Day: January 18, 2018

Adobe And AppNexus Shed Light On All Fees From DSP To SSP

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Adobe And AppNexus Shed Light On All Fees From DSP To SSP

Adobe and AppNexus plan to give marketers supply-chain transparency from the DSP to the SSP by partnering on a pilot program. Adobe Advertising Cloud will reveal all fees taken by the DSP, including the platform fee and any add-ons, as well as AppNexus' bill to the publisher, which will help
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Pryor Center to Host Evening With 'Boy Erased' Author, Garrard Conley

After growing up in a small Arkansan farming community, heading to a liberal arts college a few hours away, completing service for Peace Corps Ukraine, and attaining a Master's in creative writing and queer theory, Conley taught literature in Sofia, Bulgaria at The American College of Sofia. He now
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Instructors need to publish Canvas courses earlier

For example, I would love to get an early start on one of my short stories for my creative writing class, but I can't be sure of what the assignment guidelines are without a course syllabus. Students might be able to guess what their classes could be like based off older syllabi, but there's no guarantee it'll be
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Sights and Insights

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Sights and Insights

Being an adult student is scary, and I recall with trepidation the required biology class I had to take when I finally mapped out my Associates degree and got serious about my goal — this after amassing hours of English/writing classes over the years, that I took one semester at a time because I loved the
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Local history buff connects Waterford present and past through photos

Greg Fogleman, 42 of Waterford Township and a history enthusiast, has spent the last eight years collecting hundreds of historic photographs from the township, … He's even been approached by a publishing company to turn the photos into a book, something Fogleman said he's still like to do one day.
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Tilting Point's revenue increases thanks to publishing and user acquisition strategy

Tilting Point's mobile game publishing strategy is paying off. Thanks to viral hits like Nukebox Studios's Food Truck Chef, its Q4 revenue has increased fourfold year-over-year. It's also shuffling around its leadership — COO Samir El Agili will become Tilting Point's president. He's taking over for cofounder
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Bartlett: The AP Arms Race

That many students feel pressured to take a course because of its label and not its content is a shame, as it forces students to pursue disciplines of little to no interest. For instance, let us say that Jimmy loves writing. He takes every AP English course his school offers and knows that this is something he
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MovePH to hold webinar on Online Publishing

MANILA, Philippines – To prepare campus journalists joining the National Schools Press Conference (NSPC), MovePH, Rappler's civic engagement arm, will conduct a webinar on Online Publishing on Friday, January 19. (READ: WATCH: Rappler X introduced at NSPC 2017 for online publication).
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Kendrick Lamar Circling New Publishing Deal (Report)

*Kendrick Lamar is reportedly in talks to sign a new publishing deal and his rights could command well over $20 million, sources tell Billboard. The rapper's current publishing deal with Warner/Chappell Music, signed several years ago before his rise to global phenomenon, is about to expire. Lamar's
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Take up creative writing in 2018

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Take up creative writing in 2018

CHARLIE ADLEY, the Galway based columnist and prize-winning playwright, will host his popular Craft of Writing Course in the Westside Resource Centre this March. The course will be held on Thursdays from 7.15pm to 9pm, running from March 1 to April 19. The course is designed for those who want
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Renew Publishing Consultants Announces Participants in Research Study

Thirteen organizations are supporting Renew Publishing Consultants' research on how worldwide readers discover academic content. They include the APA (American Psychological Association), Annual Reviews, Cambridge University Press, PLOS, the Royal Society of Chemistry, SAGE, the IET
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Why Singaporean publisher's luxury magazines put craft over bling, and how he's switching them …

Wei Koh may have founded leading international watch magazine Revolution and men's luxury bible The Rake, but the pricey products they feature are not what matters. Koh is at pains to point out that the two titles couldn't, in fact, be more opposed to conspicuous consumption and blatantly flashing
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Why the biz needs to rethink the word 'success' in 2018

Well, not normally, anyway. The barren year of 2016, when only three debut albums by UK acts made the year's Top 100 best-sellers, made many fear the country's appetite for new music was waning. 2017, with eight British debuts in the Top 100, felt a lot healthier. But as Music Week's Class Of 2018
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THE POST | Old news feels like current headlines

In the 1960s, the Washington Post was a smaller regional newspaper owned by publisher Katharine “Kay” Graham (Meryl Streep). Graham was a newspaper novice, a well-known socialite and homemaker who had never dreamed she would be a businesswoman. (She found herself at the helm of the
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From former inventor and mum to successful author

Lizzie started off by self-publishing her books but now has a publishing deal. She is the author of sizzling beach read Babe Driven, Award-winning romance novel; Love's Child and Finding Gina, which is a mystical romance. Her next book is due out in the summer and Lizzie has already started work on
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Poet Maggie Smith to kick off speaker series at the Piper Center

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Poet Maggie Smith to kick off speaker series at the Piper Center

Maggie Smith, author of Public Radio International's “Official Poem of 2016,” will be at the Virginia G. Piper Center for Creative Writing for a poetry reading and book signing on Jan. 19, the first of a larger speaker series set to take place throughout the semester. “Good Bones,” a poem Smith wrote about
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Read All About It: La Jolla book buyers say global issues, diversity hot topics for 2018

“Publishers think the upward trend is graphic novels, so they're producing a lot of those,” said Warwick's children's book buyer Stacey Haerr. “It's a great genre because it works for children and can bridge a gap for reluctant readers to have a lot of pictures and not be so text heavy. Still, there's a lot of
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Wiley Cash, JK Rowling, Margot Lee Shetterley top lists of popular library checkouts

Reviewing lists of top checkouts from both the Spokane Public Library and the Spokane County Library District reveals patterns and trends about what Spokane read or listened to last year. “There's a lot of what we would expect to see, the best sellers certainly,” Andrea Sharps, collection services
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Agency sends out casting call for True Detective in NWA

A talent agency has opened up a casting call for True Detective Season 3, which will be shot in Northwest Arkansas. “Actors, background actors, stand-ins and photo-doubles will be cast for the show which will begin filming in multiple locations in NWA,” the casting call reads. “Shooting will begin in
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Guest Column by Jamie-Lee Josselyn | For Blaze

I met Blaze in the fall of his senior year of high school when I visited him and his fellow writers at the Orange County School of the Arts, which, in my opinion, is one of the best schools for creative writing in the country. It is my job to recruit promising writers who are also strong students to Penn, and so,
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'The relationship has to improve': UK publishers want more contact with Facebook

Frustration with Facebook's communication with U.K. publishers is nothing new, but the platform's latest plans to deprioritize publisher posts in its feed have further exacerbated it. In the U.S., Facebook briefed publishers one by one about the upcoming changes, and a couple dozen publishers also
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TEXANA READS: Sharpen your knowledge on knives

Roger Eckstine, America's premier authority on knives, their history and their use has penned a classic in his second edition. The first one in 2012 was excellent. This one, published by Skyhorse Publishing Co. out of New York, is extraordinary. Receiving a knife as a gift from a father or uncle is a rite of
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'We were feeling hostage to Facebook': Audience development teams shift their focus

The shift away from Facebook will take on more urgency in 2018 now that Facebook is privileging users' content over publisher pages' content. Some are returning to old standbys like search and email; others are putting more resources into different platform products. For example, Stephanie Fried, evp
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Facebook's master plan: Short-term pain for long-term gain

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Facebook's master plan: Short-term pain for long-term gain

After a year of brand safety and fake news scandals, increased scrutiny is being paid to Facebook's overall user experience and integrity as a publishing platform. To counter this, Mark Zuckerberg this week decided to go back to basics by making radical changes to Facebook's News Feed.
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Professor calls on UBC to disclose any disciplinary action against Stephen Porter

UBC fired author Steven Galloway as chair of its creative writing department in 2016 after an investigation found “a record of misconduct.” UBC announced that it had fired Mr. Galloway. The case is in arbitration. The women who got the investigation reports said the process left them exhausted and
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Sorority learns about popular Christmas songs

The song won an Academy Award for Best Original Song. Four different 1949 recordings made the Billboard Top Sellers Chart that year, several at the same time during the summer. The song reappeared more recently in the movie “Elf” and in a Saturday Night Live skit with Jimmy Fallon and Cecily
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Creative Writing students share work through Milk Route

After taking a few intro courses in Literature and Creative Writing, Reeves was inspired to take Ways of Reading taught by Associate Professor of English Emily Anderson. Feeling that his ideas had not been contested before taking a class with Anderson, Reeves saw that her intensity was a refreshing
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Letter: editor thanked for publishing letter

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Letter: editor thanked for publishing letter

It has been brought to my attention that you courageously published a letter today written by Arthur Topham to the Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada Jody Wilson-Raybould, directing her attention to, and requesting action on behalf of, Canadian citizen Monika Schaefer, who was unjustly
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Amazon self publishing cost

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New York Times Opinion Page To Publish Letters From Trump Supporters

The newspaper admitted to publishing a number of critical pieces of Trump in the last year and, in an effort to understand those who disagree with its editorial board, will “let Mr. Trump's supporters make their best case for him.” Letters that went online Wednesday highlighted a number of the same issues
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'Before Audubon' celebrates birding

In 1808, Alexander Wilson is known to have started publishing the American Ornithology; or The Natural History of the Birds of the United States series, which features 76 hand-colored engraved and etched plates of 314 bird species in America. Wilson identified 26 of those species, and five of them are
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Local writing expert offers fresh look at old bestsellers

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Local writing expert offers fresh look at old bestsellers

Book reviewer Linda Aragoni of Bainbridge appreciates good writing, whether in a 1916 novel or a freshman English class essay. Aragoni said she has been a voracious reader since she was a child frequently sick in bed, and a teacher since college classmates drafted her as a tutor. She made a living
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Trump Expose 'Fire & Fury' Being Optioned For TV Series

Since publication on January 5, Michael Wolff's book looking inside the first year of Donald Trump's administration, Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House, has generated both controvery and incredible sales numbers. Now, Endeavor Content (a combination of offices of WME and IMG) has bought
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Sundance Drama 'Burden' Spawns Book That Sells To Convergent In Publishing Auction

EXCLUSIVE: Penguin Random House division Convergent has just won a competitive auction for the true story told in Burden, the Andrew Heckler-scripted and -directed drama that premieres this weekend at Sundance. Plans already are being made to get the book ready to coincide with the film's
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In 2013, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette publisher John Robinson Block said people of color needed to …

In 2013, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette publisher John Robinson Block said people of color needed to pull themselves up 'by their bootstraps,' according to one of … In a September 2013 interview with the Toledo Blade, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette publisher John Robinson Block was quoted saying that people of
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LittleThings' Focus on Authentic Engagement Rewarded in Facebook's News Feed Changes

NEW YORK, Jan. 17, 2018 /PRNewswire/ — LittleThings – the 4-year-old lifestyle publisher focused on positive, uplifting, and meaningful content for women in the heartland – is pleased that Facebook has made changes to the News Feed, recognizing the efforts of publishers focused on engaging content
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The five W's of the women's and gender studies program

She received her bachelor's degree in criminal justice from the University of Nebraska and her master's degree in English and creative writing from the University of Minnesota. “I enjoy helping students succeed by working with them to build their degree programs, creating new courses, coordinating
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Patton Oswalt's 8-Year-Old Daughter Wrote A Hilarious Short Story Called "Fart Land" & Twitter Is …

Oswalt's daughter, Alice, is clearly a creative genius considering the fact that the story is by far the most creative piece of fiction I've ever read (and I took several creative writing workshops in college). Seriously, step aside George Saunders and Kate Chopin, little Alice Oswalt is coming in hot with her
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Report: Kendrick Lamar Considering Huge Offers For Publishing Deal

LOS ANGELES (CelebrityAccess) — Rapper Kendrick Lamar is one of the hottest tickets in music right now but the cash said to be on offer for his music rights are still an eye-popping, with reported offers of up to $40 million. According to a report in Billboard, Top Dawg Entertainment, which manages
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The write stuff: Winners of the Nevada County schools Writing Tournament

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The write stuff: Winners of the Nevada County schools Writing Tournament

The winners of the Nevada County schools Writing Tournament from left to right: Ella Macias from Yuba River Charter, Travis Galpin from Grass Valley Charter School, Megan Schreck from … Creative Writing: The students wrote compositions inspired by illustrations from “The Mysteries of Harris Burdick.
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'Publish or perish' is perverse without an effective publishing system

However, for those Pakistani researchers unable to meet the publishing criteria of such journals, or who wish to publish locally, there is an alternative. The Higher Education Commission of Pakistan has also included some local journals on its list of those that promotion committees can legitimately take
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Pearson's big ambitions for turnaround yet to pass test

The FTSE 100 company was once a sprawling conglomerate, owning the Financial Times, Madame Tussauds, a 50 per cent stake in The Economist and a 47 per cent stake in Penguin Random House, the book publisher. A string of profit warnings prompted it to focus on its role as the world's largest
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Mayfield High School students work with cardiac expert, Siemens using 3-D heart imaging equipment

Mayfield High School seniors Abi Bradenburg, left, and Ripley Crosley examine a cow heart with Dr. Brian Kelly at the Mayfield Innovation Center on Jan. 16. About 60 junior and seniors participated in the real-world learning sessions with Dr. Kelly, a cardiac anesthesiologist at The Christ Hospital in
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UVic exhibition reveals hidden history of transgender art and activism

​”The people that get to write history are the ones in control of what we know,” Devor, who is also head of Transgender Studies at UVic, told On the … The images are accompanied by a written piece by Schraya, a musician, author, and associate professor of creative writing at the University of Calgary.
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The Sales Pro University Launches “The Best Online Sales Training Course” Game Changer

A top salesman, entertaining author, and Keynote speaker with over twenty selling awards and two award-winning books, Anderson uses a relational approach to quantify power elite selling. That's tough to do in a climate that's ever challenging and ready to use a survival of the fittest mentality with
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Self publishing forum open to the public

The Carpintera Writers group will hold a forum to discuss current trends in self-publishing on Thursday, Jan. 25, from 7:30 to 9 p.m. at the Carpinteria Library's multipurpose room, 5141 Carpinteria Ave. Moderator Merle Yost has experience with both traditional and self-publishing. His most recent title is
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Chen-Meyer awarded Tiptree Fellowship

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Chen-Meyer awarded Tiptree Fellowship

Australian writer Ineke Chen-Meyer has been announced as one of two recipients of the 2017 Tiptree Fellowship. The fellowship, run by the US-based James Tiptree Jr Literary Award, provides 'support and recognition for the new voices who are making visible the forces that are changing our view of
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Women's March: Bowen Island Library plays a part in re-writing old stories

My five year-old is immersed in it already. It's Paw Patrol, where the boss is a white male, where boys are “normal” and can be all kinds of things, girls are “other” and wearing pink, of course. Instead of being presented as a fun, happy and cute. Suddenly, the fairy tale section seems a whole lot less scary
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Sundance Drama 'Burden' Spawns Book That Sells In Publishing Auction To Currency

EXCLUSIVE: Penguin Random House division Currency has just won a competitive auction for the true story told in Burden, the Andrew Heckler scripted and directed drama that premieres this weekend at Sundance. Already, plans are being made to get the book ready to coincide with the film's release,
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The Professional Skill-Building Course in Writing Stand-Up, Sketch Situation Comedy FOR KINDLE

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Lupita Nyong'o Is Publishing A Children's Book & You'll Want To Read It, Even If You Don't Have Kids

No matter how old you are, there are still several classic children's novels that will always warm your heart. When you're sick, lonely, or just feeling blue, they always seem to do the trick. For me, that book is The Kissing Hand. And now, a new option will be added to the mix of inspiring kids' tales, as the
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