"Long Tail" on short list for business book prize
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"The Long Tail," a best seller about   the growing importance of the niche market in today's economy,   was among five books on the short list on Tuesday for the   Business Book of the Year award.
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"Pegasus Descending" (Simon &amp; Schuster, 356 pages, $26) &#151; James Lee Burke
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Company exec's post-launch spiel published too soon, it seems
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Practice makes perfect. Last year, the judges of the Financial Times and Goldman Sachs (NYSE:GS) book award were feeling their way as they narrowed a list of 17 contenders down to a shortlist of six. This year, the process was quicker and the seven-strong panel - unchanged since the session last November that selected Thomas Friedman's paean to globalisation, The World is Flat, as the inaugural winner of the &pound;30,000 ($56,000) prize - came to it with a clearer sense of the kind of book that deserves to take the laurels next month.
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The e-tail giant makes another audiobook play.
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More than 140 books were unveiled on  Monday as candidates for one of the world's richest literary  awards.
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Business: 17 November 2004, Wednesday. More than thirty companies contest for the annual awards for socially responsible business to be handed out by the Bulgarian Business Leaders Forum (BBLF) at a ceremony in ...
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Six books are on the shortlist for Britain's most prestigious literary award, the Man Booker Prize, selected from among 22 nominees.
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Michael Longley and broadcaster Tom Paulin are on the shortlist for the Â£10,000 TS Eliot Poetry Prize.
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Authors are in an annual competition for the eyes of the busy executive.
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The Last Tycoons, a "vivid" account of the tumultuous evolution of Lazard (NYSE:LAZ), the investment bank, has narrowly beaten Alan Greenspan's The Age of Turbulence to win the 2007 Financial Times and Goldman Sachs (NYSE:GS) Business Book of the Year Award.
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By DIRK LAMMERS, AP Business WriterSIOUX FALLS, S.D.
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To some stock-market watchers, Wharton finance professor Jeremy J. Siegel was godfather to the '90s boom. His 1994 best seller, ``Stocks for the Long Run," persuasively argued that stocks offer far better returns than bonds or cash -- so long as investors stay the course during the downturns.
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IBM Press&#8482; today announced publication of The  New Language of Business: SOA & Web 2.0, authored by Sandy  Carter, a book that advises companies on how to achieve competitive  advantage through a service oriented approach that directly links IT  with business objectives.
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Variety - HOLLYWOOD -- For the film biz, October is the unofficial start of Oscar season. And in the world of English-language book publishing, October marks the time when the National Book Award finalists are announced and a few lucky novels emerge from obscurity and land on national bestseller lists.
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Nicholas Shakespeare, Nicola Barker and Colm Toibin are among 22 authors to make the Booker prize long list.
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The subtexts of two new books that aim to guide women through the worlds of commerce and finance both ask why a businesswoman canât be more like a businessman.