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The Lyric, "the oldest magazine in North America in continuous publication devoted to traditional poetry", is one periodical that accepts formal verse.
The New Formalist seems to be another publisher of formal poetry.
(The wikipedia article on New Formalism might be of interest.)
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Differences in spelling are a relatively minor impediment to cross-cultural culture. The use of completely different terms for the same thing (footpath, sidewalk) can usually be understood from the context.
Where you may have real difficulties is the use of the same word (such as solicitor) with completely different meanings (lawyer, street prostitute) or ...
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Speaking as a self published author, I use British slangs all the time, but my editor(American) and beta readers have never complained. Neither have those who bought my book.
When you read an American book, do you feel confused when someone uses color (without a 'u')? It's the same on the other side, isn't it? Like Jay says, you may need to be careful of ...
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I think few would be put off by differences in spelling. But there are also words and phrases that many Americans would not recognize. Words that I know of that are different from American English include "lift", "underground", and "torch". There are likely many others I'm not familiar with as I've never been to the UK. Many of these are well-known in ...
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You say, "too many words." Too many for what?
Do your customers have any insight that what they lack is software infrastructure and mobile applications specifically? Or do they seek only some way to connect?
If they don't care specifically about infrastructure and apps, try:
You have the drivers, metered taxi's, We have the technology to connect you ...
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I am doing exactly that. I created my own publishing company, which to date has published exactly one book. (My first book was published before I created this company, and I'm working on my third now.) The main reason I did this was so I could create my own imprint, i.e. publisher name and logo. It is also helpful -- I'm not sure if it's absolutely necessary ...
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I think that a company "that acts like a publishing house" but has no other corporate activity is a (small) publishing house.
The one obvious benefit will be if you are successful promoting and selling your own books, then you could take on other authors using the same systems and become a larger publishing house.
Since this question is almost exclusively ...
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You could start a story on Fablelane and see if it gets voted up or down. You could also let others contribute to your story, and see how it ends to get inspiration.
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