Instead of devaluing books, lowering e-book prices will rejuvenate the entire book industry, just as paperbacks did.
I'm waiting for the scientific studies showing that reading uplifting and engaging books lowers blood pressure and decreases stress hormones, and is generally healthy (especially when consumed with dark chocolate).
I'm thinking of the cool experiment by Andrew Sullivan who asked readers of his Atlantic blog to "pledge to buy copies of the book, potentially lowering the individual book price by ten dollars," according to Galleycat.com.
Her book "Lower Ed: The Troubling Rise of For-Profit Colleges in the New Economy" (2017, The New Press) has received national and international acclaim.
But doesn't it follow that if American-based companies are going to book lower profits because of the euro, European companies should book higher profits because of the strong dollar?
It does end on a cliffhanger, so I am assuming that that is what will happen, because if there is not another book, I am afraid I will rate this book lower than what I am rating it now.
And accounting tactics — like new rules that let banks book lower losses on troubled assets and reductions in reserves for future losses because of mortgage modifications — may further burnish their results.
The historian Sebastian Siebel-Achenbach, in his book, "Lower Silesia from Nazi Germany to Communist Poland, 1942-49," writhatthat many Poles came to the region because they were "attracted by the supposed German treasures to be gleaned at little or no cost".
In our view, this growing international footprint of the F-35 not only helps Lockheed offset the weak defense spending environment at home, but also saves many millions for the U.S. government in its procurement of this jet since a larger international order book lowers the per unit price of the jet.
By highlighting illness and misfortune I have perhaps made this book sound lowering.
