This book sounds interesting: In 1998, three Harvard Business School graduates (two men and one woman) turned down six-figure salaries at big corporations, bet on themselves, and launched their own new companies. By their ten-year reunion, their audacity had paid huge dividends. They’d made many millions of dollars, created hundreds of jobs–and left their mark […]
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Ronald and Bryan Williams, two entrepreneurial brothers from New Orleans who run the successful music company Cash Money Records Inc., are turning their attention to the book business according to a story in The Wall Street Journal. The brothers, whose company counts rapper Lil Wayne among its artists, plan to use the same techniques that
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MSNBC reports that an Australian publisher unveiled what he says is the biggest book in the world, seemingly in a bid to steal the spotlight from his digital rivals. The 6-by-9 foot atlas titled “EARTH, Platinum edition” will sell for $100,000, Gordon Cheers, managing director of the publishing company of Millennium House, told the AFP,
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Steven Johnson’s new book, Where Good Ideas Come From, comes out in a couple weeks. In Where Good Ideas Come From, Johnson steps back to ask: what is the relationship between place and ideas? What are the attributes common to places in which innovation happens? Via: Kottke
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What have you read and liked? You Call the Shots: Succeed Your Way— and Live the Life You Want — with the 19 Essential Secrets of Entrepreneurship The Toilet Paper Entrepreneur: The tell-it-like-it-is guide to cleaning up in business, even if you are at the end of your roll. Reality Check: The Irreverent Guide to
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I’ve never been a fan of the band, but have always marveled at the culture surrounding them — truly a unique following, turning each concert into an event beyond just music, reports Jon at 800CEORead.com. David Meerman Scott’s and Brian Halligan’s Marketing Lessons From the Grateful Dead: What Every Business Can Learn From The Most
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Independent bookstores were battered first by discount chains like Barnes & Noble, then by superefficient Web retailers like Amazon.com. Now the electronic book age is dawning. The New York Times is reporting that with this latest challenge, these stores will soon have a new ally: the search giant Google. Later this summer, Google plans to
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Just got an interesting email from Amazon that will interest you if you make money from their affiliate program. Ever thought about selling textbooks? Textbook season is here again! The Amazon Textbooks team invites you and your readers to hit the books and save. Our Textbooks Store features savings of up to 30% on thousands
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Join Rich Whittle as he talks with Sherry Sexton, author of “The T-Shirt To Prove It!” The Successful Journey Of 25 Passionate Women Entrepreneurs on THAT’S MY BUSINESS! Thursday, July 29th.
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Yesterday, at the end of very positive review of Adam Bertram’s ebook, Used Books: Big Business, the reviewer, Rich Whittle, expressed confusion at why Bertram would be selling an ebook that describes exactly how to compete with a business that he’s running: Reviewer’s Note: Books like this always make me wonder. If Adam Bertam is
