Matt Alt explains how as video games evolved from simple amusements into a cinematic storytelling medium, translation became integral to the process.
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Paid to Translate Play: The Ins and Outs of Video Game Localization
ePubDirect Offers Irish School Own Ebook Platform
ePubDirect has developed a proprietary digital ebook platform especially for its local primary school, St. Columba’s, in Cork, Ireland.
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Crumbling scrolls: uncovering and recovering an ancient library
In around 79 AD, Herculaneum, an ancient Roman town, was destroyed and buried under ash by an eruption from Mount Vesuvius. When it was finally excavated in the 18th Century, a huge collection of precious, ancient scrolls were discovered, amounting to around 2,000 texts. This collection has become known as
Publish an electronic textbook on literally any subject, no matter how little you about it, with Kindle’s textbook program
Forget chemistry! You can make up any subject you like.
Publish or perish, amiright?
Yesterday Amazon introduced a new program that will help academics get around the pesky thought of placing work with a publisher. Get ready for self-published textbooks.
Kindle Direct Publishing EU is meant to give teachers a way to share
Reversal of UK prison ban on books to be implemented by January 31
UK Secretary of State for Justice Chris Grayling isn’t happy about the reversal of a law he says never existed.
Following the December reversal of a controversial rule change by the UK Ministry of Justice, British prisoners will once again be allowed to receive books in the mail. With a new
New details emerge in the story of the boy who did not come back from heaven (because he never went there in the first place)
Last week, Alex Malarkey, the co-author of the bestselling memoir The Boy Who Came Back from Heaven, posted an open letter on The Pulpit and Pen saying that the details of his book–details drawn from a two-month coma he suffered at the age of six–are false. “I did not die. I
Go ahead, make my diaper
I—like practically everyone else in this great country—went to see American Sniper last weekend. I really wanted to talk about the discrepancies between Chris Kyle‘s memoir and the film. Like, what do those omissions and alterations say about Clint Eastwood’s political leanings? Where are we in our hindsight appraisal of
Editorial & Production Internship at Publishing Perspectives
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Amazon Pursues Education Market with Kindle Textbook Creator
Amazon has launched a new tool for authors to create and sell digital textbooks. But there are questions about royalty rates on higher priced e-textbooks.
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Saqi Books Will Once Again Be Publishing in English
The Bookseller reports that Saqi Books will be resume its English language publishing program with plans to release as many as ten titles per year.
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