To balance their domestic budget, his wife, Barbara, took a part-time job as a book-keeper and let a room in their flat.
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The big publishers sent sales representatives to forge personal relationships with small-time book buyers and encouraged them to push their new titles to whoever walked into their stores.
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When a copy sells, the book jumps to a high rank, and then gets knocked down one unit every time any lower-ranked book sells.
Mitchell, 60, is a Boston management consultant who in his spare time writes 600-word book reviews for Amazon.com.
And "Case Closed" will soon appear for the first time as an e-book.
"There was a time when second-hand book sellers in book towns were first of all selling books and secondly selling the experience of browsing, " explained Mr Turpin.
The author of the blockbuster time management book series -- which a dvocates personal outsourcing as part of his formula for earning more in less time -- said subterfuge and allowing someone unauthorized access to the company computers is not the way forward.
With a private log-in, employees can now manage their own payroll and retirement plans, request time-off and other schedule adjustments, book on-line courses and other learning and development tools, engage and be social with colleagues on intranets, and just generally manage their own work lives to an extent that was previously impossible.
The next time you see an overpriced e-book, blame the publisher but not the agency pricing model.
Such branches can cause a processor to waste valuable time dealing with the ancillary book-keeping that comes with every branch.
It's good for you, says Robert Hass, Poet Laureate of the United States from 1995 to 1997, two-time winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award and winner in 1984 of a MacArthur Foundation "Genius" Grant.
It seemed inconceivable at that time that the print book business with its half-millennium history would become worthless in just a few years time, so the predictions by industry leaders were that the venerable print book business would coexist happily with the augmentation of e-books that would allow people to travel easily with their favorite book.
The all-time monster beluga, according to the pleasurable new book Caviar, by Inga Saffron: a Jaws-size 28-foot, 4, 570-pounder caught in 1736.
He is not British, but came to the UK at an opportune time - in the wake of "ClimateGate" - to promote his book Heaven and Earth.
Artists lined up to book time on the 20-by-24-inch cameras it built in New York and San Francisco.
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One much-discussed book of the time even argued that India was fundamentally unviable and should be left to starve, conserving scarce food aid for savable countries.
Mr. McClatchy, the time-management trainer, advises clients to book monthly appointments that can further life goals for example, attending a networking event that could lead to a better job.
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So, at 3 months, Wendy took some advice from another mother of twins and started the four B's -- bath, book, bottle and bed -- every night at the same time.
At a time when the international book bazaar is flooded with offerings from India by eager, first-time novelists on a mission to alter the impressions left by Kipling and Naipaul, Seth here makes no attempt to flaunt his Indian-ness.
According to an e-mail put out by the Save the Oaks campaign, two long-time tree-sit photographers, Matthew Taylor and David Wallace, want to publish a photo book documenting the tree-sit and the campaign.
The study is observational -- meaning the researchers followed people over time -- rather than interventional (say, having some people watch TV and others read a book), which is the gold standard for research proving cause and effect.
"We haven't proven there's a big enough market for the enhanced e-book to justify the effort, time and money, " she says.
Imagine we wanted to continue with this glorious new e-book technology but at the same time wanted to preserve the library and the bookshop?
Like the 1st generation Kindle unearthed by Engadget snoops way back in September of 2006, Amazon's having a tough time keeping the lid on its 2nd generation e-book reader.
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As I explained in a book I co-authored some time ago, in an environment like this bankers have grown up as abacus bankers, record keepers of money flows who derive income from seigniorage, from the passive creation of money through interest bearing-loans and government-backed securities rather than from true banking, and from active risk management.
At the time of writing, Celebrate was the 98th best-selling book on Amazon.
"I guess it took 17 years before anyone thought of taking the book and applying it to big-time football, " Grove said.
Ogorek predicts that will change in the months to come, once the self-published books have time to develop traction and credible book sales.
The fact is that Borders has been facing headwinds for quite some time including a rapidly changing book industry, the e-Reader revolution, and a turbulent economy.
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