The Small Independents


Book Description

Pioneers of the U.S. Automobile Industry uses four separate volumes to explore the essential components that helped build the American automobile industry - the people, the companies and the designs. This volume uses more than 450 photos to help weave the story of the risk-takers who helped shape the automotive industry from the very beginning. Pioneers and companies covered in this edition include: Charles and Frank Duryea Studebaker The Pratt Family and the Elcar Motor Care Company Joseph Moon Russell Gardner Louis Clarke George Pierce and Charles Clifton Packard/Joy/Macauley and the Packard Motor Car Company Edwin Thomas Ransom Olds Peerless Fred and August Duesenberg Kissel Brothers Hupp / Drake / Hastings / Young and the Hupp Motor Car Corporation Walter Flanders Chapin / Coffin / Bezner / Jackson / Hudson / McAneeny and The Hudson Motor Car Company Harry Stutz Harry Ford Graham Brothers Charles Nash




The Big Book of Small Presses and Independent Publishers


Book Description

This book is for authors who have: finished writing their book; given up on finding an agent; waited months for an agent to call back; longed for an editor to validate their creativity; recoiled at the thought of self-publishing.In this essential reference, writers will discover publishers for romance, women's fiction, historical fiction, sci fi, fantasy, poetry, literary fiction, history, self-help, spirituality, politics, sports, thrillers, regional guidebooks, creative nonfiction, essays, Christian fiction, horror, crafts' books, young adult fiction, and children's books. Best of all, the publishers in this book aren't vanity presses. They don't charge a fee to consider a manuscript. If they like the story, they will proofread the book, create a stunning cover, and upload the manuscript to the online bookstores. Finally, when people ask where they can buy the book, authors will have an answer.













In Small Independent Businesses


Book Description

Many years ago, I built houses and light-manufacturing buildings. When I got an audit letter from the Department of Labor, I asked my accountant why he did not tell me about compliance reporting. He said it was not his job. That advice cost me five thousand dollars. The sad part is that I could have appealed and gotten the penalties reduced by half. I just did not know how. Now you can use what I learned in your small family business and replace your bookkeeper and avoid audits.







Small Press, Big Dreams - Collection of Short Works and Advice for Independent and Aspiring Creators


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A collection of short works including, Shepard's Lament, Death Becomes Me, Revenge, and Sidekick, with artists Gigi, Nat Jones, and Dustin Weaver. Cover by James Ritchey, III, Mark Stegbauer, and Sara Heiney-Ramirez.Also in the book you will find helpful advice and articles about marketing and promoting your work, and how to break into comics.Advice for people who are interested in becoming comic book creators, or are already producing works and would like to learn how to market the book just a little better.Time tested advice I have used on my work with AC Comics, iHero Entertianment, Unscrewed! etc.Almost 40 pages of comic book stories!




Independent Small Cars


Book Description

Covering the small cars offered to the American market by Independent American Auto Makers. Includes: Crosley, King Midget Metropolitan, Germlin, Spirit and Kammback. A great primer and quick reference guide




The People's Network


Book Description

The Bell System dominated telecommunications in the United States and Canada for most of the twentieth century, but its monopoly was not inevitable. In the decades around 1900, ordinary citizens—farmers, doctors, small-town entrepreneurs—established tens of thousands of independent telephone systems, stringing their own wires to bring this new technology to the people. Managed by opportunists and idealists alike, these small businesses were motivated not only by profit but also by the promise of open communication as a weapon against monopoly capital and for protection of regional autonomy. As the Bell empire grew, independents fought fiercely to retain control of their local networks and companies—a struggle with an emerging corporate giant that has been almost entirely forgotten. The People's Network reconstructs the story of the telephone's contentious beginnings, exploring the interplay of political economy, business strategy, and social practice in the creation of modern North American telecommunications. Drawing from government documents in the United States and Canada, independent telephone journals and publications, and the archives of regional Bell operating companies and their rivals, Robert MacDougall locates the national debates over the meaning, use, and organization of the telephone industry as a turning point in the history of information networks. The competing businesses represented dueling political philosophies: regional versus national identity and local versus centralized power. Although independent telephone companies did not win their fight with big business, they fundamentally changed the way telecommunications were conceived.