Editor's Note: Noise Pollution: Why more data isn't better data
What Nate Silver's "The Signal and the Noise" can teach publishers
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Brian Howard
It's an idea that's all over Book Business' annual Business Tips issue: From Brett Sandusky's dive into agile publishing (p. 16); to Paul Bogaards approach to publicity (p. 13); to our guest columnists' take on book pricing (p. 11); to James Sturdivant's feature on selling direct (p. 20); to Andrew Brenneman's advice on metadata (p. 34).
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