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I often think . . . that the bookstores that will save civilization are not online, nor on campuses, nor named Borders, Barnes & Noble, Dalton, or Crown. They are the used bookstores, in which, for a couple of hundred dollars, one can still find, with some diligence, the essential books of our culture, from the Bible and Shakespeare to Plato, Augustine, and Pascal.
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James V. Schall (On the Unseriousness of Human Affairs: Teaching, Writing, Playing, Believing, Lecturing, Philosophizing, Singing, Dancing)
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We went to a Barnes and Noble, where I picked up an unauthorized
biography of M.C. Hammer, and not wanting to overload her on her first
book, I steered Dumb Dumb toward a Choose Your Own Adventure.
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Chelsea Handler (My Horizontal Life: A Collection of One-Night Stands)
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On my way over to Park Avenue to find a cab I pass an ugly, homeless bum-- a member of the genetic underclass-- and when he softly pleads for change, for "anything," I noticed the Barnes & Noble book bag that sits next to him on the steps of the church he's begging on and I can't help but smirk, out loud, "Oh right, like YOU read...,
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Bret Easton Ellis (American Psycho)
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Ingesting them(Mistletoe and Azalea beautiful plants) can cause sickness and in some cases even death-KILLER PLANTS, Author, V J SMITH BARNES AND NOBLE NOOK BOOK
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V J SMITH
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I’m not having much of a life. It’s not awful, just ordinary. I am trying to accommodate the memories of the life I had with the life I am now living, and I just can’t do it. After being behind the wheel of a Lamborghini going 140 down Sunset Drive at four a.m., it’s hard to get up and put on a polyester shirt and sell books at Barnes and Noble. But I’m not ashamed of it.
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Robert Goolrick (The Fall of Princes)
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If “piracy” means using value from someone else’s creative property without permission from that creator–as it is increasingly described today – then every industry affected by copyright today is the product and beneficiary of a certain kind of piracy. Film, records, radio, cable TV… Extremists in this debate love to say “You wouldn’t go into Barnes & Noble and take a book off of the shelf without paying; why should it be any different with online music?” The difference is, of course, that when you take a book from Barnes & Noble, it has one less book to sell. By contrast, when you take an MP3 from a computer network, there is not one less CD that can be sold. The physics of piracy of the intangible are different from the physics of piracy of the tangible.
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Lawrence Lessig (Free Culture: The Nature and Future of Creativity)
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Let me be candid. If I had to rank book-acquisition experiences in order of comfort, ease, and satisfaction, the list would go like this: 1. The perfect independent bookstore, like Pygmalion in Berkeley. 2. A big, bright Barnes & Noble. I know they’re corporate, but let’s face it—those stores are nice. Especially the ones with big couches. 3. The book aisle at Walmart. (It’s next to the potting soil.) 4. The lending library aboard the U.S.S. West Virginia, a nuclear submarine deep beneath the surface of the Pacific. 5. Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore.
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Robin Sloan (Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore (Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore, #1))
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The Nook is an under-appreciated genius of a lovemark. The team at Barnes & Noble got a lot right with the Nook, and from a lovemark perspective, I think they created a more intimate product than any other dedicated e-reader. The rubber back behind the Nook is soft and pliable—not hard metal like the later Kindles—making it sensual and intimate. Barnes & Noble also recreated the engraved faces of famous authors from their stores and used them as Nook screensavers. It’s brilliant, not just because it makes reading more intimate, but also because it solidifies the Barnes & Noble brand itself.
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Jason Merkoski (Burning the Page: The eBook Revolution and the Future of Reading)
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Amazon made its first 10x improvement in a particularly visible way: they offered at least 10 times as many books as any other bookstore. When it launched in 1995, Amazon could claim to be “Earth’s largest bookstore” because, unlike a retail bookstore that might stock 100,000 books, Amazon didn’t need to physically store any inventory—it simply requested the title from its supplier whenever a customer made an order. This quantum improvement was so effective that a very unhappy Barnes & Noble filed a lawsuit three days before Amazon’s IPO, claiming that Amazon was unfairly calling itself a “bookstore” when really it was a “book broker.
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Peter Thiel (Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future)
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The chain booksellers, like Barnes and Noble, began to dominate the market, and they instituted a “gay and lesbian” section in many of their branch stores. This section was never positioned at the front of the store with the bestsellers. It was usually on the fourth floor hidden behind the potted plants. What this meant in practical terms was that those of us who had the integrity to be out in our work found our books literarily yanked off of the “Fiction” shelves and hidden on the gay shelves, where only “gay” people wanting “gay” books would dare to tread. It was an instant undoing of all the progress we had made to be treated as full citizens and a natural, organic part of American intellectual life.
…I felt very strongly, and still do, that authentic lesbian literature should be represented at all levels of publishing, including taking its rightful place as a natural organic part of mainstream American intellectual life. The corporate lockdown went into overdrive just at the moment that this integration was beginning to take place. This positioning is essential for so many reasons, least of which is the right of writers of merit to not be excluded from financial, emotional, and intellectual development simply because they have the integrity to be out in their work. Second is the right of gay people to be in dialogic relationships with straights - where they read and identify with our work as we are asked to with theirs. And finally, that even at the height of the strength of the lesbian subculture, most gay people find out about gay things through the mainstream media.
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Sarah Schulman
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A few years ago, most of these authors wouldn’t have been published at all—and that would have been enough to discourage many of them from writing a book in the first place. But today, the economics of publishing have fallen so low that nearly everyone can do it. That means people can write books for whatever reason they want, and they don’t need to depend on some publisher deciding if the book is worth taking to market. The effect of this is being felt throughout the industry, right up to the giant booksellers. In 2005, Barnes & Noble sold 20 percent more unique titles than it had in 2004, something its CEO, Steve Riggio, attributes to three forces: (1) the efficiencies of print-on-demand, which keeps more books in print; (2) the increase in the number of smaller and independent publishers; and (3) self-publishing.
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Chris Anderson (The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business Is Selling Less of More)
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Along the way to Seattle, he wrote his business plan. He identified several reasons why the book category was underserved and well suited to online commerce. He outlined how he could create a new and compelling experience for book-buying customers. To begin with, books were relatively lightweight and came in fairly uniform sizes, meaning they would be easy and inexpensive to warehouse, pack, and ship. Second, while more than 100 million books had been written and more than a million titles were in print in 1994, even a Barnes & Noble mega-bookstore could stock only tens of thousands of titles. An online bookstore, on the other hand, could offer not just the books that could fit in a brick-and-mortar store but any book in print. Third, there were two large book-distribution companies, Ingram and Baker & Taylor, that acted as intermediaries between publishers and retailers and maintained huge inventories in vast warehouses. They kept detailed electronic catalogs of books in print to make it easy for bookstores and libraries to order from them. Jeff realized that he could combine the infrastructure that Ingram and Baker & Taylor had created—warehouses full of books ready to be shipped, plus an electronic catalog of those books—with the growing infrastructure of the Web, making it possible for consumers to find and buy any book in print and get it shipped directly to their homes. Finally, the site could use technology to analyze the behavior of customers and create a unique, personalized experience for each one of them.
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Colin Bryar (Working Backwards: Insights, Stories, and Secrets from Inside Amazon)
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Almost a decade ago, I was browsing in a Barnes & Noble when I came across a book called Route 666: On the Road to Nirvana. It was a music book about a band I liked, so I started paging through it immediately. What I remember are two sentences on the fourth page which discussed how awesome it was that 'Smells Like Teen Spirit' was on the radio, and how this was almost akin to America electing a new president: 'It's not that everything will change at once,' wrote the author, 'it's that at least the people have voted for better principles. Nirvana's being on the radio means my own values are winning: I'm no longer in the opposition.' I have never forgotten those two sentences, and there are two reasons why this memory has stuck with me. The first reason is that this was just about the craziest, scariest idea I'd ever stumbled across. The second reason, however, is way worse; what I have slowly come to realize is that most people think this way all the time. They don't merely want to hold their values; they want their values to win. And I suspect this is why people so often feel 'betrayed' by art and consumerism, and by the way the world works. I'm sure the author of Route 666 felt completely 'betrayed' when Limp Bizkit and Matchbox 20 became superfamous five years after Cobain's death and she was forced to return to 'the opposition' ...If you feel betrayed by culture, it's not because you're right and the universe is fucked; it's only because you're not like most other people. But this should make you happy, because—in all likelihood—you hate those other people, anyway. You are being betrayed by a culture that has no relationship to who you are or how you live...
Do you want to be happy? I suspect that you do. Well, here’s the first step to happiness: Don’t get pissed off that people who aren’t you happen to think Paris Hilton is interesting and deserves to be on TV every other day; the fame surrounding Paris Hilton is not a reflection on your life (unless you want it to be). Don’t get pissed off because the Yeah Yeah Yeahs aren’t on the radio enough; you can buy the goddamn record and play “Maps” all goddamn day (if that’s what you want). Don’t get pissed off because people didn’t vote the way you voted. You knew that the country was polarized, and you knew that half of America is more upset by gay people getting married than it is about starting a war under false pretenses. You always knew that many Americans worry more about God than they worry about the economy, and you always knew those same Americans assume you’re insane for feeling otherwise (just as you find them insane for supporting a theocracy). You knew this was a democracy when you agreed to participate, so you knew this was how things might work out. So don’t get pissed off over the fact that the way you feel about culture isn’t some kind of universal consensus. Because if you do, you will end up feeling betrayed. And it will be your own fault. You will feel bad, and you will deserve it.
Now it’s quite possible you disagree with me on this issue. And if you do, I know what your argument is: you’re thinking, But I’m idealistic. This is what people who want to inflict their values on other people always think; they think that there is some kind of romantic, respectable aura that insulates the inflexible, and that their disappointment with culture latently proves that they’re tragically trapped by their own intellect and good taste. Somehow, they think their sense of betrayal gives them integrity. It does not. If you really have integrity—if you truly live by your ideals, and those ideals dictate how you engage with the world at large—you will never feel betrayed by culture. You will simply enjoy culture more.
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Chuck Klosterman (Chuck Klosterman IV: A Decade of Curious People and Dangerous Ideas)
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By and large, our works of social criticism are by journalists and they're written to an industry standard. They're mostly a matter of partisan bickering written in a style that can't fail to be understood by reading clubs that meet at the Starbucks cafe in the local Barnes and Noble. Editors, agents, critics, and readers all agree: a book is a failure if it is not understood. Which ends up meaning that it fails if it tries to provide an understanding beyond what is already well understood. Thus, books have become the enemy of understanding.
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Curtis White
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Penster: Whatever you have been learning from life once lost and returned to you (book) published online at Smashwords and distributed possible everywhere of retailers, sites, libraries, bookstores & channels, also has been accepted into the Smashwords Premium Catalog. This began shipping out to retailers. Smashwords ships approved book of Penster and updates out to most retailers same day (indeed within minutes or hours), and to Barnes & Noble hourly.
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Mark Coker
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Amazon, Kindle, Lulu Press, Smashwords, Rakuten Kobo, Walmart, Barnes & Noble, SCRIBD, Apple iBooks, ClickBank University, Goodreads and there many book marketing, publishing, distribution are leading the book publishing corporations around the world.
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Hari Seldon
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Where in the self-help section of Barnes and Noble does one find a guide on dealing with a supernatural stalker?
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Cosmo Knox (Divinity)
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The replacement of independent bookstores by firms such as Barnes & Noble, Waterstones or Borders superficially provided a wide range of reading, but their policies further limited choice.
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Sara Ayad (The History of the Book in 100 Books: The Complete Story, From Egypt to E-Book)
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As soon as I felt that we were a safe distance away from Bischoffsheim, I recovered my suitcases and fortunately got a ride from a farmer back to Rosheim, where I boarded the train leaving for Strasbourg. I recall looking out of the train window at newly dug trenches and wondered how many soldiers would make them their eternal resting place. There were also heaps of ammunition for weapons called Panzerschreck which were similar to American bazookas. If a soldier could approach close enough to a tank so that he could fire at it, it would cause the tank to explode. Here in Rosheim, the Germans were definitely expecting the arrival of the French Army and were preparing for the assault.
Photo Caption: German Soldiers firing a Panzerschreck
Captain Hank Bracker, who served with the U.S. Military Intelligence Corps, is the author of the multi-award winning book, “The Exciting Story of Cuba” has now written “Suppressed I Rise.” This book is for anyone interested in a very personal human view, of the history of World War II. A mother’s attempt to protect and raise her two young daughters in hostile NAZI Germany challenges her sensibilities and resourcefulness. Both books are available at Amazon.com, Barnes&Noble.com, BooksAMillion.com and many Independent Book Stores.
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Hank Bracker
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she did. Another story that blessed me tremendously was about a Jewish man who accidentally knocked over a stack of books in a Barnes and Noble bookstore. While picking up the books and trying to restack them, he ended up with Battlefield of the Mind. He opened it up expecting to find something he could make fun of and ended up purchasing the book. He hid it from his wife because he did not want her to catch him reading a book by a Christian author. He became interested in the principles he read and bought a Bible that he also hid from his wife. Eventually he discovered that his wife was also secretly reading a Bible she had hidden. They both received Jesus as their Savior and were instrumental in leading other family members to salvation through Jesus as well.
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Joyce Meyer (Battlefield of the Mind: Winning the Battle in Your Mind)
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Barnes & Noble, notes from your bookseller:
Scott Slater's brilliant debut Down the Hole is a mosaic of Julia Donaldson charm, Jon Klassen magnetism and Ryan T. Higgins humor. Adam Ming's art is the perfect pairing for Slater's story about a fox and rabbit trying to outsmart each other... with possible dire consequences. Down the Hole has everything you'd want in a picture book.
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Scott Slater (Down the Hole)
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The logical mind tries to remind itself that sometimes you must suffer in order to feel better. But the body has its own memory: It remembers who hurt it. On an irrational level, I felt wronged by those whom I saw as having “poisoned” me (people in lab coats, phlebotomists, my mother) and by those who encouraged me to think positively about it (friends, Hallmark cards, the “cancer books” section of Barnes & Noble). Finding the silver lining felt like part of the punishment.
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Suleika Jaouad (Between Two Kingdoms: A Memoir of a Life Interrupted)
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Deep Simplicity: Bringing Order to Chaos and Complexity John Gribbin, Random House (2005) F.F.I.A.S.C.O.: The Inside Story of a Wall Street Trader Frank Partnoy, Penguin Books (1999) Ice Age John & Mary Gribbin, Barnes & Noble (2002) How the Scots Invented the Modern World: The True Story of How Western Europe's Poorest Nation Created Our World & Everything in It Arthur Herman, Three Rivers Press (2002) Models of My Life Herbert A. Simon The MIT Press (1996) A Matter of Degrees: What Temperature Reveals About the Past and Future of Our Species, Planet, and Universe Gino Segre, Viking Books (2002) Andrew Carnegie Joseph Frazier Wall, Oxford University Press (1970) Guns Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies Jared M. Diamond, W. W. Norton & Company The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal Jared Nt[. Diamond, Perennial (1992) Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion Robert B. Cialdini, Perennial Currents (1998) The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin Benjamin franklin, Yale Nota Bene (2003) Living Within Limits: Ecology, Economics, and Population Taboos Garrett Hardin, Oxford University Press (1995) The Selfish Gene Richard Dawkins, Oxford University Press (1990) Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller Sr. Ron Chernow, Vintage (2004) The Wealth and Poverty of Nations: Why Some Are So Rich and Some So Poor David Sandes, W. W Norton & Company (1998) The Warren Buffett Portfolio: Mastering the Power of the Focus Investment Strategist Robert G. Hagstrom, Wiley (2000) Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters Matt Ridley, Harper Collins Publishers (2000) Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giz.ting In Roger Fisher, William, and Bruce Patton, Penguin Books Three Scientists and Their Gods: Looking for Meaning in an Age of Information Robert Wright, Harper Collins Publishers (1989) Only the Paranoid Survive Andy Grove, Currency (1996 And a few from your editor... Les Schwab: Pride in Performance Les Schwab, Pacific Northwest Books (1986) Men and Rubber: The Story of Business Harvey S. Firestone, Kessinger Publishing (2003) Men to Match My Mountains: The Opening of the Far West, 1840-1900 Irving Stone, Book Sales (2001)
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Peter D. Kaufman (Poor Charlie's Almanack: The Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger, Expanded Third Edition)
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A child of the Depression, Ms. Hanff could afford only a year of college, and throughout her life was an impassioned autodidact, educating herself by reading the great books, which she preferred to procure from London rather than dip into “Barnes & Noble’s grimy, marked-up schoolboy copies.” One wall of her studio apartment on East 72d Street in Manhattan was filled from floor to ceiling with her Marks & Co. treasures, with their rich leather bindings and gleaming gold stamping. In front of the bookshelves hung the Marks & Co. sign, stolen for her by a devoted 84 reader from the shop after it closed, not long after Mr. Doel’s death.
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Helene Hanff (84, Charing Cross Road)
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You now can buy my book on amazon barnes & noble createspace and book review is to come for this book in 45 days
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Todd Johnson
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Zoological Parks South of Florida
“Cuba has several zoos, the largest of which are in Havana and Santiago de Cuba. The Havana National Zoo is dedicated to going beyond the mere display of animals and attempts to maintain a more natural habitat, supporting and promoting breeding programs for various species with follow-up scientific research programs.”
From page 500, “The Exciting Story of Cuba” by award winning author Captain Hank Bracker. Available at Amazon.com, Barnes&Noble.com, BooksAMillon.com and other Independent book outlets.
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Hank Bracker (The Exciting Story of Cuba: Understanding Cuba's Present by Knowing Its Past)
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José Martí is recognized as the George Washington of Cuba or perhaps better yet, as Simon Bolivar, the liberator of South America. He was born in Havana on January 28, 1853, to Spanish parents. His mother, Leonor Pérez Cabrera, was a native of the Canary Islands and his father, Mariano Martí Navarro, came from Valencia. Families were big then, and it was not long before José had seven sisters. While still very young his parents took him to Spain, but it was just two years later that they returned to Santa Clara where his father worked as a prison guard. His parents enrolled José at a local public school. In September of 1867, Martí signed up at the Escuela Profesional de Pintura y Escultura de La Habana, an art school for painting and sculpture in Havana."
Read more about José Martí in the “Exciting Story of Cuba” by award winning author Captain Hank Bracker. This book is available at Amazon.com and Barnes&Noble.com or Independent Book stores everywhere.
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Hank Bracker (The Exciting Story of Cuba: Understanding Cuba's Present by Knowing Its Past)
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Alejandro de Humboldt National Park
Outside of the major cities, the great majority of Cuba is agricultural or undeveloped. Cuba has a number of national parks where it is possible to see and enjoy some plants and animals that are truly unique to the region. Because it is relatively remote and limited in size, the Cuban Government has recognized the significance and sensitivity of the island’s biodiversity. It is for these reasons many of these parks have been set aside as protected areas and for the enjoyment of the people.
One of these parks is the Alejandro de Humboldt National Park, named for Alexander von Humboldt a Prussian geographer, naturalist and explorer who traveled extensively in Latin America between 1799 and 1804. He explored the island of Cuba in 1800 and 1801. In the 1950’s during its time of the Cuban Embargo, the concept of nature reserves, on the island, was conceived with development on them continuing into the 1980’s, when a final sighting of the Royal Woodpecker, a Cuban subspecies of the ivory-billed woodpecker known as the “Campephilus principalis,” happened in this area. The Royal Woodpecker was already extinct in its former American habitats. This sighting in 1996, prompted these protected areas to form into a national park that was named Alejandro de Humboldt National Park. Unfortunately no further substantiated sightings of this species has bird has occurred and the species is now most likely extinct.
The park, located on the eastern end of Cuba, is tropical and mostly considered a rain forest with mountains and some of the largest rivers in the Caribbean. Because it is the most humid place in Cuba it can be challenging to hike. The park has an area of 274.67 square miles and the elevation ranges from sea level to 3,832 feet at top of El Toldo Peak. In 2001 the park was declared a UNESCO World Natural Heritage Site. Tours are available for those interested in learning more about the flora & fauna, wild life and the natural medicines that are indigenous to these jungles.
“The Exciting Story of Cuba” by award winning Captain Hank Bracker is available from Amazon.com, Barnes&Noble.com, BooksAMillion.com and Independent Book Vendors. Read, Like & Share the daily blogs & weekly "From the Bridge" commentaries found on Facebook, Goodreads, Twitter and Captain Hank Bracker’s Webpage.
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Hank Bracker
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Seawater One”
The book worth waiting for has finally been published and is now available at Amazon.com, Barnes&Noble.com, BooksAMillion.com as well as Independent Book Stores & Distributors!
“Seawater One” is a graphic coming-of-age book written by Award Winning Captain Hank Bracker, who received two “FAPA” silver medals for “The Exciting Story of Cuba” in 2016. In June of 2016 Captain Hank Bracker was selected to be Hillsborough County’s author of the month…. He swept the field with three “FAPA” bronze, silver and gold medals, for “Suppressed I Rise” in August of 2017 and has now completed the long awaited “Seawater One”!
Starting in pre-World War II Hamburg, Germany, “Seawater One” traces Captain Hank Bracker’s adventurous time from the depression years, to his youth on the streets of Jersey City. Without inhibitions he relates the life he led in a bygone era. Follow his first voyage to sea on a foreign cargo passenger ship and his education at Admiral Farragut Academy in New Jersey and then at Maine Maritime Academy where he learned much more than just the art of seamanship.
This book begins with a short history of Germany and Captain Hank’s early life in America. It recounts his childhood years but soon escalates to the red hot accounts of his erotic discoveries. It’s a book that you will enjoy and perhaps even identify with. Certainly it demonstrates that life should be lived to the fullest!
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Hank Bracker
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unhappy Barnes & Noble filed a lawsuit three days before Amazon’s IPO, claiming that Amazon was unfairly calling itself a “bookstore” when really it was a “book broker.
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Peter Thiel (Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future)
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Presidents and Presidential pets and facts/UK Royals/SnoopDogg/ Picture Perfect/Webb-Lunceford/Longoria/Spears/Hilton/LadyGaga/
SteveHarvey/Vanderpump these and more are in the book" IF I WERE THE PRESIDENT'S DOG" to be released 10/4/2016! available at Amazon, Barnes & Noble and most book sellers! A must read with a Presiential prophesy at the end of the book!
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The Fabulous Bookwormzillas!
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A few years ago, most of these authors wouldn’t have been published at all—and that would have been enough to discourage many of them from writing a book in the first place. But today, the economics of publishing have fallen so low that nearly everyone can do it. That means people can write books for whatever reason they want, and they don’t need to depend on some publisher deciding if the book is worth taking to market. The effect of this is being felt throughout the industry, right up to the giant booksellers. In 2005, Barnes & Noble sold 20 percent more unique titles than it had in 2004, something its CEO, Steve Riggio, attributes to three forces: (1) the efficiencies of print-on-demand, which keeps more books in print; (2) the increase in the number of smaller and independent publishers; and (3) self-publishing. “Over the next few years, the traditional definition of what a 'published book' is will have less meaning,” he says. “Individuals will increasingly use the Internet as a first stage to publish their work, whether they are books, short stories, works in progress, or articles on their area of expertise. The best of this work will turn into physical books. I tend to be sanguine about the book industry’s prospects because a whole new and efficient means of first-step publishing is emerging and rapidly becoming more sophisticated.” One of the big differences between the head and the tail of producers is that the farther down you are in the tail, the more likely you are to have to keep your day job. And that’s okay. The distinction between “professional” producers and “amateurs” is blurring and may, in fact, ultimately become irrelevant. We make not just what we’re paid to make, but also what we want to make. And both can have value.
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Chris Anderson (The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business Is Selling Less of More)
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Sherlock Holmes: The Coronet Conspiracy - Book I of the SINISTER HOUSE Series just got its third 5-STAR review here on Goodreads. It has also gotten a glowing review on Reedsy, a write up in the Sherlock Holmes Magazine: Volume 14, and a mention in The Strand Magazine (John Watson, M.D.'s old publisher). It is now available in hardcover, paperback, and Kindle at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and at MX Publishing. The audio version should be available early in November.
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James Patrick Heatherly
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Sherlock Holmes: The French Conundrum is Book II of the SINISTER HOUSE Series. The release date for this newest addition has been moved up to December 10, 2023. It is currently available for pre-order on Amazon and Barnes & Noble.
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James Patrick Heatherly
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Hey! How are you holding up? It's good and all to practice extra care for our health in the kind of situation we are in. However, may we also not disregard our psychological well-being. How's your mind? How do you stay sane while in quarantined in your homes? If you're running out of things to do, how about try checking out my book, "One Life: An Afghan Remembers"? It's available in Amazon, Barnes and Nobles, Authors Press, and other booksellers.
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Abdul Qayum Safi
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a Barnes and Noble with no goal in particular, I chance upon a book about suicide. It’s right there in front of me on a display table. Perhaps this is the “miracle”? I sit down and read the entire book, taking copious notes into a journal, including other books listed in the bibliography.
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Timothy Ferriss (Tools of Titans: The Tactics, Routines, and Habits of Billionaires, Icons, and World-Class Performers)
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Ugh,” Chance groaned dramatically, rolling his eyes. “You and your books. Remember the summer the last Harry Potter novel came out? You dragged me to that midnight release party and forced me to drink that God-awful, lukewarm butterscotch-and-root-beer monstrosity that Barnes and Noble tried to pass off as butterbeer.
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Tiffany Pitcock (Just Friends)
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A road trip with a twist is sure to be when you take a visit to one of these outlandish destinations in the U S ex, CEDARS SPRINGS, MICHIGAN is RED FLANNEL CAPITAL OF THE WORLD-Author, V J SMITH, OFF THE WALL CAPITALS OF THE WORLD BARNES AND NOBLE NOOK BOOK
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V.J. Smith (THE BOOK RIB RECIPES)
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It is never easy to lose a job, but there is an upside , employment counselors say job loss provides an opportunity to find something better-SUCCESSFUL WORKFORCE RE-ENTRY STRATEGIES FOR JOBSEEKERS WITH IMPERFECT WORK HISTORIES, Author, V J SMITH BARNES AND NOBLE NOOK BOOK
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V.J. Smith (WORK AT HOME MOM)
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To protect the child, the court can issue temporary orders placing the child in shelter care-LEARN HOW THE CHILD WELFARE SYSTEM WORKS, Author, V J SMITH, BARNES AND NOBLE NOOK BOOKS
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V.J. Smith (THE BEST CRAFTS FOR TOTS BOOK)
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Don't assume an NSAID for one dog is safe to give to another dog. Always consult your veterinarian before using any medication in your pet-HOW TO SAFELY KEEP YOUR DOG PAIN FREE, Author, V J SMITH, BARNES AND NOBLE NOOK BOOK
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V.J. Smith (LIVE VIDEO MARKETING)
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Studies show that entering or re-entering the workforce at later ages is more difficult than at younger ages-INTERVIEW JOB APPLICATION AND RESUME WRITING TIPS FOR JOBSEEKERS 50 AND OVER, Author, V J SMITH BARNES AND NOBLE NOOK BOOK
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V.J. Smith (GREAT SALAD RECIPES)
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Plan ahead start thinking about childcare options and cost as far in advance as you can-FREE MONEY FOR DAYCARE, Author V J SMITH BARNES AND NOBLE NOOK BOOK
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V.J. Smith (THE BEST CRAFTS FOR TOTS BOOK)
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Do not rescue your children from the consequences of their actions-HOW TO TALK TO YOUR CHILD ABOUT GANGS, Author, V J SMITH, BARNES AND NOBLE NOOK BOOK
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V.J. Smith (AMAZING BOOK OF CRAFTS)
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Are you carrying the right amount weight, too much weight or not enough for your stature-GET FIT STAY FIT BOOK, Author, V J SMITH BARNES AND NOBLE NOOK BOOK
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V.J. Smith (GREAT SALAD RECIPES)
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Too often, we are unaware of the risks associated with defective trees which can cause personal injury and property damage,-HOW TO INSPECT TREE AND RECOGNIZE HAZARDOUS TREE DEFECTS, Author, V J SMITH, BARNES AND NOBLE NOOK BOOK
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V.J. Smith (FLAVORITE COOKIES BOOK)
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Far too many military families are not taking advantage of these opportunities that if acted upon could change their lives-G.I.SCHOLARSHIP DIRECTORY, Author, V J SMITH BARNES AND NOBLE NOOK BOOK
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V.J. Smith (DELICIOUS CHOCOLATE RECIPES OF ALL TIME)
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Be careful, some criminals have taken ads in local papers offering home care services at reduced rates-WHAT YOU MUST KNOW AND DO BEFORE SELECTING A CAREGIVER FOR YOUR PARENTS OR CHILDS SAFETY, Author, V J SMITH BARNES AND NOBLE NOOK BOOK
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V.J. Smith (MY YUMMY SEAFOOD RECIPES INSPIRED BY THE SEA)
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For thousands of years people from all corners of the globe have used herbs and plants to cure or prevent disease-PLANTS AND HERBS THAT HEAL ,Author, V J SMITH BARNES AND NOBLE NOOK BOOK
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V.J. Smith
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You have a much shorter period of time in which to make an impression upon your prospects so you must be completely focused with your message-V J SMITH, Author, RADIO AD COPYWRITING BARNES AND NOBLE NOOK BOOK
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V.J. Smith (DELICIOUS TASTY CHICKEN WING RECIPES)
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One does not have to wonder what was going through the minds of the founders of these towns e.g LEFT HAND,WV-V J SMITH Author, ROAD TRIP TOWNS WITH WACKY NAMES BARNES AND NOBLE NOOK BOOK
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V.J. Smith (GREAT OUTDOOR RECIPES)
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If no relatives can be located who are willing to take the children, they may come into legal custody of the state and may be placed into nonrelative foster care-LEARN ABOUT KINSHIP CARE AND THE CHILD WELFARE SYSTEM,C Author, V J SMITH BARNES AND NOBLE NOOK BOOKS
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V.J. Smith
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Looked with discuss at fat people and decided to do something about it-2 TINY SCI-FI TALES, Author, V J SMITH BARNES AND NOBLE NOOK BOOKS
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V.J. Smith (HOW TO MAKE A MEDIEVAL FEAST BOOK)
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Both sharks and vaginas have a substance called Squalene. Squalene exists in shark livers and is also a natural vaginal lubricant-AMAZING LITTLE KNOWN FACTS ABOUT THE VAGINA, Author, V J SMITH BARNES AND NOBLE NOOK BOOK
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V.J. Smith (GOURMET DIP RECIPES)
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Plan for the future. No one ever plans to be sick or disabled. Yet, its just this kind of planning that can make all the difference in an emergency. "Author, V J SMITH, HOW TO GET YOUR FINANCIAL AFFAIRS IN ORDER BEFORE A MEDICAL EMERGENCY HAPPENS TO YOU AT BARNES AND NOBLE NOOK BOOKS
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V.J. Smith (YUMMY EASY TO PREPARE DIABETIC RECIPES)
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When you have children or grandchildren it seems kind of waste if they cannot play on the lawn because there is fertilizer all over it.-Author, ORGANIC LANDSCAPING TECHNIQUES BARNES AND NOBLE NOOK BOOKS
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V.J. Smith (THE ULTIMATE BABY BOOMERS GUIDE TO LIVING A LONG PROSPEROUS LIFE)
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Try some of these tips,but beware the result may be a number of admiring second glances and stares when you don that bikini or pair of trunks-Author, V J SMITH, 8 TIPS TO BURN FAT FAST BARNES AND NOBLE NOOK BOOKS
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V.J. Smith (7 SUPERFOODS THAT REVERSE THE AGING PROCESS)
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Get my books on Barnes and Noble!
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Marcel Ray Duriez (Walking the halls)
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Most book things now (with a few exceptions) are just built around nice, safe books written for nice and safe book club readers. These are usually the books you see on display at Barnes and Noble. These internet writers are, like, literally terrorists to me. They’re training as we speak. They’re getting ready to invade. They’re building an army.
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Scott McClanahan
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I’d be sitting at Barnes and Noble on Central Park Avenue, while rummaging through bargain books, listening to music on my earbuds, and probably sipping on a tasty Caramel Frappuccino. I always use to forget about the rest of the world whenever I did that. I would love to forget about the world, now.
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Jason Medina (The Manhattanville Incident: An Undead Novel)
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Sideways Cross”
Celebrities are the first to get a clue!!!!
No one in the public, and no one in the physics community knows about this new discovery of the “X” or “Cross” in all Stars and in all “Light” throughout the universe.
Celebrities are the first to get a clue!!!!
Side Cross Jewelry -is a symbol of Jesus finishing his work.
Why Kelly Ripa, Justin Bieber, Kim Kardashian, Selena Gomez, Demi Lovato, Jessica Biel, Jennifer Lopez, Kourtney Kardashian, and so many others have all been witnessed sporting a “Side Cross” or “Horizontal Cross” necklace”.
Randy Lee Holmes has discovered that there is an "X" or "Cross” in all Stars, and in all "Light" throughout the universe in 2017.
All can be found in the book "Aether-Light" a Amazon.
The "X" or "Cross" exist in all Stars, and it is the electromagnetic radiation finger print of all “Light” or "Photons" throughout the universe and beyond.
Due to the fact that this electromagnetic radiation consist of “Aether” and “White Light”, and was discovered by Randy Lee Holmes, it has been given the name “Aether-Light "X" or "Cross”.
The "X" or "Cross" symbol is not just in Stars, it is in all “Light” or “Photons”.
"Photons" of “Light” are held together by “Magnetism”, you call it “Gravity”.
The "X" or "Cross" symbol in all “Light” is the Electromagnetic Radiation Blueprint of all "Light Energy".
The "X" or "Cross" is found in all Stars, in all "Photons" of "Light", in all Flames, in all "Light" of Flashlights, in all Candles, in the Sun, and in all and every form of "Light"of the Electromagnetic Radiation Spectrum.
The "X" or "Cross" is the symbol of the Electromagnetic Radiation Wave of all "Light", in which oscillation is triggered by source, whether it be electrical or magnetic.
The right side of the "X" representing the Positive and the left side of the "X" representing the Negative side of the "X" or Electromagnetic Radiation Wave of “Light”.
On one side of the "X" has both a Positive and Negative line on each opposite sides of the "X".The center has Neutral or no charge at the point of oscillation where the two lines cross each other and connect.
The Electromagnetic Wave does not propagate in an empty vacuum, as a wave needs a medium, so each "Photon" is created with an antenna and all “Light” propagates by way of antenna.
“Light” is not a particle and a wave, but “Light” is a wave that can perform or act like a particle.
The photoelectric effect is merely an Electromagnetic Wave of “Light” knocking electrons off metal.
The "X" or "Cross" is defined as the Electromagnetic Radiation Blueprint of all "Light Energy".
Christians know it as the symbol of "The Cross" (Genesis 1:3, And God said, "Let there be Light").
Scientist and physicist know it as "Light" or "Electromagnetic Wave".
The visible “Light” colors are the “Aether” or Jesus, and the white “Light” is GOD.
All of this information can be found in the book "Aether-Light" "The Fact of Everything".
Amazon or Barns & Noble
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Randy Lee Holmes
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Before I formed you in your mother's womb, I knew you ..." Jeremiah 1:5
How is this possible? How can God claim to know us before we were formed in our mother's womb? The answer is that the real us is spirit, not flesh.
Most of us believe that we have a soul, that we have a spirit. And most of us believe they are eternal - that they were created on our birth day and go on forever, hopefully in a place called heaven. But this idea misses the definition of what eternal really means. Eternal means no starting or end points, no beginnings or ends. In other words - no birth days. Eternal things have always been and always will be.
This is how and why God knew you before you were formed in your mother's womb. Because your spirit has always existed and always will exist - as a part of Him. What was created on your birthday was the illusion that you are flesh, that you are somehow disconnected from God. But this is only illusion, not Truth.
The ultimate Truth is Spirit, for Spirit is all there is. This is who you are, who you've always been, and always will be - living as One, as a part of God.
"There is only one Body, one Spirit, just as you were called to the one Hope when you were called." Ephesians 4:4
May you feel the Light living within you today, and share it with all you meet.
God LOVES you and so do I !!!
To read more on what it means to be a part of the Truth, try my new book, "Fishing Buddies, A Spiritual Tale" available at Barnes and Noble and Amazon.
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Thomas R. Martin
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For Your Convenience “Star Invasions” Now Comes As An Audiobook At: Amazon, Audible, & iTunes—And As A Paperback At: Amazon, & Barnes & Noble—Plus In Shorter Series Editions—In All Formats, eBooks, Audiobooks, & Paperbacks.
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José Anastasis (Star Invasions)
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Programs has a temporary results leading to nothingness, and the Gospel the brings the result of Eternal life.
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Tommie Scott
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Ask yourself the following questions to find profitable niches. 1. Which social, industry, and professional groups do you belong to, have you belonged to, or do you understand, whether dentists, engineers, rock climbers, recreational cyclists, car restoration aficionados, dancers, or other? Look creatively at your resume, work experience, physical habits, and hobbies and compile a list of all the groups, past and present, that you can associate yourself with. Look at products and books you own, include online and offline subscriptions, and ask yourself, “What groups of people purchase the same?” Which magazines, websites, and newsletters do you read on a regular basis? 2. Which of the groups you identified have their own magazines? Visit a large bookstore such as Barnes & Noble and browse the magazine rack for smaller specialty magazines to brainstorm additional niches. There are literally thousands of occupation- and interest/hobby-specific magazines to choose from. Use Writer’s Market to identify magazine options outside the bookstores. Narrow the groups from question 1 above to those that are reachable through one or two small magazines. It’s not important that these groups all have a lot of money (e.g., golfers)—only that they spend money (amateur athletes, bass fishermen, etc.) on products of some type. Call these magazines, speak to the advertising directors, and tell them that you are considering advertising; ask them to e-mail their current advertising rate card and include both readership numbers and magazine back-issue samples. Search the back issues for repeat advertisers who sell direct-to-consumer via 800 numbers or websites—the more repeat advertisers, and the more frequent their ads, the more profitable a magazine is for them … and will be for us.
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Anonymous
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That became a greater concern in January 1997, when Barnes & Noble entered into an agreement to become the exclusive bookseller on America Online, where it would have access to AOL’s more than 8 million subscribers. Like Amazon.com, B&N boasted a database of more than 1 million titles, speedy delivery of about half a million books and 30 percent discounts off the cover price of hardcover books—a steeper discount than it offered to customers who shopped in its stores. B&N also announced that it was going to launch its own website in early spring 1997 after hiring a staff of 50.
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Robert Spector (Amazon.com: Get Big Fast)
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Joy isn’t just an outcome; it’s a strategy. The happiest and most impactful individuals cultivate habits that feed their soul. From practicing gratitude and fostering authentic relationships to pursuing work that lights them up.
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Dr. Terrance Bell (Empowering You - Beyond Success: Cultivating a Life of Significance & Joy #2)