But the real reason why books are going to vanish is the remarkably un-business-like business model of the publishers.
The Secretary-General later attended a dinner with business leaders hosted by the UN Foundation.
Five hundred UN peacekeepers will not win the war against the rebels and it is not even clear that they want to actually mount an offensive but the convoy that headed out of Freetown on Friday was the first sign for several weeks that the UN intends to do business.
Onto a private meeting between key business leaders and the heads of various UN agencies to discuss how we can work together to help address some of the pressing issues around the world.
Because businesses need to do boring and un-sexy stuff to stay in business: print invoices, create orders, cut checks, pay people, track time.
Schmidt, who is the highest-profile U.S. business executive to visit North Korea since leader Kim Jong Un took power a year ago, has not spoken publicly about the reasons behind the journey to North Korea.
It proposed a scheme whereby un-repaid loans above 5m pesos would again become the business of the banks, but Fobaproa would take over more of their small ones.
It's frankly, as an old UN man I can tell you very, very dangerous, this business of offering people immunity for them to leave office.
But he said many people at the UN listening to the speech would have regarded the UK action as "business as usual" by the West.
Indeed, the latest bout of UN and NGO research does look more like the kinds of reports businesspeople and business writers have been used to seeing from consultancies for years, right down to the color scheme on the infographics.
Some rich countries are seeking new rules under the UN climate convention, which campaigners say would allow them to gain credit for "business as usual".
South Africa's Business Day has criticized African governments for downplaying the Sudanese government's responsibility at the new UN Human Rights Council created this year, saying the Africa group did no more than offer a weak draft resolution.
While the UN talked optimistically about securing the 'demilitarisation' of Kisangani, the rival armies clearly had unfinished business, both more than ready to resume hostilities.
And in contrast to gridlock in Congress and little progress from UN climate negotiations in Doha, the message is clear: Corporations understand that clean energy is good business.
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