100 Awesome Sites for Buying, Trading, and Selling All Your Books
September 16, 2009
100 Awesome Sites for Buying, Trading, and Selling All Your Books
By Jill Gordon
Computers and the Internet have transformed the publishing industry and slowed down demand for books. However, the web has also been good news for book lovers, with many terrific sites dedicated to lowering books costs and freeing avid readers from the local library. If you’re an avid reader or serious book collector, here are 100 awesome sites for buying, selling and trading your books.
Buying books online is a smart way to go. Shoppers can research titles, authors and always find the exact book they want. Check out these great sites before buying your next book online.
Sites for Buying Books
Founders at Work by Jessica Livingston
September 12, 2009
Ever wondered how some of your favorite companies got started? So did author/researcher Jessica Livingston. Her interviews with over two dozen of the most successful recent entrepreneurs reveal a host of common elements essential to understanding the trials and tribulations of the startup business.
For most all of these first time entrepreneurs, the journey was significantly different than they first imagined it. Some companies (eBay, Flickr) didn’t even plan to be in the business that hey eventually became. Others were continually rejected by investors and potential business partners to the point that only their sheer persistence actually got the company going.
By comparing notes of companies like Apple, Lotus, PayPal, Craigslist TiVo, Yahoo and others, Livingston assembles a pastiche of common problems that those seeking to create the next round of startups would be well advised to read. ‘Founders at Work’ serves as a ‘fly on the wall’ look at what really happened inside some of the most successful companies of the last decade and an easy way to learn from their mistakes.
Playing Basketball, Playing Politics: Lessons From the Top Game Changer
September 5, 2009
In “Renegade: The Making of a President,” his insightful new book about Mr. Obama, Richard Wolffe – an MSNBC political analyst, who covered the Obama campaign for Newsweek magazine extends the basketball metaphor further, depicting the president as a clutch player, who, like Michael Jordan, lives for Game 7 of the finals. He likes getting into his opponents’ heads (though without talking a lot of trash), thinks of himself, in Mr. Wolffe’s words, as ‘a playmaker’ who can ‘direct the game and outsmart his opponents,’ and he knows how to raise his game when it counts, often cranking up the pressure on himself by raising expectations to deliver the game-winning layup as the shot clock is running down.
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Playing Basketball, Playing Politics: Lessons From the Top Game Changer
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