Insights: Bitcoin Goes One Way, The FCC Another â Will Creators And Publishers Get New Tools …
Insights is a weekly series featuring entertainment industry veteran David Bloom. It represents an experiment of sorts in digital-age journalism and audience engagement with a focus on the intersection of entertainment and technology, an area that David has written about and thought about and been
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Alliances Forged
After being the youngest Wallace Stegner Fellow in Creative Writing at Stanford University, Paul spent time in Louisiana in the 1970s, writing fiction in time away from his day job. In 1980 he went back to the Bay Area, making a name in San Francisco as a performing poet and record producer.
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A country taken over by women? Rosalie Morales Kearns talks about her provocative new book
A product of Catholic schooling from kindergarten through college, Kearns has a B.A. in theology and an MFA in creative writing. On the occasion of her book's release, we discuss with the author such topics as religion, politics and the book's fantastic premise of her book: women take charge of the
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U.Va. professor accused of sexual harassment won't teach at university in spring
A spokesman for the University of Virginia says a creative writing professor accused of sexually harassing several former students and a faculty member will not teach at the university this spring. John Casey had been set to teach two graduate-level courses in the English department. Three complaints
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UW-Stevens Point student publishing house to launch newest book
STEVENS POINT – A student-run publishing company at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point will launch its newest book, a collection of short stories, with several activities this coming week. Cornerstone Press will release âThe Appointed Hourâ by Susanne Davis at 7 p.m. on Thursday in The
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DigiPub Pundits Ponder Next-Stage Opportunities for Catalogs, Magazines
Conley, a magazine as well as a catalog panelist, said that experiments in short-run, personalized magazine production should be taken seriously. He compared it to desktop publishing, which was laughed at by some until it disrupted an entire industry; and self-publishing, once scorned by mainstream
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10 Best-Selling Notebooks on Amazon This Holiday Season
The computing world is dominated by HP, Dell, and Lenovo. But if one were to examine the best-selling notebooks on Amazonâone of the world's biggest online retailersâthe list of sales leaders looks strikingly different. Amazon's current slate of notebook best-sellers is dominated by Acer and Asus,
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How publishers can tell better stories for mobile audiences
Publishers need to be able to engage audiences on-the-go, but how does that change how we tell stories on mobile? From video to longform articles, there are a range of techniques and formats that journalists are employing to grab and keep the attention of audiences. Speakers at the latest
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Digital Publishing Awards – 2018 Program Unveiled
TORONTO, Dec. 1, 2017 /CNW/ – The National Media Awards Foundation (NMAF) is pleased to announce the lineup of categories for the third annual Digital Publishing Awards, the most prestigious program recognizing excellence in digital editorial content in Canada. This year, awards in 24 categories
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Spike Chunsoft Establishes North American Subsidiary to Publish and Localize New Titles
The publisher has been self publishing titles in the west for a few years, albeit digitally on PlayStation 4, PlayStstion Vita, and PC. Now, the company will be able to focus on their own in house localization as well as be in direct contact with their growing western fan base. The office will be located in Long
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Toy nail-biter: People's Play Awards winners announced
TTPM, the toy review web site, asked consumers, kids, and toy fans to vote for best toy in 12 categories. The winners were presented today in a live reveal on the company's website. Most of the winners on the list are already best sellers, and a number of them are sold out in stores and online. Jim Silver
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Oxford University Press and the Canadian Association of Gastroenterology announce publishing …
iScience (@iScience_CP), an interdisciplinary, open-access, peer-reviewed journal, will publish on a continuous basis starting early 2018. The journal promises fast and fair decisions and will promote rigorous research that advances a field and reporting with transparent methods, replication studies,
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