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Kindle and co.: A threat to books and publishers?

admin @ May 18, 2008 # One Comment

The Amazon Kindle is very expensive but selling well, apparently.
I was shown one recently and despite my love for books I couldn’t help liking the lil’ thing. It’s a cute gadget, smaller than I expected and the “electronic paper” is agreeable; not at all like a computer screen. It works like paper anyway; [...]

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“Superior”is a wobbly word.

admin @ May 13, 2008 # 4 Comments

I was in the city the other day, in the course of my monthly pilgrimage to the temples of moneys (banks) to render obeisance (debts) as befits a humble servant of The System.
But in the bank precisely, there was a vicious little argument. The details are not relevant other than one party felt slurred [...]

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Floating on oil - soyabean oil. And food.

admin @ May 5, 2008 # No Comment Yet

Venezuela’s Mr Chavez ’s administration floats off political reefs that would tear the bottom out of much tougher and more serious governments (ships of state? ) Cristina Fernandez, Argentina’s President - the wife of her predecessor Nestor Kirchner - has a comfortable draft of agricultural produce between her policies and danger, with ample [...]

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