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Stripping Covers off The Hunger Games: How 7 Billionaires are Deciding the Future of Book Publishing in America

Thad McIlroy

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Description:Stripping Covers off The Hunger Games tells the inside and up-to-the-minute story of the seven billionaires whose investment decisions control Barnes & Noble's future, and through Barnes & Noble, the future of bookselling and the future of book publishing in America.You'll move behind the scenes in the lives of billionaires Len Riggio, Jeff Bezos, John Malone "The King of Cable TV", Ron Burkle, the supermarket billionaire, and Michael Milken, whose junk bonds helped launch Barnes & Noble more than two decades ago. These men are worth nearly $50 billion between them, while a barista in a Barnes & Noble bookstore earns an average of $8.08/hour.Barnes and Noble was Stripping Covers off The Hunger Games in February this year -- a staff member at a Barnes & Noble store posted a question on an online bulletin board wondering why the store manager ordered that 100 copies of The Hunger Games be destroyed and returned to the publisher for credit. Why would the manager destroy a bestselling paperback? Was it because the company, desperate to compete with Amazon, wanted to promote only the ebook version of this hugely popular book, with a hit movie just around the corner?Stripping Covers off The Hunger Games shows how the explosive popularity of ebooks, which are delighting readers around the world with their ease of use and bargain prices, are at the same time destroying a publishing industry that wasn't ready for such a rapid change.Seven billionaires see a huge opportunity here, a chance to save a fading business or even better, to build an enormous new one. But is this a battle only one bookseller can survive?We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Stripping Covers off The Hunger Games: How 7 Billionaires are Deciding the Future of Book Publishing in America. To get started finding Stripping Covers off The Hunger Games: How 7 Billionaires are Deciding the Future of Book Publishing in America, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 96

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: The Future of Publishing

Release: 2012

ISBN: 0981360815

Description: Stripping Covers off The Hunger Games tells the inside and up-to-the-minute story of the seven billionaires whose investment decisions control Barnes & Noble's future, and through Barnes & Noble, the future of bookselling and the future of book publishing in America.You'll move behind the scenes in the lives of billionaires Len Riggio, Jeff Bezos, John Malone "The King of Cable TV", Ron Burkle, the supermarket billionaire, and Michael Milken, whose junk bonds helped launch Barnes & Noble more than two decades ago. These men are worth nearly $50 billion between them, while a barista in a Barnes & Noble bookstore earns an average of $8.08/hour.Barnes and Noble was Stripping Covers off The Hunger Games in February this year -- a staff member at a Barnes & Noble store posted a question on an online bulletin board wondering why the store manager ordered that 100 copies of The Hunger Games be destroyed and returned to the publisher for credit. Why would the manager destroy a bestselling paperback? Was it because the company, desperate to compete with Amazon, wanted to promote only the ebook version of this hugely popular book, with a hit movie just around the corner?Stripping Covers off The Hunger Games shows how the explosive popularity of ebooks, which are delighting readers around the world with their ease of use and bargain prices, are at the same time destroying a publishing industry that wasn't ready for such a rapid change.Seven billionaires see a huge opportunity here, a chance to save a fading business or even better, to build an enormous new one. But is this a battle only one bookseller can survive?We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Stripping Covers off The Hunger Games: How 7 Billionaires are Deciding the Future of Book Publishing in America. To get started finding Stripping Covers off The Hunger Games: How 7 Billionaires are Deciding the Future of Book Publishing in America, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.

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