Archive for June, 2008

Maghound

Sunday, June 29th, 2008

Rogier van Bakel, critical in the past of magazine subscription marketing, points to this news of an upcoming endeavor called Maghound.com from Time, Inc. to offer a sort of Netflix-style subscription management service for print magazines, allowing customers to subscribe to titles of their choosing, at discounted rates, for ...

Resource review : HPL business databases

Saturday, June 21st, 2008

Some observations about a few of the business databases offered by the Houston Public Library: 1.  infoUSA's ReferenceUSA, Dun & Bradstreet's Million Dollar Database, and Factiva from Dow Jones each are powerful tools for getting data about companies.   A few advantages and disadvantages of each stand out at a glance. ReferenceUSA covers ...