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Paid to Translate Play: The Ins and Outs of Video Game Localization

by Simon Appleby | Jan 23, 2015 | Industry News

Matt Alt explains how as video games evolved from simple amusements into a cinematic storytelling medium, translation became integral to the process. The post Paid to Translate Play: The Ins and Outs of Video Game Localization appeared first on Publishing...

ePubDirect Offers Irish School Own Ebook Platform

by Simon Appleby | Jan 23, 2015 | Industry News

ePubDirect has developed a proprietary digital ebook platform especially for its local primary school, St. Columba’s, in Cork, Ireland. The post ePubDirect Offers Irish School Own Ebook Platform appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. …read more Via:...

Crumbling scrolls: uncovering and recovering an ancient library

by Simon Appleby | Jan 23, 2015 | Industry News

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...

Publish an electronic textbook on literally any subject, no matter how little you about it, with Kindle’s textbook program

by Simon Appleby | Jan 23, 2015 | Industry News

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...

Reversal of UK prison ban on books to be implemented by January 31

by Simon Appleby | Jan 23, 2015 | Industry News

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...

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)

by Simon Appleby | Jan 23, 2015 | Industry News

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...
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