One aspect of our prolonged trade deficit that does seem problematic is that it reflects a flow of capital to a rich country from poorer countries, the reverse of the text-book model.
Moving to the newer e-book only model for business leadership content is still a brave new world.
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Another China-model book was launched in April and debated at an expo-related forum in Shanghai.
Those figures were given to me by the games industry consultant Nicholas Lovell who is writing a book about the freemium model and its impact on various media industries.
We also like the idea that no one at all has written a business book using a corporate sponsorship model.
"It is impossible not to come to the conclusion that the economic model on which book towns were set up has completely changed, " he said.
Conant's use of employee engagement has been so successful that it is held up as a model in the book Closing the Engagement Gap--How Great Companies Unlock Employee Potential for Superior Results, by Julie Gebauer and Don Lowman.
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Companies like salesforce.com and the others discussed in his book will thrive, and the model will catch on by force of example.
Publishers have argued privately that the agency model helped save the book industry from suffering the same fate as the music recording industry did at the hands of Apple and preserved competition by allowing several booksellers to thrive.
Their New York bookstores are usually held up as the model of relaxed, accessible book-selling.
Book clubs also have a different business model: they are not distributors, but licensed by publishers to produce their own editions.
Indeed, the two have already written a book for the general reader outlining their model, Endless Universe, which includes the notion that the universe is the product of a collision between multi-dimensional membranes.
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GameStop, which also trades for just 0.4 times trailing 12-month sales and 1.3 times book value, also gets strong interest from the model I base on the writings of hedge fund guru Joel Greenblatt.
The next time you see an overpriced e-book, blame the publisher but not the agency pricing model.
Most important, the agency pricing model levels the playing field for e-book retailers.
We thought about what we had seen the other sellers do at the book show, and then went to work changing our model.
Through their conspiracy, the companies imposed a new model under which the publishers seized e-book pricing authority from all of their retail bookstores and raised prices for e-books.
Each player sees the e-book as a cornerstone of its larger platform strategy and business model.
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Then there are its plans for a book publishing arm, which will also operate on a new model.
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Critics of the agency model viewed it as an attempt to raise e-book prices.
Another proponent of the employee-first management model is Vineet Nayar, CEO of HCL, whose book Employees First, Customers Second calls for a radical shift in top management and employee roles.
Given that the book runs more than 700 pages, the screen adaptation is a model of concision, even though the movie runs 154 minutes, inevitably compressing some elements and leaving others out.
One twist on the typical geo-location services model is that WhitePages plans to provide business recommendations based on address book popularity.
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The Cuban-American model and hostess came to our FORBES studio recently to chat about her book Unforgettable You.
As Apple prepared to introduce its first iPad, the late Steve Jobs, then its chief executive, suggested moving to an "agency model, " under which the publishers would set the price of the book and Apple would take a 30% cut.
The book reminds us all that, it is the combination of strong technology and a differentiated business model that defines winners.
According to Nixon's Economy, the 1998 book by Rice University economic historian Allen Matusow, Laffer chalked up Schultz's eager embrace of his model to a simple misunderstanding.
Analyst Keith Benjamin figures online mall CUC NetMarket's model -- where customers pay an up-front fee to receive bigger discounts on all subsequent book purchases -- might prove more profitable.
Apart from an idle man halfheartedly flipping through a book of local attractions, there was no one in the front of the shop, where miniature carved boats and model fish aged unwanted on the shelves.
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