monetization opportunity for Facebook and the publishers that are splitting the revenue with the platform is finding the right ad breaks. It's very tempting for advertisers: Facebook just needs to make great shows and monetize an existing audience. If it can sell buyers on great integration ideas or the
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Australia to probe Facebook, Google over media disruption

[SYDNEY] Australia's competition regulator said on Monday it would investigate whether US online giants Facebook and Alphabet Inc's Google had disrupted the news media to the detriment of publishers and consumers. Like their rivals globally, Australia's traditional media companies have been
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News Corp Will Not Be Covering The 2018 Gold Coast Commonwealth Games

Under the current deal, which applies to any media agency covering the games that is not Channel Seven themselves, publishers would be forced to observe a 30-minute delay on broadcasting information gathered from athlete news conferences, and would severely limit the amount of footage they can
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The 46a along York Road is the route to a world of dreams

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The 46a along York Road is the route to a world of dreams

Of course Dun Laoghaire is no stranger to writers. There's a plaque on the East Pier which remembers Samuel Beckett, who lived just off the 46a route, in leafy Foxrock in a beautiful house called Cooldrinagh on Kerrymount Avenue. I often stop at the plaque and pinch myself that I share the sea air with
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'Of course he said it': Billy Bush counters Trump's pussy tape claims

Billy Bush has pushed back against reports that Donald Trump believes the Access Hollywood tape was a hoax. Writing in the New York Times on Sunday, the television host says: “Of course he said it.” Bush, who was recorded listening to Trump making lewd comments about grabbing women “by the
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