Huffington Post:
CHICAGO — Sun-Times Media Group, which was recently sold out of bankruptcy to an investor group, said Friday it named John Barron to the newly created group publisher position and as senior vice president of news and editoria (Read More)
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When, in late September, rumors surfaced that Comcast was trying to buy NBC Universal from General Electric, Wall Street reacted with dismay. Grandiose attempts to combine media production and distribution — programming and p (Read More)
Submitted by Motown_Terri
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Author : Ron CrippsJust about every person has a blog these days, but there are a small number of people that are actually making a frequent salary from blogging If you know you're going to be blogging for quite some time, a (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
Once the service for those serious enough to pay for the privilege to post, TypePad recently released a free "Micro" service. The company made the decision to offer a free product realizing the demand for a platform more form (Read More)
Silicon Alley Insider:
Glenn Beck has a plan, and he's deadly serious about it.The mega-popular Fox news host/evangelist will unveil an initiative called "The Plan" in Florida tomorrow while on tour to promote his book, "Arguing With Idiots."Read t (Read More)
Submitted by mvndrvrt
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Comment of the week goes to "Grammargirl" on Yow! 'This Is Why Recruiters [Are] The Most Hated Folks On Everyone's List', a piece about a recruiter who sent the wrong e-mail to the wrong person:This is why people hate INTERNA (Read More)
Techdirt:
Early on, we predicted that Apple's walled garden approach to apps for the iPhone would lead to developer backlash. Even if it was successful at first, the obvious trajectory was that it wouldn't just lead to problems that d (Read More)
UK News from Times Online:
Digital pirates, who for years have tormented the music and film industries, have found a new source of plunder in e-book publishing. (Read More)
Publisher's Weekly Latest News:
Romance Writers of America and other writer associations yesterday spoke out against the announcement earlier this week that Author Solutions had teamed up with Harlequin to form Harlequin Horizons, a new imprint for self-pub (Read More)
The Inquisitr:
The PogoPlug is one of the best plug and play NAS solutions available on the market, it’s simple to use, offers a nice clean and sleek design and users have been flocking to the devices over the last several months. Now the t (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
Writing a book will never be easy, but FastPencil's mission is to make things easier for authors by bringing this process online and to collaborate with others. FastPencil takes writers from idea to published book. The servic (Read More)
paidContent.org:
Times Publishing Co. has sold Governing magazine to e.Republic, a publisher of titles focused on state and local government and education. Terms of the deal weren’t disclosed. T (Read More)
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[The Oude Gracht Hamburgerbrug, Utrecht, Holland][between ca. 1890 and ca. 1900].1 photomechanical print : photochrom, color.Notes: Title from the Detroit Publishing Co., catalogue J, foreign section. Detroit, Mich. : Detroit (Read More)
Huffington Post:
1. You don't know the right people.2. 80% of you will never finish your manuscript.3. Less than 2% of completed manuscripts get a publishing contract.4. Traditional publishers don't believe your book will ever sell.Fortunatel (Read More)
Submitted by Mahendra
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Anyone can write a paragraph, but not everyone knows how to write one that other people want to read.You’ve seen it:You open a book, and the whole page is one long block of text.Each sentence in the paragraph makes exactly th (Read More)
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The Daily Beast has named publishing vet Stephen Colvin as the site’s president. Colvin CNET was president and CEO of lad mag purveyor Dennis Publishing for 11 years, will overs (Read More)
Publisher's Weekly Latest News:
A daily roundup of book and publishing news from across the Web: Oprah to Go Off Air; Palin Sold 300,000; Canadian Publishers Scramble for Kindle; Google Hearing 3; More Apple Tablet Rumors. (Read More)
paidContent.org:
Newspaper websites’ ad revenue got progressively worse in Q3, as the declines reached nearly 17 percent to $623 million, according to the latest Newspaper Association of America (Read More)
paidContent.org:
Quinstreet, the Foster City, CA-based vertical media and marketing firm that recently bought Insure.com and Internet.com, has filed for an IPO to raise as much as $250 million, (Read More)
NETTUTS - Web development tutorials and links:
In this tutorial, we will build a RSS 2.0 Feed with the PHP framework CodeIgniter. After this tutorial, you will be able to build a feed for any custom website in no time at all.Tutorial DetailsProgram: CodeIgniter PHP Frame (Read More)