Chip Kidd doesn't judge books by their cover, he creates covers that embody the book -- and he does it with a wicked sense of humor. In this deeply felt (and deeply hilarious) talk, he shares the art and the philosophy behind his cover...

Child prodigy Adora Svitak says the world needs "childish" thinking: bold ideas, wild creativity and especially optimism. Kids' big dreams deserve high expectations, she says, starting with grownups' willingness to learn from children as...

Did you know the rights to "Happy Birthday" are still privately held today? Copyright was originally created for two reasons: to protect the original creators so they could benefit from their work AND have creative works enter the Public...

You've finished writing a brilliant research paper. Don't forget to give credit where credit is due with a bibliography.

In affiliate marketing, online merchants pay independent parties — called publishers, to promote their products on the publishers' web sites. The basic steps for becoming a publisher are described here.

The ISBN, or International Standard Book Number, is a unique identifier to published books. Here's how you can obtain one.

Writing is no easy job. The hardest part is exposing yourself to criticism and rejection, but if you keep your goal of publication in sight and continue to work toward your dream, you may end up seeing your name in print.

Travis Thrasher is a versatile writer and storyteller who has been passionate about writing since childhood. After college, he worked in publishing for 13 years, gaining industry experience while pursuing his dream of becoming a...

Learn about J.K. Rowling, the author of Harry Potter, who dreamed of being a writer and eventually found great success in her world famous fantasy series.

Writing a book involves a sequence of steps, each critical to the production of a polished product. While many start this adventure, only 3% finish writing their manuscript, less than 1% end up publishing their book, and even fewer see...

What if you need one application to notify another application of an activity or a workload that needs to be executed? You need the Simple Notification Service (SNS) that AWS offers. This video introduces SNS.

In this video, we continue working on EditProfileView and implement the ability to update user profile information.

This video showcases the design considerations and implementation of a microservices architecture using the fan-out publish/subscribe messaging pattern and explores how this pattern can enhance the scalability and flexibility of...

This video describes the fan-out pattern for pub/sub messaging in microservices. It explains how this pattern enables broadcasting messages to multiple subscribers, ensuring that each interested service receives the relevant...

This video introduces the Dependency Inversion Principle as a design principle for building loosely coupled and maintainable microservices architectures. It discusses how applying DIP can facilitate effective asynchronous communication...

Discover the remarkable journey of Daniel Clowes, an influential figure in the world of comics whose creations like 'Ghost World' and 'Eightball' reshaped the landscape of graphic storytelling. Narrated by Woody Harrelson, this...

Discover the remarkable journey of Daniel Clowes, an influential figure in the world of comics whose creations like 'Ghost World' and 'Eightball' reshaped the landscape of graphic storytelling. Narrated by Woody Harrelson, this...

Citing Sources: Book with Multiple Authors shows how to cite a print source when provided with the title, authors, publication, and copyright information by writing the correct citation for a book with more than one author using correct...

This video provides an introduction to SNS.
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This clip is from the chapter "Simple Notification Service" of the series "AWS Tutorial: AWS Solutions Architect and SysOps Administrator".This section focuses on the simple...

The first Black newspaper editor in the history of the United States, Mary Ann Shadd Cary spoke out to champion the cause of freedom in an era when the voices of African Americans were rarely heard.

Known as the Father of American Literature, Mark Twain used satire and a sharp wit to explore and reveal the realities of US society in the 19th century. In doing so he developed an all-new “American style” of writing.

Chinese scholar and literary translator Michael Berry (UCLA) describes how many publishers demand original works be changed to fit American sensibilities.

Chinese scholar and literary translator Michael Berry (UCLA) discusses censorship and self-censorship in the contemporary Chinese cultural industry.

UCLA Chinese cultural studies expert Michael Berry describes how the editor plays a key, and often overlooked role, in the process of bringing a translated work of literature to the public.