A Google search of books of business yielded 1.2 million listings! Select books by authors with solid credentials and read the reviews that are provided by Amazon.com and business magazines. Below are samples, pulled from the web almost at random to show you how books can be found on a wide variety of business topics, depending on your specific interests:

Best Home Businesses for People 50+, by Paul Edwards (Paperback – New York: Tarcher/Penguin Books, 2004) Here is a comprehensive guide to starting and running a home-based business that you can love in midlife and retirement. Includes over 70 businesses you can start from home in middle age or retirement.

101 Best Home-Based Businesses for Women, 3rd Edition: Everything You Need to Know About Getting Started on the Road to Success (For Fun & Profit), by Priscilla Y. Huff.  (Paperback – Prima Publishing: New York, 2002). Choose from 101 of the best: customer service, arts and crafts, entertainment, computer and high tech, mail order, home-based distributorships and franchises, and many others. Steps in getting started and valuable resources to help you. 

Finding your Perfect Work, by Paul and Sarah Edwards. (New York: Tarcher/Putnam, 2003). How you can work for yourself, combining your personal goals and dreams with the practical realities of earning a meaningful and prosperous livelihood in today’s economy. This step-by-step book offers worksheets, questionnaires, and resources, including on-line and new media marketing techniques, a unique suitability survey, as well as inspiring stories to help you define what you really want out of life.

Rich Dad’s Before You Quit Your Job: 10 Real-life Lessons Every Entrepreneur Should Know About Building a Multimillion-Dollar Business, by Robert T. Kiyosaki, Sharon L. Lechter (Paperback) Price varies for new and used copies from Amazon.com. The type of book that can help prevent costly mistakes.

200 Services You Can Sell for Big Profits, by James Stephenson (Entrepreneur Media, Inc., 2005). Services you can provide can be more profitable than you think.

Get Paid to Read Books! By Al Fountain  (Cader Publishing, Ltd.) Who Would Pay For Book Reading? Publishers, editors and authors all have reasons to pay people to read books. For information, go to – http://www.cader.com/income.htm

Start Your Own Seminar Production Business: Your Step-by-Step Guide to Success, (Entrepreneur Magazine’s Start Up series), by Terry and Rob Adams (Entrepreneur Media, Inc., 2003). How to capitalize on the demand for seminars by corporations, associations, consumers, etc.

            The Best Internet Businesses You Can Start, by Marian Betancourt (Holbrook, Mass.: Adams Media Corp, 1999) Used prices vary on Amazon.com. Though out-of-date, some useful ideas are presented.

             How to Become a Successful Weekend Entrepreneur, by Jennifer Basye (Prima Publishing: 1993). Used prices vary on Amazon.com. Somewhat out-of-date, but worth reading for ideas.

Home Businesses You Can Buy, by Paul and Sarah Edwards, and Walter Zooi. (New York: Tarcher/Putnam, 1997). Guide to exploring franchises, MLM, and business opportunities – and how to avoid scams.

               Plants for Profit: Income Opportunities in Horticulture, by Francis X. Jazwik, Dr. Jazwik and John Gist (ed) (New York: Andmore Press, 2000) $39.95. For those who love gardening, profits can augment the satisfaction. 

Retirement Income Opportunities in an Aging America, by Sophie Korczyk. With the aging of the “baby boomers,” this book is timely. 

Mind Your Own Business. Go to Amazon.com, and you will find several books by this title with different subtitles and authors.  

Need more information on various aspects of starting and managing your own business? There is no shortage of valuable reading materials.  Enjoy your bookstore and/or library searching.  Or go online to – www.amazon.com - or use a search engine to find any of a multitude of web sites featuring business books.