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Sept. 23 is deadline for Princeton Meeting Registration
GWA
Region II's regional meeting focusing on landscape tours through historic and contemporary gardens of Princeton, N.J., offers a combination of public and private gardens with numerous story and photographic opportunities. Join GWA & PPA for networking with garden writers, plant propagators, local gardeners, historic house docents and landscaping professionals. The final registration deadline is Sept. 23, so sign up today.
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As summer winds down and transitions to fall, Suntory’s Sun Parasol mandevillas are still gorgeous in the garden. Hot new varieties include Red Emperor with giant red flowers and Pretty Deep Red and Pretty Deep Pink. See how Garden Crimson is used as a bedding plant in this video.
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ASJA joins with GWA for Solopreneur workship
GWA
The Am. Soc. of Journalists and Authors has joined with GWA in promoting the Nov. 6 Solopreneur workshop in NYC for free-lance writers, photographers and other creators. This program is designed for independent workers who want to take charge of expanding their careers using targeted business planning. Early registration ends Oct. 7, so sign up today.
GWA expands educational opportunities
GWA
In an effort to expand member educational opportunities, GWA has partnered with Mediabistro for a special member discount on more than 50 training courses for writers, bloggers and more. Save $50 on multi-session courses (excluding one-hour webcasts and onsite conferences). This offer is good from now through Oct. 15. Use special discount code GWA50.
Mini USA and ScottsMiracle-Gro team to support Plant A Row
GWA
Mini USA and Miracle-Gro have partnered to promote a creative, guerilla marketing campaign launching the new, larger version of the MINI Cooper, the MINI Countryman. In addition to 25 roadside billboards in 11 markets, MINI USA created a "MINIMiracle" display, which will appear at various events and locations across the country. Consumers have the opportunity to support GWA's Plant A Row for the Hungry with the #MINIMiracle. Between Sept. 1 and Oct. 31, consumers who take a picture of the #MINIMiracle display or Miracle-Gro wrapped MINI Cooper, and post the image to Instagram and Twitter utilizing the #MINIMiracle hashtag generate a $1 donation (up to $50,000) to the Plant A Row for the Hungry program.
8 Gold Garden Media Awards Announced in Quebec
GWA
If you missed the previous announcement of the 2013 Gold Garden Media Awards conveyed in Quebec City in August, a list of all gold and silver award winners is available on the GWA website. Take a few moments to see which of your colleagues won special recognition for their submissions.
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ASJA Content Connections in Chicago Nov. 7-8
ASJA
Digital content doesn't write itself. If you're reading it ... someone wrote it. Content Connections wants to bridge the gap between talented writers and companies that need writers to craft compelling content for their digital outlets. The goal of Content Connections, a new conference to be held on Nov. 7-8 at Columbia College in Chicago, is to introduce freelancers and content publishers to one another so they can share insights and find new ways to work together.
Twitter makes IPO plans official; expected value is about $14 billion
GigaOM
Twitter has announced its long-awaited IPO in, what else, a tweet that came after market closed on Thursday. Twitter's note that this is a confidential filing means the company's annual revenue is less than $1 billion. Usually when companies announce plans to go public, they have to file an S-1, the securities filing that companies use to provide details about their planned initial public offerings.
Adult e-book sales post small six-month increase
Publishers Weekly
E-books sales do not appear to be immune from the impact of bestsellers. According to AAP's monthly StatShot report, adult e-books rose only 4.8 percent in the first six months of 2013 compared to the same period in 2012, hitting $647.7 million. E-book sales in June fell 8.7 percent, to $108.6 million. Earlier this year, Random House acknowledged that its e-book sales in the period fell, due to the strong digital sales of the Fifty Shades trilogy in the first half of 2012.
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Author: Illegal downloading is 'moral squalor'
The Guardian
Illegal downloading is a kind of "moral squalor" and theft as much as reaching in to someone's pocket and stealing their wallet is theft, the author Philip Pullman will say this week. In an article for Index on Censorship, Pullman, who is president of the Society of Authors, makes a robust defense of copyright laws. He is withering about internet users who think it is OK to download music or books without paying for them.
10 counterintuitive tips for self-publishers
Publishing Perspectives
In today's feature story, a pre-CONTEC interview with Hugh Howey ahead of his appearance at Frankfurt Book Fair, the bestselling author outlines ways in which major publishers might consider adding value to what they can offer self-publishing writers like himself. In a short essay, The Work is the Work. The Path is the Path., he also notes some of the confusion and hesitancy among newer writers today debating traditional vs. self-publishing.
Study: Children's uptake on e-books expected to increase in Canada
BookNet Canada
E-book readership in Canadian families is already high — 41 percent of parents and 27 percent of teens have already adopted digital reading — and another surge in e-book reading is coming soon, predicts a newly released study by BookNet Canada. Measuring Attitudes and Adoption of Digital Content for Kids and Teens reviews parents' and teens' attitudes toward reading and technology and examines how new behaviors and technologies are transforming the way families find, access and consume stories.
Unfulfilled promise of e-books offers lessons for news organizations
Poynter
I spent my vacation reading from pixels instead of paper. I read e-book versions of "Bruce," a Springsteen biography by Peter Ames Carlin, and Dan Brown's bestselling novel "Inferno." Both had great potential for extra audio and video that could have created a much richer experience. But the e-books offered no more than the ink-on-paper versions. My disappointing experience offers a lesson for news organizations that are considering selling e-books because its shows how legacy media is still thinking like ... legacy media.
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