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Assistant/Receptionist/Office Manager

Enthusiastic, full-time assistant/receptionist/office manager for high-profile, boutique literary agency in mid-town Manhattan. Duties include administrative support for four agents and routine office work including filing, answering phones, mailings and ordering supplies. We are looking for a personable,
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Apple is buying Texture digital magazine service

TORONTO – Apple Inc. is buying the Texture digital magazine service created by a group of publishers that includes Rogers Media. The California-based technology giant didn't say how much it will pay to acquire Texture from Next Issue Media LLC, which has offices in Menlo Park, Calif., and New York.
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Arch Enemy's Michael Amott: “We're Not Writing Pop Music Here”

That's what we keep doing, which I think we're getting a little more refined and better at doing it, trying to find different ways to do it. Of course, now we have Alissa as a vocalist, she's opened a few doors musically as well. She can do more things with her voice. Yeah, it's always been about having that
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Masters of the Universe: Facebook Tells Publishers It Will 'Minimize the Bad' and 'Promote Quality'

Facebook Head of News Product Alex Hardiman expressed the company's plans to “redefine its relationship” with news publishers in an effort to “minimize the bad” and “promote quality” during a panel at the South by Southwest film festival. CNN reports that during a panel discussion at the South by
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Apple's latest acquisition will let it distribute magazines like the Atlantic and Bon Appetit

Apple is buying Texture, a digital magazine subscription app from prominent publishers — a sign that the company is deepening its interest in becoming a major distributor of news. Texture – formerly known as Next Issue Media – aims to be a virtual newsstand that gives readers access to roughly 200
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Apple acquires digital newsstand Texture as it doubles down on content 'from trusted sources'

The iPhone maker is buying Texture, a magazine virtual newsstand that's known as the “Netflix of magazine publishing” that gives readers access to around 200 magazines for a monthly fee of $9.99. “We're excited Texture will join Apple, along with an impressive catalog of magazines from many of the
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2017 Publishing Triangle Awards Finalists

We're waving our rainbow flag in support of our 2017 Publishing Triangle Awards finalists, honoring the best LGBTQ fiction, nonfiction, and poetry, as well as the year's best trans and gender-variant literature: Finalists for the Judy Grahn Award for Lesbian Nonfiction ABANDON ME by Melissa Febos.
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No ifs about it after Fox's OJ Simpson show: 'I remember I grabbed the knife'

Aligned with the families of the murder victims, Darden, however, was among those who properly shamed Fox into shelving its planned 2006 special to promote a book Simpson wrote for Regan's publishing company, which Fox's parent owned, because of concerns about the money Simpson stood to
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Hungry Girl: This Three-Ingredient Recipe Makes for an Energizing Snack

Lisa Lillien is the author of the popular Hungry Girl website and email newsletter, featuring smart, funny advice on guilt-free eating. She is also the author of twelve books, six of which debuted at number one on the New York Times Best Sellers list. Read her PEOPLE.com blog every Monday for
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FHS students win screenplay contest

Two Fishers High School juniors employed their shared love of writing to create an award-winning screenplay. Whitney Roberts and Cinder Foulke learned about a writing competition called Project Pigasus from Roberts' mother. Bloomington-based Pigasus Pictures hosts the contest for budding film
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Publishing company embracing East Anglian history returns to hometown

Poppyland Publishing, which began issuing local interest books in 1976, was initially based in Lowestoft before moving to Cromer in the early 1980s. After spending more than 30 years on the North Norfolk coast under the stewardship of Peter Stibbons, the imprint was recently acquired by 59-year-old
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An Offer to Publish a Favorable Review of Nancy MacLean's Democracy in Chains

Duke history professor Nancy MacLean is author of the atrocious hit job on the late Nobel Prize-winning economist James Buchanan, Democracy in Chains, a book that has been savagely and justly eviscerated on this blog and elsewhere. In the book, among other inventions, MacLean spins a made-up
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Apple buys the "Netflix of magazine publishing" for an undisclosed amount

Known as “the Netflix of magazine publishing,” the app named Texture has been acquired by Apple for an undisclosed amount. Texture offers subscribers the ability to select from approximately 200 magazines to read, for the price of $9.99 a month (following a seven-day free trial). Apple is purchasing
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Sharjah is special guest city at Paris Book Fair

These will include the Emirates Writers Union, Emirates Publishers Association, National Media Council, Sharjah's Department of Culture, Sharjah Institute for Heritage, Dr. Sultan Al Qasimi Centre for Gulf Studies, Sharjah Media Corporation, UAE Board on Books for Young People, Sharjah Libraries,
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CHS graduate starts new Songbook Foundation post

Renee La Schiazza seems perfectly suited for her new role as manager of programs and communications for the Great American Songbook Foundation. The 2012 Carmel High School graduate first became involved with the Songbook Academy in 2009 when its inaugural competition was held at Butler
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Dutch journal of Accountancy & Business Economics MAB finds an Open Access home in ARPHA

Launched back in 1924, the then monthly periodical for Accountancy and Business Economics (MAB), also known under its original Dutch title Maandblad voor Accountancy en Bedrijfseconomie, has been publishing articles on auditing, external reporting, management information, management
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Shakespeare & Co. to Open Three Stores This Year

With the Espresso machine, Neller emphasized that the stores will not only be able to “showcase” books, but will also be able to print the books customers want that may not be on the shelves. Customers will also be able to self-publish their own books using the Espresso machine. It's a view of
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'My job didn't exist when I was doing my postgrad'

The course has evolved since I graduated but still features an element of practical work. I developed my skills in writing, editing and broadcast media while on the course. The course also opened up the world of Flann O'Brien to me and other incredible writers for that I am ever grateful. I wrote a thesis on
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Dr. Mitch

It started out as a comment on YouTube, then morphed into something else. I have written 3 Christian books: The More Excellent Way, Mobilization for Evangelism, and Revelation Revealed. All of them are available on Amazon.com. Rights available: Everything, but I'm primarily interested in publishing
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