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The Bookseller
Booksellers are feeling bullish heading into the final frenzied days of selling before Christmas following a raft of "strong publishing" and sales tracking nearly 10% ahead on the comparable figures from 2014, beating the national retail average.
An extra day in the week before Dec. 25 this year also gives bookshops an added advantage, with it "all to play for" in the last few days before the main event as long as the "weather gods" hold up.
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Huffington Post
A funny thing about authors: they're not a modest bunch. Even the most humble, down-to-earth authors I know have wild expectations about the potential their book has to be a best-seller; to earn out; to change their life. I get it. A lot of authors pin their dreams on their books, and there's something beautiful about that. And while no aspiring author needs to be denied hope, or to be told not to dream big, I've seen the flip side of soaring too high.
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GWA
The GWA office will do its traditional year-end shutdown on Dec. 23. The Texas office of GWA and GWAF will close at that time. The new New York office will open with the New Year. Look for further information on the GWA website.
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GWA
Members may view and download the December issue of the Quill & Trowel. Major contents include: President's report, 2016 Garden Tours, Regional Meeting & Connect Events and more.
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GWA
GWA again will be a major presence at the Mid Atlantic Nursery Trade Show (MANTS) in Baltimore from Jan. 6-8. Join fellow GWA members for Connect Meetings on the evenings of Jan. 6-7 (CORRECTED DATES) in the grand lobby of the Lord Baltimore Hotel to plan strategies for covering the trade show, organize dinner plans, exchange business cards, and discuss what's hot and who's new! Click the link to register for a MANTS Press Pass and to attend the Networking Breakfast, as well as volunteer to help staff the trade show booth.
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GWA
Come to Canada's Green Industry Show and Conference for a Region VII connect meeting. After the meeting, visit the trade show and take in the educational sessions.
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Publishers Weekly
I recently received an email from Google asking my company to take part in Google Play. I'm sure I wasn't the only publishing house to receive such an invitation. However, it led me to send a response about our relationship with Google in several different areas.
While discretion may be the better part of business sense, sometimes it's hard to stand by and watch a big, powerful business take advantage of the industry you love.
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io9
"I'm bored." These two words are the hardest thing to admit, when you're writing your deathless novel, or screenplay, or short story. You're supposed to be creating a work of timeless brilliance. How can you be bored?
But admitting that you're bored is the first step to not being bored.
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The New York Times
When considering the book as a whole, I prefer that the interiors contain answers and the covers ask questions. To the extent that my favorite reading experiences empower me to confront uncomfortable truths and honest answers about people, societies and the greater universe, the covers that lure me into the pages often do so by posing questions that I don't want to ignore.
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The Digital Reader
Joe Wikert has just inadvertently proven that the book publishing industry drowned most of its innovators at birth.
Recently, Wikert published a post titled "Whatever happened to innovation in the publishing industry?", and proceeded to unintentionally answer his question by example. At the beginning of his post, he cites the Kindle as the last major innovation in digital publishing.
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Billboard
Section 203 of the Copyright Act of 1976 grants to authors a termination right, which is now daily vesting in new authors the ability to regain control of their works. We are now more than 12 years into the window in which Section 203 recapture termination notices could have been served/recorded. While the number of recorded recapture termination notices to date is more than 10,000, the number of authors is far lower — fewer than 500, in fact (several prolific authors have filed multiple notices).
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Fortune
Media outlets that participate in Google's ambitious project to make websites load more quickly on mobile devices could find themselves higher in Google's search results in 2016. But companies that don't sign on could be buried lower down.
Google unveiled more details about its ambitious project called Accelerated Mobile Pages to make news articles more reader friendly on the mobile web.
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