If I can leave you with anything after recommending these books, it's this: don't look
at a book as something you must read from start to finish to get anything out of it.
I look
at this books as a resource for us... some things we will use and others we will not.
These eight videos may change how you look
at books as a writer, and they certainly might help you bring back the fun of reading again.
Developmental editing is best done by someone with little experience in the book's topic so they don't bring any preconceived notions and can look
at the book as a novice.
One of the uniting factors of the four panelists — who included Thought Company, Diversion Books, Pegasus, and Soho Press — is that willingness to not only look
at books as a matter of risk, but also to embrace digital publishing wholeheartedly for its ability to reach a high - level of readers while allowing them to release large numbers of titles each year, which for this panel includes between 90 and 120 titles annually.
It is no longer good enough to have a few close friends take a quick look
at the book as a review.
If you look
at the book as a business, they are the number one salesperson for the product,» said Jessica May, assistant events manager for Author Solutions.
And I think in the short term we are still going to be looking
at books as horseless carriages.
Because we look
at each book as a unique project that will carry your words to your readers.
Not exact matches
At the lowest levels, the campaign offered backers exclusive access to Ries's new
book, «The Leader's Guide,»
as well
as a copy of Riese's next non-exclusive
book.
At 13 years old, Dias is the founder of # 1000blackgirlbooks, a campaign that she started in 2015 with the goal to collect and donate 1,000
books to her peers that featured black girls
as the main characters.
The European Union's executive body is frustrated with the relatively low corporate taxes paid by firms such
as Facebook (fb) and Amazon, and individual EU countries are frustrated
at seeing overseas firms take business from local rivals while
booking their revenues elsewhere.
As my editor
at Penguin told me, «It's not what a
book is, it's what a
book does.»
Despite continued worries over
at sports flagship network ESPN (
as well
as fears over cord - cutting across the media industry), the Mouse House's media networks
booked nearly
as much revenue
as Disney's parks and resorts and film studio units combined.
'» It became known
as the «Frisbee speech,» and for years it gave foreign acquirers confidence the government wouldn't throw the
book at them if they failed to live up to their promises.
Or,
as Christine Bader describes in her
book The Evolution of a Corporate Idealist: When Girl Meets Oil, corporations including her former employers
at BP may well be «advancing human rights in some ways while compromising them in others.»
Hotel
booking app HotelTonight offers last - minute rooms
at a range of hotels around the globe
at discounts
as high
as 50 %.
And while some older people may discount Mulcahy's strategy of using a chat box on her website
as impersonal, she sees it
as a way to communicate with customers on their time table — maybe
at 11 p.m. when they happen to need a tutor or want to
book an appointment.
But instead of paying for a program —
as you would a
book or movie on Amazon — you'd get an incentive: a credit, maybe, to be used against your health insurance premium, or a free download
at Amazon, or a discounted checking account
at Chase.
He is the author of two
books: BIG LIKE: CASCADE INTO AN ODYSSEY, a travel memoir of an almost regular guy who gets totally unstuck in Tokyo — a «funny
as hell non-fiction
book about wanderlust and traveling abroad»; and TESTOSTERONE PIT, a short, edgy, humorous novel about car salesmen, their customers, managers, and shenanigans
at a large Ford dealership.
In fact, many authors wait until their
book is
at the rough draft stage to finalize what they will use
as hook material.
Although the incident comes
at the height of the busiest time of the year for cruise
bookings, a period known
as Wave Season, travel agents weren't bracing for a downturn in business Monday, in part because the incident had yet to get major publicity, said Mike Driscoll of Cruiseweek, an industry newsletter.
United offers an annual Economy Plus subscription for
as little
as $ 499, allowing users to
book available premium seats
at no additional charge.
Sometimes, a
book comes into your life
at the perfect time, or perhaps you justify it
as such.
(I am facing that problem head - on every day
as I try to write my new
book on what the world will look like in 20 years - knowing that I'm going to be laughably wrong
at various points along the way.
Why he believes it's just
as important to pen
books aimed
at teaching kids manners.
Slywotzky's
book takes readers under the hood of companies that fire on all pistons,
at least
as far
as exciting consumers is concerned.
A few weeks before the
book party, Newman, now CEO of Magic Hat Brewing Co., a craft beer maker in Burlington, sat
at the desk in his cluttered office, bearded and barefoot
as usual, and composed an e-mail to Hollender:
Look
at valuation metrics such
as price - to - earnings and price - to -
book, and compare those valuations to comparable firms.
Kottke recently shared a list of the
books he and Jobs read around their time
at Reed — ones that inspired Jobs's travels across the globe
as well
as his professional pursuits.
It also might be the least crowded,
as admission is granted
at two - hour intervals, so call ahead to
book an entry time.
As this
book clearly explains, whatever happened or is happening in their family is reflecting and repeating itself
at work.
He's spent his career lecturing to and on the aerospace industry, having taught for several semesters
at George Washington University while publishing countless papers and research reports
as well
as one
book on the industry.
The title's not - so subtle biblical reference is a hint
at Stursberg's view of the Ceeb
as the place that business common sense forgot, and the
book serves largely
as a catalogued defence of his belief that audience numbers, not an ambiguous cultural mandate, would define the network's success.
Halfway through last year, Jason Kint of the advertising trade group Digital Content Next looked
at the total ad revenue
booked by those two companies
as a proportion of the overall industry, and found that they accounted for about 90 % of all the growth in the business.
These rules need to be presented
as part of your property listing on Airbnb and agreed to by your guests
at the time they confirm their
booking.
Copyright applies to creative works such
as books and movies (and this column), but also to software, which
at its core is another form of writing, albeit in code.
In his
book,
At Ease: Stories I Tell My Friends, he advises, «Always try to associate yourself with and learn
as much
as you can from those who know more than you do, who do better than you, who see more clearly than you.»
As proof that the new Mac smell has overtaken the new
book smell, Apple accessory maker TwelveSouth made a $ 24 soy candle that will remind you of what it's like to open that white box every day (or
at least for 45 to 55 hours).
Head of content
at MarketingProfs, and author of some of the more compelling digital - centric
books out there, such
as Everybody Writes and Content Rules.
As Alexandra Troy, founder and CEO of Culinary Architect Catering, explains in my
book The Good Ones, a brave employee we'll call Sarah revealed that another employee, Mabel, was bad - mouthing Alexandra behind her back and not paying attention to details
at work.
To infiltrate these corporate spaces and get them up to speed, I
book keynotes (domestic and international) that put these insights on stage,
as well
as seminars for BOTs and Destination Marketing Organizations
at CultureMeetsCorporate.com that does the same in a more intimate setting.
A CRY OF DE-STRESS: Speaking of time, few things are
as stressful
as staring
at a towering stack of
books and journals you know you'll never get around to reading.
OUTLOOK: If you can read this business's bottom - line priorities
as well
as the current owner understands her customers» yen for
books, then your tenure
at this retailer could be a classic.
The practice was commonplace
at the time, and was awesomely referred to
as «swilling the planters with bumbo,» according to the 1989
book Robert Dinkin's «Campaigning in America: A History of Election Practices» (originally seen via an article in Smithsonian Magazine).
Families traveling with children, who have come to rely on movie and game - filled tablets for entertainment, should make sure to pack «some good old - fashioned unplugged entertainment, such
as books, puzzle
books, and coloring pads,» said Suzanne Rowan Kelleher, family travel expert
at About.com.
The price of
books for non-members
at Amazon's stores are the same
as those
at a Barnes & Noble or independent store.
At the time, Fox News also credited the show with providing Trump additional income from merchandise sales and promotion of Trump properties,
as well
as helping his
book «How to Get Rich» become a best - seller.
She read
as much
as possible, volunteering
at the library for better
book access, and joined an afterschool robot - building club even though it had just one other member.
When she's not hitting the
books as a student
at Georgetown University in Washington, DC, Princess Iman joins her mother on royal outings in their native Jordan and to places like the UK, France, Italy, China, and Japan.