We should be finding ways to increase the value of the stuff on the Internet, but Google is saying the value of the right to put books up there is zero.
Yet, some business leaders continue to preach the value of reading books, especially literature.
For Edell the value of these books, drawings and wax models lies in their artistry.
The value of the UK's physical books market fell by nearly 5% over the course of 2012 in value terms, according to market researchers at Nielsen Bookscan.
Banks need to keep a ratio between the value of their assets and the amount of money they're lending out and because of this mortgage crisis and because of the fears surrounding it, the value of the assets they have on their books has fallen.
Finally, Aris claims that the hedge fund management firm has continued to get its management fee of 2% on assets that Guerra has been inflating by rejecting asset sales that would reveal the fair market value of the assets on its books.
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The reason for the write-off is the gaping difference between the value of Smith Barney assets on the books of Morgan Stanley and Citigroup.
Amazon was altering the perceived value of e-books just as it had with physical books, and this particular demonstration of predatory behavior worried publishers for a couple of reasons.
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No, not cheap in the conventional sense of selling for less than the value of their assets or cash on the books.
Also, like the big mortgage issuers on the mainland, he has a habit of booking paper gains on the servicing portfolio: As soon as a loan is closed, he books as income the value of the right to service it.
But if it buys them at market prices, which are horribly depressed, other banks will have to write down the value of similar assets on their books, which could trigger more trouble.
Educational and professional publishers have long seen the value of the subscription model for professional education (see: Safari Books Online, for one).
This meant that when panic selling by some troubled institutions to raise capital drove the value of mortgage related securities to virtually zero, all institutions had to change their books to reflect this minimal market value of the securities.
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They also allow industrial companies and insurers to realise the value of property which may be languishing on their books.
Charge-off rates, the value of loans removed from a company's books and charged against loss reserves, are not necessarily the best indication of lender performance.
Accounting rules mean that once its share of AngloGold Ashanti falls below 50%, the value of that holding can be reflected in its books at market price, as an investment.
Benjamin Graham, the legendary value investor and professor who wrote several investing books, including the Intelligent Investor, is widely regarded as the father of value investing and one of the best investors of all time.
"Most lawful users of music and books have hundreds of dollars of lawfully obtained things on their computers and right now the value of that is zero dollars, " said ReDigi's chief executive John Ossenmacher.
But the moment of actually writing that into the account books will trigger a "credit event" for those who value and insure countries' sovereign debt.
Meanwhile, the brand, as a trusted retailer of books, remains strong, but its relative value is a fair question.
Because their accounting is off-the-books and the ownership of these businesses is notoriously opaque, it is difficult to gauge their value.
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They're really highly leveraged, which means, you know, they have a dollar of assets on their books and they can go into the credit markets and borrow many times its value.
Check back soon for posts about those books and my correspondence with their authors, but the point of both books is that most people are not engaging with the tools that already exist to create value from their own knowledge.
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In benchmarking that price point as the default value for nearly all books in the Kindle Store, Amazon was discounting to a loss, presumably to build adoption of the Kindle platform.
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