Following last month’s Senate vote of 75-24 to attach the Marketplace Fairness Act amendmentto the FY 2014 Budget Resolution, the Senate is continuing to push forward with online sales tax legislation. Last night the Senate voted 74-20 to bring the Marketplace Fairness Act to the floor for debate. “Today’s vote is yet another clear signal that [...]
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With comparable store sales of books down 1.3% in the fiscal year ended January 31, 2013—after falling 4.8% in 2011– Hastings Entertainment said it is cutting back the space devoted to books, music and rental as it rolls out new products in an expanded electronics department and adds to its trends section. The bigger electronics [...]
Author Joe Mechlinski provides a simple, yet powerful, growth strategy for small to mid-sized businesses to create fundamental organizational change. The author shares the method he has used to help hundreds of companies grow despite a tough economy and what he calls “a government in gridlock.” His step-by-step method, beginning with a reset in culture [...]
What Would A Wise Woman Do? provides a roadmap for today’s woman. Laura Atchison had it all—a great career, ambitious goals, and loving family—when she realized she was off course. By digging deeper, she discovered she hadn’t been asking herself the right questions—and as a result, had been living the wrong answers. By revealing her [...]
In a major ruling, Federal judge Harold Baer this week tossed the Authors Guild case against the HathiTrust. In granting the HathiTrust’s motion for summary judgment, Baer ruled that the scan program was a clear fair use under the copyright law, and in the process dealt a potentially fatal blow to the Authors Guild’s other [...]
