wait a second: you can only READ .pdf files if someone has MADE them first,
and to MAKE them you need to buy the full fledged product. the logic is that
by spreading the reader around for free you create demand. else it would be
a completely closed circuit. note, Microsoft offers a Word reader for
Maybe PG and G rated movies have a better post-theater sale rate, both on
video and in other fora (airlines etc.) i definitely get the feeling that
the majority of video sales (outside the "adult" realm, that is) is a
kid-oriented market. since parents & relatives are the buyers, that means
sold v
i wonder how long
i would have to wait!
i
suppose dealers don't need to offer addicts loyalty
incentives.
still seems to me strange, given the supposed cost of
acquiring new customers on the internet and the ease of transfer (though to be
fair, i haven't switched even without loyalty stuff
this
is an interesting move from Amazon, if true. The difference with the temperature
sensitive Coke machine is that the price rises for everyone for external
reasons. with the Amazon move described here, the discriminatory pricing is
based on individual characteristics and is therefore act
indeed. what i got from harris is that i should take advantage of having
kids to act like a kid! (and the truth is, i find most adults much more
boring than most kids)
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i agree with ed's principle here.
i suspect the concept of borders is more about keeping people in than
keeping people out. keeping people out is just the more common consideration
at present. Europe, that most xenophobic of places, is now starting to mull
"importation" of people to make up for w
the japanese govt should take a look at what happened to the portuguese this
year: they run the same kind of "floating tax" deal where they cushion the
gas price by raising or lowering the tax chunk. this was great until oil
prices rose above the level where they got ANY taxes and actually started
hmm. my empirical evidence (from 2 years at a book publisher) was that
bookselling was a fairly profitable business, despite the steady stream of
grumbling from the business people.
"scholarly" books may not make money but textbooks do. lots and lots of
money. so do bestsellers. and so do strong
evidence of the reality of the copy vs bound book is that publishers are
stingy with their pre-publication "galleys" (which are bound photocopies of
books) and much more willing to give reviewers finished books, as the
price-per is MUCH lower.
offset printing (plus binding etc) is a lot more cost
Folks:
Amazon.Com reviews also tend toward the positive (this makes sense; they are
trying to sell books). But the staff reviews are the equivalent of those 8x5
cards staff reviewers stick up in "bricks and mortar" bookstores. I bet
people only bother to write these reviews if they actually enjoy
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