Sentences with phrase «which authors and readers»

The site features an interactive chat forum in which authors and readers can collaborate and have direct dialogue.
Bublish, who's known for its targeted social interaction in which authors and readers connect through book «bubbles,» recently announced it had secured a $ 300,000 investment in its latest round of private funding, which will allow the company to expand its current features while exploring new capabilities that put control in the authors» hands.

Not exact matches

The aim of the series was for authors to honestly discuss business challenges they'd faced and offer actionable insights, which our readers would find useful for launching, running, or working at their own startups.
It was Philip Fisher, author of the groundbreaking Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits, who often exhorted his readers to be cautious about trading in the stock of a company they have known for many years and come to understand well for one with which they are not as familiar as it introduces different types of risk.
If it no longer betrays «the freshness and vividness of original composition,» at least it bears the marks of the hard age in which it arose, reflects the circumscribed outlook of its author and first readers, and reveals most clearly the paucity of the materials at the author's disposal — especially for a presentation of Jesus» teaching.
Smith reminds readers of the idea of divine accommodation, which suggests that «in the process of divine inspiration, God did not correct every incomplete or mistaken viewpoint of the biblical authors in order to communicate through them with their readers... The point of the inspired scripture was to communicate its central point, not to straighten out every kink and dent in the views of all the people involved in biblical inscripturation and reception along the way.»
Aesthetic texts, so went the claim, present an experience which is shared between an author and a reader in the communicative act of reading.
The author of the Fourth Gospel, at the point at which he is about to launch Out upon his account of the public career of Jesus, tells his readers what they are to look out for: «You will see heaven wide open, and God's angels ascending and descending upon the Son of Man.»
The richness of the relationship between the two, speech performance and linguistic code, with all the nuances and allusions which the latter provides, those by the design of the author and those by the creative interaction of the reader, can only be realized by an ironic discernment that is critical of Dasein's projection of its preunderstanding.
My case was one in which the author, editor and reader are all known entities (in fact, they all know each other personally); the reading takes place in the exact same cultural and social context as the writing and editing; and the reader is himself a really smart guy, Ivy - league Ph.D. and all, who had spent a decade training the editor to be a certain kind of editor, with specific tools unique to the specific publication's aims.
Most of the current hermeneutical options tend toward reduction or exclusion in the act of interpretation, as when they utilize either structuralist or «historical - critical» methods, focus on either sociological data or «ideas,» and locate «meaning» in the internal «world» of the text, or in the external reality to which it refers, or in the author's intention, or iii the reader's response (see OTIPP 1).
Building upon his understanding that written texts can burst the world of the author, and indeed that of the reader as well, and upon his understanding that different genres accomplish this in different ways, Ricoeur comes to his understanding of «the world of the text» or, in other citations, «the world in front of the text,» by which he means «the... world intended beyond the text as its reference.
I thought Evangel readers would appreciate knowing about my Christianity Today interview with James Davison Hunter, Professor of Religion, Culture, and Social Theory at the University of Virginia and author of To Change the World: The Irony, Tragedy and Possibility of Christianity in the Late Modern World (Oxford, 2010), which promises to be the most important book written on Christian cultural engagement in the last 50 years.
And, if we go on, how do we tell which meaning or meanings was or were intended by the author or understood by his readers, early or late?
I've always thought a cookbook ought to read like a journey on which the author takes the reader, to experience the look, feel, taste, and sound of the food.
There were splashy authors and passionate readers crawling all up and down Congress St. I got to meet a handful of my influences, which is a crazy thrill.
Thirdly: If a book doesn't acknowledge point number two then it is likely to be causing guilt or shame to be felt by those who don't agree with the experiences of the author and is therefore one which I would see as causing readers to lose their own sense of self.
A beautifully written journal of sorts, in which the author empathizes with the twin mom reader and offers insightful tips and advice.
Partly because this is a time of change and within living memory, but also because it is clear that the author knows and enjoys a wealth of information & sources which he wants to share with the reader.
Additional comments made by the author himself indicate virtually no knowledge of the structure of medieval European society, or of the relationship between sacred and secular learning, and include a condemnation which even readers who are not anxious to return to the Middle Ages may regard as rather extreme: «the suppression of scientific thought by the medieval Church represents one of the blackest periods of human history».
These absurd yet simple images devised by the authors to illustrate this distinction between conscious human and unconscious computer led us to the idea of a contest in which readers could contribute their own examples of pictures that might fool a machine.
We believe that the standfirst of this piece, which states that the author «takes issue with some common misconceptions about how ice - sheets move, and doubts many pronouncements about the «collapse» of the planet's ice sheets» misleads the reader by assuming that Ollier's arguments are correct.
Online she is known as HolisticMom, MD and the author of The Holistic Rx which offers the reader with one or more chronic health conditions or symptoms easy - to - follow evidence - based approaches to healing their ailments by targeting inflammation and its underlying -LSB-...]
Medical education and research requires authors to publicly disclose financial ties to the drug industry which alerts the reader to a biased pro-industry viewpoint.
I've also been a contributing writer for Muscle & Fitness Hers Magazine, and I'm the author of the popular internationally - selling book, «The Truth about Six Pack Abs» which has had hundreds of thousands of readers in over 150 countries currently.
This is to enable them to create a high - performing author platform which will not only help them connect with their readers and sell more books, but also automate the process so that they have more time to write or enjoy quality moments Frequency about 1 post per month.
Taking a unique slant on the subject of online dating, Naked Online offers information and activities to help readers use this modern matchmaking method to become more mindful, which is why the authors sneak the word zen into the subtitle.
Just as the author Ray Bradbury envisioned a society in which books are banned and literature is kept alive by a cult of readers who have committed the...
I also teach my students about hyperlinking, which Vicki Davis, author of Reinventing Writing: The 9 Tools That Are Changing Writing, Teaching, and Learning Forever, tells me «can change everything» from how writers footnote to how readers access information.
Such findings should challenge our very idea of who is or is not good reader: If reading is the means by which we receive ideas and information, then the good reader is the one who best understands the author's words.
By getting rid of the Common Core, we will get rid of the Common Core practice of treating literary texts as informational texts in which the reader's task is to figure out what the author intended to say, based on word choice and sentence structure, rather than to explore a range of interpretive possibilities.
When deciding which bestseller category to target it's important to pick a category with enough readers to be worth your time, and that's fairly easy to break into for an indie author.
I think this is an important conversation to be having with Amazon, as I believe this sort of «virtual watercooler» type of interaction between readers and authors is a natural evolution in the concept of the book and is one which many authors will push heavily for.
You can build relationships with readers and other authors which helps to make sales down the road;
In our new video, we share with you the two effective ways to successfully convert your readers into life - long customers which will pave your way to becoming a successful author and entrepreneur.
David Naggar, vice president of Kindle at Amazon, said in a statement that «We are pleased with this new agreement as it includes specific financial incentives for Hachette to deliver lower prices, which we believe will be a great win for readers and authors alike.»
They aim to attract more authors to the platform, and to track author sales to see which ones are popular with readers.
I am happy to announce that we have formalized an agreement with Emmy winning news reporter, talk show host and radio personality, Errol Smith, to offer author interviews which will be broadcast through Reader... [Read more...]
However, that doesn't mean I'll stand by while one of their newly purchased twits pretends to have credentials as a business journalist and tries to con my readers into believing that the Penguin and Author Solutions so - many - imprints - you - can't - keep - track - of - which - ones - we - own business model «brings more choice to the market.»
While writing a novel during NaNoWriMo, as mentioned in my previous post, I've been considering an important question for authors and readers alike: which tense works best in fiction?
I am happy to announce that we have formalized an agreement with Emmy winning news reporter, talk show host and radio personality, Errol Smith, to offer author interviews which will be broadcast through Reader Radio's Network of over 10,000 websites.
Book promotion means being in the right place at the right time so that people — by which I mean the media and your potential readers — can find you, the author, and your book.
They no longer consider using competing e-readerswhich forces readers and authors to accept whatever pricing Amazon negotiates with publishers.
The best opportunities are in «hybrid» publishing, which means, doing the things that make you the most money and build your author platform (those two things are not identical, and often even at odds: as in, you may give one book away for free to reach new readers, and make money on other books you charge more on).
Step Two: Novelist gets the manuscript into shape with some first readers and maybe a good copyedit, then launches it on electronic sites and gets it through a POD publisher such as CreateSpace, which will give you cheap author's copies in their $ 39 pro program.
And having found those authors, the readers will likely get more quality books for less money, which is a huge win for them.
I don't have any sympathy for people who refuse to use the already available tools (all the retailers have search function and filters with which you can single out publishers by name and then filter the books by genre) and prefer to waste their time by whining «The slush pile is indeed my problem as well as it is for any discerning reader» and stating: «published» author and literary scholar have become as diminished as today's Mercedes Benz automobile — cheapened and mass marketed so that everyone can own one.»
The author / publishers aren't pocketing much profit and nor is Amazon and they drag down the value of the whole market which readers actually value more highly.
Pegasus is releasing Henry VIII: Wolfman by A. E. Moorat (author of Queen Victoria: Demon Hunter) on August 15, which will take readers «back kicking and screaming five hundred years into the paranormal world of Tudor England.»
Giving away free or selling inexpensive copies is not expected just because... it's a tactic for getting exposure with the understanding that some of these copies will lead to book reviews, which in turn helps get more exposure and entree into certain marketing programs and options, and which helps prompt actual purchases as many readers are hesitant about buying a book by an unknown, unreviewed author.
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