The Mainichi Daily News is the online English edition of Japan’s highly respected and trusted Mainichi Shimbun newspaper, which has a history of 137 years and a daily circulation of 4 million copies for its morning edition, and 1.5 million for its evening edition. The Mainichi was the first of Japan’s major newspapers to produce an English edition, starting in 1922. The online English edition’s popular content includes Mainichi Shimbun editorials and opinion articles, news, features, haiku in English, and photo specials. The Mainichi has an extensive news-gathering network with more than 360 domestic outlets and 26 overseas bureaus, and has won numerous prestigious journalism awards, including a Pulitzer Prize in 1961 and a record 23 Japan Newspaper Publisher and Editors Association Awards — the Pulitzer Prize of Japan. The Kindle Edition of Mainichi contains most articles found in the web edition. For your convenience, issues are automatically delivered wirel (more…)

A collection of tragicomic poems, inspired by actual headlines from the Weekly World News. Introduction by Ed Bryant. Bram Stoker Award Finalist

About the Author

Michael A. Arnzen is the author of GRAVE MARKINGS (Dell Books, 1994), recipient of the Bram Stoker Award and the Internation Horror Critics Guild Award for Best First Novel. His short fiction has appeared in numberous venues, including THE YEAR”S BEST HORROR STORIES. Arnzen has authored two other collections of poetry: CHEW AND OTHER RUMINATIONS (Mastication Publications, 1990) and more recently, WRITHING IN DARKNESS (Dark Regions Press, 1997). Arnzen currently teaches creative writing and literature at Seton Hill College (Greensburg, PA) and he is on the editorial board for the academic journal, PARADOXA: STUDIES IN WORLD LITERARY GENRES. He holds a Ph.D. in English from the University of Oregon, where he recently finished a dissertation entitled THE POPULAR UNCANNY.

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The last decade has seen significant shifts in the roles of editors in the newsroom. Pagination has moved page composition from the backshop into the newsroom, placing additional responsibilities on copy and design editors. Newsrooms have become more collaborative, with emphasis on cooperation between various departments, and between copy editors and assigning editors. The biggest change is the growth of the Internet as a medium for news delivery. Most newspapers have accompanying Web sites, where breaking news can be posted for audiences long before the next print edition goes to press. In a sense, it’s a return to the days when newspapers published multiple editions throughout the day—only now, it’s done online. In Modern News Editing, authors Ludwig and Gilmore have creatively reworked Gilmore’s classic textbook to fully integrate editing for online publication and editing for print. Whether the medium is a print newspaper or an online news site, the functio (more…)

The Amazon Kindle News blog is dedicated to providing news, commentary, and reviews related to the Kindle, Kindle 2, and Kindle DX.Kindle blogs are fully downloaded onto your Kindle so you can read them even when you’re not wirelessly connected. And unlike RSS readers which often only provide headlines, blogs on Kindle give you full text content and images, and are updated wirelessly throughout the day.

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Your premier destination for ebook news. Covering all the devices including Kindle, Sony and iPhone with links to FREE and sale priced ebooks and industry news and reviews.Kindle blogs are fully downloaded onto your Kindle so you can read them even when you’re not wirelessly connected. And unlike RSS readers which often only provide headlines, blogs on Kindle give you full text content and images, and are updated wirelessly throughout the day.

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