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Developing Open Access Journals: A Practical Guide
David J. Solomon
List price: $69.95 (Paperback)
Book Description
"This book provides a practical guide to developing and maintaining an electronic open access peer-reviewed scholarly journal. Creating such journals requires a great deal of specialized knowledge that spans library science, web development, intellectual property rights, and publishing. The author, Dr. Solomon, is an Associate Professor of Medicine at Michigan State University. He started an open access electronic journal, Medical Education Online, which has grown rapidly in recent years."
Typo: The Last American Typesetter or How I Made and Lost 4 Million Dollars
David Silverman
List price: $16.95 (Paperback)
Book Description
"Two months before David Silverman’s 32nd birthday, he visited the Charles Schwab branch in the basement of the World Trade Center to wire his father’s life savings towards the purchase of the Clarinda Typesetting company in Clarinda, Iowa. Typo tells the true story of the Clarinda company’s last rise and fall — and with it one entrepreneur’s story of what it means to take on, run, and ultimately lose an entire life’s work. This book is an American dream run aground, told with humor despite moments of tragedy. The story reveals the impact of losing part of an entire industry and answers questions about how that impacts American business. The reader sees in Clarinda’s fate the potential peril faced by every company, and the lessons learned are applicable to anyone who wants to run his or her own business, succeed in a large corporation, and not be stranded by the reality of shifting markets, outsourcing, and, ultimately, capitalism itself."
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner
List price: $27.95 (Hardcover)
#15 on The New York Times Best Seller List!
"Which is more dangerous, a gun or a swimming pool? What do schoolteachers and sumo wrestlers have in common? Why do drug dealers still live with their moms? How much do parents really matter? What kind of impact did Roe v. Wade have on violent crime?
These may not sound like typical questions for an economist to ask. But Steven D. Levitt is not a typical economist. He is a much heralded scholar who studies the stuff and riddles of everyday life -- from cheating and crime to sports and child rearing -- and whose conclusions regularly turn the conventional wisdom on its head. He usually begins with a mountain of data and a simple, unasked question. Some of these questions concern life-and-death issues; others have an admittedly freakish quality. Thus the new field of study contained in this book: Freakonomics.
Through forceful storytelling and wry insight, Levitt and co-author Stephen J. Dubner show that economics is, at root, the study of incentives -- how people get what they want, or need, especially when other people want or need the same thing. In Freakonomics, they set out to explore the hidden side of ... well, everything. The inner workings of a crack gang. The truth about real-estate agents. The myths of campaign finance. The telltale marks of a cheating schoolteacher. The secrets of the Ku Klux Klan.
What unites all these stories is a belief that the modern world, despite a surfeit of obfuscation, complication, and downright deceit, is not impenetrable, is not unknowable, and -- if the right questions are asked -- is even more intriguing than we think. All it takes is a new way of looking. Steven Levitt, through devilishly clever and clear-eyed thinking, shows how to see through all the clutter.
Freakonomics establishes this unconventional premise: If morality represents how we would like the world to work, then economics represents how it actually does work. It is true that readers of this book will be armed with enough riddles and stories to last a thousand cocktail parties. But Freakonomics can provide more than that. It will literally redefine the way we view the modern world."
What the critics are saying . . .
New York Times Book Review
"The trivia alone is worth the cover price." --This text refers to the Roughcut edition.
Publishers Weekly (starred review)
"Hard to resist." --This text refers to the Roughcut edition.
Wall Street Journal
"If Indiana Jones were an economist, he’d be Steven Levitt… Criticizing Freakonomics would be like criticizing a hot fudge sundae." --This text refers to the Roughcut edition.
San Diego Union-Tribune
"Levitt dissects complex real-world phenomena, e.g. baby-naming patterns and Sumo wrestling, with an economist’s laser." --This text refers to the Roughcut edition.
Financial Times
"Levitt is one of the most notorious economists of our age." --This text refers to the Roughcut edition.
Salon.com
"A showcase for Levitt’s intriguing explorations into a number of disparate topics…. There’s plenty of fun to be had." --This text refers to the Roughcut edition.
Associated Press
"An unconventional economist defies conventional wisdom." --This text refers to the Roughcut edition.
Washington Post Book World
"The guy is interesting!" --This text refers to the Roughcut edition.
Emotional Intelligence: 10th Anniversary Edition; Why It Can Matter More Than IQ
Daniel Goleman.
Paperback: 384 pages (September 27, 2005)
"Everyone knows that high IQ is no guarantee of success, happiness, or virtue, but until Emotional Intelligence, we could only guess why. Daniel Goleman's brilliant report from the frontiers of psychology and neuroscience offers startling new insight into our "two minds"—the rational and the emotional—and how they together shape our destiny.
Through vivid examples, Goleman delineates the five crucial skills of emotional intelligence, and shows how they determine our success in relationships, work, and even our physical well-being. What emerges is an entirely new way to talk about being smart.
The best news is that "emotional literacy" is not fixed early in life. Every parent, every teacher, every business leader, and everyone interested in a more civil society, has a stake in this compelling vision of human possibility." From the book cover.
What the critics are saying . . .
USA Today
"A thoughtfully written, persuasive account explaining emotional intelligence and why it can be crucial to your career."
The Christian Science Monitor
"Good news to the employee looking for advancement [and] a wake-up call to organizations and corporations."The New York Times Book Review
"Anyone interested in leadership...should get a copy of this book."—Warren Bennis
Online Submission and Peer Review Systems
Mark Ware
Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers, 2005, 126 Pages
Reviewed by: Carol Meyer
This ALPSP research report provides the results of a survey of online submissions and peer review systems users. The author also provides a valuable overview of the features and costs of ten of the most popular systems. Users were asked where they used the systems and about their perceptions and experiences. Mark Ware included questions yielding interesting information about the effects on behavior. Are submissions more geographically diverse? Do online submissions systems change the quality of the manuscripts submitted? Publishers also identify which features are important: file formats, reference linking, ecommerce, referee selection tools, and many others. They also provide an insight into the average 7.3 month implementation process. Publishers currently evaluating their manuscript submission and peer review processes should take a look at this informative report. The inclusion of suggestions for publishers choosing a system and the open ended comments of users are enlightening,and will help publishers ask the right questions of prospective vendors. We hope to see the report updated and expanded to include more vendors in the future.
How To Start And Run A Small Book Publishing Company: A Small Business Guide To Self-Publishing And Independent Publishing
Peter I. Hupalo
HCM Publishing, 2002
How To Start And Run A Small Book Publishing Company begins where many self-publishing books leave off. Peter Hupalo, author of Thinking Like An Entrepreneur and the owner of HCM Publishing, teaches the business aspects involved in operating a small book publishing company.
This book covers a wide range of topics, including inventory management, turn-key fulfillment solutions, profitable book pricing, standard terms in the book industry, working with distributors and wholesalers, book promotion and marketing, selecting profitable authors to publish, trademarks and imprints, and print-on-demand publishing. (Information from the HCM Publishing website.) For more information, visit http://www.hcmpublishing.com/.
TWGA examines future of book publishing (at a glance)
An article from: Ink World (available in [HTML] and (Digital) format)
Ink World Magazine, May 1, 2005, Rodman Publications, Inc, Volume: 11 Issue: 5, Page: 14(1), Printable
Handheld Compatible, File Size: 4 KB, Digital: 2 pages, Required Free Software: Any web browser
This digital document is an article from Ink World, published by Rodman Publications, Inc. on May 1, 2005. The length of the article is 479 words. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in the Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
According to data from TrendWatch Graphic Arts' (TWGA), special report, "A Decade of DI: TWGA Perspective on the Changing Market for Digital Imaging Equipment," between 2003 and 2004, book publishers were the only publishing market to report a decline in business conditions.