I think its interesting that all of AOL's sites, TechCrunch, EndGadget, etc are being included in a new "The Huffington Post Media Group" division of AOL. It certainly makes it a lot easier to spin them off into a separate company.
In order to be PCI compliant, the store I work at no longer takes CC#'s via email. If you don't want to or can't use our ecommerce site, your only option is to call in with the CC#.
Are your serious? Back when I was a student, the only way I could have saved 30 bucks a week was by not eating. Perhaps you are starting to sense a theme here?
From what I've read the most likely scenario is that Warner Music will buy the recorded music arm, while the music publishing arm will either be retained by Citicorp or sold off to a private equity firm.
You're numbers are slightly off. B&N's retail mark up is more on the order of 48%. They run their own distribution centers and so they a) get a higher discount off the retail price for purchasing large quantities from the publisher and b) don't have to use a wholesaler. Even if they do go the wholesale route, they would still be getting at least a 43% discount off the retail price.
More likely, they want to make a deal with Google, whereby Google pays them for the privilege of using their content.
This. Look at the current battle Fox is waging with Cablevision in New York and Dish in California. Fox wants them to pony up more money for its channels, but they don't want to pay what Fox is asking. Who suffers? The viewers.
All too true. I work at a well known independent bookstore & in the mid-'90's, three of us tried to convince the owner to sell books online. He passed because he didn't get it. Then Amazon happened and he got it, but it was too late.
In Jim Munroe's "Angry Young Spaceman", English has become the lingua franca of interstellar trade and has been patented by Earth. Other planets have to pay a licence fee to use it.
The state university in my town requires instructors who assign textbooks that they've written to pay the equivalent amount of the royalties they receive from such sales to the university's general fund.
If I had mod points, I'd mod you insightful. Although it is funny to assume any politician would be bothered by not keeping his word, well actually its rather sad.
Philip K. Dick had this to say about SF vs. Fantasy:Science Fiction is that is that which would be considered possible under certain circumstances. Fantasy is that which would be considered impossible under any circumstances. This is in essence a judgement call.
Hello, friendly bookstore employee here. I'll toss out a few of my recent favorites.
Hard SF: Alastair Reynolds, Ken MacLeod;
Epic Fantasy: Steven Erikson;
Weird Shit: Jeff VanderMeer;
Variety: Charles Stross
Your view of POD is entirely too narrow. Yes, a lot of it is crap, but then so are a lot the books published conventionally. ( I know this because I have been the SF/Fantasy/Horror buyer at an independent bookstore for the last 15 years.) POD has its positive uses. Many Trade & University presses use POD technology to extend their offerings. Farrar, Strauss & Giroux offer a large number of poetry titles as POD because the sales don't justify the cost of another conventional print run. Oxford University Press makes available through POD over a hundred titles that were formerly out of print.
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No true hipster drinks Zima. It's Schlitz or PBR for the irony.
I agree ++
I think its interesting that all of AOL's sites, TechCrunch, EndGadget, etc are being included in a new "The Huffington Post Media Group" division of AOL. It certainly makes it a lot easier to spin them off into a separate company.
In order to be PCI compliant, the store I work at no longer takes CC#'s via email. If you don't want to or can't use our ecommerce site, your only option is to call in with the CC#.
Goddamn your eyes, sir!
save up $30/week for ten weeks...
Are your serious? Back when I was a student, the only way I could have saved 30 bucks a week was by not eating. Perhaps you are starting to sense a theme here?
From what I've read the most likely scenario is that Warner Music will buy the recorded music arm, while the music publishing arm will either be retained by Citicorp or sold off to a private equity firm.
You're numbers are slightly off. B&N's retail mark up is more on the order of 48%. They run their own distribution centers and so they a) get a higher discount off the retail price for purchasing large quantities from the publisher and b) don't have to use a wholesaler. Even if they do go the wholesale route, they would still be getting at least a 43% discount off the retail price.
More likely, they want to make a deal with Google, whereby Google pays them for the privilege of using their content.
This. Look at the current battle Fox is waging with Cablevision in New York and Dish in California. Fox wants them to pony up more money for its channels, but they don't want to pay what Fox is asking. Who suffers? The viewers.
Problem is, your app will be in front of 50000000 users together with all the other apps.
How is any different than the way things currently are on something like MacUpdate? Thousands of apps there competing for attention.
So by my count you have 5 different /. ids. What's up with that?
All too true. I work at a well known independent bookstore & in the mid-'90's, three of us tried to convince the owner to sell books online. He passed because he didn't get it. Then Amazon happened and he got it, but it was too late.
After a bit of googling, it appears that it is a civil offence under sect 43 of the IT Act , 2000
In Jim Munroe's "Angry Young Spaceman", English has become the lingua franca of interstellar trade and has been patented by Earth. Other planets have to pay a licence fee to use it.
The state university in my town requires instructors who assign textbooks that they've written to pay the equivalent amount of the royalties they receive from such sales to the university's general fund.
Pfft, that's nothing. Mine is Little Patches Country Road X28.
If I had mod points, I'd mod you insightful. Although it is funny to assume any politician would be bothered by not keeping his word, well actually its rather sad.
Viacom and CBS are now separate corporations
Yes, because that worked so well on Rimmerworld.
Philip K. Dick had this to say about SF vs. Fantasy:Science Fiction is that is that which would be considered possible under certain circumstances. Fantasy is that which would be considered impossible under any circumstances. This is in essence a judgement call.
Hello, friendly bookstore employee here. I'll toss out a few of my recent favorites. Hard SF: Alastair Reynolds, Ken MacLeod; Epic Fantasy: Steven Erikson; Weird Shit: Jeff VanderMeer; Variety: Charles Stross
Your view of POD is entirely too narrow. Yes, a lot of it is crap, but then so are a lot the books published conventionally. ( I know this because I have been the SF/Fantasy/Horror buyer at an independent bookstore for the last 15 years.) POD has its positive uses. Many Trade & University presses use POD technology to extend their offerings. Farrar, Strauss & Giroux offer a large number of poetry titles as POD because the sales don't justify the cost of another conventional print run. Oxford University Press makes available through POD over a hundred titles that were formerly out of print.