Information wants to be free, right? I thought this meant the Net would be a gold mine of information, where I could skim nuggets off the top. I wish I'd had The Information Broker's Handbook when I first got on the Net I would have saved myself from wasting time in almost the right place, or flooding myself with 30,000 hits from a Web search site of which I found only three worth a damn.
The Information Broker's Handbook is an enjoyable crash course in getting choice info tidbits anywhere they can be found, online or in print. It will also teach you about information brokers those specialists in knowing where the facts are and how to get them for their clients.
This book covers valuable Net resources, such as Hoover's Handbook of American Business (www.hoovers.com/). It also forced me to face the fact that tons of essential business and academic information is still available only in books. And a fair amount is tied up in proprietary databases.
The handbook's lists of various resources and what they are used for is worth the price of the book.
Elizabeth Lewis
The Information Broker's Handbook, by Sue Rugge and Alfred Glossbrenner: US$34.95. McGraw-Hill: (800) 722 4726,+1 (212) 512 7972, on the Web at www.mcgraw-hill.com/.
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