You know, I don’t even go looking for this stuff about Amazon, but it just seems to be busting out all over, lately. I keep thinking, as I watch this sort of thing happening more and more, “Who do they think they are — General Motors??” (Meaning, of course, the old General Motors before [...]
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I think I’ll be going back to using Powell’s Books and Biblio.com for my book links for a while, and maybe permanently. … [...] To say this is an abomination of abominations is making it sound like a church picnic. This marketing-targetting-attacking-people-with-advertising is getting so out of hand, I doubt it will be long before they’re demanding the right to put advertisements on the insides of our eyelids so we can’t even escape their money-grubbing pocket-robbing shouting that way. … [...] I’m sure my American readers won’t know the story: how writer Yann Martell, of Life of Pi fame, decided in April of 2007 to send Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper a book every two weeks. Each book would be designed, as Martel says, to “expand stillness.” And he would list all the books on the [...] In light of today’s California Supreme Court ruling, stripping hundreds of my friends in California of equal rights with every other citizen of that state, I have only one thing to say. Buy this book. The Case for Same-Sex Marriage, by William N. Eskridge, Jr. Buy one, buy a hundred. Give this book to everyone [...] Darn right. It seems that Apple got so many complaints about its puritanical refusal to accept the Eucalyptus app for the iPhone (because some of the books out there are *gasp* dirty!), that they’ve finally backed down and accepted it after all. The Macworld website reports on this in its article, Apple changes its mind, [...] Apple isn’t the progressive, hip ol’ company it wants people to think it is. It’s a moralistic prig (not to mention a bloody hypocritical one), and certainly is an American company that contradicts all that “land of the free, home of the brave” stuff. … [...] …according to critics, part of the settlement would allow Google to get exclusive license to millions of “orphan books,” whose authors or rights-holders are unknown. Eventually, Google would pretty much own every book ever written, or have exclusive access. … [...] [Note: Now see the Today.com Exiles page (click on the tab at top of main page) for as complete a list as we can make of those who were booted from or left Today.com in disgust.] Well, it seems like there’s a definite pogrom going on at Today.com, of bloggers who: weren’t serving as unpaid [...] |
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