For Christmas, I received a Kindle Fire, a grown up e-reader with many of the features of an iPad. This was not on my list, though I have been following the technology for e-books since the early work with smart paper almost two decades ago. I have resisted the personal use of this technology for …
Tami Heim has years of experience in books, as an executive and then president of Borders, as a senior executive with Thomas Nelson publishers, and as a consultant to authors and publishers with The A Group. She comments on various ways digital media has destroyed the business model for books.
That Used to Be Us: How America Fell Behind in the World It Invented and How We Can Come Back By Thomas Friedman and Michael Mandelbaum, New York: Farrer, Straus, and Giroux, 2011. Xiv, 380 pp. Thomas Friedman is a three-time Pulitzer-prize winning New York Times columnist, and the author of five best-selling books. Michael Mandelbaum …
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Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman. New York: Farrar, Strass, and Giroux, 2011. 499 pp. Daniel Kahneman is the emeritus Eugene Higgens professor of psychology and the emeritus professor of psychology and public affairs at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public Affairs, both at Princeton University. He is author or coauthor of six other …
Boomerang: Travels in the New Third World by Michael Lewis. New York: W.W. Norton Company, 2011. xxi, 213 pp. Michael Lewis is the best-selling author of The Big Short, The Blind Side, Liars Poker, A New New Thing, and eight other books. Many books have been written on the causes of the great economic crisis …
In Person: Bogle, Inventor of Index Funds, Wants to Tame Wall Street Speculators
The Associated Press January 18, 2012
Oh, for the Good Old Days of Rude Cellphone Gabbers
The New York Times December 2, 2011
A Banker Speaks, With Regret
The New York Times November 30, 2011
