Such firms' big books of business should allow their customers to benefit from diversification.
Neal Stephenson is known for writing big books about big ideas.
The firm aggressively recruited star lawyers and their big books of business but was hampered by sagging demand for legal services in the wake of the financial crisis.
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Holly Ward is the third self-published author to hit No. 1 on the DBW Ebook Best-Seller list in 2013, an incredible achievement considering that her title, Damaged, is up against big books from major publishers and established authors.
Meanwhile, there were a bunch of nice folks in New Jersey who would index the whole paper for the New York Times Index (you know, the big red books that went out to libraries).
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With so many "big" books on the shortlist and well-known favourites like Julian Barnes, Zadie Smith and Kazuo Ishiguro, it was quite exciting to see John Banville slink off with the Man Booker Prize last night.
"The real problem I think has been that the usual promotion, marketing and publicity plans for authors with big fall books have been thrown completely into disarray for several weeks, " said John Baker, editor of Publishers Weekly.
For as long as they could, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, overseer and regulator par excellence of our national banks, coddled their flock and were loathe to give up any confidential information they stumbled across while looking at the big banks books and compliance records, over lunch.
And that is a big advantage of books, and of physical artifacts in general: permanence.
Insurance companies with big variable annuity books may drop their annual guaranteed rates, but their bond portfolios will appreciate.
They could get a job learning from a plumber or a machinist, or apprenticing to a furniture maker or just sitting in the library with a big stack of books and a notepad.
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In its annual roundup of the world of online retailing, Forrester Research predicted that sales growth would drop to 18% in 2007 from 25% in 2006, led by big slowdowns in books, music, videos and office supplies.
In its annual roundup of the world of online retailing, Forrester Research (nasdaq: FORR - news - people ) predicted that sales growth would drop to 18% in 2007 from 25% in 2006, led by big slowdowns in books, music, videos and office supplies.
Perhaps the next big sellers will be books owned by the rich and famous.
Insurance companies with big variable-annuity books may drop their annual guaranteed rates, but their bond portfolios will appreciate.
Saul Griffith restlessly taps his bare feet beneath a big table cluttered with books and models of wings and inflatable helmets.
No corporation in the world books this big a pool of profits, but the market wisely focuses on growth rates and incremental cash flow momentum.
Most business books are big fat bores, except for those that are skinny bores--those trite little tomes involving whales and cheese and lessons learned from kindergarten.
It is useful, in this connection, to contrast two books on big Japanese firms: John Nathan's new portrait of Sony and John Kotter's 1997 account of Matsushita the plodding Osaka giant that has always loomed larger in Japan than Sony, much as Toyota has overshadowed Nissan.
Whether or not any of these lawsuits ever makes it to a courtroom, 2011 is already going into the books as a big year for litigation.
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Michael Shatzkin, who consults with publishers about digital books, says the iPad might make self-published books even more competitive with books from the big publishing houses.
The majority of self-publishing books also make big promises to the reader of how much money they can make writing on their own, but this book tells the truth.
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China banks were down around 20 percent in the first half of the year, thanks in part to concerns over non-performing loans on the books of the big state owned banks lending to real estate builders.
Another big week is in the books for Wall Street, and many believe the current rally has gotten long in the tooth with the Dow Jones industrial average passing the 14, 000 mark for the first time since October 2007.
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And we love books and conversations about big ideas and great stories.
For Coates, the hope now is that the sales data from these arrangements will in time be enough to convince the big publishers that lending e-books is a way to grow and that they should work with libraries and not cut them off.
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The Power of Pull: How Small Moves, Smartly Made, Can Set Big Things in Motion (Basic Books, 2010) by John Hagel, John Seely Brown and Lang Davison, which documents the transition from firms pushing products and services at customers, to firms learning how to use the power of pull.
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The banks, all the big banks anyway, carry their mortgage books with an assumption that home prices would decline peak-to-trough 30%, 31%.
Some publishers fear that one of the big technology companies now distributing e-books will compete for the industry's best-known authors, by offering advances in a bid to gain market share.
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