A book publishing company in Nigeria, Lanterna Ventures Limited, has called for the return of the era when reading books was a culture among Nigerians. Head, Corporate Affairs Unit, Lanterna Ventures Limited, Nigeria, Nnaji Ugbaja, while speaking at the World Book Day 2018 Commemorative Book
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This often holds true which is shown with the increase in popularity for tools which allow for the purchasing and selling of second-hand goods. With so many different platforms that are available for this kind of transaction, this article discusses the best apps that can be used to sell old goods to earn extra
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“We went to Marvel and DC and got turned down,” says Richard Pini, recalling why the couple had first decided to take the perilous route of self-publishing. “The story wasn't the kind of thing they were doing and they didn't want the hassle, so we realized we had to do it ourselves to get it out there.”.
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These questions are addressed in “The Future of Advertising and Publishing,” a report released Monday by Columbia's Tow Center for Digital Journalism, the Digital Initiative at Harvard Business School, and the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics, and Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School.
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The Cayenne and smaller Macan are already Porsche's best-sellers and utility vehicles have come to increasingly dominate luxury sales worldwide. A production version of the Mission E Cross Turismo would seem to be positioned to be a bigger seller than the more conventional sports car model – if,
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I've been on the hunt for the perfect women's chukka boots for almost a year now, and, recently, the socially responsible footwear startup Nisolo sent me a pair of their best-selling Isa boots that I'd been seeing all over my Instagram feed — a style best described as an updated take on the chukka.
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In the meantime, Schrenker plans to establish afterschool programs for creative writing on Wednesdays and arts and crafts on Thursdays. These programs would work similarly to Henderson JAM and initially focus on middle-school students, expanding to include fourth grade and up. The creative writing
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“(Roy was) a great local publisher because he knew all his customers, readers and advertisers alike. He knew everyone in town, every politician, his door was always open. He always remembered names, he was great in a big room. He always was a happy person, a welcoming person, and I think that
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Miller has achieved success in the literary arena with four books: “I Rant, Therefore I Am,” “The Rants,” “Ranting Again,” and “The Rant Zone” and have all been New York Times best sellers. For two seasons, Miller called plays alongside Al Michaels and NFL Hall of Fame quarterback Dan Fouts on
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Kristen Pumphrey: I studied acting and creative writing in college. Acting had been my dream since I was a kid, but I got burnt out and was really drawn to writing — poetry, short stories, and editorial. I was obsessed with magazines and I discovered that some of my favorite DIY titles were published in
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In this week's issue of The Journal of Chemical Physics, from AIP Publishing, however, Jungwirth's research group demonstrates how a straightforward modification in a computer model leads to highly accurate simulations, which serve as powerful tools for studying a range of biological processes.
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Hi,. I was experiencing the “Updating failed” and “Publishing failed” while trying to add/edit a page and finally found the issue affecting my site. In case this affects anyone else, I use the All In One WP Security plugin and when enabling the 6G Blacklist firewall protection from perishablepress.com that's
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A full 41.5% of 16-to-19-year-olds were overweight in 2015–2016, a jump from 36.7% just two years before. The numbers were even worse for girls in that age group: 47.9% of them were overweight, up from 35.6% in 2013–2014. That's not a good trend. There was another worrisome trend among
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Simon & Schuster has appointed Jonathan Karp president and publisher of its adult publishing group, effective immediately. In this new role, Karp will oversee S&S's New York-based adult publishing groups (and their associated sub-imprints): Atria Books, Gallery Books, Scribner, Simon & Schuster and
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The information sector, which includes establishments involved in publishing, Internet activities, data processing, broadcasting and news syndication, decreased by 200 jobs in 2017 from a year ago. It has lost 6,100 jobs, or 21.2 percent, compared to 10 years ago. The government sector, which includes
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Victoria Mulqueen, a junior English major with a creative writing emphasis, read aloud from her work of fiction titled “Laden.” “My main character struggles with moving on or getting over some issues,” Mulqueen said. “Even though it might not be about accomplishing those issues, it's about experiencing
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… in various disciplines, who will receive $165,000, the Windham-Campbell Prize in September at an international literary festival at Yale University. Keene, who has been at Rutgers since 2012, is jointly appointed to the Department of African-American Studies, English, and the MFA in Creative Writing.
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MONTREAL — A Quebec publishing house says it has removed a French grammar assignment that contained a racial slur. The recent homework for Grade 6 students at a Montreal elementary school included the French equivalent of the N-word. Two mothers brought the assignment to public attention
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Revenue in John Wiley's publishing division fell 1% in the third quarter ended January 31, compared to the same period a year ago. They hit $170.2 million, down from $171.4 million in the prior year. The company attributed the decline to a 4% drop in sales in its educational publishing division. The drop
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She attended Belhaven University where she received a BFA (Bachelor of Fine Arts) in Creative Writing. After traveling the world using her book as a voice of activism, she recently returned to her hometown where to encouraged students to do the same. Thomas was also recently awarded the key to the
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Menken, as most musical nerds well know, is the composer of classic Disney songs for movies like Beauty and the Beast, Pocahontas, The Little Mermaid, and the original Aladdin, of course. Pasek joked that he and his writing partner spent a lot of time with the music legend just trying to “suck him dry for
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Publishers looking to expand their reach with Millennial readers have another tool at their disposal in the form of Snap Inc's (NYSE:SNAP) Snapchat. The app's Discover page has evolved into the place to go for news among many younger readers, and publishers are increasingly taking full advantage of
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The sci-fi romance novel by Yoav Blum is already a bestseller in Israel and was published in the U.S. on Tuesday. Richard Friedenberg, who was Oscar-nominated for his screenplay for Robert Redford's 1991 drama A River Runs Through It, is working on a feature film with award-winning writer Micky
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This statistic illustrates the number of publishing houses based in the Italian region of Apulia in selected years between 2007 and 2013. According to the the study, the number of publishers based in Apulia decreased from 73 companies in 2007 to 59 in 2013.
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Your ebook contract. After your book is approved for publication by our Publications Board, you will be contacted immediately by our editorial team. The agreement will be supplied via our electronic signing software. You are encouraged to read the agreement carefully and contact us with any questions
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The adChain platform is a decentralized domain which makes use of an incentivized voting model to determine whether an applicant to its registry is a legitimate publisher or not. To that end, the adChain system employs smart contracts which store the domain names of network participants who have
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That's why every publisher has worked to integrate native advertising into their offering for marketers as native advertising has moved to the top of the list for media planners and buyers. But in the same way that your family's cat and a lion are very different cats, different native ad units look, feel and
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The fair, organized by publishing company Design House and COEX, is not only a market for home decorations for every corner of the house, but also a look at what's new in the home furnishing and interior design industry. In its 24th year, the fair is the biggest of its kind in the country with over 4 million
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The history of transactions between the Ogden and Byrd families goes back to 1912 when Harry F. Byrd Sr. sold the Martinsburg Journal, which he founded in 1907, to Ogden Newspapers. “It's remarkable that the Byrd family and its descendants and our family both have been publishing newspapers for
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Recent shake-ups in the self-publishing industry has some authors wondering what the future holds for them. Outskirts Press, the No. 1-rated self-publishing company according to Top Consumer Reviews, is stepping up to accommodate authors wishing to self-publish, distribute and sell their own books,
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LIKELY STORIES is the latest adaptation to join Dark Horse Books' prestigious Neil Gaiman Library, joining AMERICAN GODS: SHADOWS … Today, Dark Horse Comics is the largest independent comic book publisher in the US and is recognized as one of the world's leading entertainment publishers.
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Writing has always been a part of Gian's life, but she has never done it full-time. As a child, she would fill journals with short stories, but it was only after she started university as a Psychology major that she decided to pursue writing and changed her major to creative writing. “I grew up with a father who
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… Ore., March 6, 2018 /PRNewswire/ — IT Revolution (http://itrevolution.com), the industry leader for advancing DevOps, today announced the publication of Accelerate: The Science of DevOps – Building and Scaling High Performing Technology Organizations (https://itrevolution.com/book/accelerate/).
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French multimedia and publishing group Media-Participations has announced plans to build up to six theme parks in China over the next five years. Media-Participations has partnered Dragon Deity Capital on the project. The planned location of the first theme park is Shanghai. The amount of
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When Kelly Monroe Kullberg's book, Finding God at Harvard, came out in 1996, those who followed The New York Times' Best Sellers could not miss the title's reference. Several years earlier, Ari Goldman's The Search for God at Harvard (1991) not only made the list but was named a “Notable Book of
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Byrd newspapers Chairman and Publisher Thomas T. Byrd said, “To be grateful for the opportunity to be the fourth generation of the Byrd family to contribute to publishing quality local newspapers is an understatement. To have the opportunity for a 42-year professional partnership with my father was so
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Recently, we have heard that it has indeed been confirmed that Simon Kinberg will be writing a new project for 'Star Wars'. This, of course, brings up a bevvy of questions and speculation for fans all over, who are wanting to know everything and anything that is happening with this continuation and
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Lately, I face the realization that I am 16 years old and soon to be a senior in high school. When I realize this, my next concern is often how to live my life so that I have the things that I need to be successful. As I see it, everything I do has to have purpose and should be a reflection of my best work, but the
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Since coming to The New School, Juliana Broad, Creative Writing '17, has shown a strong commitment to confronting labor issues. Last year, she worked with graduate students part of SENS-UAW, a student worker labor union, and collaborated with Eugene Lang professor Trebor Scholz on Platform
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“After successfully self-publishing multiple books and talking with several people who were interested in taking the same route, I explored the idea of designing an online course to teach others how to navigate the process for themselves. I piloted the course with several eager and talented writers before
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It's the 27th competition organised by Young Writers, a company that encourages students to engage in creative writing that is based in Peterborough. Young Writers gave the school a selection of story starters based around Netflix series 'Stanger Things' with the aim of getting students to write a
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Your letter should include the key elements of your proposed book: the purpose, the audience, the content/format, and the projected length. It should end with a brief discussion of why this particular press is an ideal publisher for your book. In no more than a page and a half, you should be able to
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In doing that, I started Ninth Letter that's out of the Creative Writing program. There wasn't really a magazine that I was into, and I was interested in creating something — there are a bunch of disciplines around the campus that didn't really interact with each other, so we wanted to create something that
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The first full week of March appropriately kicked off yesterday with basketball largely on the minds of ticket buyers. The NBA claimed four spots on top Top 20 split evenly between Los Angeles' resident teams. The Lakers earned the top spot for next Friday's home clash with the Heat, along with the No.
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“This deal sees the world's largest independent publishing company partnering with a boutique publishing company whose focus is to promote songwriters of the African diaspora. “We are committed to ensuring that our music creators' best interests remain at the forefront. Our partnership with Kobalt will
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Though Facebook has committed to fixing the news feed in a way that users end up seeing more posts from friends and less from publishers, the company is still trying to improve its relationship with news items. It's no secret that Facebook's algorithm for breaking news stories is lackluster, often surfacing
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Please note that, due to the public holiday on Monday (Labour Day in Victoria, Adelaide Cup Day in South Australia, Canberra Day in ACT and Eight Hours Day in Tasmania), the next Weekly Book Newsletter will be published on Thursday 15 March. The deadline for classifieds and job advertisements is
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With a One-Click Publishing Suite from Outskirts Press, a single click of the mouse instantly pulls together everything needed to polish and format your manuscript, send it to print, get the word out and start selling. Even better, One-Click Publishing is designed to tailor distinct services to authors in seven
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First-place winners will advance to the National Veterans Creative Arts Festival from Oct. 29 to Nov. 4 in Des Moines, Iowa. Last year, John Lobberecht of Danville took second place in creative writing at the national level. As in past years, a variety of art is displayed, including paintings, quilts, poetry, clay
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A saga over a critical report into publishing and literature in Wales has taken another twist. A controversial independent review last summer claimed Literature Wales was unfit to receive public funding or was in danger of collapse. But the Assembly's cross-party culture committee has now found “little
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There was a corner for block play, a mobile science area and a space for creative writing and art. When she thinks about it now, her voice cracks and her eyes fill with tears. “I like talking about the day care, but I get so emotional because I did have to close,” she said. Last fall, she shut down her home
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'It was an easy paper,' said the students who appeared for both Hindi Course A and Course B papers today. 'The paper was easy however it would be difficult to fetch marks in Section D (writing section),' said Ms. Anita Aggarwal, TGT Hindi, Army Public School, Delhi Cantonment regarding the difficulty
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Target Chief Executive Brian Cornell said in a blog post that over the holidays, the Hot Wheels Super Ultimate Garage Playset and Barbie Dreamhouse were two of the retailer's best sellers. For 2018 and the first quarter, Target said it expects comparable sales to rise in the low single digits. For the
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Best in show: The collection opened with a series of black tuxedo variations. 'Our best-sellers', confessed Sarah Burton backstage. Not surprising: one goes to Alexander McQueen looking for a very particular kind of pantsuit, one with clean, organic lines, a super polished finish, usually with large
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Same-store sales at Target Corp. rose slightly more than analysts were expecting in the latest quarter, as the retailer came out of a strong holiday season with an even stronger January. The company said fourth-quarter same-store sales rose by 3.6%, while analysts polled by Consensus Metrix were
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ISBA is pushing for digital media owners to offer advertisers the ability to buy display ads at 100% in view. ISBA calls for publishers to provide 100% viewable ad buys. The current Media Rating Council (MRC) guideline is 50% in view. Speaking at ISBA's annual conference today, director general Phil
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Every book at the store, which is located across the street from Culinary Dropout, either has a 4-star rating or higher or are bestsellers on Amazon.com. And make no mistake, Amazon is using all the data it collects from online sales to determine what you see at the stores. “We're unique that we can
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Despite being active in Montreal's comedy scene, Lindner, a Concordia creative writing student and emerging comedienne, was initially worried she didn't have the experience needed to justify producing her own show. But, with the support and encouragement of other women in comedy, Lindner
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Throughout the quarter, students will complete short writing assignments reflecting on personal experiences with public history, considering the messages and interpretations of that history in various forms, and discussing communities or events that they feel have not received sufficient recognition.
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When classes resumed following the winter break, the Concordia community was greeted by widely publicized allegations of sexual misconduct by instructors in the university's creative writing program. These accusations came as a shock to some, but for many current and former English department
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A labour lawyer hired by Concordia University to conduct a third-party investigation into allegations of sexual misconduct in the school's creative writing program has received complaints against two Concordia part-time instructors, according to CBC News. Jon Paul Fiorentino and David McGimpsey
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“With this searing look at an investigator's obsessive efforts to close a case that has reawakened childhood demons, bestseller Koryta (Rise the Dark) has produced his most powerful novel in years. FBI agent Rob Barrett feels he has “a firm sense of the truth and no evidence to back it up” after he
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On March 18, The Belfry will host the New Play Cabaret, featuring new work from UVic's Creative Writing Department, read by UVic Theatre students. Intrepid Theatre's Sean Guist will direct a reading of Jordan Tannahill's Sunday in Sodom on March 19. Both readings are free events. Ayalik performs
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Faculty at Missouri State have a lot on their plates. Depending on their department, the nine to 15 hour class load for full-time faculty is only part of the job. They must also allocate their time to community and university service. Additionally, they also contribute to their academic field through research,
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Toy producers need to scrap sexist toys, teachers need to be more aware of gender related equality issues, book publishers need to be more 'gender-neutral', and more needs to be done by government agencies to encourage more women into technology and science careers and more men into the
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During a conference at the Indiana Statehouse Jan. 18, Hoosier Women Forward announced plans to initiate a leadership training program this summer for Democratic women. HWF is a nonprofit dedicated to educating and encouraging women to pursue political office. “We want to harness the energy
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By Current Publishing on March 6, 2018 Carmel Business Local. By Maria Cook. From March 17 to April 17, shoppers will have an opportunity to donate money for childhood cancer research during a fundraiser hosted by Holder Mattress. Holder Mattress is hosting a fundraiser in memory of Brooks
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As NITV News (via SBS) reports, Walker's Deadly Woman Blues has been pulled by publisher NewSouth Books following its release last month after some of the women featured in the book alleged facts published were inaccurate and that Walker did not speak to them at all during the writing process.
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Willful Creatures certainly exemplified her unusual style of writing, but Bender's creative process is anything but willful. “I've tried outlining, I've tried knowing what the story was in advance, I've tried all of those things,” Bender said. “It always works best if I don't know, and it always is most interesting to
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