No corporation in the world books this big a pool of profits, but the market wisely focuses on growth rates and incremental cash flow momentum.
Some of my favorite books in the world are technique books, and with The Method In The Madness, I can geek out to my heart's content.
The CDs include the audio recordings of many world literature books, classic stories, history and art.
Already the 18th century, and then, above all, the industrial revolution, had changed the world of books.
The user curated model is extending beyond music to the world of books, movies, news and all other forms of entertainment.
In a consumer world where books, movies, and newspapers are no longer on our bookshelves but in our pockets and handbags, data is king.
Meanwhile she makes riches out of everything to hand: from the life of the village, its craftsmen and labourers, to the poor weavers of nearby Carlisle, and so on out to the world of books and literary and philosophical societies, all set against the Cumbrian landscape with its Celtic and Roman remains and discoveries of an even stranger fossilised past.
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Balkoski said he had mixed feelings about the situation because Ambrose's books have done so much to interest the public in World War II books, and because Ambrose wrote the forward to a 1999 softcover edition of Beyond the Beachhead.
Hard to leave behind Wall Street paychecks and bonuses for the even riskier world of writing books.
As I noted in my original piece, the issue that concerns me is not about Google digitising the world's books, but about only Google doing so.
Google is also likely to continue long-term bets including driver-less car technology and an effort to scan all the world's books and make them available on the search engine, both of which were pet projects for Mr. Page.
Together, the two publishers will be able to share a large part of their costs, to invest more for their author and reader constituencies and to be more adventurous in trying new models in this exciting, fast-moving world of digital books and digital readers.
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They included an early edition of Shakespeare's Henry IV Part Two, finely illustrated books - such as Theodor de Bry's America, which chronicles the earliest expeditions to the New World - and medical books, such as The French Chirurgerye.
The KISS and the Archie world have now teamed up and the first issues of KISS Archie comic books hits the world this month.
He has held exhibitions across the world, published 17 books and received seven honorary degrees.
"I've never seen a veteran more qualified to be buried at Arlington, " said O'Donnell, author of several books on World War II.
Coates moved his company into the world of e-books, where so much of the content can be accessible and available to people at a much lower cost than printed books.
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There are now some glimmers of optimism in the investment-banking world, where trading books have already been marked down ferociously and credit exposures to the real economy are more limited.
While they've been a staple of labs and chemistry books the world over for the better part of three decades, we've never quite figured out how the highly symmetrical bundles of carbon atoms form.
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Moderated by Don Tapscott, author of Macrowikinomics: Rebooting Business and the World, among other books, panelists were unanimous in their belief that the ubiquity of the Internet, along with the emergence of Web-based platforms that enable mass collaboration and crowd-sourcing, hold the key to rapid creation and development of new startups.
What would it be like to explore this New World, not only in books but on the ground?
Mr. Wolfe is the editor of Image journal and the author, most recently, of "Beauty Will Save the World" (ISI Books, 2011).
ReCaptcha takes a new approach: The project scans and digitizes thousands of pages of real-world text, including old books and the archives of TheNew York Times.
ReCaptcha takes a new approach: The project scans and digitizes thousands of pages of real-world text, including old books and the archives of The New York Times.
"Their diversity and quality, carrying with them the stamp of excellence as awarded by our expert booksellers, demonstrates that the world of children's books is as exciting and innovative as ever, " he said.
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When combined with the free online textbooks at sites like Textbook Revolution and TextBooksFree, plus other course books from Google Books, World Public Library, and Project Guttenberg, M.
Opening up access to one of the greatest collections of books in the world, this demonstrates the Library's commitment, as stated in its 2020 Vision, to increase access to anyone who wants to do research.
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