Subtlety is out. Bloomberg Businessweek’s January 25th cover shows a book engulfed in flames. The book’s title? “Amazon Wants to Burn the Book Business.” A towering pile of books dominates the front page of Sunday’s NYT Business Section. The pile starts well below the fold (print edition), breaks through the section header at the top [...]
Hampton, VA – One of the nation’s leading publishers is taking the helm of the National Center for the Prevention of Community Violence (NCPCV), based in Hampton, and San Jose, CA. The National Center for the Prevention of Community Violence is the nonprofit organization founded by national gang consultant Bobby Kipper in 2010 to advance [...]
Powell’s Books, one of the country’s largest and most successful bookstores, will launch its Espresso Book Machine in March at its City of Books flagship store location in Portland, Ore. “We are excited to offer this service to our customers, expanding our vast inventory at the City of Books location from one million volumes [...]
Barnes & Noble May Spin Off Nook Business. Barnes & Noble could be a very different company one year from now. Following a report in Wednesday’s Wall Street Journal that B&N is looking to sell Sterling Publishing (a process that a source told PW “is moving along”), the company disclosed Thursday morning that it is considering spinning off its [...]
Guerrilla Marketing Congratulates Jay Conrad Levinson. Jay Conrad Levinson is the father of the best-selling marketing series in history, “Guerrilla Marketing”. Guerrilla Marketing has swiftly blossomed into a series of books, audiotapes, videotapes, an award-winning CD-ROM, a newsletter, a consulting organization, an Internet website, and a way for individuals to spend less, get more, and [...]
Guerrilla Marketing Job Escape Plan, by Guerrilla Marketing founder Jay Conrad Levinson and serial entrepreneur Andrew Neitlich, is like no other book about starting a business. It isolates the key battles every would-be entrepreneur must fight in order to start a business with minimal risk and maximum upside. The battles include: overcoming fear, finding the right idea, [...]
