Songshark is a slang term for a dishonest music publisher, whose main source of income is the naivete of new songwriters, whom they charge for services a reputable publisher would provide free to their clients.

* 1910 – Paul Robert, French lexicographer and publisher ( d. 1980 )

* Isaac Kaufmann Funk, editor, lexicographer, publisher ; founder of Funk & Wagnalls Company publishing firm

* Isaac Kaufmann Funk ( 1839 – 1912 ), American editor, lexicographer, publisher, and spelling reformer

Isaac Kaufmann Funk ( September 10, 1839April 4, 1912 ) was an American Lutheran minister, editor, lexicographer, publisher, and spelling reformer.

* Noah Webster ( 1758 – 1843 )— lexicographer, dictionary publisher.

Daniel Adam z Veleslavína, literally translated Daniel Adam of Veleslavín, ( 1546 – 1599 ), was a Czech lexicographer, publisher, translator, and writer.

Paul Charles Jules Robert ( 19 October 1910, Orléansville, French Algeria-11 August 1980, Mougins, Alpes-Maritimes, France ), usually called Paul Robert, was a French lexicographer and publisher, best known for his large Dictionnaire alphabétique et analogique de la langue française ( 1953 ), often called simply the Robert, and its abridgement, the Petit Robert ( 1967 ).

* 1904 – John Hay Whitney, American businessman, publisher, and diplomat, founded J. H.

* 1998 – John Bassett, Canadian publisher ( b. 1915 )

That same year Disraeli's financial activities brought him into contact with the publisher John Murray who was also involved in the South American mines.

In October 1917, John H. Higgins, the publisher and treasurer of the Boston Herald bought out its next door neighbor The Boston Journal and created The Boston Herald and Boston Journal

In 1879, amid talks surrounding the closure of the university due to its dire financial situation, a wealthy New York publisher with Nova Scotia roots, George Munro, who was also the brother-in-law of Dalhousie's Board of Governors member John Forrest, began to donate to the university.

He served as research assistant for libertarian Republican Congressman Ron Paul in Paul's first term ( 1976 ), and he shared a small office with the staunchly Calvinistic political philosopher, John W. Robbins, who later became a noted anti-Van Til, pro-Clark presuppositional apologist, author, and publisher.

She stayed at the house of John Chapman, the radical publisher whom she had met at Rosehill ( near Coventry ) and who had printed her translation.

* John B. Ford ( born 1963 ), English horror writer and publisher whose fiction focuses on death and madness ; launched magazine, Terror Tales, in 1996 and Rainfall Records and Books in 2001

* 1867 – John Robert Gregg, American educator, publisher, and humanitarian, invented the Gregg shorthand ( d. 1948 )

* 1910 – John W. Campbell, American publisher and editor ( d. 1971 )

* 1918 – John H. Johnson, American publisher ( d. 2005 )

* John Newton Brown ( 1803 – 1868 ), Baptist teacher, minister and publisher

* John Brown Group, British magazine publisher with a stable including Viz and Fortean Times

* John Brisben Walker ( 1847 – 1931 ), American entrepreneur and magazine publisher

* 1960 – John F. Kennedy, Jr., American publisher ; son of John F. Kennedy and Jacqueline Kennedy ( d. 1999 )

The Phrenological Society of Edinburgh founded by George and Andrew Combe was an example of the credibility of phrenology at the time, and included a number of extremely influential social reformers and intellectuals, including the publisher Robert Chambers, the astronomer John Pringle Nichol, the evolutionary environmentalist Hewett Cottrell Watson and asylum reformer William A. F.

His fortunes began to improve when John Van Voorst, the leading publisher of naturalist writing, agreed, on the recommendation of Thomas Bell, to publish his Canadian Naturalist ( 1840 ).

A folk ragtime tradition also existed before and during the period of classical ragtime ( a designation largely created by Scott Joplin's publisher John Stillwell Stark ), manifesting itself mostly through string bands, banjo and mandolin clubs ( which experienced a burst of popularity during the early 20th Century ), and the like.

Lyell discussed arrangements with publisher John Murray III, of the publishing house John Murray, who responded immediately to Darwin's letter of 31 March 1859 with an agreement to publish the book without even seeing the manuscript, and an offer to Darwin of of the profits.

In February 1860, he went to England for the New York Illustrated News to depict one of the major sporting events of the era, the prize fight between the American John C. Heenan and the English Thomas Sayers sponsored by George Wilkes, publisher of Wilkes ' Spirit of the Times.

Paley was intimate with the Law family throughout his life, and the Bishop and his son John Law ( who was later an Irish bishop ) were instrumental during the decade after he left Cambridge in pressing him to publish his revised lectures and in negotiating with the publisher.

* John Newbery, English children's literature publisher

** John H. Johnson, American publisher ( d. 2005 )

The pornographic publisher John Camden Hotten claimed that his series of flagellation reprints The Library Illustrative of Social Progress had been taken from Buckle's collection, but this was untrue, as reported by Henry Spencer Ashbee.

An important publisher of erotic material in the early 19th century was George Cannon ( 1789 – 1854 ), followed in mid-century by William Dugdale ( 1800 – 1868 ) and John Camden Hotten ( 1832 – 1873 ).

The 21st chapter was omitted from the editions published in the United States prior to 1986 .< ref > Burgess, Anthony ( 1986 ) A Clockwork Orange Resucked in < u > A Clockwork Orange </ u >, W. W. Norton & Company, New York .</ ref > In the introduction to the updated American text ( these newer editions include the missing 21st chapter ), Burgess explains that when he first brought the book to an American publisher, he was told that U. S. audiences would never go for the final chapter, in which Alex sees the error of his ways, decides he has lost all energy for and thrill from violence and resolves to turn his life around ( a slow-ripening but classic moment of metanoia — the moment at which one's protagonist realises that everything he thought he knew was wrong ).

In 1893 the same printer brought several more drawings for Weatherly ’ s Our Dear Relations, another book of rhymes, and the following year Potter successfully sold a series of frog illustrations and verses for Changing Pictures, a popular annual offered by the art publisher Ernest Nister.

Pope secured a revolutionary deal with the publisher Bernard Lintot, which brought him two hundred guineas (£ 210 ) a volume, equivalent to about £ as of, a vast sum at the time.

The 1996 biopic of pornographic publisher Larry Flynt brought Forman another Oscar nomination.

" Stratemeyer explained his strategy to a publisher, writing that "' book brought out under another name would, I feel satisfied, do better than another Stratemeyer book.

Associate publisher Kathleen Lyman ( formerly of News Corporation and Ziff Davis ) was brought on board to launch Wired with an advertising base of major technology and consumer advertisers.

The turning point was the big success of the revised version of I promessi sposi in 1872, which brought him a contract with the music publisher G. Ricordi & Co. and the musical establishment at the Conservatory and at La Scala.

He was born and brought up in Henley-on-Thames, the youngest child of the publisher Sir Rupert Hart-Davis ( 1907 – 1999 ) and his second wife Catherine Comfort Borden-Turner.

By the end of the 1970s the gaps between issues were lengthening, and the title was finally sold to Galileo publisher Vincent McCaffrey, who brought out only a single issue in 1980.

The matter was then pursued in a pamphlet war and Bentley brought an action against the publisher of the anonymous On the Present State of Trinity College ( 1719 ), which was the work of Middleton with John Colbatch.

Likewise, an edition was brought out in 1993 by Buccaneer Books, a small publisher reprinting out of print political classics.

… The Paper Snake … is all my writings, rubbings, plays, things that I had given to the publisher, Dick Higgins, editor and publisher, which I mailed to him or brought to him in cardboard boxes or shoved under his door, or left in his sink, or whatever, over a period of years.

This was followed in quick succession by Thirty Spanish Poems of Love and Exile translated by Kenneth Rexroth and Poems of Humor & Protest by Kenneth Patchen, but it was the impact of the fourth volume, Howl and Other Poems ( 1956 ) by Allen Ginsberg that brought national attention to the author and publisher.

* Southern Gospel pioneer and music publisher James David Vaughan ( 1864 – 1941 ), the founder of the Vaughan Conservatory of Music ( 1911 ) and the James D. Vaughan Publishing Company ( 1902 ), who was inducted into the Southern Gospel Music Hall of Fame in 1997, became a member of the Church of the Nazarene in Lawrenceburg, Tennessee ( now known as Vaughan Memorial Church of the Nazarene ) in the 1920s, and brought the singing Speers Family into the denomination.

The only explanation I can give of the orchestral score still bearing my name is that when the original publisher, P. Jurgenson, of Moscow, to suit the composer, republished the concerto, he brought out the piano score in the new edition, but waited to republish the orchestral score until the first edition of the it should be exhausted.

In 1975 and 1976, obscenity charges were brought against the publisher by prosecutors in Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Oklahoma, and Toronto, Canada.

He is best known today for his pamphlet ( under the assumed name of Richard Harwood ) Did Six Million Really Die ?, a Holocaust denial pamphlet which was the subject of the criminal action brought against its Canadian-based publisher Ernst Zündel.

In 1980 new DC publisher Jenette Kahn brought Giordano back to DC.

The U. S. Supreme Court case Hustler v. Falwell involved an IIED claim brought by the evangelist Jerry Falwell against the publisher of Hustler Magazine for a parody ad that described Falwell as having lost his virginity to his mother in an outhouse.

The original is slated for an upcoming iOS debut, brought by publisher Bulkypix.

BPI's publisher, Robert J. Dowling, brought in Alex Ben Block in 1990 and editorial quality of both news and specials was steadily improved.

Then on 5 April, John Cawood, the publisher of Mary Magdalen's funeral tears, who probably owned the copyright all along, entered the book in the Stationers ' Register, and brought out a third edition.