(FINANCIAL TIMES) - Tom Kelley is a sensitive soul. Shortly after sending the manuscript of his first book, The Art Of Innovation, to his publisher, he visited Kepler's, a bookshop in Menlo Park in Silicon Valley.
"I literally started to cry", he confessed to a group of authors to which I belong, "thinking about all the effort and all the sacrifices authors had made to get those thousands of books on to the stage."
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