With a private log-in, employees can now manage their own payroll and retirement plans, request time-off and other schedule adjustments, book on-line courses and other learning and development tools, engage and be social with colleagues on intranets, and just generally manage their own work lives to an extent that was previously impossible.

FORBES: 5 Attributes of a World-Class Workforce

In response to their writing I decided to randomly place each book I read on an A-Z London and draw a line around it.

BBC: Students of the street

The books serve as ice-breakers: people can focus on their book rather than themselves, and each person approaching another has a perfect opening line.

BBC: Paris�� 21st Century literary salon

Through partnerships with 250 medical organizations and Web sites -- including the American Medical Association and Physicians Online -- Bhan says he has access to more than half the estimated 350, 000 doctors and 835, 000 nurses who are on-line in the U.S. Medsite offers the organizations a 5% cut of book sales.

FORBES: What the doctor ordered

When he concentrates in his book on the British banking crisis, his access to those at the top and his front-line reporting illuminate his analysis.

ECONOMIST: The financial crisis

The e-book business is led by newcomers such as Xlibris.com to Excel.com and Books On-line.

CNN: Electronic books are poised to become a key medium

The main plot line, about the undoing of a candidate, is plausible (just) and the book is good on journalists and the conflict between the lazy, pompous old media and the new media that are hungry, looked down upon and dangerous.

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