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AirbnBaller | No Mercy / No Malice

Scott Galloway profgalloway.com

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editorial vs. business https://t.co/v1q5vKap3p

Scott Nover

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Making a standard trade deal means the author will get broader distribution, but the price of the book will go up to the consumer (costing sales) and the share of the price that goes to the author will diminish sharply. Nonetheless, some authors find self-publishing a path to finding a publisher and, for many, the trade-off of greater exposure and

Mike Shatzkin • The Book Business: What Everyone Needs to Know®

…this is one of the most classic examples ever of low-end disruption. You have the big thing that the enterprise people are buying with these companies that need every single last feature of Office, even though any given person only uses 5% of it. Most of them use the same 5%, but you need all those features because that's how you get the big enter... See more

Ben Gilbert • Writely (Google Docs) | Acquired Podcast

In 1999 Thomas Friedman published The Lexus and the Olive Tree: Understanding Globalization. It was Das Kapital for Smart America. In Friedman’s account, globalization is the organizing system of the post–Cold War era, but, unlike the Cold War, it is the result of technological advances and blind economic forces, not government policies. Rejecting