Archive for February 2012
A Printing Press in Your Neighborhood Bookstore
Here’s my story from Bloomberg.com about On Demand Books, which makes a machine to print paperbacks on-site at bookstores and libraries. Originally conceived to give bookstores limitless inventory, it’s now used largely by self-published authors.
Two other recent stories about the publishing business: The NYT on Barnes and Noble’s digital efforts, and Businessweek’s Brad Stone on Amazon’s publishing venture.
Obama and Wall Street
Recently in Bloomberg Businessweek:
A graphic showing who on Wall Street is still raising money for Obama.
A chart that shows the shrinking role of small business in the economy. (For more, see this earlier blog post.)
Bills to Nowhere
For this week’s politics section in Bloomberg Businessweek, I helped put together a graphic about pieces of legislation introduced in Congress just for show.
