Now you too can invest in obscenely expensive collectibles

Are you ready to own a small piece of a first-edition Harry Potter book? Good news: Your assets can now include a 1982 Aston Martin V8 Vantage worth $297,500, and a Bleu Saphir Lizard Hermés Birkin Bag worth $58,000, and Michael Jordan’s game sneakers from 1988, worth $22,000. They can be yours—in tiny fractions.Read Full Story Continue reading at 'Fast Company'

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[ The Bookseller | 2016-09-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Rakuten invests in getAbstract

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[ The Bookseller | 2016-07-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Digital Science invests in TetraScience

Holtzbrinck-owned technology software company Digital Science has made an investment in US start-up TetraScience. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2016-06-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
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David Roche to publish debut poetry collection with Unbound

Non-executive chairman of The London Book Fair, David Roche - an industry stalwart of more than 25 years - is crowdfunding a debut book of poems through Unbound. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2016-06-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Influx to publish debut short story collection

Influx Press has acquired Attrib. and other stories, the debut short story collection from Eley Williams. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2016-05-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Richard Desmond's firm in £25m loss after price cuts and digital investment

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[ The Guardian | 2016-04-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
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BBC Worldwide invests in Curtis Brown parent company

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[ The Bookseller | 2016-04-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
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[ Stuff | 2016-04-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Why Is It So Expensive to Read Academic Research?

The aphorism “information wants to be free,” coined by entrepreneur Stewart Brand in 1984 at the inaugural Hackers Conference, has come to serve as a shorthand justification for an ideology that would remove all unjust barriers to information access. And information has rarely been more... Continue reading at Slate

[ Slate | 2016-04-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
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[ The Guardian | 2016-03-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
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[ Publishers Weekly | 2016-03-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Facebook is letting publishers use Instant Articles to collect e-mail newsletter signups

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[ Digiday | 2016-03-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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[ The Bookseller | 2016-03-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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[ Los Angeles Times | 2016-02-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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[ Publishing Perspectives | 2016-02-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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[ The Guardian | 2016-02-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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[ Publishers Weekly | 2016-01-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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[ The Bookseller | 2016-01-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
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