Book Reviews: “Culture eats strategy for breakfast”

It is always interesting to see what readers are getting from the book. Here’s a detailed, thoughtful review over at Smallbiztrends.com written by Ivana Taylor, who also writes a blog called StrategyStew.

Book Reviews: Travel To The Land Of Innovation

Here’s some book-related coverage that readers may find interesting… First, Amazon Customer Reviews. We need more reader reviews for sure, so if you’ve been reading the book, please consider writing a review.

Forbes Column 08: My Adventure With Amazon

I also wrote my story with Amazon for Forbes this week. As I wrote it, I was thinking whom I know in the technology industry who would be able to leverage this sort of a relationship with Amazon. Here are some ideas: Nicholas Carr, Judy Estrin, Om Malik, all of whom have written books before.

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Will Amazon Kindle Vertical Integration?

I wrote a controversial Forbes column, How Amazon Could Change Publishing, in the spring. In this column, I submitted that Amazon could disintermediate traditional publishers and agents, and free up money that they could share with authors. My hypothesis was based on the fact that since Amazon has a technology-based merchandising system capable of figuring

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Book Out Sooner

Readers, Entrepreneur Journeys (Volume One) was originally due on Oct 1, but it looks like it will be ready sooner, on Sept 27. I believe Amazon has started shipping pre-orders, so if you have ordered already, you should be receiving your copy soon. We have some nice editorial reviews, and would love to have as

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Books By Sramana Mitra

If you haven’t already, please study our free Bootstrapping course. Entrepreneur Journeys Billion Dollar Unicorns (Available for order from Amazon Kindle) The vast majority of entrepreneurs today are trying to figure out how to build billion dollar Unicorn companies. Venture Capitalists have always been looking for Unicorns to fund. And yet, the probability of founding

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Forbes Column 08: How Amazon Could Change Publishing

Amazon is the 800-pound gorilla in book retail. What if they also became the publisher, and cut out all the middle-men? Read my new Forbes column, How Amazon Could Change Publishing.

What’s WRONG With Publishing (Really)?

Why am I down on the publishing world? It’s starting to make little sense why I would write something that while widely read could be given out in a “cleverer” format. Doing a book with a major corporation just starts to seem…odd, given the proclivities in which I do everything else now. With that far-reaching statement, and by means of explaining my thought process, here is why publishing, as the kids say, needs to man up and change itself.