Kamoroff's new book is guide to doing business online.You may recall Bernard Ber·nard , Claude 1813-1878. French physiologist noted for his study of the digestive and nervous systems. Kamoroff, CPA (Computer Press Association, Landing, NJ) An earlier membership organization founded in 1983 that promoted excellence in computer journalism. Its annual awards honored outstanding examples in print, broadcast and electronic media. The CPA disbanded in 2000. , as the author of the immensely popular Small Time Operator, 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. "How to Start Your Own Small Business, Keep Your Books, Pay Your Taxes, And Stay Out of Trouble!" The practical and entertaining guide is now in its 26th edition and umpteenth printing, with more than 600,000 copies in print. Now Kamoroff has published Online Operator, "Business, Legal, and Tax Guide to the Internet Internet Publicly accessible computer network connecting many smaller networks from around the world. It grew out of a U.S. Defense Department program called ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network), established in 1969 with connections between computers at the ." With the author's characteristic wit and thoroughness, he provides businesses and self-employed individuals and professionals up-to-date coverage of the essential legal, tax, and nuts-and-bolts business issues for web site, e-commerce, and survival on the internet. Contents Among the topics he covers: * Web sites: design, hosting, secure servers, online ordering, technical and legal issues, links, multiple sites * All current and pending Federal laws * Sales tax sales tax, levy on the sale of goods or services, generally calculated as a percentage of the selling price, and sometimes called a purchase tax. It is usually collected in the form of an extra charge by the retailer, who remits the tax to the government. , including the "tax free" internet, in-state vs. out-of-state sales, use tax, sales tax permits * Income tax, including basic tax laws for internet businesses and tax assistance on the internet * Maintaining records * Viruses * Contacts and licensing * Privacy issues, including protecting customers, legal requirements, privacy policy statements, protecting your own privacy, and security measures Noun 1. security measures - measures taken as a precaution against theft or espionage or sabotage etc.; "military security has been stepped up since the recent uprising" security * Liability problems * Fraud, theft, and hacker A person who writes programs in assembly language or in system-level languages, such as C. The term often refers to any programmer, but its true meaning is someone with a strong technical background who is "hacking away" at the bits and bytes. protection * Trademarks and domain names, including name searches, international web addresses, and disputes * Digital copyright, patent, and trademark protection * Internet business issues, including security, e-mail, spam E-mail that is not requested. Also known as "unsolicited commercial e-mail" (UCE), "unsolicited bulk e-mail" (UBE), "gray mail" and just plain "junk mail," the term is both a noun (the e-mail message) and a verb (to send it). , application service providers, contracts, insurance, online advertising, web-based software * International laws, including U.S. export laws and U.S. Customs procedures * State internet laws * Employees and the internet * Setting up a home-based internet business, including basics, zoning, insurance, income taxes, home office, bank accounts, and legal liability. The author Bernard Kamoroff is a CPA with 20 years' experience specializing in small business. He has worked directly with hundreds of businesses and has given workshops at a number of colleges. He is the author of five books about small business. Tom Person, editor of Laughing Bear Newsletter for small publishers and contributor to an Online Operator chapter on "what to do when your site goes down," describes Kamoroff: "He has an uncanny ability to take complicated financial and legal issues and present them in a comfortable, non-threatening style without diluting the information." How to order You may order Online Operator directly from The Newsletter on Newsletters, on the Book Order form on the enclosed en·close also in·close tr.v. en·closed, en·clos·ing, en·clos·es 1. To surround on all sides; close in. 2. To fence in so as to prevent common use: enclosed the pasture. Marketplace or by sending NL/NL a check for $22.95 (S&H included). |
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