Ebooks at Dyman Associates Publishing Inc Wednesday column: Assuming the risk for your ... - 1 views
image
Group items tagged
Ebooks at Dyman Associates Publishing Inc A Plea: Let Some Ebook Data Flow - 1 views
This content was provided by Aptara. Historically, when all others are concentrating on lowering costs, quality wins. Publishers with a laser focus on improving the reader experience win over th...
Ebooks at Dyman Associates Publishing Inc: Harper Lee agrees to ebook version of To Kil... - 1 views
Harper Lee has agreed for To Kill a Mockingbird to be made available as an ebook and digital audiobook, filling one of the biggest gaps in the digital library. In a rare public statement released ...
Ebooks at Dyman Associates Publishing Inc: How to Build an E-Library Free - 2 views
One of the highlights of my day is to browse several emails I receive that list free e-books. A lot of it is dreck (many self-published books on Kindle's free publishing platform sorely needed edit...
Book Reviews Dyman Associates Publishing Inc: The World's First Stock Exchange - 1 views
-
Aldrey Dyman on 13 Jun 14In his famous book Confusión de confusions Joseph Penso de la Vega wrote: "If one were to lead a stranger through the streets of Amsterdam and ask him where he was, he would answer 'among speculators,' for there is no corner where one does not talk shares." And, Lodewijk Petram adds, "the people of Amsterdam were talking about options, too, and forward selling, quotations and prices, risk and speculation-all relating to the trade in the shares of the Dutch East India Company (the Vereenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie, VOC), which had been established in 1602. Fortunes were made and lost, and the men who engaged in this trade were wholly in thrall to it." Petram did extensive archival research, including mining the records of active traders, to shed new light on de la Vega's account of the Amsterdam stock market. The Dutch edition of his book appeared in 2011. Columbia Business School Publishing/Columbia University Press has just released the English edition, The World's First Stock Exchange, skillfully translated by Lynne Richards. It's an engrossing tale.
Ebooks at Dyman Associates Publishing Inc: Sony Retreats Further From The Ebook Business - 1 views
One of the original pioneers of the ebook business is beating a hasty retreat back to its stronghold and ceding all of its customers to a rival. Sony will no longer be selling ebooks to customers ...
I Own 3,000 E-Books. I Paid $0: How to Build an E-Library Free - 2 views
image
Book Reviews Dyman Associates Publishing Inc: Five Best Book Recommendation Services - 1 views
If you're on the hunt for something new and interesting to read, you have plenty of places to turn. This week, we're looking at five of the best book recommendation sites, services, or groups, base...
Book Reviews Dyman Associates Publishing Inc: The Silkworm by Robert Galbraith - 1 views
''Writing as Robert Galbraith,'' Harry Potter creator J.K. Rowling has suggested of her recent venture into crime fiction, has been a ''pure joy''. Judging by the bestseller lists, this is a joy sq...
Dyman Associates Publishing Inc. Reviews on Being Mortal: Medicine & What Matters in th... - 1 views
Atul Gawande, a Boston surgeon explores the issues of aging and death in this book which, among other books dealing with the same subjects, echoes the driving desire for awareness of the human cond...
Book Reviews Dyman Associates Publishing Inc: Clash Of The Financial Pundits - 1 views
-
How the Media Influences Your Investment Decisions for Better or Worse by Joshua M. Brown and Jeff Macke (McGraw-Hill, 2014) is a book by financial pundits about financial pundits. It alternates between reflections on the financial media (I assume written by Josh Brown) and interviews conducted by Jeff Macke. The interviewees are Jim Rogers, Ben Stein, Karen Finerman, Henry Blodget, Herb Greenberg, James Altucher, Barry Ritholtz, and Jim Cramer. Since both authors are members of the financial media (Brown is author of The Reform Broker blog and a regular contributor to CNBC, Macke is the host of Breakout on Yahoo Finance), the reader can't expect to be told: "just turn off the news." Instead, the authors try to explain which pundits may be worth listening to and which ones are just noise, or worse. For investors who are not intrinsically skeptical and who have no idea of how to separate the wheat from the chaff, the authors offer a few good pointers. For the rest of us-hardened, cynical folk that we are, the interviews offer some good tidbits. The book has a strange subtext, along the lines of "I once was lost but now I'm found." Jeff Macke recounts his career-killing "Car People" episode on the now defunct evening program CNBC Reports and his subsequent emotional descent and recovery. And he interviews three insiders who to a greater or lesser degree faced their own professional crises: Henry Blodget, banned from the securities industry but now the editor and CEO of Business Insider; Jim Cramer, who took a drubbing on Jon Stewart's The Daily Show; and James Altucher, who seems to specialize in failing and bouncing back-and writing about it. Whom do I personally consider worth listening to? First, those who readily admit they don't know the answer. Bob Shiller comes to mind here. Second, those who move markets, such as David Tepper. And third, those who are both
Ebooks at Dyman Associates Publishing Inc: Scanner for ebook cannot tell its 'arms' fro... - 1 views
Smart Bitches, Trashy Books is already one of my favourite books blogs, but editor Sarah Wendell has now raced to the top of my list for, well, everything after her amazing spot yesterday. "So if ...
Book Reviews Dyman Associates Publishing Inc: 'Unstoppable' by Ralph Nader - 1 views
Ralph Nader wants liberals and conservatives to work together. In his new book, "Unstoppable", he cites many instances in which such cooperation ought to be possible, at least theoretically. But th...