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9th October 2006

Is Design the New Management Consultancy? Not Exactly.

“Some folks are asking this question. I’ve spent the past two years making the transition from designer to business consultant, jumping a lot of hurdles along the way. Here’s a little of what I learned…”

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9th October 2006

Book sales get a lift from Google scan plan

Publishers are starting to report an uptick in sales from Google Inc.’s online program that lets readers peek inside books, two years after the launch of its controversial plan to digitally scan everything in print. Google has been enlisting publishers to voluntarily submit their books so that Web searchers can more easily find titles related to their interests, but some fear the project could lead to piracy or exploitation of their copyrighted content. ‘Google Book Search has helped us turn searchers into consumers,’ said Colleen Scollans, the director of online sales for Oxford University Press.”

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