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ThousandStars writes "According to the Wall Street Journal, Microsoft has been making a concerted effort to promote Windows in Africa, pushing Windows over Linux in very poor countries that haven't been locked into a single operating system. From the article: 'To that end, it has established a presence in 13 countries, donated Windows for thousands of school computers, and funded programs for entrepreneurs and the young. It also has used aggressive business tactics, some aimed at its biggest threat in the region: Linux ...'"
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In today's real estate market, foreclosures abound. Is it time to cash in on the opportunity? As this article in the Wall Street Journal points out, finding a good foreclosure can be difficult.Banks don't like to advertise a home as "bank owned" but do provide lists of homes for sale on their websites. Search for "REO" (real-estate owned) on lenders' sites. Other sites to check include RealtyTrac.com, BankHomesDirect.com, and Foreclosures.com, all of which are for-pay sites. You can also ...
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The Audit Bureau of Circulations has
released the numbers for the top 25 daily newspapers in the U.S. based on their weekday circulation numbers. Not surprisingly, the numbers are bad — okay, awful. Exactly
one of the top newspapers has shown growth when compared to where they were 6 months ago. That paper is The Wall Street Journal, which is now the number one paper in the country thanks to USA Today's staggering loss of nearly 20% of its readership the past 6 months. And it's not like WSJ is growing like gangbusters, it grew 0.61% in the last six months.
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Posted by on under page turners, digital trend, wall street journal, versis, book versions, new novel, e book, digital copies, book business, mths, mey, schuster, gap, standpoint, equivalents, tiers, amp, sim, wall street, nbsp |
After hardcover and before paperback. In
Simon & Schuster CEO Carolyn Reidy's mind, this is when we as consumers should be expecting the digital copies of their favorite page turners to come out. Putting money where its mouth is, so to speak, the company has announced that for around 35 of its major releases coming early next year, the
e-book iterations won't be out until four months after the physical releases. Seeing as hardcovers can debut at $27 while their digital equivalents can run $10 or less, Reidy notes one of the driving motivations behind this move is to curb consumer expectations that a new novel is worth only one Alexander Hamilton. It's a historically valid concern, especially when you consider how iTunes taught us that songs are only worth $1 apiece, but in the long-term, we don't expect this delay-on-digital trend to stay afloat. The e-book business is growing, and that delay is too artificial for its own good -- at some point, the argument's going to have to shift back to day-and-date pricing tiers. We'll be very interested to see just how this paper-borne release gap pans out from a sales standpoint.
Simon & Schuster imposing four-month delay on e-book versions of major upcoming releases originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 09 Dec 2009 21:34:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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