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The Shortlist for the 2012 FT/Goldman Sachs Business Book Award
By Porchlight
The shortlist for the 2012 Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award is in, and it is really good. Biographies and economics dominate what FT editor Lionel Barber says is “the strongest list” since the prize launched in 2005. Even though one of my favorite books of the year, Paper Promises: Money, Debt and the New World Order by Philip Coggan didn't make the cut, I think I agree with Mr.
Categories: news-opinion, publishing-industry
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Blog / News & Opinion
The Ultimate Book
By Porchlight
Thinking of writing a business book? Or, have you already written one, had it published, and were surprised (positively or negatively) with the results? Disillusioned or enchanted with your eBook?
Categories: news-opinion, publishing-industry
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Blog / News & Opinion
The Longlist for the 2012 FT/Goldman Sachs Business Book Award
By Porchlight
Andrew Hill's article yesterday in The Financial Times announcing the longlist for the 2012 Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award was entitled A reading list to reflect loss of faith in capitalism. That headline is more than a little hyperbolic. The statement in the article itself that the list "includes an array of titles charting the strengths and weaknesses of the American corporate, economic and financial system" is a bit more accurate, especially if you replace the word "American" with "global.
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Blog / Staff Picks
Phantoms on the Bookshelves
Book Review by Porchlight
People collect all manner of material goodness—cars, antiques, orchards, and art. . .
Categories: staff-picks, publishing-industry
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Blog / News & Opinion
Big News from Seth Godin and Portfolio
By Porchlight
Seth Godin is returning to Portfolio! That is the big news. But the news is delightfully nuanced if you've been following Seth's progression since he left Portfolio in 2010 to start the Domino Project, which was as its name implied a project, and by almost all measures a successful one.
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The FT/Goldman Sachs Book Award, Now Accepting Submissions
By Porchlight
The search is now on for the 2012 Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year. From the official announcement: This annual Award, promoted by the Financial Times Limited and the Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. aims to identify the book that provides the most compelling and enjoyable insight into modern business issues, including management, finance and economics.
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Blog / Staff Picks
KnowledgeBlocks
Book Review by Porchlight
We're very pleased to announce the official opening of KnowledgeBlocks, a subscription-based service and online resource that gives readers access to quality content and business resources, a way to save, organize, and customize the information that is important to them, and engages business authors and thought leaders to help solve business problems and build new knowledge. Among the key features of the site, subscribers have access to the following: Explorations: Every month we publish three business book explorations that examine a narrow subject within a broader business topic. Each begins with a featured book and then branches out in unexpected directions, introducing you to author insights via podcast or interview, other related must-reads, curated links, and brief analyses that will help you build your business knowledge.
Categories: staff-picks, narrative-biography, publishing-industry, the-company
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Blog / News & Opinion
Pow Wow 2011
By Porchlight
A few of us just returned from this year's Author Pow Wow in Austin, TX at The Driskill. As for me, I'm exhausted, but also refreshed with a sense of perspective. In support of my previous post, I do feel empowered, and I know others that attended do as well.
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Blog / News & Opinion
Empowered
By Porchlight
(Edited to add: The Author Pow Wow has begun! Follow along on Twitter using hashtag #powwow11) In a couple of days, some of the 8cr staff will be heading to Austin, TX for our Author Pow Wow. There, we'll be spending a solid day and a half talking with authors and publishing industry professionals about Doing What Works.
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The FT/Goldman Sachs Book of the Year Shortlist
By Porchlight
The shortlist for the seventh Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Book of the Year has been released. It includes: Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty by Abhijit V. Banerjee and Esther Duflo, Public Affairs Exorbitant Privilege: The Rise and Fall of the Dollar by Barry Eichengreen, Oxford University Press Triumph of the City: How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier and Happier by Edward L.
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