Day: May 16, 2018

The Chicago Zine Fest celebrates publishing by the people

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The Chicago Zine Fest celebrates publishing by the people

The Chicago Zine Fest has been bringing hordes of self-publishing enthusiasts together for eight years, and its ninth edition arrives this weekend.
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WHAT MEDIA, PUBLISHING AND ENTERTAINMENT COMPANIES NEED TO KNOW ABOUT ASC …

Media, publishing and entertainment businesses need to ensure they are fully compliant before the end of 2018 to avoid penalties – download our
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Taylor & Francis partners with Apex CoVantage to maintain gold standard for book publishing

Apex will work with Taylor & Francis to raise the bar in academic publishing through increased speed to market, high-quality author support, and
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'Clifford the Big Red Dog' Returning to TV in 2019

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'Clifford the Big Red Dog' Returning to TV in 2019

He wasn't having much luck with his drawing portfolio with children's book publishers, but one of them suggested he make his own story to accompany
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Apple News now allows all publishers to use Google's DoubleClick to serve ads following tests last …

White House eliminates cyber coordinator role, meant to harmonize the government's cybersecurity policies, after Rob Joyce's exit, to “streamline
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Space to create: First-time novelist 'immersed' in Anderson Center life

As a working student pursuing a doctorate in creative writing, Molly Reid is hard pressed to find time for her debut novel. Reid, who is in residence this
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Novelist Tim Winton left 'deeply wounded' by axing of his publisher Ben Ball

Leading Australian novelist Tim Winton says he has been left “deeply wounded” by the decision of the country's biggest publishing company, Penguin
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Sync Story: Inside The Blinders' William Hill placement

William Hill's latest TV campaign is a perfect example of the sync world's ability to give a new artist a boost. Rising Doncaster rock trio The Blinders are
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Novelist Tim Winton left 'deep wounded' by axing of his publisher Ben Ball

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Novelist Tim Winton left 'deep wounded' by axing of his publisher Ben Ball

Leading Australian novelist Tim Winton says he has been left “deeply wounded” by the decision of the country's biggest publishing company, Penguin
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In a dangerous world, publishers need to Be More Pirate

It wasn't easy getting that approved, and I've learned a lot about some of the good and 'less good' habits of publishing along the way, but the power of
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SLV launches public appeal for Cass collection

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SLV launches public appeal for Cass collection

State Library Victoria (SLV) has launched a public appeal to raise $100,000 to preserve and make publicly available the Walter and Helena Cass
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Prize-winning novelist Walter Mosley talks black science fiction, capitalism

The event was sponsored by McCoy Family Center for Ethics in Society, Continuing Studies, Stanford Storytelling Project and the Creative Writing
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Why I love humanities

I've worked hard to make the most of my opportunity on staff at my school paper, The Talon. I've appreciated being a part of our Creative Writing Club.
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Finding success with ID@Xbox

The ID@Xbox self-publishing platform continues to go from strength to strength. More games, more developers and, perhaps most importantly, more
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Montefiore to celebrate the letter in next book

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Montefiore to celebrate the letter in next book

Orion is publishing two books by historian and novelist Simon Sebag Montefiore: Written in History: Letters that Changed the World and a new edition
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High-end restaurants turn to retail to bring in more cash

High-end restaurants turn to retail to bring in more cash …. The best-sellers at the restaurant and at G&G's Mercantile & Co. site are cookbooks.
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European Union Studies

An Island in Europe: The EU and the Transformation of Cyprus. Edited by: James Ker-Lindsay, Hubert Faustmann, Fiona Mullen; Hardback £59.00 |
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Oberon students attend creative writing workshop

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Oberon students attend creative writing workshop

Senior English students from Oberon High School attended the secondary schools creative writing workshops held as part of the 2018 Bathurst Writers
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Trapeze and eharmony seek to find 'next great love story'

Trapeze Books is partnering with dating website eharmony to launch a creative writing competition seeking to “find the next great love story”.
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Mayland establishes Entrepreneurship Pathway class

Topics include writing a business plan, marketing your small business, … For more information about this free course, call the ESL Program at (828)
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How digital printing tackles distribution, piracy issues

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How digital printing tackles distribution, piracy issues

The problem is that a lot of publishers are not willing to digitalize their books. … This is why a book that is being published today and has been widely
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Second edition of FLAT

FLAT – Fiera Libro Arte Torino announces the second edition of the international event dedicated to contemporary art publishing, taking place in Turin
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YouTube channels are seeing a lift in live video viewership

The live video pendulum has swung from Facebook back to YouTube. News publishers and gaming creators have noticed a recent viewership surge
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F—ing Forward

Self-publishing means the quality isn't always the best, but the quantity of erotica online is vast and mostly free. There are plenty of gems you can find
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Amazon Prime members now get 10% off sale items at Whole Foods, plus other weekly discounts

… be able to take 10 percent off Whole Foods' hundreds of sale items, as well as receive other “weekly deep discounts” on best sellers, Amazon says.
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Tom Wolfe electrified Kool-Aid; then he electrified fiction

Wolfe crashed into a literary scene that had grown timid, self-absorbed and, yes, dull. … Although he was a finalist for a National Book Award that year, he … key to great fiction, and publishers kept throwing millions of dollars at him.
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International Relations

The Struggle for Power in Central Asia and The Caucasus: Geopolitics and the Great Game After the Cold War. Giray Saynur Bozkurt; Hardback
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The Long Shadow of the “Billion-Footed Beast”

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The Long Shadow of the “Billion-Footed Beast”

The late Tom Wolfe published four novels in his long career, all of them best-sellers, although each less successful than the one before it. He was a
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Podcast spotlight: Future Perfect (the EWF podcast)

Fresh from launching EWF's 2018 program (which includes a greater focus on audio this year), Roberts-Orr spoke to Books+Publishing for our
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Jones supports PRINT Act on tariffs

Tuesday, in an effort to protect printers and publishers from unwarranted … used by domestic newspapers, book publishers and commercial printers.
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Global B2B Publishing Market 2018 In-Depth Analysis, Business Strategies, Development Factors …

Global B2B Publishing Market 2018 Report presents a professional and deep analysis on the present state of the Global B2B Publishing market which
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2018 VIPs program explores crime genre, alternative formats

The Australia Council for the Arts ran the 2018 Visiting International Publishers (VIPs) program from 2-4 May, alongside the Sydney Writers' Festival.
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Eight winners announced for ALA's public relations award

The American Library Association (ALA) has announced eight winners of the John Cotton Dana Library Public Relations Award, which recognises
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New chapter as Prairie Path Books plans second shop in Wheaton

“When I first had the store, I thought everyone will want to buy best sellers, so I had this big table of best sellers right in the front, and I realized that if
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Ball State prof tackles controversial SCOTUS libel decision in new book

Ball State prof tackles controversial SCOTUS libel decision in new book … Sumner first learned of the case of Curtis Publishing Company v. Butts, 388
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The new and AI-improved Google News now available for iPhone and iPad

Its ambition is to offer personalized content to users from “quality sources they trust” and to ensure that the app also “works for publishers” and
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Library of Ottoman Studies

Lightning Over Yemen: A History of the Ottoman Campaign in Yemen, 1596-71: Studies Volume. Qutb al-Din al-Nahrawali | Translated by: Clive Smith
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