The Scam I Never Knew Existed
I’m going to tell the story of something that happened to my wife this week. It will piss you off. I know it pissed me off. It’s about a type of scam that’s apparently been in play for a little …
Category: Economics
Small Thinking
As an MBA and a student of business, I really love Shark Tank. I love watching it, seeing the various business pitches and great ideas. I especially love watching how the Sharks react to the pitches, how they make their …
The Benefits of Competition
It’s amazing what a little competition can do. I’ve never had a traditional publishing deal, but in the last ten months since I’ve started educating myself on how publishing works I’ve learned a thing or two about them. For decades, …
America in Decline?
There was an interesting article in the Financial Times yesterday about how America is going to decline, in fact we’ve already begun, and the best thing we can do is talk honestly about it so we can manage is correctly. It’s an …
Value, Price, and Cost
The comments on my guest post over at Derek J Canyon’s blog have gotten interesting in the last day or so. Not that they weren’t interesting before, mind you. But in the last day or two, the discussion has shifted …
Utterly Ignorant Dreck
Passive Guy linked yesterday to an appalling example of ignorant pessimism. Read it, if you have a strong stomach, and a strong tolerance for BS. I can’t fully express how idiotic this speech, or whatever it is, is. The guy goes …
The Real Problem With $.99 Ebooks
Yesterday, Dean Wesley Smith linked to a great post by Zoe Winters about why she doesn’t agree with charging $.99 for novels, and why that should never, and will never, be the standard price for novel-length fiction. For the record, …
It Doesn’t Matter If You Prefer Print Or Ebook
It’s Thursday. And lately, on Thursdays, I inevitably find myself thinking, “It’s Thursday. I wonder what Kris wrote about this week?” And so I have to rush over to The Business Rusch to find out. Today’s a special treat, because …
Cutting Off Your Nose To Spite Your Face
It seems that’s what some independent bookstores are doing. I went by Joe Konrath’s blog today, and read his post about J K Rowling self-publishing Harry Potter in ebook format. In that post, he also discussed other developments in the …
Xenophobia – or – Why do we hate that China is getting richer?
So I was reading the news a bit today, and I came across this story. It’s about how the Chinese economy will overtake the US’s by 2016. Well pardon me but…DUH! Hello, McFly. There are 1.5 billion Chinese. 1.5 BILLION. …
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