After the price controls of the Net Book Agreement collapsed in 1995, supermarkets began shifting best-sellers at discounts.
As was widely predicted, the ending of the Net Book Agreement in 1995 hastened the end of many small, independent bookstores.
But many of our stocks are only two times and a few are even down to something approaching net book price-to-book is one.
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The first is the continuing fall-out from the ending of the Net Book Agreement, which used to prevent discounting and so supported smaller bookshops.
And Newbridge is in a strong position financially: it bought at around 1.6 times net book value when the shares are trading at 4.5 times.
Somebody must have raised some money at some time in the past, as the 7 million in net book value of property on the assets side is matched mainly by net worth and an unsecured note of 1.5 million.
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His formula involves adding two main variables: the dealership's assets minus overall debt (also called "net tangible book value"), plus what Hall calls the "blue sky" value, equal to the dealer's pretax income times some multiple between one and six, depending on the health of the operation.
Author Howard Rheingold reports in his new book Net Smart that one in six Americans admit to walking into something while texting.
As I wrote in my book Net Profit, Cisco used to maintain a healthy paranoia that made it very aware of changing technologies and led to a strategy of acquiring companies that made the gear its customers were buying it used to make around 60 such deals a year and it was very good at integrating these buys.
Regulators demand a certain cushion of net worth before a loan book can be expanded.
His new book, Safety Net, will be published by Crown in February.
The stock's multiples of earnings, cash flow (in the sense of net plus depreciation) and book value all stand at discounts to their respective five-year averages.
The strategy for composing that retirement account is the subject of my new book, Safety Net: The Strategy for De-Risking Your Investments in a Time of Turbulence.
Snowling ticks off other advantages for Sallie: low interest rate risk (given government guarantees), profit growth expectations in the 15% range, a rich return on equity (net income divided by average book value) of 38%, and a cheap valuation relative to history and the broader market.
The first of our three stock screens selected companies in the Worldscope database whose prices today are at historically low multiples of earnings, cash flow (in the sense of net income plus depreciation) and book value.
Net Minds keeps about 20 percent of book sales, and the author controls how to distribute his 80 percent share.
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This simple double entry book keeping shows that the net cash flow into the economy produced by government spending is zero, nada, nothing.
Publisher Tim Sanders of Net Minds persuaded him to write a book linked to Jobs, even though Bushnell had already finished writing a science fiction novel about a video game hatched through nanotechnology in 2071.
For Bushnell, Net Minds is a way to bring his book to market faster and in a way he believes will allow him to earn more from his work than if he had gone with a traditional publisher.
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The shares have climbed more than 35% since, yet still trade at a discount of 23% to book value, the difference, or net worth, between its assets and its liabilities.
Many, like me, turned from being net spenders to being net earners within the Amazon ecosystem (through my book and affiliate commissions, I now make more from Amazon than I spend there).
His new book, published last month, is Safety Net: The Strategy for De-Risking Your Investments in a Time of Turbulence.
Berkshire's book value per share the measure of net worth that Mr. Buffett prefers as a yardstick to earnings, which he views as too volatile and subject to the whims of accounting rule makers increased 14% in 2012.
Obviously, the New Zealander who has staked his net worth on the future of the emerging economies is talking his book, but given the burgeoning debt in Greece, the United Kingdom and other European countries, Jennings may have a point when he says that as capital becomes more mobile it will look for the less obvious investment opportunities like Africa.
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Like the first book, the new book surveys the hot spots in the clean tech space, which include net-zero energy green buildings, advanced waste heat technologies for combined heat and power and several other technologies.
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"New studies indicate this is a global problem, " says Kimberly Young, a clinical psychologist who wrote the first book on the subject of Internet addiction, "Caught in the Net, " and founded the Center for Internet Addiction Recovery in Bradford, Pennsylvania.
At theguestchef.net, customers can view a short biography of the chef, peruse the menu and book a table.
In his book "The Three Faces of Desires, " philosopher Tim Schroeder argues that pleasure ("net intrinsic desire-satisfaction") is fundamentally a function of expectation.
Now at 30% of revenue, 90% of book value, 7 times 2009 earnings and 3 times cash flow (in the sense of net income plus depreciation), and with a 3.6% dividend yield, it's too cheap to pass up.
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