In a statement today, Amazon said that, “over the past three months, for every 100 hardcover books Amazon.com has sold, it has sold 143 Kindle books. Over the past month, for every 100 hardcover books Amazon.com has sold, it has sold 180 Kindle books.” If you’re not profiting from this, you should be. Look for […]
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The book Big Box Swindle:The True Cost of Mega-Retailers and the Fight for America’s Independent Businesses raises important questions and suggests some interesting ideas that should be of interest to work at home entrepreneurs who struggle to overcome the “Big Boys’” economies of scale. The main argument against the “Big Box” and it’s “low low
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Tom Walker of NewsOK was recently speaking with Becky McCray, an entrepreneur and author who is working on a book about small town entrepreneurship. “Every kind of business exists in rural and small town Oklahoma,” McCray says. “Ponca City has an attitude and openness to entrepreneurship and is known for recruiting entrepreneurs. Woodward, a town
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William Rosen at The Wall Street Journal hails these books about inventions. Longitude By Dava Sobel The story of the first marine chronometer, invented by the self-taught British clockmaker John Harrison, had a remarkable number of dramatic elements. Thanks to the Longitude Act of 1714, the protagonist’s goal–a £20,000 prize for a method of determining
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Later this month, I’ll be publishing my review of the second edition of The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Cashing In On Your Inventions. Look for it.
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Vanity press used to be for authors that weren’t capable of finding someone else to publish their book. Not anymore, as the WSJ explains: Writer Karen McQuestion spent nearly a decade trying without success to persuade a New York publisher to print one of her books. In July, the 49-year-old mother of three decided to
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Star News Online: At first glance, Holland Baynard looks like a normal 9-year-old boy. He attends third grade at Bradley Creek Elementary School. He likes crabbing, skiing and hunting for sea creatures at the beach. He thinks visiting the Galapagos Islands would be really cool. But then, Holland is hardly ordinary. Most 9-year-olds aren’t published
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The following is an excerpt from Wired for Work: Get a Job FAST using LinkedIn, Facebook or Twitter by Steve Weber. If you haven’t looked for a job lately, you’re in for a surprise. Until recently, job searching was fairly simple. You scanned the classified pages of your local newspaper. You chatted with family, friends,
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WalletPop reports that typos can do more than damage the credibility of a publication. Penguin books in Australia recently had to reprint 7,000 copies of a now-collectible book. Correcting that typo will empty the publisher’s pockets of nearly $19,000. But if you find a book with a similar mistake, it could fill yours. When typos
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Back in 1941 in his home city of Detroit, Bill Phillips was in 3rd grade. At that time they gave children milk in bottles rather than the cartons that schools use today. There was always one bottle of chocolate milk that would be saved as a special treat for the one student that stood out
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