Book publishers charge extra for readers who are either rich or impatient by releasing the hardcover first, the paperback later.
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Roberta Chinsky Matuson is the President of Matuson Consulting ( www.matusonconsulting.com) and author of the forthcoming, Talent Magnetism (Nicholas Brealey, 2013) and the highly acclaimed book Suddenly in Charge: Managing Up, Managing Down, Succeeding All Around, a Washington Post Top-5 Leadership pick.
Roberta Chinsky Matuson is the President of Matuson Consulting ( www.matusonconsulting.com) and author of the forthcoming, The Magnetic Workplace (Nicholas Brealey, 2013) and the highly acclaimed book Suddenly in Charge: Managing Up, Managing Down, Succeeding All Around, a Washington Post Top-5 Leadership pick.
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Although it was impossible for him to distribute hard copies inside the country, Hamid made the book available online free of charge.
The goodwill impairment charge, or lowered book value of an asset, arose after the Advanced Micro Devices conducted an analysis of the businesses and determined that they weren't performing to its expectations, making it the second ATI-related write-down that the chipmaker has had to stomach since buying the company in July 2006.
The goodwill impairment charge, or lowered book value of an asset, arose after the Advanced Micro Devices (nyse: AMD - news - people ) conducted an analysis of the businesses and determined that they weren't performing to its expectations, making it the second ATI-related write-down that the chipmaker has had to stomach since buying the company in July 2006.
Ms. Paul is sensibly resistant to alarmism on these issues, but you cannot read her book without asking: And who is in charge of prenatal life?
Indeed, the visual is so important in this book that the descriptive writing has more emotional charge than the passages which give us access to the main characters' minds.
It is easy to imagine circumstances in which a monopoly would charge less than the text-book profit-maximising price, either to extend its market (with a view to raising prices later) or to deter new entrants (a strategy known as limit-pricing).
But that need not stop you enjoying Mr Brody's book, even if you hesitate to put him in charge of your destiny.
This post was excerpted from his new book, The Intention Economy: When Customers Take Charge, published by the Harvard Business Review Press.
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The book gives us a glimpse into the greed and misjudgements of the people in charge that led to Lehman's spectacular demise and the far-reaching consequences of the bank's collapse.
Or the time when, according to George Packer in his book "The Assassins' Gate, " Mr. Powell leveled another ugly charge at Mr. Feith, this time in his final Oval Office meeting with George W. Bush.
The site is free to use but will soon charge a fee for premium services, such as uploading video or a book of shared photos and memories.
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I'm not a worrier, but I do like being prepared -- Boy Scouts can do that sort of thing to you -- and keeping a charge on my iPhone 4S at all times is a must in my book.
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Some people book refundable backup tickets or discounted tickets on an airline like Southwest that doesn't charge a change fee, so the fare can be used for a later flight.
He later repeated the charge, with a swipe at the Malays themselves for being overly fatalistic, in his book The Malay Dilemma.
Book a hotel room through Tingo.com and the new site will rebook it, free of charge, if the hotel lowers its rate.
Seville is home to approximately half a dozen tablaos, most of which charge between 30 to 40 euros for entry (or up to 70 euros if you book dinner).
"They can buy, sell, share or put a call virtually to any stock, bond or currency in the world, they can do it from their basement, and they can do it with information that in the past brokers would only give to their clients for a charge, " says Thomas L Friedman, of the New York Times, author of a book on globalisation.
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