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CTV News
A total of 52 million books were sold in Canada in 2014, according to BookNet Canada, the keeper of the data. Of those, 55 percent were paperbacks, 25 percent were hardcover, 17 percent were e-books and the other three percent were audio books or other.
"Our sales have been up 20 percent from last year for the last three months straight," said Caitlin Jesson, the manager of The Book Warehouse on West Broadway in Vancouver, British Columbia.
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GWA
The GWA Symposium Program Committee is accepting presentation proposals from speakers for the 2016 symposium to be held Sept. 16-19 in Atlanta. Proposals are due by Dec. 1.
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GWA
The GWA Foundation annually grants students in horticulture and journalism special scholarships for college, university and community college participation. Scholarship information may be found on the GWA website under the GWA Foundation tab, the application deadline for the 2016 spring term ends Dec. 1. If you know a qualified student who needs financial assistance, let them know about this valuable program TODAY!
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GWA
Everyone is invited to join Region I at New England GROWS in Boston on Friday, Dec. 4. In addition to a workshop on How to Publish Your Garden Book, presented by Roger Marshall, you will receive free registration to New England GROWS! Register now!
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GWA
Help grow our association and receive a $15 credit on your dues. Get six new members, and your next year is free. For information and support materials, including our new membership brochure, visit:
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GWA
As you may know, one of the benefits of your membership in Garden Writers is FREE legal advice on writers' issues. Our experienced legal team provides advice and insight that can assist you with issues that arise in the communications world. Check out what some of your fellow GWA members have to say about the service ...
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Harvard Business Review
If we never listen to feedback, we'll never improve. That's certainly true, but in a world where everyone has an opinion (whether it's about Hillary Clinton's wardrobe or Ellen Pao's leadership style), who should you actually listen to?
Over the past several months, I've appeared on more than 130 podcasts to promote my new book, Stand Out. Most of the queries are the same, but when someone recently asked me about the role of feedback in my life — a question I'd never received before — my own answer surprised me.
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The Huffington Post
I stopped going to coffee shops to work on freelance writing projects after my laptop bit the dust, and decided to suspend disbelief and create a real home office. It was time. I'd been freelancing over a decade.
For years I'd been casually skimming blogs purporting home offices boost productivity, along with those who suggested organizational tricks such as the Pomodoro Technique where you race an egg timer to complete your work and seemed better suited to those with type a personalities than me.
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Tech Crunch
Quotle is an interesting beast. The best way to describe it could be that Quotle is a hybrid between OneShot and Instagram, but for book quotes. Available on iOS, it turns the good old habit of marking down quotes in a notebook into a social experience.
There are three key components in Quotle. You can create quotes, you can share them, and you can follow people. While you might not be using all three parts, having these three features are essential to creating a compelling app.
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Publishers Weekly
While many indie authors have mastered online sales, even strong-selling writers tend to see distribution to libraries and bricks-and-mortar stores as difficult to impossible. However, they should consider giving it another go. Industry experts and indie authors who have tried to get wider distribution have recently found surprising success — both in expanded availability and greater awareness of their work.
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The English Project
The exclamation is the most derided punctuation mark. The apostrophe is the most mistreated. Robert Burchfield, when editor of the Oxford English Dictionary, thought that apostrophes were appearing so haphazardly that it might be best if they were abandoned altogether.
The Apostrophe Protection Society was one response. It has "the specific aim of preserving the correct use of this currently much abused punctuation mark in all forms of text written in the English language."
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Wired
Shea Serrano's Twitter bio reads thusly: "staff writer for grantland. i also wrote a book. there's a bunch of cool stuff in it. buy it cuz i'm real nervous no one will buy it."
Serrano shouldn't be too nervous anymore. The Rap Year Book sold out on Amazon and Barnes & Noble within two days of its release on Oct. 13 — and while you won't see it mentioned in the New York Times Book Review, it'll be there next week, perched snugly on the best-seller list.
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