Sentences with phrase «books as products»

The more interesting arguments, however, centre around the idea of books as products.

The author is the CEO of his or her indie publishing company, with the book as the product.

As a design teacher, I'd been exposed to this work before, but initially, I was thinking commercially; about packaging a book as a product.

The Centrifuge stripped away the idea that a writer was just the inspiration for the Book As A Product.

It is a business with you, the author, as the brand and your book as the product.

Since I saw the book as a product format losing its primacy in educational and academic markets, it seemed at least polite if not wholly pertinent to ask about the prospects for fiction writing, and indeed the whole marketplace for non-fiction, from self - help to popular history.

As I said in previous posts, you need to think about your book as a product.

Not exact matches

Scan the web: There is no shortage of articles touting the benefits of a book as a business card — and expensive packages, products and courses designed to help entrepreneurs write their own.

«Customers are buying into the concept and the message of the company as much as they are buying the product,» observes Debra Lynn Dadd, author of the book Home Safe Home, and a SoapWorks endorser.

One unique challenge that the German market presents is the Reinheitsgebot — sometimes called the «German Beer Purity Law» — that has been on the books for centuries and says for a product to be marketed as a beer, it can only use four ingredients: water, yeast, malt and hops.

Sit down as a team and go through the entire site, actually make a booking or buy a product.

Your primary mission as CEO is to identify and remove constraints, whether they're related to quickly designing new products; understanding why you're not fulfilling orders fast enough; figuring out why it takes so long to hire people, close the books, or acquire new customers; or determining why you can't keep your customers coming back.

Busque says speeding up service is a natural evolution of the product as its users book more of their jobs through mobile devices.

As Seth Godin explains in his book, Purple Cow: Transform Your Business by Being Remarkable, a stand - out product is the key to success.

I joined Uber because I love the product — and that love is as strong today as it was when I booked my very first ride six years ago.»

As Evernote CEO Phil Libin said via Ryan's book, «People [who are] thinking about things other than making the best product never make the best product.»

The «book» will feature stop - motion animation, digital paintings, music and gaming elements such as achievements to create a «fully immersive product.»

The authors of both books recognize that the chances of a product or idea taking off phenomenally are enhanced by social groups that «provide the resources for their members to learn,» as Brown and Duguid put it.

Sharon Schneider, founder of Schneider Educational Products, in San Francisco, was losing money even as she hired more sales reps for her line of finger - puppet books for preschoolers.

In his book, Gordon makes the case that many of the products and services we think of as significant innovations pale in comparative impact to the innovations of the early 20th century.

Yahoo is shutting down seven products, including its mobile app for Blackberry smartphones, as new Chief Executive Marissa Mayer takes a page from Google's play book by eliminating unsuccessful products en - masse.

In his book, Gandhi downplays the incident, dismissing it as the product of a childish impulse.

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The Conservatives are targeting public frustration at the persistent premium Canadian consumers must pay for a range of brand - name goods, such as clothing, appliances, toiletries or books, compared with what Americans are charged for the same products.

As a rule of thumb, we suggest that the product of the multiplier times the ratio of price to book value should not exceed 22.5 (this figure corresponds to 15 times earnings and 1 1/2 times book value.

Mr. Yubas is the author of the book «Product Idea to Product Success: A Complete Step - by - Step Guide to Making Money from Your Idea» as well as several articles, eBooks, Kits, audio programs, and DVD.

What started out as a side project for Sharmadean Reid has grown into two constantly booked nail salons, her own line of products that sell at retailers such as Topshop, two books, -LSB-...]

As we have grown, our hosting, presence and business application products have become increasingly important parts of our business, constituting over 45 % of aggregate total bookings in 2013.

Here, he takes a page from the book of another investor great, Peter Lynch, who as a fund manager at Fidelity urged investors to invest in companies that make products they know and like.»

MeetingPackage.com also offers its platform as a white label product for the online players in the travel market to help their customers book meeting rooms online.

The answer to that question would be a book in its own right, but he built his wealth by turning gasoline into fuel while his competitors treated gasoline as a waste product to pour into the Cuyahoga River and watch it burn.

Previous to his time at BlackRock, Alan spent 8 years at Citigroup as a Senior Delta One trader, responsible for the pricing, execution and risk management of a Global macro equity index book for the full range of delta one products.

The two parties are discussing co-operation opportunities including: partnering to create custom content around China Education's programs such as soccer and K - to - 12 education resources; distribution of World Book's books and digital products in English to schools and...

We're certainly willing to assume higher growth rates for well - managed companies with defensible product lines, which is why we don't simply define value as «low P / E» or «low price - to - book.»

Suning had more than 1,600 outlets in about 290 cities in China selling appliances, books and baby products as of August last year.

Many marketers such as entrepreneur and motivational speaker Grant Cardone use Facebook Live to launch products, provide book reviews, and share their stories.

Shares of Shutterfly, Inc. (NASDAQ: SFLY), a leading digital retailer and manufacturer of high - quality personalized products and services in photo books, gifts, cards, and stationery, are jumping 15 % as of 11:45 a.m. EDT Wednesday after the company posted a better - than - expected first quarter.

Inappropriate asks: «As in asks for promoting your product (books, webinars, conferences, etc.) in exchange for affiliate revenue: Please DO N'T.»

As John Milbank and Adrian Pabst put it in their new book The Politics of Virtue, contemporary political culture is the product of a convergence of two strains of liberalism: a leftist cultural libertarianism that took off during the 1960s and 1970s, and a rightwing free - market liberalism that reached its apogee with the Reagan - Thatcher alliance.

Never - the-less, without accepting the work at face value, it is possible to regard the Book of Mormon as the product of an extraordinary and profound act of the religious imagination.

I am an alcoholic with 32 years of sobriety, Lets look at what this woman does for a living, She writes books and I see this as nothing more than a effort to promote her product.

I see the movie as more of a product inspired by the book and less of a forced visual replication.

(I'll let you read your section before it's published, but I will retain the rights to the final product, as it appears in the book.)

Conceived as the introduction to an analysis of the Kawi language of Java, this book actually is the ripest fruit of the great linguist's interest in human speech and its products, an interest that lasted throughout his life.

But the «Son of Man» eschatology, as distinguished from that which centered in the conception of the «Messiah,» was a northern product, as we may gather from the books of Enoch.

«Blogging About Cabbages and Kings,» the blog's header reads; in the last year the DHM has taken on, among other things, the Texas FLDS debacle and the Consumer Product Safety Information Act, as well as posting frugal recipes and gift ideas, book reviews, and hymns every Sunday.

BB began as a few pages and quickly grew into a broad online baking and food magazine that showcases original recipes, baking techniques, profiles on products and ingredients, and book reviews.

Yet fast forward five years and somehow I'm running a team of seventy people, overseeing one of the fastest growing product business and operating three cafes, as well as running a social media platform that reaches around twelve million people a week and writing a series of books that have been published in over twenty languages.

We always could tell it was different (as with any baked product not made with classic flour,) but to us, your health infield versions are ALWAYS better in our book, we prefer them.

The book contains recipes for vegan versions of other products you might miss from your dairy eating days such as sour cream and almond milk.