Books and the Wall Street Journal
The fatwallet has been thinning a bit lately. I got used to it after spending the past five years buying books and textbooks. One of my long-term goal is to buy and collect my own set of library, an impressive collection of books pertaining to my career and interests. My collection is growing at a slow but an acceptable pace.
The local and the university library has most of the books I like to read and there are those hidden gems I want to acquire for my own. No matter how old those books get, it is worth collecting because the knowledge it contains are worth every penny. And the older the books age, the cheaper it costs to purchase unless they become very limited as to become rare to find. One book someone recommended became quite rare and as usual, the demand exceeded the quantity, increasing the sales price 20 times its original retail price.
Recently, one of my professor recommended that the class subscribe to the Wall Street Journal. He is an avid reader and a long-time subscriber. He mentioned of a student discount, $60 for the student rate. I plan to sign up and if that price includes both the print and online edition, sweet! Even if the online edition is not included in the student rate, getting 52-54 weeks of WSJ delivered to your door is quite a bargain.
To end this blog entry, Seth Godin released a new book to his collection titled, “Small Is the New Big: and 193 Other Riffs, Rants, and Remarkable Business Ideas .”
