Great show by Google! Though I wish they’d drop the “Please”.
“Publishers like to pretend that we make our money from discovering unknown talents for small advances and selling millions of their books. That’s a very small part of our business. The bestselling books are all written by celebs, by people with huge platforms, by fiction writers with a long history of bestselling books, or by people who do a proposal that’s on its surface brilliant. In short, there’s a bidding war among the publishers over the big books. We all know what the good books are–it all comes down to how much of an advance we’re willing to pay for them. The hotly fought-for books are the ones that sell. And while we might not make huge profit % on these, we make big profit $ on these. They keep the lights on by covering overhead. Better to cover our fixed costs by going all in on a few big books than trying to buy dozens of mid-list books.” —
Confessions of a Publisher: “We’re in Amazon’s Sights and They’re Going to Kill Us” | PandoDaily
Middlemen…….
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Big Study Links Good Teachers to Lasting Gain -
Thank you elementary school teachers if you’re feelin good right now ;)
Diet or regular? Someone at Coca-Cola should be fired. (Taken with instagram)
Bad idea (Taken with instagram)
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(via 25 People Who Thought Lil Kim Died)
“Listen up. I know the shit you’ve been saying behind my back. You think I’m stupid. You think I’m immature. You think I’m a malformed, pathetic excuse for a font. Well think again, nerdhole, because I’m Comic Sans, and I’m the best thing to happen to typography since Johannes fucking Gutenberg.” — I’m Comic Sans, Asshole.
“There isn’t a shortage of developers and designers. There’s a surplus of founders … Close the equity gap, and hiring will get a lot easier.” — Why You Can’t Hire « Startup Boy