Turkish police seize Kurdish publisher's stocks without warrant

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Turkish police seize Kurdish publisher's stocks without warrant

Turkish police have unlawfully confiscated thousands of books as well as computers from a Kurdish publisher in the southeast Turkish city of Diyarbakır, the Kurdish news agency Kurdistan 24 reported on Thursday. Over 30 anti-terror police arrived in armoured vehicles to raid Aram Publishing House at
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Brave browser's $1M promotion is for publishers this time

Browser maker Brave Software is giving away another $1 million in crypto-tokens, this time to try to get publishers and YouTube stars to sign up for the technology and get their followers to do the same. The promotion uses Brave's basic attention tokens (BAT), a digital currency Brave created in 2017 to
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Leominster author dies

The first, self-published edition of the book sold out and a second edition was produced by a small Knightsbridge publishing house. In 2011 her book, 'What Ever Happened to Trixie Skyrme' was published, traceing the life of an early 20th century Herefordshire woman who was described as the “most
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Google Chrome has begun ridding the internet of crappy ads

Sites are then given a passing, failing, or warning in Google's Ad Experiences Report, where publishers can see how their ad experiences measure up and be notified. Publishers with a certain number of violations—currently around 8% of pages with ads on their sites, based on coalition rules—fail.
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Senior Editor, Children's

Workman Publishing is seeking a Senior Editor to join our team! In this role, you will help shape a nonfiction children's list that is playful, innovative, and meets the highest standards of bookmaking. Who we're looking for: You love children's books. You are curious and creative, and see book possibilities
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Food and Friends to benefit O'Connor House

Food and Friends will be the theme of the 12th annual Celebration of Life event benefiting the O'Connor House, a nonprofit that provides a Christian home to help single, pregnant, homeless women improve life for themselves and their children. The fundraiser is set for 7 p.m. Feb. 24 at Lindley
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Insurance giant Aetna slams CNN for publishing 'gross misrepresentation' of company policies

Aetna says a recent CNN story was “pushed by attorneys for an individual suing” the insurance giant. Insurance giant Aetna has accused CNN of taking a deposition “out of context to create media and courtroom leverage,” and calling a report from the network “a gross misrepresentation.” Earlier this
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Pride and Preservation

Assisting in this effort is Mashey Bernstein, who recently retired as a lecturer in the UCSB Creative Writing Center. He established the Gay Student Union at UCSB and is well known for his work on behalf of the local LGBTQ+ community. Anyone with Pacific Pride Foundation materials to contribute is
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Google & OpenX release study showing publishers experience 48% revenue lift through Google …

OpenX and Google have announced the results of a year long collaboration with Google's Exchange Bidding product, a server-to-server technology that enables stronger dynamic competition for a publisher's ad inventory. The results showed that existing OpenX publisher partners who enabled
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Top 10 List: These are the best-selling family cars in America

Shoot, even the best-selling family sedans have been forsaken. Some, like the Camry, fell just a bit, while others crashed to a 30% decline compared to 2017 sales. The Hyundai Sonata (-30 percent), Toyota Prius (-23 percent), Chevrolet Impala and Ford Fusion (-21 percent) all have suffered more than
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Publisher becomes 100% black-owned

Outgoing controlling shareholder representative Stuart Craib and Zungu Investments company chairperson Sandile Zungu with some of the books published by Shuter & Shooter, which became a 100% black-owned publisher with Zungu Investments increasing its stake on Wednesday. Picture:
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Google is replacing Facebook's traffic to publishers

Google's increased traffic to publishers is replacing the traffic publishers have lost from Facebook, according to new data from Chartbeat. While Facebook has been tinkering with its algorithm to prioritize posts from friends and family over publishers, more publishers have been signing up for the Google
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Black History NJ: George Benson

The two follow-up records, Good King Bad and Benson and Farrell (featuring Joe Farrell), both reached the jazz top-three sellers. George Benson By the late 1970s, Benson's popularity skyrocketed as his workload increased. He began recording with Warner Bros. Records, which enabled a whole new
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Anaheim Hills briefs: Buying a purse will benefit heart institute at CHOC

Then you may want to attend the Book Publishing 1-2-3 workshop at 2 p.m. on Feb. 24 at the Canyon Hills Library. Book editor and UC educator Laurie Gibson will offer the workshop to provide a glimpse into today's book business, including self-publishing, and offer tips for connecting with editors and
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Contest-winning eighth-grade writers celebrated at Books & Books

South Florida's eighth-grade writers took on the daunting topic “In Light of Natural Disasters and Conflict in the World, What Does Peace Mean to Me?” for the 30th annual Junior Orange Bowl Creative Writing Contest. There were 111 submissions this year in the writing event co-sponsored by the South
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