Amazon Makes It A Small World
Our recently published Power Protection Guide is now available on Amazon.co.uk. Amazon now offers a great facility called ‘Search Inside’ which allows viewers to take a look at the first few pages of any book scanned into their system so that they can look at the content.
Catching up on some emails this weekend brough home to me how small the world is. A Chinese student from Virginia Tech emailed me about the book asking where he could purchase a copy. The content was apparently of interest for his power electronics course. We have also despatched copies of our book to several requesting university libraries around the world including some in India.
This is not the strange if you have read the book by Thomas Friedman titled ‘The World Is Flat: The Globalized World In The Twenty-First Century‘. For anyone interested in what is happening to trade around the world and what will happen, the author provides some interesting insights and comments on the growing economic power of countries such as India and China and the impact they are having on our economies.
The other day I heard that China is the third largest market for Rolls Royce cars and that Aston Martin doubled it sales there in 2006. This is a sure sign of the growing wealth and economic power within China.
