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If you can follow the threads of a mystery story and sometimes even figure out whodunit, you can find work in this economy. You can uncover new business opportunities and/or find the best places to look for a new job. You can tell when it’s time to leave a job too. Economics can help you do this.
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Is Your Job Already Outsourced? (part 3 of 3)

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From the start of this century the publishing world has gone in two distinctly different directions.

On the one hand, the number of traditional printed-book publishers has shrunk. American book publishers have been swallowed up by media conglomerates, most of them foreign.

On the other hand, brand-new electronic-book-reader technology from American chain bookstores and computer manufacturers has blossomed. And reminiscent of the “mimeo revolution” of the 60’s and the desktop publishing revolution of the 80’s, downloadable-print-publishing via the Web by self-publishers has exploded too.

Publishing means promotion not production

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Is Your Job Already Outsourced? (part 2 of 3)

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Last time, I looked at ownership of large book publishers in 2004. We saw that many large American book publishers were taken over by foreign print book publishing companies. In 2010 the picture is way worse. Those large foreign book publishers have themselves been swallowed up by even bigger media conglomerates.
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