President Alan Shepard has issued a statement in which he described as “serious” the allegations by blogger Mike Spry, which go beyond Concordia. Shepard said the post makes specific allegations as well as general allegations of an abusive climate in the department's creative writing program.
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MEMPHIS — A Christian publisher says it is canceling the publication of a book by a Memphis pastor who admitted to a sexual encounter with a 17-year-old high school senior in Texas 20 years ago. Bethany House announced Monday afternoon that it is canceling the scheduled July publication of Andy
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The implementation of the publisher's consent agreement is pending the resolution of Kobo's challenge of the January 2017 agreements. As part of the terms of the agreement, HarperCollins will also make a $150,000 charitable donation in ebooks and print books to promote reading in Canada.
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“Around 12 lakh books were sold in the last one year,” said Baldev Sharma, Chairman of National Book Trust (NBT). He said that it was more important that people read, not what medium they choose to read on. However, readers appeared to be more attracted to big publishers like Oxford and Penguin
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BuzzFeed News had faced criticism for publishing the dossier last year because of the unverified claims included in the document. The dossier has played a central part in the investigations into Russian interference during the 2016 presidential election. The Washington Post reported last year that
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Amazon has launched the Amazon Publishers Services (APS) Transparent Ad Marketplace in the UK, Germany, France, Italy and Spain. It offers digital content owners and app developers a cloud-based, server-side header bidding solution that helps increase their ad revenues, while improving user
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