Publishing is an incredibly rewarding yet endlessly complicated profession. This comprehensive and empowering book serves as a resource and reality check for anyone considering launching a press or publishing a single book. Author Joe Biel draws on 23 years of experience in all parts of operating a small publishing company to teach you the skills of the trade, from distribution, operations, inventory, scheduling, and accounting to development, sales, publicity, and marketing.

Stephen King once said that books are “a uniquely portable magic.” Here, Emma Smith takes listeners on a literary adventure that spans centuries and circles the globe to uncover the reasons behind our obsession with this captivating object. From disrupting the Western myth that the Gutenberg Press was the original printing project, to the decorative gift books that radicalized women to join the anti-slavery movement, to paperbacks being weaponized during World War II, to a book made entirely of cheese, Portable Magic explores how, when, and why books became so iconic.

Do you worry that you've lost patience for anything longer than a tweet? If so, you're not alone. Digital-age pundits warn that as our appetite for books dwindles, so too do the virtues in which printed, bound objects once trained us: the willpower to focus on a sustained argument, the curiosity to look beyond the day's news, the willingness to be alone. The shelves of the world's great libraries, though, tell a more complicated story. Examining the wear and tear on the books that they contain, English professor Leah Price finds scant evidence that a golden age of reading ever existed.

Have you ever heard of dropshipping? The simplified version is that you can fulfill customer orders with no stock. Since dropshipping doesn’t require you to purchase any stock, it is a risk-free business. Since it’s an entirely online endeavor, you can make money from the comfort of your own home!

In this book, Michael Smith and Rahul Telang, experts on entertainment analytics, show how the success of House of Cards upended the film and TV industries - and how companies like Amazon and Apple are changing the rules in other entertainment industries, notably publishing and music. We're living through a period of unprecedented technological disruption in the entertainment industries.

In his comprehensive Starting a Business QuickStart Guide, Ken Colwell concisely presents the core fundamentals that all new entrepreneurs need to know to get started, find success, and live the life of their dreams.

Making passive income has never before been easier than it is right now. With the internet at your fingertips, you have the opportunity of a lifetime to create a successful business, generating passive income that will change your life. This guide will provide you with information that will help guide you on your journey to creating passive income and the life you want!

There's been hundreds or thousands of people who have tapped into one or more of these passive-income methods and quit their traditional jobs and were able to live the life they truly wanted. Now it's your turn!

Dropshipping has never been more alive (and, quite frankly, it will never die). It might change, but this chain will never cease to exist. Coming from different successful dropshipping business, I will teach you everything I know on: What dropshipping is, how it works, how to make a profitable shop, what platforms to use, and product choice.

If you’re a forward-focused thinker, you may be dreaming about leaving the workforce to enjoy an easier life in retirement or you might even be considering retiring early. But a dream without a plan is just a wish. Passive income is money you earn in a way that requires little to no daily effort to maintain. Some passive income ideas - like renting out property or building a blog - may take some work to get up and running, but they could eventually earn you money while you sleep.

Amazon FBA is the system that allows online entrepreneurs to sell without the need to ship orders. Amazon puts at our disposal its warehouses, logistics services and workforce to enable us to sell on the Internet. We can use Amazon FBA to sell in the Amazon marketplace, or to create our own e-commerce and still enjoy the benefits that this system offers.

These days, a lot of emphasis is placed on the value of working from home and earning money through your computer. For many, online marketing and e-commerce is a powerful opportunity to step out of financial ruin and into a state of financial freedom, with the added benefit of time freedom as well. With the way the economy seems to be going, I suspect that one day everyone will have some form of involvement in e-commerce as a way to subsidize or supplement their income, if not replace their income altogether.

The NFT marketplace has become so popular that the average NFT now sells for $3,257, according to NonFungible.com. In fact, the most expensive NFT picked up $91.8 million in 2021. But it’s not only the ease of selling attracting artists to NFTs. Or even the total control they have over their earnings.

Amazon FBA was officially launched in 2006, so it is far from the newest selling platform, but it has shaped the path for other platforms of its kind, and it should be considered as the best service possible. But why would you want to get involved with Amazon FBA? Well, Amazon FBA is one of the easiest ways to get started. From its promises of prime delivery to customers to its total management of your products as soon as they are delivered to the warehouse, Amazon has you covered. They provide a service unmatched by any outside company, and they make selling easier every year.

The surest way to retiring poor is working for money instead of getting money to work for you. Whether you have a 9-5 job or are self-employed, if you cannot put money to work for you in some way, your odds of working the rest of your life and perhaps retiring poor are very high. Moreover, if you work for money, you cannot really do everything you want to do whenever you want to do it since your income is directly connected to your efforts- if you stop working, it is only a matter of time before the income dries up.