The Kindle version of Numbers Rule Your World is now available from Amazon! You can now read my book at the bargain price of 9.99, delivered in "under a minute".
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On April 23, I will be attending the 10th anniversary celebration of Princeton's Operations Research and Financial Engineering department. There will be two panel discussions on "Lessons from the Financial Crisis" and "Energy and Climate Change". This will take place in their brand-new building, Sherrerd Hall.
ORFE has become one of the most popular majors at Princeton. It's perfect for students who want to have one foot in engineering and the other in the social sciences. It's always been a great feeder program to Wall Street banks and management consulting firms although if any of the students are reading this, there is life outside of banks and consultancies! There are plenty of businesses who need quantitative thinkers like you.
The department is much older than ten. When I graduated, it was combined with Civil Engineering. This is their 10th year since splitting from Civil.
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On April 30, I will be giving a talk at NYU's Stern School on "Five Years of Chart Reading" (Kaufman Management Center, Room 5-90 at 11:30 am). This is a joint event with Dona Wong, the author of The Wall Street Journal Guide to Information Graphics. Please come and see us.
I'd like to buy the kindle version of book, but now it is more expensive than the hardcover edition on Amazon :(
I refuse to pay more for a version full of DRM, but on the other hand this would be a nice book to have on my iPod Touch all the time.
I'll wait and see what happens to the price... any economic statistics insights on the subject? ;)
Posted by: Bani | 06/18/2010 at 12:12 AM
Bani: I have so far not seen Amazon pricing the Kindle version above the hardcover edition but the prices are not constant. In theory, they could vary the prices and conduct an experiment to find the underlying demand curve. By holding out on buying, you are sending them a signal if they are indeed conducting a test!
Posted by: Kaiser | 06/18/2010 at 11:20 PM