Sunday, January 1, 2012

Stellicktricity: Stories, Highlights, and Other Hockey Juice from a Life Plugged into the Game by Gord Stellick

Stellicktricity

Gord Stellick, current broadcaster, and a former insider at the GM level in the NHL,  provides dozens of hockey anecdotes from his personal experience, and others he has picked up along the way. Most of these stories are two to four pages or so; thus it's a great book to pick up and read when you have just a few minutes

Ticketmasters: The Rise of the Concert Industry and How the Public Got Scalped - Dean Budnick PhD (Author), Josh Baron (Author)


Ticket Masters

The level of detail in this book astounded me, and reads as a business school case study of the (primarily) concert ticket business industry.  A must read for those those that are curious about service charges, convenience charges, VIP seating, etc.  I would like quote a blurb from the back cover that summarizse my thoughts more succinctly that I could muster:

"For anyone who's ever suffered rock concert sticker shock - and we all have - Ticket Masters is the best seat seat in the house to the show behind the show" - Fred Goodman , author of Fortune's Fool and The The Mansion on the Hill

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