Publication bias

Books Parker, D. (2017). ABC’s for the little g’s. Dunedin, FL: LGGS, LLC,. David Parker, designer illustration for Complex, wanted to create a book to reach kids at their level. Parker teaches the alphabet and a series of words by using designer labels. Such as D is for Dolce. Parker’s inspiration came from the growing trends he’s seen from children in the media. Parker believes that with the success of kid actors, such like the Stranger Things cast, parents will be even more inclined to…

The first banned book was Thomas Morton’s New English Canaan. Now, According to the American Library Association, more than 11,300 books have been challenged since 1982. Why are people so against books? The reason lies in the “ideological threats” that books contain. People will ban books if there is sexual content, violence, contrasts to religious beliefs, vulgar language, or contrasts to beliefs in general. For example, The Art of Racing in the Rain, about a dog with a dream of reincarnating…

Wringer by Jerry Spinelli Wringer is the story about Palmer LaRue, a boy from a small town called Waymer. Weymar has an annual Family Fest that has a rather odd tradition: a Pigeon shoot. Every year at the Fest, five thousand pigeons are shot for fundraising for the city’s park. The book gets its title from the name the boys receive who wring the necks of hurt, not dead, pigeons from gunshots. Palmer first sees this happen when he is just four-years-old and the thought of the birds being killed…

The publishing industry is only a portion of the entire printing industry; thus, the book publishing industry largely affects the book printing economy. According to IBIS World, “the Canadian Book Publishing industry experienced moderate and consistent declines during the five years to 2016” (2016). Industry revenue is forecasted to decline at a rate of 4.4%. There has been a decrease in print book sales, but electronic books (e-books) have begun to increase; therefore, publishers are seeking to…

With the constantly changing trends of the rise of printed books and stagnant growth of ebooks, the fields for both books and ebooks’ capitals remain the same as it always have been, “A field is a structured space of social position which can be occupied by agents and organizations, and in which the position of any agent or organization depends on the type and quantity of resources or ‘capital’ they have at their disposal.” (Thompson 3-4). The field is the specific structure of a publishing…

According to priceonomics.com the College Board recently estimated that the average student spends upwards of $1,200 per year on textbooks. (This figure is much higher for students at for-profit colleges and trade schools.) Between 2002 and 2013, the price of college textbooks rose 82 percent — nearly three times the rate of inflation, according to a recent study by the Government Accountability Office. That is a lot of money for a college student but what makes it even a hard spent money is you…

Many popular books have been banned throughout time. The reasons vary but usually include the explicitness of the topics or language within the books. Controversy is all around us and books are not excluded from it. Many states, schools and communities rise up to get books banned. The intentions in doing this may come from a good place but is questionable whether it is truly necessary. Available research can demonstrate whether it is or not. Due to the lessons they teach, viewpoints they…

Believed to have been published in Amsterdam in 1642, is the work of Flemish cartographer and engraver Hendrik Hondius. Hondius was apprenticed to Godfried van Ghelder in Brussels, studied drawing with the engraver Jan Wierix of Antwerp, and he also studied engraving along the way, to which he dedicated himself as a practice. In 1599, he became the first publisher to be granted a national privilege by the States General of the Netherlands, allowing protection against the circulation of…

The tone of a publication on a topic is paramount to one tactic that many publications use to keep their profits up. The tone is also dependent on the readers of a publication. Many people reading these news sites, regardless of political association, are against Senate Bill 6. The people that these publications consider when deciding the tone of an article covering this topic are the LGBT community and those…

accentuated by Higgins, “Let’s first look at some of the ways prejudices are perpetuated and affect our behavior.” A common misinterpretation in situations that we claim to find bias upon such as the events that Higgins address in the case of Ferguson, MO. Nonetheless, the social diagnoses of social psychology that can display the bias correlation that ignites a world-class case upon society is strangely accurate; in terms,…