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Mark C Busse
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Description: CreateSpace is an Amazon company that helps you publish softcover books. It is a hybrid of the author-services and print-on-demand
Guy Kawasaki, Shawn Welch • Ape
“Bozo explosion.”
Greg Mckeown • Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less
Since Ingram’s explosive growth that resulted from delivering its inventory to stores on microfiche in the 1970s, it has sold books to more commercial accounts than anybody in the world. Since it developed Lightning Source and really started the print-on-demand capability for the industry in the late 1990s, Ingram has been the source for what are
... See moreMike Shatzkin • The Book Business: What Everyone Needs to Know®
the companies that merged in 2013 to become Penguin Random House (PRH)—in 2016 they are said by Publishers Weekly to have had €3.7 billion in revenues, on the backs of 15,000 new titles worldwide. Let’s assume that their backlist is three times as large as the frontlist, so real annual revenues per title across a universe of about 60,000 titles
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