Nimble Books LLC http://www.nimblebooks.com/wordpress Timely, colorful, thought-provoking and concise Mon, 06 Oct 2008 16:49:49 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 en Why This ‘Credit Crisis’ Hits Everyone - WSJ.com http://www.nimblebooks.com/wordpress/2008/10/why-this-credit-crisis-hits-everyone-wsjcom/ http://www.nimblebooks.com/wordpress/2008/10/why-this-credit-crisis-hits-everyone-wsjcom/#comments Mon, 06 Oct 2008 16:49:49 +0000 admin http://www.nimblebooks.com/wordpress/2008/10/why-this-credit-crisis-hits-everyone-wsjcom/ This is the problem:

LIBOR/OIS spread

]]> http://www.nimblebooks.com/wordpress/2008/10/why-this-credit-crisis-hits-everyone-wsjcom/feed/ Churchill by Himself: The Definitive Collection of Quotations by Richard Langworth http://www.librarything.com/work/book/36671158 http://www.librarything.com/work/book/36671158#comments Sat, 04 Oct 2008 15:20:48 +0000 wfzimmerman's reviews from LibraryThing tag:www.librarything.com://e0c39ac31f62418632ce08723f8c57e4 wfzimmerman's review: "I was absolutely ecstatic to receive this from PublicAffairs!"
PublicAffairs (2008), Hardcover, 656 pages]]> wfzimmerman's review: "I was absolutely ecstatic to receive this from PublicAffairs!"
PublicAffairs (2008), Hardcover, 656 pages]]> http://www.librarything.com/work/book/36671158/feed/ The Greatest Day in History: How, on the Eleventh Hour of the Eleventh Day of the Eleventh Month, the First World War… by Nicholas Best http://www.librarything.com/work/book/36670961 http://www.librarything.com/work/book/36670961#comments Sat, 04 Oct 2008 15:13:21 +0000 wfzimmerman's reviews from LibraryThing tag:www.librarything.com://cab5d524fc8afe4e49f72b2dfab60344 wfzimmerman's review: "Would we all care as much about the First World War if it hadn't ended on 11/11 at 11:11?"
PublicAffairs (2008), Hardcover, 320 pages]]> wfzimmerman's review: "Would we all care as much about the First World War if it hadn't ended on 11/11 at 11:11?"
PublicAffairs (2008), Hardcover, 320 pages]]> http://www.librarything.com/work/book/36670961/feed/ Anathem by Neal Stephenson http://www.librarything.com/work/book/36670938 http://www.librarything.com/work/book/36670938#comments Sat, 04 Oct 2008 15:12:04 +0000 wfzimmerman's reviews from LibraryThing tag:www.librarything.com://fb7cb46c1eede94aceca27ae96d2a35a wfzimmerman's review: "One of the best and deepest science fiction novels, ever. On the same level as GODEL, ESCHER, BACH."
William Morrow (2008), Hardcover, 960 pages]]> wfzimmerman's review: "One of the best and deepest science fiction novels, ever. On the same level as GODEL, ESCHER, BACH."
William Morrow (2008), Hardcover, 960 pages]]> http://www.librarything.com/work/book/36670938/feed/ Thank you, Robert Baer http://www.nimblebooks.com/wordpress/2008/09/thank-you-robert-baer/ http://www.nimblebooks.com/wordpress/2008/09/thank-you-robert-baer/#comments Sun, 28 Sep 2008 21:17:48 +0000 admin http://www.nimblebooks.com/wordpress/2008/09/thank-you-robert-baer/ for not writing that Iran is an “existential” threat to Israel.

Bet on Israel bombing Iran

What many Americans miss is that Iran is a threat to Israel’s very existence, not an imagined danger used by politicians for political advantage.

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http://code.google.com/apis/books/

Here’s what I’d like to see:

1) a “review shell” for all books in GBS — I note that one of the API commands enables developers to submit reviews for any GBS book
2) an “annotation shell” that provides page by page displays of books with page by page community annotations
3) A “slate ready” version of the book reader that prepares the book in PDF format for an E-Ink reading device (not the HTML-dumbed-down Kindle)
4) A “print me” application that works with the Espresso Book Machines deployed at my friendly neighborhood University of Michigan Library
5) an online reading application that lets publishers sell online access to 100% of a book’s content
6) a “mashup” tool that combines public domain maps and public domain text
7) a topical mashup tool that puts together everything GBS has on a topic (e.g. Napoleon’s victory at the battle of Marengo)

]]> http://www.nimblebooks.com/wordpress/2008/09/top-7-applications-to-build-using-the-google-book-search-api/feed/ Updated Google Desktop — but Where’s Google Platypus? http://www.nimblebooks.com/wordpress/2008/09/updated-google-desktop-but-wheres-google-platypus/ http://www.nimblebooks.com/wordpress/2008/09/updated-google-desktop-but-wheres-google-platypus/#comments Mon, 15 Sep 2008 18:41:45 +0000 admin http://www.nimblebooks.com/wordpress/?p=171953 All this Windows stuff is great, but where’s Google Platypus (aka GDrive), the long-rumored Google “hard drive in the cloud”?

Official Google Blog: Google Desktop 5.8 for Windows: increased performance

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  • Don’t tie your proposal to the fact that there are tens of millions of baby boomers, or any other huge group. That’s too generalized an audience for me to address. I aim at niches.  It would be much more useful to discuss the sales histories of books on similar topics.   Historical sales data with 90-day and lifetime averages is available at TitleZ.com for free (no affiliation).
    • ]]>     http://www.nimblebooks.com/wordpress/2008/09/dos-and-donts-for-submitting-proposals-to-nimble-books/feed/     Robert Stone Ignores Joe Haldeman’s THE FOREVER WAR http://www.nimblebooks.com/wordpress/2008/09/robert-stone-ignores-joe-haldemans-the-forever-war/ http://www.nimblebooks.com/wordpress/2008/09/robert-stone-ignores-joe-haldemans-the-forever-war/#comments Mon, 15 Sep 2008 14:03:15 +0000 admin http://www.nimblebooks.com/wordpress/?p=171949 I hope Dexter Filkins had the decency to acknowledge Joe Haldeman’s Hugo and Nebula-award winning science fiction novel with the same theme and the same title. Robert Stone didn’t.

    Up Front - Talking With Robert Stone - NYTimes.com
    Robert Stone, who reviews Dexter Filkins’s book, “The Forever War,” on the cover, was himself a war correspondent in the early 1970s.

    ]]>     http://www.nimblebooks.com/wordpress/2008/09/robert-stone-ignores-joe-haldemans-the-forever-war/feed/     Amazon hires Microsoft Ad Executive http://www.nimblebooks.com/wordpress/2008/09/amazon-hires-microsoft-ad-executive/ http://www.nimblebooks.com/wordpress/2008/09/amazon-hires-microsoft-ad-executive/#comments Fri, 12 Sep 2008 19:55:56 +0000 admin http://www.nimblebooks.com/wordpress/?p=171947 Judging strictly from the outside, this makes a lot of sense. After all, Microsoft has risen to a multi-billion dollar market cap on the basis of its brilliantly executed ad services … oh, wait, that’s Google.

    AMAZON HIRED MICROSOFT AD EXECUTIVE LISA UTZSCHNEIDER TO POWER ONLINE ADS - New York Post
    isa Utzschneider, who worked at Microsoft for 10 years, will become senior vice president of national ad sales for Amazon, according to e-mails yesterday announcing her departure…

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