Will they please stop publishing great books!

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Automate This: How Algorithms Came to Rule Our World
by Christopher Steiner

http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/automate-this-christopher-steiner/1110914151?ean=9781591844921

The Physics of Wall Street: A Brief History of Predicting the Unpredictable
by James Owen Weatherall

http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the...-owen-weatherall/1110912742?ean=9780547317274
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Like you most of my reading for the last 20 years or so has been non-fiction. I thought fiction was a waste of time and I've read many of the books you've been citing. Great stuff, fun thread.

But about 4 months ago a friend convinced me to try some fiction again and I must admit that it has been very entertaining. I've just finished the Vince Flynn collection and have started into Nelson DeMille. I've got the Lee Child collection staged on the Kindle Fire my gf got me for Christmas for after I've finished the DeMille books.

I use Calibre E-book Manager so I've got everything converted to .mobi format. I use my Kindle as I mentioned but I also read on my Galaxy SII using CoolReader. I would be happy to email you any of the 3 collections I mentioned, PM me if you are interested. The files are reasonably small.

Your thread has become my non-fiction reading list. Thanks for sharing.
 
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I don't know if this is a good book or not, but I find the story fascinating. Is it possible to live without money?

http://www.amazon.com/Moneyless-Man...357994683&sr=8-1&keywords=moneyless+manifesto

http://blog.thezeitgeistmovement.com/blog/tzm-global/mark-boyle-tzm-interviews
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Yes, but did he make money selling these books?

I have a friend that has been traveling the world for the last 10 years or so basically with no money. I don't think the freeconomy concept works in the US, but overseas it actually works quite well. I should say with little money. My buddy that does this makes a few bucks here or there, most of it is barter.
 
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Yes, but did he make money selling these books?

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"If you do buy a copy, the royalties go toward our work of setting up a scaled-up version of a non-monetary economy in the UK, which we intend to become a centre for education and research on all aspects of moneyless living."



Maverick, this is in the link nitro post. But nothing is free, so I am not sure what this man try to do.
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Like you most of my reading for the last 20 years or so has been non-fiction. I thought fiction was a waste of time and I've read many of the books you've been citing. Great stuff, fun thread.

But about 4 months ago a friend convinced me to try some fiction again and I must admit that it has been very entertaining. I've just finished the Vince Flynn collection and have started into Nelson DeMille. I've got the Lee Child collection staged on the Kindle Fire my gf got me for Christmas for after I've finished the DeMille books.

I use Calibre E-book Manager so I've got everything converted to .mobi format. I use my Kindle as I mentioned but I also read on my Galaxy SII using CoolReader. I would be happy to email you any of the 3 collections I mentioned, PM me if you are interested. The files are reasonably small.

Your thread has become my non-fiction reading list. Thanks for sharing.
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Thanks for the kind words. I am glad that this thread is useful to someone - it makes it that much more fun for me to post in it. :)
 
Quote from nitro:

Thanks for the kind words. I am glad that this thread is useful to someone - it makes it that much more fun for me to post in it. :)
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fwiw, I like alot of your book choices too, you have an eclectic taste, and often post books i never would have come across if not for this thread, ive probably ordered atleast a dozen of the books you have reccommended on this thread, keep it up.
 
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http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/tech/news/2006-04-16-paper-clip-barter_x.htm

perhaps an anomaly and an extreme example of bartering.
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There is a supposed reality show on A&E that is called "Barter Kings" where these guys start from a 200 dollar item and work up to something worth 10k by trading, however the acting is terrible, and you can tell it is incredibly fake, when i was googling about this show being fake though i came across a bunch of stuff that showed that there really is alot of people out there who are able to make incredible money just from bartering.
 
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