WSJ: Self-publishing these days is increasingly a tale of two cities. There are established authors, like Nyree Belleville, who says she’s earned half a million dollars in the past 18 months selling direct rather than through a publisher.. Then there are new authors, like Eve Yohalem. More than a month after self-publishing, she has grossed […]
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Kim Bhasin: As hard copy books go the way of the typewriter, that novelty value may be all they have left. But that might not be as bad as it sounds. Nostalgia is very marketable. When we remember the past in a positive way, we’re able to shape the memory into a happier version of
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The British television show The Gadget Show has built the ultimate simulator for “first person shooter” Battlefield 3 video game. People would pay money for this kind of experience. The simulator features an omnidirectional treadmill floor, 360 degree projection screens and paintball guns that automatically shoot you when you’re damaged in the game. See the
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* 1790 – The very first US patent is issued: to inventor Samuel Hopkins for a potash process. * 1865 – The first narrow gauge mainline railway in the world opens at Grandchester, Queensland, Australia. * 1931 – New York, New York experimental television station W2XAB (now known as WCBS) begins broadcasts.
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Some of these fanciful are real, while others are still ideas on the drawing board. Rotating Electrical Sockets Hour Glass Traffic Lights Reusable Candle Cat Crib Spaghetti Fork Universal Wrapping Paper Dresser for Dummies Egg Separator Pizza Scissors Baby Scooter Citrus Spritzer Cup Holding Umbrella Baby Shower Cap Armrest Table Mirror Wiper Images via imgur.
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1863 – Henry Ford, American industrialist, was born 1932 – Premiere of Walt Disney’s Flowers and Trees, the first cartoon short to use Technicolor and the first Academy Award winning cartoon short. 1940 – Sir Clive Sinclair, English entrepreneur and inventor, was born 2003 – In Mexico, the last ‘old style’ Volkswagen Beetle rolls off
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Do your children embarrass you when you take them out to a fancy dinner? The Kensington Hotel in London is now offering etiquette classes for children aged five to 10 “the gamut of table manners – correct posture; how to hold a knife and fork properly; the importance of ‘please’ and ‘thank you’; conversation dos
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Watching fellow college students working for $7.50 an hour after graduation, Tana Walther, a fashion-design major at Kent State University in Ohio, snapped up an alternative offered by her father–to run a Pita Pit restaurant franchise he would buy. “I guess I bought her a job,” says her father, Jan Walther, of North Canton, Ohio.
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Cassandra Daily: Playing make-believe is typically an imagination exercise, but Italian company hi-Fun has created taken it to a highly functional level. The hi-Call is a Bluetooth-enabled glove with a built-in phone that’s activated by users holding their hands to their faces in the universal “call me†gesture. A speaker and microphone are sewn into
Photo by grantlairdjr. WSJ: A growing number of professionals are using social media to build a personal, public identity—a brand of their own—based on their work. Think of an accountant who writes a widely read blog about auditing, or a sales associate who has attracted a big following online by tweeting out his store’s latest
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