Still, as Firefly is showing with its BigNote site built around a thriving community of music fans, good online music stores have the potential to outdo their physical competitors just as Amazon bests its book-trade rivals.
My attention was drawn to this market by a review at the Feminist Law Professors Blog on the newest book in the gamete-trade, Sex Cells: The Medical Market for Eggs and Sperm.
Also, on a price-to-book basis, shares trade at 20.64x, a substantial premium to the peer group average of 0.99x.
"Our physical trade-book business continues to be under some pressure, " Chief Executive William Lynch said in a conference call, adding that the New York company would continue to dedicate a large part of its financial resources to a digital future.
On a price-to-book basis, shares currently trade at 1.34x, a 47% discount to the industry average of 2.53x.
But, for most Americans with typical book needs, I find the current trade-off unacceptable.
After ordering back copies of trade pub- lications and a book on operating vending machines, I was prepared for the presentation Antares wanted to make to me.
Wells Fargo ( WFC) and US Bancorp ( USB), however, trade far above their tangible book value, and their non-deposit liabilities make up just 21.7% and 23.2% of their total liabilities, respectively.
As local and international investors have fled Japan's stock market, some 40% of the 1, 500 companies that are the bluest chips of Japan (the first section of the Tokyo Stock Exchange) trade below breakup value (a price-to-book value of less than one).
Pass a lazy weekend afternoon at Heine Brothers' Coffee , where you can enjoy a fair-trade, organic latte and browse the adjoining Carmichael's book store.
Haley is the co-author of the book Subsidies to Chinese Industry: State Capitalism, Business Strategy and Trade Policy by Oxford University Press.
In fact, Price Waterhouse Coopers, in their Global Entertainment and Media Outlook report, projects that e-books will make up 50 percent of the U.S. trade book market by 2016.
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Blogger Dan Nosowitz, tongue planted in cheek, declared the Mini's trade-paperback size will make it a more highbrow option for e-book lovers than the smaller Kindle Fire, which more resembles a mass-market paperback.
ISSI's shares trade for 18.2 times trailing 12-month earnings, 1.62 times book value and 1.02 times sales.
Another fellow worry-wart in the finance trade has suggested what this means for the JP Morgan Chase derivatives book, which encompasses many tens of trillions of nominal trades.
The three-day trade show includes 1, 500 exhibitors and more than 500 authors, plus a digital book zone that will no-doubt be a popular hub for readers wondering about iPad and the future of print media.
Lomborg, author of the book "Cool It: The Skeptical Environmentalist's Guide to Global Warming, " believes the cap-and-trade approach favored by Flannery and others is doomed to failure.
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