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After famously being rejected by several other publishers who either berated its criticism of Britain’s wartime ally Stalin, or, in T. S. Eliot’s case, its lack of ‘public-spirited pigs’.
Louise Willder • Blurb Your Enthusiasm: A Cracking Compendium of Book Blurbs, Writing Tips, Literary Folklore and Publishing Secrets
For more on the large-batch death spiral, see The Principles of Product Development Flow: Second Generation Lean Product Development by Donald G. Reinertsen: http://bit.ly/pdflow
Eric Ries • The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses
For example, the title page for a 1672 reprint of a book called The Famous Game of Chesse-play shows two nattily dressed bearded men at the board and guarantees that readers will learn ‘more by reading of this small Book, than by playing of a thousand Mates. Now augmented in many material things formerly wanting.’
Louise Willder • Blurb Your Enthusiasm: A Cracking Compendium of Book Blurbs, Writing Tips, Literary Folklore and Publishing Secrets
From the 1550s onwards a steady stream of literature warns of the numerous cons that could be practised upon the unwary. Apparently a small industry making loaded dice existed within the King’s Bench and Marshalsea prisons, but the master of the craft was a man named Bird who lived in Holborn and produced fourteen different types of loaded dice to
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Ben Horowitz • The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers
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“The editor is the professional in the poet.” — Rick Rubin, The Creative Act
