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...advantages of doing business this way, without a single author. By rotating writers, Scholastic can put out 39 Clues novels at Gatling-gun speeds: there will be a total of 10, a new one appearing every three or four months. Another advantage is that it allows Scholastic to retain ownership and control of the intellectual property they're selling. Harry Potter quickly made J.K. Rowling one of the richest women in the world. But Amy and Dan are company property. In the post-Potter world, publishers realize there's too much money at stake to risk letting a mere author...
Harvard has the additional challenge of building and planning alongside other community development plans, such as the 2004 North Allston Strategic Framework Plan, a document that came out of a series of meetings between University officials and Allston residents that calls for an increase in the rate of home ownership and more pedestrian connections to the river, in addition to other improvements...
...surprise to anyone that Google's doing this," said John Lilly, CEO of Mozilla, the company behind Firefox, the world's second most popular browser. Noting the aggressive direction that Microsoft is taking, he added, "I think Google has some nervousness around issues of control and ownership...
Gunn cannot imagine what it will be like to be in Denver's Invesco Stadium watching the man he calls "the hip-hop candidate" become the first African American to accept a major-party presidential nomination. But he does know that he'll feel a sense of ownership. That, and a twinge of regret that he's missing the season opener of his beloved Gamecocks the same night. But for the first time in his life, Gunn would rather be at a political convention...
...match seemed perfect. Brian Testerman, 25, and Collin Nailor, 24, had known each other for six years, and both saw the house as an investment: they'd buy a fixer-upper, live in it during the renovation, then sell for a profit. The problem is, 11 months into home ownership, Nailor wants to move to Chicago, where his girlfriend now lives. Testerman thinks it's ridiculous to sell so soon; work hasn't even begun on the kitchen. "I'm stressed out," he says. "Going home is uncomfortable...