Women and Business: Margo Baldwin’s Unlikely Path to Publishing Leader
Margo Baldwin’s career path has been anything but traditional. It includes studying different subjects at colleges on both coasts, a big career change, a year in Mexico and a 10-year break from her business, Chelsea Green Publishing. Modest, Baldwin credits her husband, Ian, and their investors, employees and authors for the success of their business, which has won many awards, including Notable Book of the Year honors from the...
Women and Business: Margo Baldwin’s Unlikely Path to Publishing Leader
Margo Baldwin’s career path has been anything but traditional. It includes studying different subjects at colleges on both coasts, a big career change, a year in Mexico and a 10-year break from her business, Chelsea Green Publishing. Modest, Baldwin credits her husband, Ian, and their investors, employees and authors for the success of their business, which has won many awards, including Notable Book of the Year honors from the...
Money Talk: Investing Books That Have Stood the Test of Time
Question: I invest in real estate and have a secure pension, but I also have a managed stock account worth about $250,000 and would like to get more involved in investing that. Can you recommend some good books on how the market works and perhaps a couple of good middle-of-the-road websites? Everything I see is either overly bullish or bearish. Answer: The principles of sound stock market investing aren’t exactly “click bait” (Web...
Books Outside the Big Box
Pittsburgh — At the time Dan Iddings opened the doors of Classic Lines Bookstore in Pittsburgh’s Squirrel Hill neighborhood last year, his greatest fear was that the technologies that ate up some of his largest competitors would swallow his business whole. “I had this fear that I would be the Amazon showroom — that people would look at our selection of products, then go buy them on Amazon,” he said. Six months in, Iddings said he has...
FairPoint Customers In N.H. Must Now Ask for Phone Book
Nashua — The long decline of the telephone book, once a staple of homes and businesses but increasingly irrelevant in the online era, is continuing with the announcement by FairPoint that it will no longer automatically send the books to all of its landline customers. As of May 1, residential white pages will only be available on request, the company said in fliers inside its most recent bills, but both residential and business...
