The result was that writers either depended on printers and publishers or else embarked on the dubious enterprise of self-publishing. (Before print, all writers self-published in that sense, although they might use scribes to copy their work.) In a preface, Cervantes had written a manifesto of modern
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Irving assumed that Hughes had become so reclusive and private that he would rather stay silent than come forward and deny the book was real. He soon received a staggering $750,000 advance from McGraw-Hill and a sizable check from Life magazine, which planned to publish excerpts from what
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Newbery established his own publishing business which quickly outgrew its Reading base, the firm and Newbery's family moving to London after his success with a prototype children's book “A Pretty Little Pocket Book” published in 1744. It was apparently inspired by the philosopher John Locke whose
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My elf-sized publishing company, Then and Now Media, is mainly a hobby. Last year, I self-published a book, Memories of Santa Claus (ranked 9,615 in Amazon's Christmas Children's Books, a big seller). It is a series of related short stories set in fictional Holiday Falls, Ohio. These were stories I started
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“This was a super opportunity for young creative writers in primary and secondary school to put their imagination on paper,” says Ros na Rún's series producer Deirdre Ní Fhlatharta, “We're always looking to inspire young writers for the future and what better way to search than with our new shop
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So James chose the option of self-publishing. “I thought, 'why not?',” he said. “There's all these stories of folk who've got a book out and have found their audience so that prompted me to do it, and so far I've had some good reviews.” James is already working on a few more writing projects so we could
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In 1439, Johannes Gutenberg combined the existing technology of his time — paper manufacturing, oil-based inks, metal casting, and re-engineered agricultural screw presses — to create the printing press. Over time, newspapers, magazines, book publishers, governments, and mints all began using the
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