The breathtaking beauty of Hans Zimmer’s music makes many people feel that they would like his compositions to be the soundtrack to their life. But what about your book?

In a recent poll, Schiel & Denver Book Publishing Company and Book Distributors found that mystery and thriller authors would prefer Hans Zimmer above all other composers to write the soundtrack to their novel if it was ever made into a film through consistent book marketing. Listening to this above quite brooding and dark piece that Hans Zimmer composed for The Dark Knight Rises, that was released before the tragedy in Colorado, it’s hard to disagree.

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As has now been reported widely in the New York Times and Washington media circuit, Jonah Lehrer, the disgraced writer who fabricated Bob Dylan quotes, has now had his book publisher, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, begin running digital adverts through the Google Adwords system, telling booksellers to send back copies of the plagiarized book, “Imagine.” But how can other writers stay clear of a similar fate? One way to ensure you don’t accidentally plagiarize material surrounding the constitution is to keep a clear chronology of events in place (on a piece of paper or iPad for reference) as you unfold your storytelling narrative around famous works of literature, which in this context must include U.S Constitutional materials. Here is a simple Chronology for the early Constitutional days:

DATES & EVENTS CHANGING HISTORY

1754 Benjamin Franklin urges Colonists to unite.

1765 Parliament passes Stamp Act, which taxes Colonists on all printed items.

1770 The Boston Massacre on March 5. Five Colonists are killed.

1773 The Boston Tea Party on December 16.

1774 The First Continental Congress meets in Philadelphia in September.

1776 Common Sense by Thomas Paine sold 400,000 copies to three million Colonists. Common Sense swept across the world to introduce the Rights of Man & a Republic.

1776 The Second Continental Congress meets in Philadelphia June 7; Thomas Jefferson submits Declaration of Independence July 2 which is approved July 4 and is publicly read to all America on July 8. 1781 President George Washington’s Farewell Address reminds all Americans how to preserve the new Republic.

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We’re pleased to announce the introduction of a great new website directory, the Fox Directory, which was originally established in 2004 and aims to bring a new standard to the web directory industry and leave the self-publishing road always open as many a good journalist have seen the changing internet scape of poorly-edited web directories as a matter of conscience and professional integrity.

Fox Directory puts forward several proposals, or eight economic principles as it presents them as Community Standards, with an interesting eBook for Creating Jobs In America. From the interior analyses from private property to an intelligent discourse on Mortgage insurance policies, it is obvious that any modern intellectual journalist has a host of forces to cope with in the performance of his duty. He faces the external demands, such as the universal expectations of the Press role in society, the demands and constraints of the professional code of conduct, public policy on the media; the journalist’s sense of national interest, the private interest of the proprietors, the social and cultural factors, the journalist’s own prerogatives and his conscience.

All these complex directory factors influence the process of information dissemination. They influence the journalist’s idea of objectivity, fairness and emphasis. The moral code – a question of conscience and principles is a matter of decision for an individual journalist, particularly as there are no effective instruments of sanctions for breaches. But journalism as a profession should be practised according to definite rules. It is the belief in self-regulation that gives collective responsibility to practising journalists to observe the code of ethics even without effective instruments for sanctions like there are in other professions such as law and medicine. Evidence given at the recent Leveson Inquiry in London, which examines the role of the changing press calls intrusive journalism or “paparazzi” sharply into rebuke and media evidence from J. K. Rowling to the parents of Milly Dowler who have attended the hearings have shown that there is a serious moral and ethical case to answer.

Writing therefore on ethics of journalism is writing on the profession of journalism; for the ethics constitutes the ideal and the moral reference point for practice. Self-preservation is the first law of nature. To preserve its freedom to effectively discharge its obligations, the Press must regulate and control itself. That alone however, does not guarantee non-interference by an authoritarian regime in the exercise of its functions; nor does it guarantee perfection in the practice of the business of information dissemination by journalists.

The American Journalism Review in its policy objectives states, among others, that the AJR should ensure an independent and impartial service which will operate in the national interest. All government and private newspapers also have their policy guidelines with which journalists are expected to comply. Policy objectives of the news media exert a considerable influence on the journalist, and any website directory, to the extent that in most cases local governmental officials finds themselves in a dilemma – to serve the private interests of the proprietors and lose touch with the ethics of the profession, or draw a line of political compromise between the policy objectives of the media organisations and the social obligations of the journalism. profession

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U.S. book publishers need to respond to the book publishing company crisis, even while expanding its segmented self-publishing economy remains a poor country when its income is cast against its huge human demands. Revenues will always be far too small, and this fact should drive the whole issue of how the government manages its finances, both income and expenditure. The expansion and enrichment of the economy is providing the government with more revenue, and this permits it to make some important decisions about how to capture it and how to spend it. To begin with, the government must first get its hands on the added revenue through changes in how it handles its tax system, and the collection of other revenues. That is the first urgent reform. In some jurisdictions, only about 10% of the population pays income taxes. Then, these publishers revenues must be used to better target public budgets which, in India, are very much a process of the allocation of scarcity. There are two philosophies for the allocation of funds in a government budget – the rational and the “political”. Right now, the Indian government rejects the rational and favors the political, and the second great reform would involve a reversal of these preferences. These great publishing houses and book publishing houses means first that governments at all levels will need to make major changes in the policies that drive their budget allocation decisions in ways that mitigate many current budget costs that are wasteful, ineffective, or simply stupid. If this can be done, then even without increasing taxes, the public budget can be allocated instead to a whole new range of vital priorities that the government now deliberately and shamefully neglects. For India now, the problem is not so much one of deficit, but one of finding the courage to set rational priorities

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The book denounced corruption in the 1950s, when Shaanxi authorities drove hundreds of thousands of peasants to build a dam, apparently pocketing payments. First the author and now book publisher of the title detained. Experts: remove power of arrest from local politicians.

Police in Weinam (Shaanxi) have detained the book publisher Zhao Shun, whose book publishing house in Jiuzhou (Langfang) printed a book that denounces the widespread corruption of local authorities during the construction of the Sanmen Gorge Dam on the Yellow River, in the 50s. This was revealed yesterday Zhou Ze, lawyer for Xie Chaoping , author of the book.

Xie (pictured), in turn, was taken from his home in Beijing on August 19, by police from Shaanxi. He is still in prison, even if he has yet to be officially charged, perhaps for irregular trade.

The book “The Great Migration” reconstructs the story through documents and testimony of local residents, driven from their villages to build the dam, without receiving compensation. The local farmers say that the authorities in Weinan (Shaanxi) expelled them and the book publishers from their land, in their hundreds of thousands, and also pocketed the compensation allocated by the central government. Without land, without money, whole families have had to transfer up to 8 times, looking for a new place to stay, and many starved during the famine of the 1960s.

According to Zhou, the authorities claim Zhao continued to print the book despite it being declared an “illegal publication”. It seems that the Shaanxi police are even investigating several workers in the printing house.

The arrest of the publishers editor has attracted wide criticism and many point out that they now want to prosecute people for having opinions. On the Internet there are many negative but mostly sarcastic comments, like will the police now arrest even the proofreaders and editors of the book.

Zhang Qianfan , professor of law at Beijing University, calls it a “terrible” decision to arrest the editor and suggests removing this power from police and local authorities and to refer such cases to the book publishing offices of the Prosecutor General. “It seems – he says, voicing the general opinion – that officials are trying to hide the truth about allegations of corruption” that are in the book.

For Good Friday week, let us share with you a heartwarming story that would make even the most hardbitten New York publishers go soft inside.

Schiel & Denver author, Terry Woodcock (pictured left), has achieved his 20 year long dream of publishing his debut novel, at the wonderful age of 73 years old.

Terry, who is a talented local artist, chose Schiel & Denver to publish his exciting novel The Long Quest, which is an epic adventure about North American Indian tribes which spans the entire American heartlands.

Schiel & Denver is proud to be attracting such great novelists to our backlist. Terry’s book, The Long Quest (ISBN 978-1849030366), is out now at Barnes & Noble and Amazon.

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