There was no plasticky jacket, no author photo, no blurbs.
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These workers choose between several prewritten blurbs to send to sellers.
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Their positions are sketched out in small, one or two-sentence blurbs.
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In the future, think twice before you publish those powerful 280-character blurbs.
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The products often featured anonymous testimonials, like movie-review blurbs claiming miracle cures.
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The great thing about George Washington is that it doesn't need any blurbs.
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They will decide who to get blurbs from based on Facebook page Likes.
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If I didn't know Fitzgerald, this barrage of blurbs would have turned me off.
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The blurbs included criticisms of the candidate's record or their standing in the polls.
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" There was maybe something more to this book than its blurbs — "a savage burn!
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Prior to that, the paper would only allot short blurbs to describe design-related books.
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Rarely is the truth condensable to headlines and blurbs, all next to the Unabomber's house.
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The person writing Spotify's song info blurbs has no patience for Bob Geldof's bullshit pic.twitter.
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Documentation was scarce, she discovered: The CIA's website has only short blurbs about a few artworks.
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Here, there are photographs of in-flight meals, business class selfies and very personal text blurbs.
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He started his own consulting firm, and created a LinkedIn profile with blurbs from former colleagues.
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We'll hear from another chunk of them tomorrow, so check back tomorrow for even more startup blurbs.
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One more category: advance copies sent for blurbs, which I always feel I should at least sample.
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What better way to get a sneak peek of someone's thoughts than scrolling through blurbs on Twitter?
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They have sky-blue covers featuring women in bathing suits and blurbs about what perfect beach reads they are.
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" — JIMMY FALLON "And even though it isn't out yet, it already has some pretty interesting blurbs on the back.
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Another difference was that there were many more informational blurbs worked into the retail displays in the Samsung store.
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He was also put off by their questions about whether celebrity diners might be willing to write promotional blurbs.
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Girls roamed the aisles in half-feral packs, shouting titles and blurbs at each other from across the store.
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So he and his colleagues designed a neural network that spat out Yelp-style blurbs of about five sentences each.
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Then, there are different blurbs about nutrition, fitness and even sleep that you're prompted to read, often quizzed briefly after.
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Troops have died in Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria this year, but those headlines have become overlooked blurbs on news sites.
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There is a monthly catalog from Diamond Comic Distributors that contains blurbs for comics scheduled to arrive in future months.
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Other than Kentridge's striking image, there are no blurbs beckoning the reader to discover what truths lie between the covers.
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Everything inside the app is well done, from the way the artwork is presented, to the quality of the short blurbs.
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I like to do small blurbs about a specific topic whether it's about symbolism, on color, on books, or tarot decks.
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As a proofreader, and later a web editor, she wrote "hundreds and hundreds" of blurbs for the magazine's book section, uncredited.
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She wasn't sure what the visitor wanted, so she kept responding to the photos with go-to blurbs about the art.
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Perhaps he thought the world needed another highly partisan person tapping out 140-character blurbs to be favorited and scrolled past.
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Critic's Notebook If you learn one thing at the New York International Fringe Festival, it's not to trust the program's blurbs.
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With its wide margins, it could splay out text and link blurbs horizontally so they were easy to skim as you scrolled.
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For other clients, right down to the blurbs, they only want to work with folks who identify the way that they do.
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The company is using an algorithm, not people, to decide which videos get the blurbs and which do not, a spokesperson said.
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You can read up on the characters, important choices, and the overall story; these blurbs are updated constantly as the story unfolds.
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Time Magazine published its annual list of the 100 most influential people in the world, and this year's blurbs are really... something.
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In lieu of blurbs from other authors, the back cover features actual quotes from the real Donald Trump about Baldwin and Andersen.
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I hate writing blurbs, and don't like the idea of ranking albums in general, so am going to go bare bones here.
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Stephen King and Ms. Flynn gave it enthusiastic blurbs, and a movie adaptation starring Amy Adams is set for release this fall.
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The short blurbs outside each gallery room make bland attempts at encapsulating the region's tumultuous history and current democratic and militaristic perturbations.
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Before her, the horoscope blurbs I'd read in the back of teen magazines weren't enough to convince me astrology was really my thing.
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A thin folder jittered in his hand, its transparency revealing a document whose tidy bullet points and blurbs belied the man's unkempt appearance.
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I've tried being 'gonzo', but it's hard to incorporate it into your writing when most of your commissions are 50-word blurbs for Wowcher.
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You'll get three newsletters a month, full of exclusive content from the authors, highlights from the Facebook group, blurbs from future selections, giveaways, and more.
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But Popov has flooded plenty of peoples' Google Analytics with unwanted messages, including blurbs supporting Donald Trump in the run-up to the US election.
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His second book, George Washington: Poems, just out from Liveright, has six blurbs: Claudine Rankine; Colm Tóibín; Eileen Myles; Samuel R. Delany; Cathy Hong Park.
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The two buildings are "sisters," according to informational blurbs found online, and the layout of Mucciolo's apartment is nearly identical to the Lisa Frank Flat.
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There are roundup recaps, photo slide shows, highlight blurbs, fashion reports; even all of these things, together, add up to less than an ideal whole.
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He frequently and effusively blurbs books from established as well as new authors, citing a clear wish to leave publishing better than he found it.
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In both actions, representatives held mock wall placards displaying editorial blurbs about HIV/AIDS to educate curious gallery patrons about contemporary news regarding the virus.
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The technical aspects that were touted back then, which are still listed in the blurbs if you purchase the game online, do not seem as impressive.
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Launched in December 290, the website regularly runs a mix of longform features, album reviews, and quick-hit blurbs on the latest singles of the week.
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Underneath the cover, highlighted stories are listed with blurbs, and the service recommends stories you might like even if they're from magazines that you don't typically read.
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Supposedly, these blurbs list their main accomplishments in the past 20 years, but, as our staffer pointed out, all of these updates start with the same word.
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The book jacket features approving blurbs from influential right-wing policy intellectual Yuval Levin, conservative political theorist Patrick Deneen, widely respected writer Reihan Salam, and Ben Shapiro.
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The tabloid's text doesn't overtake it — across the 44 pages, there is one central, 700-word story, and blurbs explaining the pictures throughout, but not much more.
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In subsequent printings, Kahane added blurbs from T. S. Eliot ("a very remarkable book") and Ezra Pound ("at last an unprintable book that is fit to read").
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Adam Fitzgerald's first book, The Late Parade (2013) came with blurbs from John Ashbery, Dorothy Lasky, Timothy Donnelly and Harold Bloom, which covered one corner of the waterfront.
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But while Twitter is mainly a platform for short text blurbs and sharing links, Tumblr emphasizes blogging with a mix of images, videos, GIFs, and creative writing.—M.
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Brokers use all kinds of verbal gymnastics in blurbs that could be applauded if there weren't a potential buyer at the other end of these colorful but ultimately obscure paragraphs.
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Despite a lengthy tutorial prologue, many of Horizon's most useful tips and tools are buried in the game's opaque menus or mentioned offhand in text blurbs that appear on loading screens.
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While the recipes in Cravings: Hungry For More are slightly different than those found in Teigen's first cookbook, her witty blurbs and detailed instructions are the same and 100% authentically Chrissy.
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Both Cardinal Tobin and Cardinal Kevin Farrell, the prefect of the Vatican's dicastery for laity, family and life, who was appointed by Pope Francis, wrote positive blurbs for Father Martin's book.
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The book got a largely respectful reception, with Tom Wolfe, Robert Bork, and most strikingly Morton Halperin (then the ACLU's DC director and a fairly down-the-line liberal) providing blurbs.
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For a 2006 study from the University of Western Ontario, participants read blurbs about men and women who were described as either intelligent or unintelligent, dependent or independent, and honest or dishonest.
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Here you are surrounded by panels designed to look like picket signs, bedecked with quick-hit blurbs on "The Aftermath of King's Assassination" and "Feminist Writing," the Black Panthers and Black Power.
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All of these blurbs were acquired through interviews by Wilbert L. Cooper, with the exception of Richard Spencer, whose response was taken from the finale of his keynote speech at the conference.
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Facebook also says you'll be able to "See where a link will take you before clicking on it," though it already had link previews, blurbs and URLs, so we've asked for clarification here.
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But even with over 30 million listens on Spotify, co-signs from Zayn Malik and Diddy, countless blurbs and "who to watch" mentions, Khalid's place as a household name is far from cemented.
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Because of the stigma attached to PED usage, Rodriguez has placed himself outside of baseball's continuity; he is, to borrow from Silver Age comic-book blurbs, a dream, a hoax, an imaginary story.
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Early "American Dirt" blurbs from prominent writers, several of them Latinas (Sandra Cisneros, Erika Sánchez), have recently been underscored by book selfies from prominent Latina movie stars (Yalitza Aparicio, Salma Hayek, Gina Rodríguez).
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In fact, having gone through the individual guides published for the two exhibitions, as well as the blurbs outside each gallery room, as far as I could tell, the word "communism" is absent.
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Vampire Weekend / Photo by Clayton Hauck, courtesy of John Dugan I landed a day job penning music and nightlife blurbs for an online city guide during the last days of the first wave dotcoms.
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Accompanying teletext's stock quotes, news blurbs, sports stats, and traffic updates were some of the first commercial computer graphics ever designed—in most cases, by artists who had never even seen computers at all.
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The postapocalyptic reality I fantasize about has done away with jacket copy, blurbs and bookstore shelf markings, and we all wander around in a happy daze, finding joy from the last things we expected.
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These days, I can't stop posting political blips and blurbs — anything from how you can help to why the latest news item is bad to what is happening as explained by someone more qualified.
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In each world, the map screen is presented as a tourism brochure, with little blurbs (serving as hints, with a few good puns!) and pretty pictures to direct your attention towards points of interest.
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Not wanting to completely give up on writing, I chose to go into communications, where I could apply my love of the written word to churning out press releases and event blurbs for local newsletters.
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In old Zagat blurbs, each review is filled with short, uninspired sound bites, and the service's ratings system never quite reached mainstream recognition in the way Yelp's five-star system has in the internet era.
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According to Melinda Gates, she and her husband will often pass off books that they've enjoyed to each other, which is likely why two of the three books she recommended feature blurbs from Bill Gates.
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Griot Playlist: Michael Eric Dyson's "Tears We Cannot Stop" — possibly the first book to bear promotional blurbs from both Toni Morrison and Stephen King — makes its debut on the hardcover nonfiction list at No. 8.
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Last year, it began appending Wikipedia blurbs to videos espousing certain conspiracy theories, and changed the way it handles search results for breaking news stories so that reliable sources are given priority over opportunistic partisans.
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In the constantly shifting timeline of the Twitter community that formed the foundation of Secret World roleplay, you could hear all of these allegations, the defense, and the aftermath in a day via 140 character blurbs.
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Rather, some of the realities are in a page-long passage that appears at the end of the book, alongside the recipe for the cake from the story and informational blurbs about the author and illustrator.
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Although "Otherworlds" is resolutely an art exhibition, didactic elements come through Mr Benson's collaboration with Joe Michalski, a planetary geologist at the museum who helped to pen the understated yet informative blurbs that accompany each image.
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If you've read the three blurbs above then you know the drill: you place your phone on the mattress, and the app uses the accelerometer on the device to work out how soundly you're sleeping overnight.
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Books of The Times It's not every day that a book garners glowing blurbs from both Rod Dreher of The American Conservative ("clarifying") and the socialist scholar Cornel West ("courageous"), but then these aren't ordinary times.
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Nothing Is Lost: Selected Essays of Ingrid Sischy (Knopf, 21988) has blurbs from Elton John and Graydon Carter, the former editor of Vanity Fair, themselves celebrities who are unlikely champion the writings of other Artforum critics.
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But the crisp photographs, set in these particular categories and accompanied by explanatory blurbs by Grant, speak strongly of the myriad ways we are changing the Earth's surface, from harmless grooming to the etching of permanent scars.
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It's been six months to the day since President Donald Trump, Tweeter-in-Chief, has taken office, and looking back on the journey has revealed what an absurd amount of his 140-character blurbs he's sent out.
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Terrifying, hair-raising, profoundly upsetting, painfully tender, heartbreaking, devastating, shocking, are all standard fare in dust-jacket blurbs and newspaper reviews; it is as if the reader were an ectoplasm in need of powerful injections of adrenaline.
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The profiles page on their website looks like that of a modeling agency, with dating website-esque blurbs (Eaven, one of the V Girls, lists mushrooms, the color green, and Whitney Houston as being among her favorite things).
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"I think somebody inside of Intel needs to really take a long hard look at their CPU's, and actually admit that they have issues instead of writing PR blurbs that say that everything works as designed," Torvalds wrote.
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Questions are answered with short text blurbs relying factual answers and statistics, which are combined with full-screen photos, some of which can be turned 360 degrees for a more immersive viewing of a given place or scene.
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You won't find as many display tags or info blurbs in an Apple store, perhaps because Apple's products have become so ubiquitous that they're unwarranted, or because the company would prefer you talk to a store employee instead.
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Sage deconstructs more than 20,000 fresh and packaged foods (mostly organic brands from Whole Foods, for now) into interactive, personalized blurbs of information that make the basics of food labels—calories, top nutrients, ingredients, and allergens—easier to digest.
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John Schwartz, a climate reporter for The Times, wrote the introduction for the section and a few blurbs inside guiding the reader's eye here and there, according to observations from Times reporters around the country who cover those regions.
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Plenty of Coney Island's history seems too insane to be true — take the Blowhole Theater, for example — and so when I first read the cryptic blurbs on Christine Burgin's website about Albert Grass, his story seemed wild but believable.
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Wisely, Mr Hale thinks these blurbs should focus as much on the memorials' origins—many were demonstratively set up 100-odd years ago, serving to buttress segregation—as on their subjects, detailing when, why and by whom they were erected.
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In 1959, Grove published an unexpurgated "Lady Chatterley," with a preface by Archibald MacLeish, a former Librarian of Congress, and an introduction by Schorer, plus blurbs from eminent persons of letters, and waited for the government to seize the book, which it did.
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Fakespot uses a proprietary algorithm to detect fake reviews, which come in the form of bot-written robo-blurbs, reviews written by real people but paid for by companies, and even real reviews "ported" from other, totally unrelated products, to artificially inflate the star ratings.
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"The Mirror Thief" is Martin Seay's debut novel, and it arrived covered in prepublication blurbs from indie booksellers proclaiming its brilliance, its similarity to David Mitchell's "Cloud Atlas," its compulsive readability and so on, and everything in its opening pages seemed to sparkle and shine.
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Though the formatting has changed over the years and continues to evolve, you can usually expect the following:News blurbs covering the latest in any industry going through change, not only finance and tech, but also media and entertainment, auto, manufacturing, food, retail, and real estate.
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Display cards with blurbs about the dogs owned by various U.S. Presidents; a room dedicated to athletes speaking out on social justice issues so watered down that Wikipedia seems spicier; and a sign that says "Bong Hits 4 Jesus" at the "Freedom to Petition" exhibit.
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When I was readying my first novel for publication, it struck me that writers have far more control over what's in their books than what's on them—the cover art, blurbs, jacket copy, but especially the title, where the author's concerns overlap with marketing ones.
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The novel is Tapper's fourth book but his first work of fiction, and while The Hellfire Club might not get glowing blurbs from James Patterson and Shonda Rhimes if it carried a different byline, its quality is a tribute to taking yourself seriously in all things.
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To escape allegations of bias, Facebook fired the team of journalists who vetted and wrote Trending Topics blurbs and turned the feature over to an algorithm, which quickly began promoting fake stories from sites designed to churn out incendiary election stories and convert them into quick cash.
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"There are news blurbs in it, maybe 30 or 40 depending on the day, and those are really short and those are linked out to other places because I'm not gonna analyze 40 deals in a day and no one wants to read that," he said.
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King, who gets so many requests for blurbs that he has a teeming pile of books in his office that he calls 'the guilt table,' offered an unsolicited endorsement of 'My Absolute Darling' after he tore through an advanced copy of the 400-plus-page novel in three days.
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"I've tried to verify Wikipedia pages by searching blurbs in Google Books but it's an unpredictable link, and you often don't have enough surrounding context to evaluate the use," says Mike Caulfield, a digital literacy expert and director of blended and networked learning at Washington State University Vancouver.
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My first day on the job, I was told to write some blurbs for the Trump University website, as part of the rollout for our first major product, "The Wealth Builder's Blueprint," a mixed-media grab bag that came with lots of stuff (DVDs, a booklet, various "success tools," and more).
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It's up to you to reach out to the people who you care about, which is how we got blurbs from guys like J.R. from Pig Destroyer, Mike from Darkest Hour, Brendon Small from Dethklok, and Joel from Toxic Holocaust, as well as a foreword by Matt Heafy from Trivium.
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The challenge is to invest the generic formula with just enough distinction—what dust-jacket blurbs might praise as "originality"—without leaving formula behind; to fuse the familiar and the unfamiliar while assuring the reader that the ending will be clear, decisive, and consoling in a way that "literary fiction" usually is not.
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The ostensible bringing together of "…place, past and future…the popular, the personal, and the political," as Rebecca Traister blurbs on the dust jacket, results in a literary kitchen sink in which no event or issue appears more important, relevant or newsworthy than any other, with so many proper nouns bobbing up through the non-fiction narrative.
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There's different pieces to it, but a bunch of it's the same, which is there are news blurbs in it, maybe 30 or 40 depending on the day, and those are really short and those are linked out to other places because I'm not gonna analyze 40 deals in a day and no one wants to read that.
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The guys in the recently formed New England punk/noise rock group Nomad Stones are no stranger to having the "supergroup" label inserted into headlines and blurbs about their music, because the group includes two members of Cave In—Adam McGrath and John Robert Conners—who collectively have also been members of the cult-beloved metal bands Zozobra, Doomriders, and Goatsnake.
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Fawning blurbs from Elizabeth Gilbert ("a literary masterpiece"), Caitlin Moran ("the In Cold Blood of women's sexuality"), Dave Eggers (one of the "most important" books of the year), and, of all people, Gwyneth Paltrow ("I literally could not put it down") have helped catapult Three Women into that sweet spot between flashpoint of feminist discourse and dishy summer beach read.
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Rather than blurbs, the back cover of Communist Posters has quotes from figures including Joseph Stalin ("Print is the sharpest and the strongest weapon of our party") and the Fourth National People's Congress of China ("Speaking out freely, airing views fully, holding great debates and writing big character posters are a new form of carrying on social revolution created by the masses").
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Yes, the immediate disaster is the dissolution of the PGM merger, but it feels like there's something much more personal buried beneath the floorboards Emily: We'll talk more about this in a few blurbs (scroll down to "Loser: Roman" if you just can't wait), but I'm always impressed that Succession sees the toxicity at the heart of Logan Roy as clearly as it does.
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If you do what most Americans do when getting their news — by scrolling through headlines and absorbing one-sentence blurbs before moving on to the next story — you might be led to believe that the president was "seizing" on a perfectly legal American citizen being accused of murdering another perfectly legal American citizen, in order for him to push a policy of halting illegal immigration through improved border security and enforcing laws on the books.
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