June 21, 2007

wfzimmerman's review: "Just received the eagerly awaited review copy of this one -- a seminal work in the current debate about the future of warfare and the nation-state system."
Wiley (2007), Hardcover, 224 pages
tags: first edition

The Nimble Books Blog » Blog Archive » not a very credible Deathly Hallows Rumor

Harry Potter transcript claim doesn’t convince | The Register

The posted message claims to expose the names and ways in which two of the characters die, something that has been the subject of much speculation by fans of author J.K.Rowling and the boy wizard. For those not allergic to potential spoilers (of dubious provenance) the post can be found here.

One technical point I haven’t seen made is that most publishers work with manuscripts in separate chapter files for 99% of the production process. The full manuscript would be quite a lengthy file. I would be quite surprised for an electronic copy of the full manuscript to be sitting around in Bloomsbury. Surely chapter files would be much more widely dispersed within the organization. That fact that the hacker didn’t refer to finding and copying 30 or so separate PDF files casts doubt in my mind on whether they were really inside the Bloomsbury network as he claims.

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book arbitrage | Performancing.com

Every month, Performancing is going to run an experiment that we hope will accomplish three things. First, and foremost, it should be fun! Second, we’ll all learn a new thing or two about marketing strategy. Third, by running a collective experiment, we can share seo and marketing wisdom with each other.

This month, the experiment is going to be Book Arbitrage. Let’s have fun with it!

The book we are going to try to do search arbitrage on is Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Basically, this is the art of creating a useful website about a popular book (almost like a squidoo lens) and gaining Amazon affiliate sales.

If you read Performancing closely, you might have seen my suggestion that the Photopress theme is the perfect tool for book arbitrage because it lets you put up a nice and big picture of the book’s cover art….plus it’s clean and professional looking.

To get started, I’ve gone ahead and setup a bare-bones book arbitrage site for the 7th and final Harry Potter book that releases on July 21, 2007. As a community, we have about one month to put our plan into place and execute it. Profits will be split evenly between Performancing and everyone who either offers a suggestion in this comment thread or links to the Deathly Hallows site.

What I want us to do collectively is make suggestions for how to make this a killer landing page for HP 7. So fire away in the comment section. What should we add to this barebones template to make it kick some Google ass?

performancing, harry potter, deathly hallows, book arbitrage

FOXNews.com - Man Survives Bobcat Attack by Choking Animal to Death - Local News | News Articles | National News | US News

WESLEY CHAPEL, Fla. — A 62-year-old Florida man depended on his instincts when a bobcat attacked him, and it paid off — he survived, the bobcat didn’t.

The kicker: it attacked because it had rabies.