It started with a tweet, which warned of more layoffs ahead at Borders. I know a few people there, and one of them told me, “I’m only speculating, but I really think that unless Borders has a huge holiday sales run, they’ll be looking at bankruptcy by the early part of next year. I hope [...]
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WSJ: The Decline of Anime
The Wall Street Journal today in its print and online editions is talking about the “decline of anime“. Though it calls it a decline, it is more that the Japanese dominated industry is struggling due to increased competition and and low pay and long hours for employees. With anime’s growing popularity in the West, I [...]
Microfinance: Alex Counts
In one of my incarnations, I do some work in the microfinance industry. This is one of the best ways to help people in overpopulated and/or economically poor countries. So I was pleased to see this Authors@Google talk given by Alex Counts, President and CEO of Grameen Foundation, one of the pioneers of the industry. [...]
This is Genius Book Marketing
According to the Guardian, Charlie Hidgson, author of the “Young Bond” books for young adults, has created a computer game that ties into his books. Kids are not just encouraged, but are forced to read his books in order to play the game. Says Hidgson in his defense of this idea “”Kids can get as [...]
On the Emotional Reaction to Free
Interesting excerpt from a book about how we react when something is free, even when getting the free thing is less in our best interest than paying a slight premium.
A Year of Reading 2007
The Year is Done! I hope you had a great one and have high hopes for 2008. Below is a list of all the books I read in 2007 (I like to keep track because I am just that hyper-organized). The final five have reviews written that I just haven’t posted because every review deserves [...]
Book Review: Hedge Hunters by Katherine Burton
* Genre: Business
* ISBN: 1576602451
* ISBN-13: 9781576602454
* Format: Hardcover, 224pp
* Publisher: Bloomberg Press
* Pub. Date: November 2007
Hedge Hunters is a collection of interviews of hedge fund managers and their prot�g�s. The author of Hedge Hunters Katherine Burton, sat down with these financial renegades and tried to ascertain what made them tick.
Surprisingly, what she found is [...]
B&N rolls out new site
Barnes and Noble has rolled out a new site, and it looks good. Click the image below to be taken to this smooth looking site.
Book Review: The Elephant and the Dragon by Robyn Meredith
Genre: Business, Economics, Politics
ISBN: 0393062368
Pub. Date: August 2007
Format: Hardcover, 384pp
Publisher: Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.
India (back office to the world) and China (factory to the world) have become major players in the world economy seemingly overnight. So what should the Unites States (buyer to the world) do about it? Robyn Meredith, foreign correspondent for [...]
Book Review: More Than A Hobby by David Green
Author: David Green with Dean Merrill
Pub. Date: July 2005
Format: Hardcover, 224pp
Publisher: Thomas Nelson
Personal Rating 5/5
Generally, I�m not a big fan of those slim little business books that tell the story of how a business got started up. The principles they espouse usually follow the latest trend in business rather than truly being derived from their [...]
