Stephen Gordon: Ebooks are coming of age – for many reasons. You can keep your library in your pocket. You can annotate and share your thoughts within social networks. Writers can publish more directly to their audience. Once completed, the unit cost of each ebook sold is essentially $0. Those savings can (and sometimes are) […]
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On Saturday, David Streitfeld of The New York Times released The Best Book Reviews Money Can Buy, a story detailing the meteoric rise and subsequent fall of Jason Rutherford’s paid book review service, a business that, in its heyday, grossed $28,000 per month. In 2010 and 2011, Jason Rutherford ran a hugely successful book publicity
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Glenn Croston, Ph.D. has written the first in what will undoubtedly be a large genre of books: eco-friendly business ideas. I received a copy of his new book 75 Green Businesses You Can Start to Make Money and Make A Difference last week and just finished reading through all 328 pages. Although I don’t live
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In the book Remember Me: A Lively Tour of the New American Way of Death, by Lisa Takeuchi Cullen we meet characters like Lou Stellato, a futurist among funeral directors, who declares, “Funeral service as we know it is over.” Cullen’s book explains the issues of the shifting funeral industry and, incidentally, the process that
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The following is a guest post by Melissa Sileo. What is 6″ by 9,” usually weighs roughly one pound, and is giving an increasing number of business leaders an advantage over the competition? A book. Thanks in large part to the explosion of Indie book publishing, the use of ‘the book as a business card’
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Computer engineers and computer scientists have been one of the hardest hit professions in this economic slump. For all their technical prowess, their jobless rates climbed quickly early in the recession compared to other professionals, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. But interestingly, while the computer geeks were losing jobs, science fiction novels were
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TechRadar: Amazon has announced that it now sells more Kindle ebooks than all print books – that’s hardcover and paperback combined – through the Amazon.com site. Introduced less than four years ago, the Kindle has quickly become Amazon’s top selling product, and now digitised books for the reader have become more popular with its customers
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I just picked up a copy of Small Business Ideas: 400 Latest & Greatest Small Business Ideas by Terry Kyle. If you enjoy my site, and all of the ideas we present here, you’ll definitely enjoy this book. A full review is coming soon.
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The following is a guest post by Stephen D. Hassett. You’ve spent years building your business and for whatever reason you are ready sell it. How do you maximize value? Unfortunately, you may be too late. The value creation process needed to start years ago and short-term fixes may actually make things worse. In order
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Co.Exsist: It’s the second largest economy in the world. Within the decade, it may sustain two-thirds of the planet’s workers, according to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), and even rival the United States. But it’s not China: It’s the bazaars, vendors, and informal markets of the world. Robert Neuwirth’s new book, Stealth
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