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One who publishes, especially books.

This work was completed about 1630, and was offered in vain by the author to all the publishers in Venice.

The publishers cannot be held responsible for loss or damage to unsolicited manuscripts or photographs.

While many of the first attempts to attract females were anemic (and often overly pink!), publishers realized they were onto something.

Res Judicatae in 1892 and various other volumes followed, for he was in request among publishers and editors, and his easy charm of style and acute grasp of interesting detail gave him a front place among contemporary men of letters.

His Morgenstunden appeared in 1785, and he died as the result of a cold contracted while carrying to his publishers in 1786 the manuscript of a vindication of his friend Lessing, who had predeceased him by five years.

In February 1868 a great fire destroyed the whole of Migne's printing premises, but he established a new house in Paris, which was purchased in 1876 by the publishers Gamier Freres, who still own all the works brought out by Migne.

He made some engagements with publishers, though no one would take Sartor Resartus, and returned to Craigenputtock in the spring of 1832.

By Emerson's management he also received something during the same period from American publishers.

His growing acceptance by publishers, and the inheritance of her property by Mrs Carlyle on her mother's death in 1842, finally removed the stimulus of money pressure.

His correspondent, Francis Haywood, made a counter-proposal which so disgusted Schopenhauer that he addressed his next letter to the publishers of the review.

There are upwards of nine hundred publishers and booksellers in the town, and about eleven thousand firms in other parts of Europe are represented here.

As well as its ' public gaming servers jolt also provides tailored solutions for game developers, publishers and companies.

There were about forty persons present, all of whom were writers and publishers.

That's because it is a video game developer and most people are more familiar with video game publishers.

This is commonly seen with some of the Massively Multiplayer Online Games (MMOGs) that are created by traditional game publishers.

Unlike console games publishers, PC game publishers don't pay a hefty royalty fee for each game they sell - they don't have to shell out for the rights to stamp "Xbox approved" or "PS2 approved" on their boxes.

Simple. The strongest console will have the allegiance of more publishers.

With its strong established lineup of game publishers and proud franchises, the Sony console tradition will make gamers very happy in 2006.

While this segment of the market is still somewhat undeveloped, some publishers are making inroads.

In order for their video games to be rated, publishers fill out questionnaires and video tape the most graphic portions of gameplay.

Parents should not ignore the mature ratings on a game though; some children are simply too young for some content, but most game publishers maintain this decision is personal and should be decided within families, not by the government.

A number of the largest Canadian video game companies are owned by foreign publishers, such as Electronic Arts and Ubisoft.

There are both religious and non-religious publishers of these materials.

Purchase the latest Writer's Market, which has a comprehensive list of publishers (books, magazines, etc.) and their guidelines.

While they may only pay small amounts, this is a good way for a writer who is just starting out to get experience and this provides clips that can be shown to other publishers.

In most cases, publishers that place submission calls for web content are looking for exclusive content.

If you actively write as a hobby, you already have a body of work that you could draw from to try to pitch to publishers.

If you'd like to find a more traditional outlet for your text, you'll need to start contacting publishers.

Agents must negotiate with publishers over issues relating to rights, contracts, and royalties in order to make sure their clients' interests are protected.

Labels, publishers and artists benefit when a film company licenses a track to be used in the film and on the soundtrack that accompanies that film.

I wrote one novel, then another, and the agent submitted them to publishers.

Houghton Mifflin - Some publishers only dream of landing an author as creative, imaginative and successful as J.R.R. Tolkien.

Pheedo is a feed advertising service that matches advertisers seeking opportunities to advertise in blog feeds that reach readers in their defined target audience with blog publishers who have RSS subscribers within that population.

Pheedo serves content for advertisers through the network, providing publishers with a way to earn revenue from feed subscribers.

Think of it like a comic strip, which is syndicated for all kinds of newspapers and other publishers to use on a regular basis, all across the globe.

His petition to the king for a trial by his peers on this indictment was refused, and an attempt to prosecute the publishers of the false evidence in the king's bench was unsuccessful.

Although for a time it was lost sight of on the continent, Sir Isaac Newton thought so highly of this book that he prepared an annotated edition which was published in Cambridge in 1672, with the addition of the plates which had been planned by Varenius, but not produced by the original publishers.

Other works which may usefully be consulted are the Journals of John Woolman, Stephen Grellet and Elizabeth Fry; also The First Publishers of Truth, a reprint of contemporary accounts of the rise of Quakerism in various districts.

His Sunday sermons were taken down in shorthand, corrected by him on Monday, and sold by his publishers, Messrs Passmore & Alabaster, literally by tons.

Though now remembered chiefly for invaluable contributions to the theory of music, it is evident that he must have been famous both as a practical musician and as a composer; for, notwithstanding the limited number of his printed works, consisting of a volume entitled Modulationes Sex Vocum (Venice, 1566), and a few motets and madrigals scattered through the collections of Scotto and other contemporary publishers, he both produced and superintended the public performance of some important pieces in the service of the republic. First among these was the music written to celebrate the battle of Lepanto (on the 7th of October 1571).

These periodicals had now become extremely numerous, and many of the leading London publishers found it convenient to maintain their own particular organs.

In April 1732 the leading metropolitan publishers, jealous of the interloper Cave, started the London Magazine, or Gentleman's Monthly Intelligencer (1732-1784), which had a long and prosperous career.

He thus acted for twelve years (1541-1553), making money by his practice, and also by renewed editorial work for the Lyons publishers - work in which he constantly displayed his passion for original discovery in all departments.

The volume of theological tracts, again recast, was declined by two Basel publishers, Jean Frellon (at Calvin's instance) and Marrinus, but an edition Beza incorrectly makes Servetus the challenger, and the date 1534.

Indeed, Holland became the home of modern religious liberty, the haven of innumerable free spirits, and the centre of activity of printers and publishers, who asked for no other imprimatur than the prospect of intelligent readers.

Like some other publishers who preferred reputation to returns in money, Froben died poor, and his impressions never reached the splendour afterwards attained by those of the Estiennes, or of Plantin.

The English reviews were at that time practically publishers' organs, the articles in which were written by hackwriters instructed to praise or blame according to the publishers' interests.

One of the publishers to whom Johnson applied for employment measured with a scornful eye that athletic though uncouth frame, and exclaimed, "You had better get a porter's knot and carry trunks."

Malone computed the gains of the publishers at five or six thousand pounds.

That expense, indeed, he had the means of defraying; for he had laid up about two thousand pounds, the fruit of labours which had made the fortune of several publishers.