Cool News Becomes Hot Book, Reveries Announces.Business Editors/Book Editors WESTPORT, Conn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 8, 2003 What started five years ago as an e-mail newsletter is now a 503-page book: Cool News of the Day (Volume 1), written by Tim Manners, the editor of the online magazine Reveries.com. The book is published by Xlibris in hardback, trade paperback trade paperback n. A paperback book that is typically of better production quality, larger size, and higher price than a mass-market edition, intended for sale in bookstores. and e-book formats. "The book is a compendium com·pen·di·um n. pl. com·pen·di·ums or com·pen·di·a 1. A short, complete summary; an abstract. 2. A list or collection of various items. of every edition of Cool News published in 2002," says Manners, who explains that he wakes up each morning at five o'clock to decide what is "cool news" that day. "I look at a variety of newspapers and magazines, select two stories that harbor useful insights and tell my readers about them. The hope is that my interpretations of these stories will make people think and crack open a little more creativity for them." Subtitled sub·ti·tle n. 1. A secondary, usually explanatory title, as of a literary work. 2. A printed translation of the dialogue of a foreign-language film shown at the bottom of the screen. tr.v. , "A Stimulant stimulant, any substance that causes an increase in activity in various parts of the nervous system or directly increases muscle activity. Cerebral, or psychic, stimulants act on the central nervous system and provide a temporary sense of alertness and well-being as of Insights and Ideas for Thinking Business People," Cool News of the Day (Volume 1) cuts a wide path of subject matter, including stories about art, people, economics, fashion, prices, communication, cars, drugs, music, money, tactics, media, retailing, design, humor humor, according to ancient theory, any of four bodily fluids that determined man's health and temperament. Hippocrates postulated that an imbalance among the humors (blood, phlegm, black bile, and yellow bile) resulted in pain and disease, and that good health was , management, health, strategy, loyalty, food, sports, colors, poetry, sex, technology, culture, behavior, attitude, life, death, love, hate, triumph and tragedy. Says Manners: "The magic happens when ostensibly os·ten·si·ble adj. Represented or appearing as such; ostensive: His ostensible purpose was charity, but his real goal was popularity. unrelated ideas find their connecting points -- that's what I'm hoping our readers get out of Cool News. It's about the insights that lead to big and exciting ideas, and getting at that means cutting across the artificial boundaries that business people sometimes set up for themselves." Cool News of the Day (Volume 1) is available for sale on BarnesandNoble.com, Amazon.com, Borders.com and Xlibris.com. For further information, including a free download of sample chapters, please visit: http://reveries.com/coolnews/book.html |
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