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Blog / News & Opinion
Demystifying the Best-Seller List
By Porchlight
The Best-Seller List is one of the most fascinating and confusing aspects of the book publishing industry. Almost every time we work with a business book author, a conversation comes up about what being on the list means, and how a book can "hit" it. Having a best-seller can really make an author's success and drive future sales of the book, and future sales of future books.
Categories: news-opinion, publishing-industry
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Excerpt from The Engine of America
By Porchlight
The following is an excerpt from Chapter 4 of The Engine of America: The Secrets to Small Business Success from Entrepreneurs Who Have Made It! by Hector V. Barreto.
Categories: news-opinion
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Booklist's Business Top 10 for 2007
By Porchlight
It has begun. In a matter of weeks, we will start seeing a stream of "best of" lists. We'll report them as we see them and make a few of our own.
Categories: news-opinion
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Blog / Staff Picks
Business Book Award entries steadily arrive
Book Review by Porchlight
With the first deadline to 800-CEO-READ's 2007 Business Book Awards quickly approaching, we have been receiving a number of books from authors and publishers to be entered into the running of determining the best of the year. The range of titles so far is wide. From Bill Clinton's Giving to Sam Intrator and Megan Scribner's Leading From Within: Poetry That Sustains the Courage to Lead, there is already a clear indication that these awards will have the opportunity to review and distinguish both well-known and non-conventional titles within the publishing industry.
Categories: staff-picks
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Blog / Staff Picks
Zoom
Book Review by Porchlight
Posting last week about Wikinomics led me to take a renewed look at the other titles on the shortlist for the Financial Times and Goldman Sachs book award. First up is Zoom. It's a very timely book.
Categories: staff-picks
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Blog / News & Opinion
Name your own Big Idea Book.
By Porchlight
This month's issue of Wired had an activity that we, and business book authors and industry folks, got a kick out of. It was concocting a best selling book using Wired's "Patent-Pending Big Idea Book Generator. " With this patent-pending Big Idea Book GeneratorTM, we provide the title, subtitle, and premise.
Categories: news-opinion, publishing-industry
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Blog / News & Opinion
Happy anniversary, Tom!
By Porchlight
Happy [belated] anniversary to Tom! 25 years ago, In Search of Excellence was published.
Categories: news-opinion
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Blog / News & Opinion
links for 2007-10-17
By Porchlight
Innovation Nation >> BusinessWeek | "America's Fleeting Edge in Innovation" John Kao, an innovation consultant, points out in his new book, Innovation Nation: How America Is "Losing Its Innovation Edge, Why It Matters, and What We Can Do to Get It Back, all the key advantages once enjoyed by the U. S.
Categories: news-opinion
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Blog / Staff Picks
New Excerpt - from Recruit or Die
Book Review by Porchlight
There's a new excerpt up over on the Excerpts Blog. It's taken from Recruit or Die: How Any Business Can Beat the Big Guys in the War for Young Talent by Chris Resto, Ian Ybarra and Ramit Sethi. More than money and perks, the authors say, fresh-out-of-school candidates are looking for opportunities to stand out, move around quickly, and build up a strong resume of experiences and achievements.
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Excerpt from Recruit or Die
By Porchlight
The following is an excerpt from the book Recruit or Die: How Any Business Can Beat the Big Guys in the War for Young Talent by Chris Resto, Ian Ybarra, and Ramit Sethi. The authors share dozens of recruiting anecdotes that demonstrate the way successful recruiters make it happen, as well as show how not-so-successful recruiters blow it. Diversity Recruiting Diversity is one of the most difficult, and sometimes controversial, aspects of college recruiting.
Categories: news-opinion