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Nielsen Reports Print Book Sales in Decline
By Andrew Wilkins Print book sales continued to decline in 2010 across several major book markets and macroeconomic conditions would get worse before they got better, according to Nielsen Book sales data presented at Tools of Change Frankfurt on Tuesday. The Republic of Ireland showed the largest single year drop at 8.7%, followed by the UK (6.1%), the US (5.7%), Spain (2.3%) and Denmark (0.5%). Only Italy showed modest growth at plus 0.6%, perhaps, suggested Nielsen Book’s Jonathan Nowell, because e-books had yet to catch on there. For those looking to head to the bar and drown their sorrows, Nowell had at least some positive thoughts: no downturn lasts forever, “value” was going to be an increased priority for consumers, and the rapidly aging population should present publishers with opportunities to sell to “those book-loving baby boomers who finally have the time to read.”
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Occupy Sydney protesters hold firm, vow to stay
PROTESTERS inspired by the Occupy Wall Street movement are vowing to stay put in the heart of Sydney's financial district, despite arrests and losing their camping gear. About 200 of them set up camp outside the Reserve Bank of Australia in Martin Place on Saturday, launching a day of "global revolution" against corporate excess. But as night fell, police moved among them, removing tents, mattresses and other gear. "We'll still stay but we'll be more uncomfortable," campaign organiser Josh Lees told AAP this morning. "A bunch of stuff was just taken. "Police moved in without any notice, no discussion ... and just started grabbing stuff and throwing it into a truck which they then drove off." Despite the setback they intend staying indefinitely. They met this mornign to thrash out the "next phase" of the protest. Numbers at the site are expected to swell around midday (AEDT) when a separate mining protest is staged. The behaviour of the Occupy Sydney protesters has been praised by police.
Nonprofit Employers Don’t Meet Workers’ Needs for Job Satisfaction, Surveys Find
By Peter Bolton Two reports released Monday show a disconnect between what nonprofits provide to their workers and what employees say is essential to their job satisfaction. Seventy percent of workers in two surveys said their jobs were either disappointing or only somewhat fulfilling. That might be a reason 25 percent of workers said they were considering looking for a job outside the nonprofit world. The surveys gathered data from about 3,500 nonprofit workers in the New York and Washington metropolitan areas and were conducted by the staffing firm Professionals for NonProfits. Among the other findings: Four out of 10 workers in both cities said that the factors they ranked as most essential are not on display at their nonprofits:—“respect, trust, and support by management” as well as a sense that their organization has “a compelling mission.” “The cost of employee disengagement and poor performance is very high, as is the cost of turnover,” she says. Non-Essential Perks
Building a better brain: Strengthening your mental muscle
According to the newest theory of aging and memory , you can build your brain power through a process called "scaffolding." As we get older, some of our neural circuits don't work as well they used to. You probably know that painful little brain blip when you're trying to remember the name that goes with a person you haven't seen for a while or when you walk into a room and forgot why you went there. It feels like something just isn't clicking the way it should. It turns out that successful brain agers do have these experiences but they find clever ways to overcome them by switching on new circuits when old ones fail. For many years, proponents of the "plasticity" model of brain aging have been at war with the "neural fallout" advocates. We also know that aging spares the vital function known as "procedural memory," which is your ability to remember how to perform many of the actions that make up your daily activities. But it's not only your mental muscle that you need to exercise.
Unions back Occupy Wall Street movement
Union leaders say they feel vindicated by the Occupy Wall Street protests and are doing all they can to keep the movement going. Years before the rallies began, union leaders frequently blamed the banking giants for the country’s economic woes. Labor officials have criticized CEOs’ large compensation packages; pushed for a financial transactions tax; and called for Wall Street bailout funds to be used for small business loans. Mary Kay Henry, president of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), told The Hill that she found the protesters to be an “incredible inspiration” that have highlighted issues like pay inequality and social injustice. “We have been talking about the increasing inequality in this county for a long time. Unions have been quick to lend a hand to the protests that have been springing up across the country. On Friday, SEIU members and other unions participated in a march in Minneapolis to call on banks to end foreclosures.
Airport Bookstores Gain Ground at Home and Abroad
US-based Hudson Group and Sweden’s Pocket Shop are two airport and transit bookstore brands expanding despite the growing popularity of e-books. By Amanda DeMarco Hudson Booksellers: A Reason to Buy Print Books In some ways, airport bookstores are sales utopias: high-traffic locations where people have time to browse. But they’re not sheltered from sales shifting to digital; heavy travelers are also early tech adopters, so oddly people who were frequent customers may be the most likely to migrate away. “It’s this weird dichotomy we have,” says Sara Hinckley, VP of Book Buying & Promotions at Hudson Group, which runs 66 Hudson Booksellers and countless Hudson News outlets in airports and other transit outlets around the US. Sara Hinckley of Hudson Group For Hinckley, the challenge is “giving the customer a reason to buy the physical book . . . Pocket Shop: The Value of Service According to Sjödell, Pocket Shop isn’t losing much ground to e-books, since few in Europe have adopted e-readers.
Occupy London Stock Exchange 15 Oct - storify.com
At today's assembly on the steps of St Paul's, #occupylsx agreed the initial statement below. Please note, it's a draft statement at this stage and it will always be a work in progress. 1 The current system is unsustainable. It is undemocratic and unjust. We need alternatives; this is where we work towards them. 2 We are of all ethnicities, backgrounds, genders, generations, sexualities dis/abilities and faiths. 3 We refuse to pay for the banks' crisis. 4 We do not accept the cuts as either necessary or inevitable. 5 We want regulators to be genuinely independent of the industries they regulate. 6 We support the strike on the 30th November and the student action on the 9th November, and actions to defend our health services, welfare, education and employment and to stop wars and arms dealing. 7 We want structural change towards authentic global equality. 9 This is what democracy looks like.
