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Microsoft quietly kills 35-year-old Publisher after October 2026: Microsoft ends support for Publisher desktop publishing software on October 13, 2026, redirecting users to Word and PowerPoint alternatives after 35 years. https://ppc.land/microsoft-quietly-kills-35-year-old-publisher-after-october-2026/ #Microsoft #Publisher #OfficeSoftware #DesktopPublishing #Word

Martin Baron, the Post’s first editor under #JeffBezos, condemned his former boss this week for attempting to curry favor with #Trump & called what has happened at the #newspaper “a case study in near-instant, self-inflicted brand destruction.”

The British-born #WillLewis was a former top executive at The Wall Street Journal before taking over at The #WashingtonPost in Jan 2024.

#journalism #FourthEstate #publisher #billionaire

They came on top of widespread talent defections in recent years at the newspaper, which lost tens of thousands of subscribers following #Bezos’ order late in the 2024 presidential campaign pulling a planned endorsement of #KamalaHarris, & a subsequent reorienting of its #opinion section in a more #conservative direction.

#journalism #FourthEstate #WashingtonPost #publisher #WillLewis #billionaire #JeffBezos

Neither Lewis nor the newspaper’s #billionaire owner #JeffBezos participated in the meeting with staff members announcing the layoffs Wednesday. While anticipated, the cutbacks were deeper than expected, resulting in the shutdown of the Post’s renowned #sports section, the elimination of its #photography staff & sharp reductions in personnel responsible for coverage of metropolitan Washington & overseas.

#journalism #FourthEstate #WashingtonPost #publisher #WillLewis

#WashingtonPost #publisher #WillLewis said Saturday that he’s stepping down, ending a troubled tenure 3 days after the #newspaper said that it was laying off ⅓ of its staff.

Lewis announced his departure in a 2-paragraph email to the newspaper’s staff, saying that after 2 years of transformation, “now is the right time for me to step aside.” The Post’s CFO, Jeff D’Onofrio, was appointed temporary publisher.

#billionaire #JeffBezos #journalism #FourthEstate
https://apnews.com/article/washington-post-will-lewis-stepping-down-layoffs-c8559f5e1d9f4d73f37163e4a708f9da?utm_source=onesignal&utm_medium=push&utm_campaign=2026-02-07-Breaking+News

KI-Übersichten entziehen Publishern die Existenzgrundlage #publisher #publishing #ai #ki #google #gemini
https://torbenkopp.com/ki-uebersichten-entziehen-publishern-die-existenzgrundlage/

Ein Wendepunkt im Kampf gegen KI-Content-Diebstahl? #publisher #microsoft #kunstlicheintelligenz #ai #ki #urheberrecht
https://torbenkopp.com/ein-wendepunkt-im-kampf-gegen-ki-content-diebstahl/

Ulysses: Celebrating 100 years of a literary masterpiece – BBC

James Joyce met publisher Sylvia Beach in 1920 shortly after he moved to Paris

Ulysses: Celebrating 100 years of a literary masterpiece

1 February 2022.

By Colm Kelpie, BBC News, NI

In the spring of 1921, Paris bookseller Sylvia Beach boasted about her plans to publish a novel she deemed a masterpiece that would be “ranked among the classics in English literature”.

“Ulysses is going to make my place famous,” she wrote of James Joyce’s acclaimed and challenging novel, written over seven years in three cities depicting the events of a single day in Dublin.

And it did.

On 2 February 1922, Beach published the first book edition of Ulysses, just in time for Joyce’s 40th birthday.

Stylistically dense in parts, it tells the stories of three central characters – Stephen Dedalus, Leopold Bloom and his wife, Molly – and is now celebrated as one of the world’s most influential texts.

‘Tosh’

TS Eliot, writing in 1923, believed Ulysses was “the most important expression which the present age has found”.

But the path to publication was not a smooth one. The novel sparked controversy and was greeted with revulsion by many – even among some in the literary community.

Sylvia Beach’s Paris bookshop was a haven for American expatriates during the 1920s and 1930s

Virginia Woolf described it as “tosh”.

Parts had been serialised by US magazine Little Review in 1920, resulting in an obscenity trial that concluded with the editors being fined and ordered to cease further publication. It was also censured in Great Britain.

Beach, the owner of Shakespeare & Company on the Rue Dupuytren, was determined to have it published in book form, which she did, bankrolled in part by her own money on the promise of subscribers.

Writing about the task at the time, she said she had to “put every single centime aside to pay” the book’s printer.

Prof Keri Walsh, outside the modern incarnation of Shakespeare & Company, in Paris

Prof Keri Walsh, director of the Institute of Irish Studies at New York’s Fordham University, says Beach’s decision to publish turned her into a “culture-hero of the avant-garde.”

“There was a sense that people knew that this was going to be one of the defining books of modernism, so she understood that she would assure her own place in literary history by being the publisher of it,” Prof Walsh tells BBC News NI.

Ulysses: ‘Don’t read the criticism, read the book’

Joyce and Beach first met in 1920, not long after he moved to Paris.

He had long left Ireland in self-imposed exile, living in Trieste, Zurich and the French capital.

Beach described that meeting as a powerful moment, says Prof Walsh.

“Joyce was very tired at this point. He had spent so much time fighting to finish Ulysses, and get through [World War One] and survive, he felt she could provide some sort of stability and support for him and his family,” she adds.

“She was much more than a publisher – a banker, agent, administrator, friend of the family. For a very long time that relationship worked well.”

But following disputes over publishing rights, the relationship between Joyce and Beach soured and the latter ultimately ceded the novel’s rights, writes Prof Walsh in The Letters of Sylvia Beach.

Sylvia Beach eventually ceded the publishing rights to Ulysses after her relationship with Joyce soured

Random House published Ulysses in 1934 after the US ban on publication was overturned the previous year.

That marketed it to a bigger audience, but it was 20 years before writers began to “claim” Joyce, says John McCourt, professor of English at the University of Macerata in Italy.

While Joyce was deeply frustrated by the reception Ulysses had received, he was equally unrelenting, adds Prof McCourt.

“He wouldn’t change a comma to make it more acceptable to whatever public taste deemed was OK.

“He saw himself becoming a cause celebre and played it for all it was worth.”

Tips for reading (or attempting to read) Ulysses

Prof John McCourt, University of Macerata, Italy

Nobody is fully prepared to read the book.

If you know something about music that would be a big help.

If you know something about Ireland and its history, that would help.

Don’t try and read it too quickly. Read it out loud as it does come alive.

Editor’s Note: Read the rest of the story, at the below link.

Continue/Read Original Article Here: Ulysses: Celebrating 100 years of a literary masterpiece

#100Years #BBC #BBCNews #Bookshop #ColmKelpie #February21922Published #From2022 #JamesJoyce #LeopoldBloom #LiteraryMasterpiece #MollyBloom #Paris #Publication #PublishedIn1934InUS #Publisher #RandomHouse #ReadingUlysses #ShakespeareCompany #StephenDedalus #SylviaBeach #TSEliot #Ulysses

This year, #Microsoft will be sunsetting #Publisher in favor of #WinWord . I don't mind letting them believe their own lies about how #MSWord is a #DTP tool for professionals. But I need options that will work on #Debian #Linux . Options other than #LibreOffice because that's too expansive. I just need a proper DTP tool with the ease of #QuarkXPress . Suggestions, please!

"In a groundbreaking step to combat rising #antisemitism and further the education of #Judaism’s universal values, #German #publisher #GütersloherVerlagshaus, a subsidiary of #PenguinRandomHouse, is #translating The #Book of #Jewish Knowledge by the Rohr Jewish Learning Institute (#JLI) into German, with an expected release in #bookstores by June 2026.

This encyclopedic resource spans nearly 500 pages and covers 4,000 years of Jewish #history, answering 1,200 questions on Judaism—from fundamental inquiries like “What is Judaism?” to practical matters of daily Jewish life. It delves into #archaeological insights, #Midrashic parables, #Kabbalistic diagrams, and practical #holiday guides, making complex material accessible to general readers, students, and scholars alike.

The #translation project has received the full endorsement of Dr. Felix Klein, Germany’s Federal Commissioner for Jewish Life and the Fight Against Antisemitism."

https://collive.com/major-publisher-translating-book-of-jewish-knowledge-into-german/

Best Affiliate Programs for Designers

Affiliate marketing isn't a get-rich-quick scheme it's a legitimate way to build passive income over time by recommending tools and resources you genuinely believe in. As designers, we have a unique advantage: our audiences trust our aesthetic judgment and creative recommendations.

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#design #designer #affiliate #marketing #creative #skill #ads #makeamoney #guide #audience #revenue #publisher #adsense

@__hetz @vantablack it really depends greatly on the specific Game...

Like @fuchsiii has a lot of issues with weird games that are i.e. #32bit but use a #16bit #Installer, require legacy versions of #DirectX / #Direct3D if not #DirectDraw or have other issues.

For the most part, #GameScope is broken so many 1990s games without much fans are constantly getting broken much to her frustration.

Obviously this doesn't apply to newer mainstream titles like #Crysis where one just chooses an older version of #Proton / #DXVK and can just game fine.

But for a lot of older games, shit's getting worse, and the rampant rise of #malware like #AlwaysOnlineDRM and "#ClientSideAnticheat" that is spitefully developed to not run on #Linux when it absolutely could be [i.e. #EpicGames *chose to not make #Fortnite work despite their entire toolchain, middleware, engine and "#AntiCheat" being capable of supporting it] really sours things!

Obviously #Valve ain't saints but even if I was a #Steam-absent #Developer or #Publisher I'd at least not go out of my way to cockblock people from gaming on it, when it's hardware is roughly on-par with the #Switch2 and unlike #Nintendo's shitbox it isn't a closed-off platform.

It's just that sadly none of the big publishers seem to care - yet.

And with the expected retail price of the #SteamMachine closer to €1k than €500, it'll be kinda hard for most consumers to justify buying in and thus developers to do more than the bare essentials.

So yeah, #LinuxGaming has issues - I'm not gonna deny that - but certainly these are certainly not due to Valve, but rather:

Publishers integrating malware.
Developers of FLOSS breaking shit constantly and refusing to address things or even acknowledge issues.
General #Enshittification and erosion of #ConsumerRights during #Greedflation in #LateStageCapitalism.

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cerco un editore per presentare in volume le mie ricerche
non avendo agenti né esperienza mi so muovere solo nelle pubblicazioni su richiesta
sono un sedicente scienziato con interessanti teorie in disparati campi, attraversati per il rifiuto della Fisica dopo averne acquisito fondamentali e metodi e scoperto un metodo matematico, al di là dello stesso uso matematico, produttivo come metodo di risoluzioni di questioni. E poi c'è di nuovo fisica.
non posso fare tutto

#publisher #publishing

Publisher's submission ~

Plato’s Caves invites poetry, fiction, reviews and articles on society, culture and politics from prospective contributors of all ages.

https://platoscavesonline.wordpress.com/submission-guidelines/

#Publisher #Writing #Submission #PlatosCaves

This, from this weekend's 'The Conversation', seems apt; a reminder that it's not just the reporters who must get it right -- it's also the editors and publishers:

The first job of journalism is to inform the public by reporting unfolding events accurately. A second, perhaps even more important task, is to make sense of these events. Unless we sort the trivial from the momentous, reporting can obscure just as much as it reveals.

Unfortunately, working out what really matters is fiendishly difficult. If you ever get a chance to read some old newspapers you will be shocked by just how many things of great importance were treated with laughable disdain, while things of little consequence were obsessively debated.

#journalist #journalism #news #pol #editor #publisher @theconversationau

Publisher guidelines ~

"We’re alert for the original metaphorical image that may take a moment to prove itself just right; the unexpected word that says more than the familiar one; the sharply observed detail that brings a thing alive. We do not tolerate clichés."

#Publisher #Poetry