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So here’s a checklist of items and tasks that need to be completed before an author submits their final manuscript to their publisher or their freelance editor. Not all of…

The American Library Association this week announced that more than 25 major organizations, including a host of publishers and author and bookseller groups, have joined its Unite Against Book Bans…

Fred [Buechner] used Sunday mornings to step out of his writing life and into the streets of New York. And sometimes he stopped into Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church, not so…

The resulting extensive and groundbreaking research, advances in our understanding of brain science and the findings of neuro-imaging, lengthy interviews with hundreds of children and parents, case studies, and rich…

https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/religion/article/89000-how-religion-publishing-became-a-billion-dollar-industry.html

The state rejected dozens of math textbooks. The New York Times reviewed 21 of them to figure out why. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/22/us/florida-rejected-textbooks.html

With challenges to books in the United States at a high, the Matinicus Island Library is a remote haven for controversial literature. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/this-small-library-off-the-coast-of-maine-is-collecting-banned-books-180979861/

by Kaitlin Curtice https://kaitlincurtice.substack.com/p/the-to-and-fro?r=1ewbq&s=r&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email

Harvard Professor Michael Porter is the author of 20 best-selling books including Competitive Advantage, one of the most important and revered business books of all time. A six-time winner of…

by Mark Schaefer https://businessesgrow.com/2022/02/07/starting-over/

Shared environments often take the form of a real-world public space, what the sociologist Ray Oldenburg famously called the “third place,” a connective environment distinct from the more insular world…

By David duChemin https://mailchi.mp/3435c5714d6e/marketing-is-a-relationship?e=d157dfd2eb

"The kingdom of heaven is like a library. Its power has nothing to do with coercion or control. It strives toward order but does not make an idol of its…

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/11/opinion/brain-mind-cognition.html?referringSource=articleShare

by Mark Schaefer https://businessesgrow.com/2021/10/06/spiky-point-of-view/

By now, you might be thinking that the Matthew Effect could be connected to the convulsions of civil unrest occurring throughout the world. Perhaps you suspect this idea has very…

by Philip Yancey https://philipyancey.com/through-a-writers-eyes

We’ve become all too used to clickbait headlines we see on the web (“10 Surefire Ways to Lose Weight: You Won’t Believe #7”). Creating intrigue is a valid approach, but…

Our exploration of the inner workings of Cumulative Advantage starts in 1968 with a Columbia University professor named Meyer Robert Schkolnick  Meyer was born into a poor family of Russian…