Day: March 10, 2018

Facebook and Warner Music Group Announce Licensing Deal

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Facebook and Warner Music Group Announce Licensing Deal

Warner Music Group and Facebook have finalized on a partnership that includes licensing agreements covering the music company's recorded music and music publishing catalogs for use in videos and messages. The new deal allows fans to create, upload and share videos with licensed music from
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Wall Street Journal Best-Sellers

3/10/2018 4:33:00 PM Wall Street Journal Best-Sellers. FICTION. 1. “Green Eggs and Ham” by Dr. Seuss. 2. “One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish” by Dr. Seuss. 3. “The Cat in the Hat” by Dr. Seuss. 4. “Fox in Socks” by Dr. Seuss. 5. “Dog Man and Cat Kid (Dog Man 4)” by Dav Pilkey. 6. “Dr. Seuss's
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Amazon Leads in the Race to the Bottom

Of course, this is one reason why finding an Amazon seller with a rating above the mid-90s is becoming increasingly difficult. Long term, this is simply bad for the entire business. It drives good, honest sellers (I'd even claim the best sellers) out of business, hands a near monopoly to the biggest and less
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When books are confused with bombs

Between 1987 (when I first went abroad) and 2016, I must have posted, or had posted to myself, several hundred parcels of books. All except one or two reached Bangalore safely. Apart from books from overseas that I myself bought, I also received many books sent to me by publishers and by fellow
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“Swordfishtrombones”: The soundtrack to Tom Waits' inner gothic freak show

Anybody who's had to endure a creative writing class knows the tedium of workshopping somebody's exercise in Southern Gothic Lite. Without something like Flannery O'Connor's mordant wit or moral clarity, trotting out a parade of dwarves, cripples and the occasional holy idiot just substitutes easy
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Hopkins County Happenings and Meetings — March 10, 2018

Light of Chance Breathe Youth Arts Program meets every Tuesday and Thursday, from 3:30-6 p.m., Rosenwald-Smith Multi-Cultural Center, 208 N. Kentucky Ave., Madisonville. Youth in grades 5-12 can engage in free creative arts workshops, which include music, dance, visual arts and creative writing.
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Kids Against Hunger relaunches in Mankato

“He started bringing meats to grill at the parties and that really took off and they became the best sellers at the parties. So then he went to the Minneapolis Farmers Market with meats and then enough people were asking for them at Lunds & Byerlys and they started carrying them in 2013. That's how it
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'Walking Dead' Creator Hangs Up Superhero Series To Shack Up With Monsters

Kirkman was in town for the first Image Expo the independent comics publisher has held in Portland since moving here last year to announce his newest series, “Oblivion Song,” about an alternate universe that swaps places with Philadelphia. Kirkman stopped by the OPB studio to talk zombies,
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The good news: Filipinos are still reading books

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The good news: Filipinos are still reading books

Padilla joined a panel of women publishers who spoke at the 2017 Frankfurt Book Fair, touted as the world's biggest booksellers' trade show. (Padilla is president of Anvil Publishing.) She considers the rise of online publishing “the norm,” but believes in the development part of the ever-changing habits
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Publish details of recent electricity tariff cuts – Ayariga charges PURC

Member of Parliament for Bawku Central has charged the Public Utilities Regulatory Commission (PURC) to publish details of the calculations that resulted in the recent electricity tariff cuts. Mahama Ayariga said the upcoming reduction is based on 2015 figures which do not reflect the figures of 2018,
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World Sylvia Plath, a postwar poet unafraid to confront her own despair

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World Sylvia Plath, a postwar poet unafraid to confront her own despair

Later that summer, she had a breakdown after being rejected from a writing course at Harvard. She received shock treatment, and then swallowed most of a bottle of sleeping pills. She met Hughes, a future British poet laureate, at a party in 1956 while studying at Cambridge University on a Fulbright
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Planners Market Outlook, Demand, Growth, Consumption, Analysis of Leading Players & Forecast …

This study also contains company profiling, product picture and specifications, sales, market share and contact information of various international, regional, and local vendors of Asia-Pacific Planners Market, some of them are me & my BIG ideas, Cavallini, ACCO, TF Publishing, LANG, Blue Sky, House
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Caithness schoolgirl magazine publisher shown around DC Thomson HQ

So impressed were publisher's DC Thomson by Mirissa's efforts that they invited her to spend a day at their HQ building at Meadowside in Dundee to learn more about the trade. During her visit, Mirissa spent time with the editors and journalists on a host of children's magazines, including Shout, The
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Lake Gaston Brewing Co.: 'Double Trouble' Double IPA, 'All American' Strong Ale

Lake Gaston Brewing Co. opened in summer 2017 in downtown's former Horne's Deli building at 124 Hay St. It is owned by military veterans Troy Rasmussen and his wife, Trish, and Darrin Jones and his wife, Susan. Rasmussen, who is the brewmaster, describes the vibe as “craft casual” with a
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The closing of China will affect universities worldwide

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The closing of China will affect universities worldwide

All reader responses posted on this site are those of the reader ONLY and NOT those of University World News or Higher Education Web Publishing, their associated trademarks, websites and services. University World News or Higher Education Web Publishing does not necessarily endorse, support,
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A Media Mogul's Noble Challenge to Moguldom

Summed up the publishing giant: “From the source which none of us have yet even dreamed of — that of the infliction of a great war — we may draw the greatest reform and the greatest blessings to our people.” The American Committee on War Finance would be the progressive vehicle for realizing
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Comic inspired by Islam aimed at reducing global stigma

The authors of a graphic novel inspired by the X-Men themes of social inequality are hoping to publish in the UAE to help educate about Islam and religious sensitivities. David Anthony, of Scarlet Spire Comics, is hoping to take his 88-page comic Journey around the world to break down cultural barriers
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HRbook notes: Isle of Wight author releases third thriller

“I'm very protective of my time,” he said, adding he turns down some personal and professional opportunities to focus on writing and publishing. Even his family has to book his time months in advance. Wood is his “de-facto publicist.” His first manuscript was his second published work “Second Chance,”
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Early On: Hungry for an end to child poverty

We are aiming to support a few local families to buy food from the market through proceeds from the book Sustenance, an anthology of creative writing about food. I might not seem earth shattering compared to the overwhelming need. But what I've learned in these last few months is that there is no 'big
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Curtain to come down on Krithi book fest

The Sahithya Pravarthaka Cooperative Society (SPCS) and the State Cooperative Department, which organised Krithi-2018, had arranged stalls in a mammoth by well-laid out air-conditioned hall featuring international, national and small-time publishers with thousands of rare books. While there was
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Mathematical Sciences (Applied)

Chemical Sciences · Economic and Business · Engineering and Technology · Life Sciences · Mathematical Education · Mathematical Sciences · Mathematical Sciences (Applied) · Mathematical Sciences (Pure) · Oceanography · Statistics and Probability Theory · U- ESCI(Clarivate Analytics) · U- Open
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AP Bio gets a “B” grade

In the pilot, “A.P. Bio” turns into a creative writing class, when Griffin assigns them the task of creating drafts of Facebook messages he could use to catfish his rival. The results are mixed to say the least. One student writes a genuinely romantic message although it comes on a little too strong and another
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Little Apple book of the week: Sealed, by Naomi Booth

This book is not for the faint hearted, squeamish or anyone prone to hypochondria. It is however for anyone who enjoys a powerful, thought provoking end-of-the-world-is-nigh style novel. Set in Australia, in the not so distant future, signs of doom are everywhere. The government is rehousing swathes of
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The biggest movie night of them all

He later worked as a “hop” at the Crescent Laundry on Second Street. Customers would pull into the parking lot, and Jim Burnham would pick up their dry cleaning and give them a claim ticket. But the money was always greener on the other side of the block. When he was a sophomore at Lanier High
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Haynes Publishing Group plc (HYNS) to Issue Dividend of GBX 3.50

Haynes Publishing Group logo Haynes Publishing Group plc (LON:HYNS) declared a dividend on Thursday, January 25th, Upcoming.Co.Uk reports. Stockholders of record on Thursday, March 15th will be paid a dividend of GBX 3.50 ($0.05) per share on Wednesday, April 11th. This represents a
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Stories Come Alive at Monterey Hills

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Stories Come Alive at Monterey Hills

Writer's Room Productions, a theatrical group, performed for Monterey Hills Elementary School Friday morning, building on the creative minds of students. As part of the company's StorySpace Showcase, the professional actors chose stories from every grade level, then performed them in a 50-minute
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Google Announces Plans to Promote Fast-Loading Websites in Search Results

Known as Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP), it's an open-source publishing technology used to improve the speed and performance of web pages for mobile users. AMP websites began showing in Google's search results in February 2016, and after just one year, they accounted for roughly 7 percent of
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Foreign publishers registered for 31st TIBF

According to IBNA correspondent quoting from the news department of the 31 Tehran International Book Fair, the foreign publishers and representatives of international publishing's may visit the website www.tibf.ir and register online. The European and Arabian publishers will be able to register
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Downtown Music Publishing LLC

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Downtown Music Publishing LLC

Artist, Start Date. Vans Warped Tour, 06/21/18. Trout Steak Revival, 05/26/18. The Used, 04/29/18. The Score, 04/04/18. The Fever 333, 05/01/18. Tedeschi Trucks Band / Derek Trucks & Susan Tedeschi Band, 04/12/18. SCI / The String Cheese Incident, 04/19/18. Red Sun Rising, 05/01/18.
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Honouring the torch bearers

On the occasion of celebrating its four decades of journey in publishing, the University Press Limited yesterday recognised 19 books, 16 individuals and six institutions with the UPL Excellence Awards 2018. First of its kind by UPL, the awards were given to personalities with outstanding achievements,
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Barbara Ewing on the perils actresses face

Twenty-one years after her second novel made headlines, New Zealand actress and author Barbara Ewing is back in the spotlight following the book's re-release. First published in 1997, The Actresses is again on bookshop shelves because publishers, Head of Zeus, believe its story of women in the
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Google to Start Its Own Geek News Site Called 'Geeker'?

I remember joking with Comics Alliance's Andrew Wheeler when he worked for Google about Google starting its own Google Comics and putting Marvel and DC out of business. It didn't happen, though they had a few stabs in that direction over time. But rather than gunning for comic book publishers,
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Why 'left-handed' writing matters

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Why 'left-handed' writing matters

For so long now have I felt that a writer reveals himself best in his shorter non-fiction that it has remained an illogical and unexamined 'fact'. There is, of course, a rational part of me which suspects this is not true. You only have to read the autobiographies or collected essays of some of our imaginative
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Armenia's “Idle” Prison Population: Computer and Other Job Skill Training A Must

I'm set to graduate Yerevan's Russian-Armenian (Slavonic) University in three months. I'm now writing my diplomatic work. My friends and family are sending me all sorts of books and other material culled from bookstores, libraries and the internet. I'm writing about the theoretical and practical aspects of
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OJ Simpson Reportedly Confessed to Murders to Book Publisher

O.J. Simpson's book publisher Judith Regan, who published the former football player's book “If I Did It” claims that Simpson admitted to murdering Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman. In a two-hour special “OJ Simpson: The Lost Confession?” set to air on Fox Sunday and hosted by Soledad
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Anushka Sharma Slams Reputed Publication For Publishing Her Fabricated Interview

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Anushka Sharma Slams Reputed Publication For Publishing Her Fabricated Interview

Lives of the celebrities are like an open book for the world to peek at. Each of their steps is scrutinised by media. One wrong move and their reputation are tarnished forever. Anushka Sharma and Virat Kohli's sudden marriage made the duo hot topic for millennials. Everybody wanted a piece of the power
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Restaurant Charges Diners Based On Their Race In Social Experiment

Food is the great equaliser between people – with all of us needing to eat, sitting down over a slap-up meal is a great way to start a conversation about important issues. Now a pop-up restaurant in New Orleans, Louisiana has aimed to raise awareness to racial wealth inequality by asking white
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Blake Morrison: 'You must write a memoir as if you're writing a novel'

Blake Morrison is an award-winning poet, novelist, journalist and librettist, and a professor of creative and life writing at Goldsmiths, University of London. He is best known for his acclaimed memoir, And When Did You Last See Your Father?, which was made into a film starring Jim Broadbent, Juliet
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Lives Shaken, Stirred and Strained in Aftershock, 1989 San Francisco Earthquake Novel

A huge event like that can throw lives together in startling ways, and that's the subject of a new self-published novel, Aftershock, published by The Write … The Write Word Publishing is also the publisher of a how-to book on finding and cultivating the writer's voice, Think Like a Writer: How to Write the
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Spring is here — and your local library is ready to celebrate

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Spring is here — and your local library is ready to celebrate

An Adult Writers Group is scheduled to meet Tuesday, March 13 at 4 p.m. in the main meeting room of the Detroit Lakes Public Library. Presenting a new creative writing group, where those interested can tell their stories. Library hours. The Detroit Lakes Public Library's regular hours are as follows:
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Did OJ Simpson once confess to brutal murder of ex-wife? Book publisher makes shock claims in …

OJ Simpson's lawyer admitted the star murdered his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ron Goldman, the publisher of his 2006 book about the killings has sensationally claimed. O.J. was tried for the double murder, but found not guilty by a jury on 3 October 1995 in a court case that was
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Improve Your Odds – The Four Pillars of Business Success, reviewed

There is an interesting person, with valuable experience stuck inside a book which is a clear example of why self publishing is not always the best route to take. The book has variable font sizings, text layout issues, and titles for new sections that appear on the last line of the page. It's not something we
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