When Twitter eventually goes through an IPO, its investment bankers will be faced with the challenge of establishing a price per share for the company’s stock. To the uninitiated, this might seem like a simple task. The fact is there are several valuation scenarios that can be used to price a stock.

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After the recent Super Bowl game, Twitter reported that during the final three minutes of the game between the New York Giants and the New England Patriots, an average of 10,000 tweets were sent every second. This sheer volume of tweets is almost unimaginable. My first thought was that all of these tweets were going into the ether at a purely indigestible rate. What’s the point, I thought?

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The word "terminal," before the computer revolution, had several meanings, one of which described it as either end of a carrier line containing facilities for freight and passengers. Nowadays, in the computer age, it can mean the end point of a carrier line containing data "floating" in a cloud and saved for many users and uses.

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This is a followup to an article that I wrote for the E-Commerce Times entitled "Why Publishers Are Afraid of Amazon." In that article, I mention that Amazon is now facilitating those authors who choose to self-publish. If there ever was a watershed time for traditional publishers, it is now.

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My previous experience with book publishers was over 10 years ago when I wrote a book about buying a business. It wasn’t a great experience because first I had to find an agent — not an easy task. The agent then had to go through the long and arduous task of finding a publisher. The process took a great deal of time and energy.

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