Wednesday, February 12

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U.S. Job Growth Slowed In January; Slight Gains In Entertainment Business Employment
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U.S. Job Growth Slowed In January; Slight Gains In Entertainment Business Employment

Job growth slowed in January to 143,000 positions, with the unemployment rate ticking down to 4%. The latest figures from the Bureau of Labor Statistics offer a picture of the labor situation as Donald Trump takes office, but they do not reflect some of his moves in his initial weeks in office. That includes cutting the size of the federal workforce and deportation raids. Jobs in motion pictures and sound recordings grew by 1,600 to 409,500, while employment in publishing climbed by 2,500 to 920,100. Broadcast and content providers added 1,800 positions to 333,000. Employment declines in mining and quarrying and the oil and gas extraction industries were particularly notable. The largest gains occurred in health care, retail and social assistance. Watch on Deadli...
Publishing Briefs: Tori Amos Stays Downtown, Plus Concord Acquires Hits By ‘Photograph’ Co-Writer
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Publishing Briefs: Tori Amos Stays Downtown, Plus Concord Acquires Hits By ‘Photograph’ Co-Writer

Also: Prescription signs a "High Horse" co-writer, Warner Chappell forges alliance with Luke Steele and Position Music rides with WAVES. Tori Amos Kavita Kaul Publishing Briefs is a semimonthly bulletin of recent signings, deals and doings in the wide world of music publishing. In case you missed it, the NMPA announced this week it will issue takedown notices to Spotify for 2,500 podcast episodes, alleging they contain unlicensed works from 19 member publishers. And this morning, Warner Music announced a new direct deal between its publishing arm, Warner Chappell, and Spotify. Caught up? Here’s what else is going on: That little earthquake you feel? It’s a rush of new ...
Jonni L. Pettit’s Book “One Thing After Another And Then A Life-Saving Transition” Will Be Displayed at the LATFOB 2025
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Jonni L. Pettit’s Book “One Thing After Another And Then A Life-Saving Transition” Will Be Displayed at the LATFOB 2025

A writer who truly loves storytelling, Jonni Pettit will share her memoir One Thing After Another and Then a Life-Saving Transition with the world through ReadersMagnets participation at the 2025 Los Angeles Times Festival of Books. San Diego, CA – WEBWIRE – Wednesday, February 5, 2025 ReadersMagnet will display "One Thing After Another And Then A Life-Saving Transition" by Jonni L. Pettit at the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books 2025. Book lovers are looking forward to the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books (LATFOB) 2025, which will take place from April 26 to 27, 2025, at the campus of the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. This free, open-air event is one of the countrys most significant literary festivals. It brings together every lover of literature fr...
Fast Travel Games cuts 30 jobs as it braces for a “more uncertain year ahead for VR games”
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Fast Travel Games cuts 30 jobs as it braces for a “more uncertain year ahead for VR games”

Redundancies will impact all areas of its business, including publishing, marketing, admin, and studio staff Image credit: Fast Travel Games Fast Travel Games has cut 30 jobs, primarily in its publishing, marketing, and admin departments, although "the studio will also be impacted as [it] consolidates down to one development team." In a statement posted to LinkedIn, the Stockholm studio attributed the cuts to "lower sales than expected", calling the redundancies an "exceptionally difficult decision" that was necessary to ensure a "stable and sustainable future for the company." "Due to lower sales than expected from our six game launches in 2024, in combination with a more uncertain year ahead for...
Influenced by my youth– with Cindy Kang
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Influenced by my youth– with Cindy Kang

Around this time of year in 2021, we tipped the New York-based illustrator Cindy Kang as one to see. Ever since, she's done some terrific things for home names like Samsung and Macy's-- however her operate in publishing has actually caused something of a surprise and she now has a blossoming enthusiasm for showing kids's books. In her art, Cindy likes to check out the style of maturing whenever possible-- living life, dealing with obstacles, and discovering lessons. "Creating work for kids fits my creative objective," she describes. "The whole book-making procedure has actually assisted me much better comprehend others and myself. I frequently assess my own youth when dealing with characters and stories, and eventually, you understand that lots of crucial responses are discovered in our y...
Led Zeppelin’s Robert Plant Received Nearly $9 Million in Royalty Dividends Last Year, Financial Statements Show
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Led Zeppelin’s Robert Plant Received Nearly $9 Million in Royalty Dividends Last Year, Financial Statements Show

Robert Plant carrying out live. Image Credit: Raph_PH2 business connected to Robert Plant have actually revealed making a cool ₤ 7 million (presently $8.8 million) in overall royalty-dividend payments to the previous Led Zeppelin frontman.Those payments, relating particularly to the ended March 31st, 2024, emerged in Companies House filings. Per the openly offered files, West Brom-born Plant integrated the older of the entities, Trolcharm Limited, back in 1981.Following Led Zeppelin's 1980 break up, that was soon before the release of Plant's launching solo album, Photos at ElevenThe veteran singer included a 2nd business, Sons of Einion Limited, in 1997.According as soon as again to public filings, Einion offers especially in "sound recording and music publishing activities," with Trolcha...
Bellingham, MA Author Publishes Children’s Book
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Bellingham, MA Author Publishes Children’s Book

Download Full Size Image" "Dear Anxiety", a brand-new book by D. Prudhomme, has actually been launched by Dorrance Publishing Co., Inc. " Dear Anxiety"utilizes child-friendly languages to explain the signs of stress and anxiety as they appear in young bodies. This book is both fascinating and distinct since not just does it assist kids comprehend distressed sensations, however it likewise supplies tested coping abilities to soothe stress and anxiety in addition to resources. With the enormous spike of stress and anxiety in kids, the importance and timing of this book is vital for households, class, and therapists' workplaces. If simply one kid take advantage of the language in, "Dear Anxiety", then the author's objective to make a distinction has actually been achi...
Check out a long-lost Starfleet ghost ship in brand-new ‘Star Trek: Lower Decks’ comic (special)
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Check out a long-lost Starfleet ghost ship in brand-new ‘Star Trek: Lower Decks’ comic (special)

A piece of Megan Huang's alternative cover for "Star Trek: Lower Decks # 1" from IDW Publishing. (Image credit: IDW) Paramount+'s "Star Trek: Lower Decks" has actually been a straight-out success as a riotous take on the lives of the unrecognized junior members of the team of the USS Cerritos, and now with its 5th and last season airing on the streaming platform it's time to check out alternate methods of delighting in Boimler, Mariner, Tendi, Rutherford, and T'Lyn.As the authorities publisher of "Star Trek" comics, IDW Publishing has actually heard fans' weeps of suffering with the loss of their profane animated program and will provide a brand-new continuous "Star Trek: Lower Decks" comics series this month composed by Ryan North and shown by artist Derek Charm.The unique format prov...
Universal Music Group Posts $3.12 Billion in Q3 2024 Revenue As Subscription Streaming’s Contribution Remains Flat
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Universal Music Group Posts $3.12 Billion in Q3 2024 Revenue As Subscription Streaming’s Contribution Remains Flat

Universal Music Group head Lucian Grainge. Picture Credit: UMGIn the middle of continued streaming-plateau issues, Universal Music Group (UMG) has actually published its Q3 2024 financials-- total with flat taped music streaming membership profits and a minor ad-supported income enhancement. These and other intriguing efficiency information emerged in the leading label's just-released third-quarter profits report. As numerous will remember, UMG shares parted with over 20% of their worth in the wake of the Q2 report, relatively due to financier issues about a possible streaming plateau.Consequently, an expansion-minded Universal Music put out an aggressive streaming projection, anticipating an 8-10% yearly subscription-revenue growth on the taped side, going through 2028.To put it simply, t...
Penguin Random House modifies its copyright guidelines to safeguard authors from AI
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Penguin Random House modifies its copyright guidelines to safeguard authors from AI

Expert system makers have actually dealt with a mountain of criticism for obtaining from the work of others to train its designs. Now the world's biggest publishing home is taking actions to guarantee its authors do not have their work plagiarized in the name of development.The Bookseller reports that Penguin Random House Publishing altered the copyright page at the front of its books to deal with utilizing any of its titles as a source for AI training. Now the phrasing states: "No part of this book might be utilized or replicated in any way for the function of training expert system innovations or systems."The brand-new phrasing likewise safeguards versus information absorption by keeping in mind the publisher "specifically reserves [the titles] from the text and information mining except...