Mr. Akst, a member of Newsday's editorial board, is the author of "Temptation: Finding Self-Control in an Age of Excess, " now a Penguin paperback.
Trying to take all of this in, I walk out to Hut Point, the location of Scott's still-intact hut, hoping in vain to see a penguin or two.
He approached Ben Schrank, president and publisher of Razorbill, a Penguin young-adult imprint, who liked the idea of a novel that could be spun into an interactive, multimedia app.
The social network, which has attracted over 150 million children since it launched in October 2005, offers children the chance to become a penguin, "waddle around" and decorate an igloo.
But for an author whose most recent book came out just this week on a Penguin imprint, it's perhaps a bit early yet to declare the traditional publishing industry dead.
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WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) A royal penguin found stranded on a New Zealand beach has died.
It was just the fourth time over the past 100 years that a royal penguin has been found on the North Island of New Zealand.
Penguin Books was denied its request for the transfer of penguin.org from a man with the nickname Penguin, and pop star Sting will have to find a different domain after his demand for sting.com was rejected on the grounds that sting was not his real name and was a common word.
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If history is any judge, it will be a hit for publisher Penguin-Putnam, a unit of Pearson Publishing (nyse: PSO - news - people ).
Happy Feet, named after the popular animated film about a tap-dancing penguin chick, has been fitted with a tracking device so the zoo can monitor his progress.
Pink by arrangement with Riverhead Books, a member of Penguin Group (USA), Inc.
Reprinted by arrangement with Viking, a member of Penguin Group (USA) Inc.
As well as the fossils Scott collected, the exhibition also features a stuffed emperor penguin, watercolours of the ice-scape by Edward Wilson, and photographs from the pole taken by Herbert Ponting.
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To protect Pearson's interests as a minority shareholder, if Bertelsmann declines a Pearson offer to sell its entire shareholding, Pearson may require a recapitalisation by which Penguin Random House raises debt of up to 3.5x EBITDA, with a dividend distributed to shareholders in line with their ownership.
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The tours are somewhat unusual for a first-time author and a signal that her publisher, Penguin Press, is committed to making her a literary star.
She is a graduate of New York University, and is currently (by day) a lecture agent at Penguin Books.
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That is because later this year, their respective publishing companies are expected to merge into a new company called Penguin Random House.
Microsoft is to give Linux' penguin mascot a plank across the ice.
Last week, Penguin announced a pilot program to allow public libraries in New York City and Brooklyn to lend out its e-books via 3M's Cloud Drive service.
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Small expedition ship cruises make penguin viewing a breeze.
We wanted a heritage feel like Penguin Books and the Underground signs.... We discussed how we wanted it to be something people would be happy to prop up on a mantel or keep in a box.
Under the terms of the agreement, Penguin and Random House will combine their businesses in a newly-created joint venture named Penguin Random House.
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For using the example he gives, the UK rights belong to penguin but Amazon will have supplied a Macmillan version to that person in the country where Penguin has the rights.
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You might say Penguin has had a rocky relationship with libraries.
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How about a Himalayan cat, Emperor Penguin, wild boar, camel or gorilla.
My 13 year old has been posting YouTube videos for two years now and was a regular on the Club Penguin cheat scene at 10.
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He died in the 1980s and was replaced by a two-year-old penguin at the Zoo.
Mr Watt added that a beer such as Tactical Nuclear Penguin should be drunk in "spirit sized measures".
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