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The Last Nude Issue of Playboy Comes Out Today
Friday marks the final issue of Playboy containing images of naked women. The magazine chose Pamela Anderson to be the last naked cover model, announcing on its website in early December: “To close out this era in the magazine’s history, it only made sense to put the most famous Playmate in Playboy history on the cover: Pamela Anderson.”
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The secrets of medieval Europe's first large-scale publishing industry have been revealed
The mystery of how the medieval world made some of its finest books has at last been solved – after 700 years. New research is revealing the trade secrets of Europe’s very first large-scale commercial publishing industry. Several generations before the widespread introduction of paper into Christian Europe, the continent’s craftsmen discovered a way of transforming animal skins into wafer-thin sheets for use as pages in medieval books.
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How I drove myself crazy trying NOT to publish
I awoke before dawn after a quiet but restless Halloween night. My stomach churned with acid and I fed it coffee, shutting out the self-destructive whispers encouraging me to abandon this pursuit....
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College textbooks are a racket
College textbook publishers charge so much because they can get away with it.
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E-Book Sales Fall After New Amazon Contracts
E-book revenue is falling, and some people in the publishing industry say it is partly because of the higher prices that have resulted from new contracts negotiated with Amazon. Consumers appear resistant to e-books costing more than $10. When the world’s largest publishers struck e-book distribution deals with Amazon.com Inc. over the past several months, they seemed to get what they wanted: the right to set the prices...
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PubPeer founders reveal themselves, create foundation
The creators of PubPeer dropped their own anonymity today, as part of an announcement about a new chapter in the life of the post-publication peer review site.
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The $14 million Fifty Shades lawsuit that’s heading to Australia
A TEXAS judge has told an Australian publisher to set aside $US10 million ($A13.96 million) for a former business partner who says she was defrauded out of her share from the sale of the erotic bestseller Fifty Shades of Grey and two companion novels.
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Science Isn’t Broken
If you follow the headlines, your confidence in science may have taken a hit lately. Peer review? More like self-review. An investigation in November uncovered a scam in which researchers were rubber-stamping their own work, circumventing peer review at five high-profile publishers.
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Academic journals are facing a battle to weed out fake peer reviews
Responsible publishers are taking the threat very seriously.
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Major publisher retracts 64 scientific papers in fake peer review outbreak
Made-up identities assigned to fake e-mail addresses. Real identities stolen for fraudulent reviews. Study authors who write glowing reviews of their own research, then pass them off as an independent report. These are the tactics of peer review manipulators, an apparently growing problem in the world of academic publishing.
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Chemical atlas, or, The chemistry of familiar objects
Exhibiting the general principles of the science in a series of beautifully colored diagrams, and accompanied by explanatory essays, embracing the latest views of the subjects illustrated ; designed for the use of students and pupils in all schools where chemistry is taught
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76 Years Later, Lost F. Scott Fitzgerald Story Sees The Light Of Day
The story, called "Temperature," had never been published and was presumed lost. Long after magazine editor Andrew Gulli began his search for the story, he finally found it — and put it in print.
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Newly Discovered F. Scott Fitzgerald Story Published
The work had been turned down for publication when he was alive. A long-lost story by F. Scott Fitzgerald has been published 76 years after it was written. “Temperature” is running in the current issue of The Strand Magazine and will appear online in three months, according to New York Magazine. Fitzgerald wrote the story just a year before his death at a particularly troubled time in his career...
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Sixfold.org | The Completely Writer-Voted Journal
Who creates Sixfold? Everyone. All-writer-voted and open to all, Sixfold three-round manuscript voting is the most rigorous, thorough, fair, and transparent editorial selection process available. To create each issue, hundreds of writers vote to select the best fiction and poetry manuscripts with much more discernment than any other editorial.
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Facebook and the media: united, they attack the web
A few media websites have made a deal with Facebook to present their articles within Facebook’s iOS app instead of on their own websites. Apparently, it’s all the web’s fault.
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You Are Publishing Too Much (and Failing)
How many content marketing channels and tactics is your brand using? Most likely, it’s too many. In researching my next book, I’ve discovered almost all successful content marketing-driven companies put all their energy into one channel.
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Charlie Hebdo: Muhammad On Cover Of First Post Attack Issue
Charlie Hebdo is back with a vengeance, giving the finger (or, to be more accurate, "un bras d'honneur") to all the terrorists out there (though in this issue, it's mainly aimed at the Islamist ones)...
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Writing a blog: creating a clear blog post structure
In this post, we will give practical guidance in how to create an awesome blog post structure
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Nature makes all articles free to view
All research papers from Nature will be made free to read in a proprietary screen-view format that can be annotated but not copied, printed or downloaded, the journal’s publisher Macmillan announced on 2 December. The content-sharing policy, which also applies to 48 other journals in Macmillan’s Nature Publishing Group (NPG) division, including Nature Genetics, Nature Medicine and Nature Physics, marks an attempt to let scientists freely read and share articles while preserving NPG’s primary...
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Publishing: The peer-review scam
When a handful of authors were caught reviewing their own papers, it exposed weaknesses in modern publishing systems. Editors are trying to plug the holes. Most journal editors know how much effort it takes to persuade busy researchers to review a paper. That is why the editor of The Journal of Enzyme Inhibition and Medicinal Chemistry was puzzled by the reviews for manuscripts by one author — Hyung-In Moon, a medicinal-plant researcher then at Dongguk University in Gyeongju, South Korea.
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