Tyler Cowen gives a very strong recommendation to Bottomfeeder by Taras Grescoe. The topic is ethically eating seafood in a world where the seafood supply is dwindling rapidly. I’m going to buy it tonight.
Right up my alley
June 16th, 2008 · 1 Comment
Links for April 16
April 16th, 2008 · 3 Comments
Michael Coté: Getting “Love” (and Attention) for Your Whizbang 2.0 Application - Fast, Frequent Features. Thoughtful musings on development models, community-related features, and social marketing. O’Reilly Radar: Publishers Beware: Amazon has you in their sights. I think you have to take what you see in 10K filings with a grain of salt. Financial Times: Google faces loss [...]
Tags: · Amazon.com, Apple, blogs, books, business, cloud computing, Google, links, politics, The Media, Web 2.0
What if we give it away?
February 19th, 2008 · No Comments
I’ve seen many mentions of the fact that there were over a million downloads of Suze Orman’s new book Women & Money while it was available free of charge at oprah.com. What I haven’t seen is how that affected sales of the book. Wired editor Chris Anderson has posted a graph showing that since it [...]
Tags: · books, copyright, free as in free beer