Inflation subdued in the June quarter (Media Release)
Consumer Price Index, Australia
Barnes & Noble investor Sandell presses for bookseller’s sale
From Fox Business: An activist investor wants Barnes & Noble Inc. to try again to sell itself, arguing the bookseller needs an owner who can invest in its beleaguered operations. Sandell Asset Management has recently started buying a stake in the New York bookstore chain and is already among its 10 biggest investors, according to people familiar […]
Random Fact
Seven percent of American adults believe that chocolate milk comes from brown cows, according to a survey conducted earlier this year by the Innovation Center for US Dairy. This has nothing to do with books, but PG found it interesting/disturbing. He doubts that many Canadians would be so ill-informed.
How to Format Your Book for Amazon Kindle Using Microsoft Word in Only 30 Minutes
From TCK Publishing: One of the factors that decides whether your book will be successful or a flop on Amazon Kindle is the formatting. While reading a book, have you ever seen the text all run together, paragraphs with weird characters, or chunks of text that just seems to go on forever? How did you […]