Cheapest paperbacks are $8 plus tax? Maybe new for "hot" new books, but I know I've gotten paperbacks (not used) for less than $5, and used paperbacks for $0.99.
New paperbacks for less than $5? Most of us don't read romance novels, sorry.
Yah, I thought the kindle/ebook hardware was rather lame until I noticed how much paperbacks are lately. Getting books still in hardback for ~15% over paperback(or cheaper, for trade size), it didn't seem so bad.
There are a few authors I might always buy in hardback, but if paperback prices ever go over ebook prices, I'd probably never going to buy another paperback. But then I'm the kind that rarely sells back a book.
PS, why do they use trade size for books? I get why they do it for advance copies, since it is formatted the same as the hardback, but why for retail?
On a big movie, a theater usually gets more like 10% for the first week or two.
Only smaller theaters get completely raped, but that's because they have to compete for reels with the chains, frequently they won't even get the movie on release(especially if their broker hates them).
You might be able to get a better deal(say the 30% you could get on an "average" movie), but usually it involves also taking a movie the studios expect to bomb and showing it a certain number of times, which ties up a projector that could be showing a good movie.
Funny, many optical mouses can be trivially hacked into a infrared greyscale camera because it has a CMOS sensor grid in it that can be read by serial port.
I just had an awesome(or terrifying) image of Teddy Ruxpin and Hello Kitty trying to convince a child to choose one of them, while holding miniture assault weapons behind their backs.
He's a graphic designer, he doesn't work with reality. He might think to trademark the names and perhaps get a design patent, but his invention currently consists of "stick a big touch panel on your desk and ask a geek to make it work".
You can do the same thing by buying an aftermarket touch panel kit from dealextreme and gluing it to a bit of plexiglass instead of a screen.
Thousands of writers copyright material under a name that isn't their legal one, many without revealing their identity to the copyright authorities. You do trade the life+70 to just 95 years in the US, unless you identify yourself to the copyright office before the term is up.
Some of the first kindle2 batch had an issue where it wouldn't fully darken or lighten while in sunlight. I got mine a bit later and haven't noticed a problem, but the sunlight doesn't get into my office too much.
Piracy was coined by book publishers in the 17th century in response to what happened when they failed to produce cheap books instead of expensive ones.
You might want to get his tongue checked to see if he can detect sugar. You could try a taste-test between un/sugared water or perhaps bake some cookies without the sugar.
I don't remember how rare it is in people, but it is supposedly common in felines.
An 80's punk bumps into an alien that likes bowling, as the ball, when it isn't pretending to be jewelry so as to cop a feel. Threatened by the melting of his brain head(been there, done that), he and a few others end up on a galactic chase leading to the potential destruction of the universe, the discovery that neanderthals are considered our more civilized cousins, and that shopping is the most important thing, like, ever.
Except maybe that humor is a scientifically provable cosmological constant. If it weren't for the fact that it'd get ruined, this should so be made into a movie.
Third radio? What the freak are you talking about? Some routers may support 802.11n in both the 2.4GHz spectrum and the 5GHz spectrum but that doesn't involve a "third radio".
I'm guessing you've never heard of a 3 x 3 MIMO config, it allows you to increase spectral use or signal without an increase in power.
Clifford Simak would be a good one for the 40/50's. Most of his sci-fi is rural/laid-back and while his heros are like cardboard, his aliens have depth.
Goblin Reservation is a sci-fi/fantasy mashup where somebody has to solve his own murder in a future where time-travel is used to settle educational disputes and science has found where fantasy creatures were hiding.
The Visitors covers our interaction with incomprehensible aliens that turn trees into easy to drive flying saucers, ruining the autoindustry. It isn't a trade, they eat cellulose and literly shit cars with idiot-proof antigravity.
If you write books like that then either you don't need to worry about piracy or you really need to thank your editor.
And if inventory, shipping, "stripped" returns, and distribution fees weren't eating up 80% of the cost of a book, you might be making better royalties.
Or it could be that while you are in line for the shot, somebody else is in line with the misguided idea that vaccines cure instead of prevent and is quietly giving you and the rest of the queue what he thought was just the flu.
I've seen a lot of people come down with the flu after hanging out in a waiting room with a bunch of sneezers. My doc's waiting room now has a sign: "flu-symptoms? Use side door".
Much like small bands/indie movies can be hard to find, books rarely have the mass desire necessary. Books have been traded for decades on IRC/usenet(I downloaded books before my first mp3), but books generally aren't popular enough to be mass downloaded, except as "every *** book" collections on D*oid.
When the last Harry Potter book got scanned early, my mother actually complained that she couldn't find it on P2P, even though she had pre-ordered and would be getting it at midnight release anyway.
I've never heard that for any other book, although I've been noticing a lot more of the "books for people who don't generally read" floating around on non-book trackers, as well as movie tie-in books. I wouldn't be suprised if teen-angst fiction really drags books into the "everybody pirates" realm.
Plus they cause osteonecrosis when they don't dissapate/flex as much force as bone. If you get a joint replacement in your 20s, you'll probably live long enough to require another when the ends start to decay.
Clearly you interact with people who know that top-posting is evil and have no urge to reply to each email before reading the following responses that have been sitting in their inbox for 3 days.
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New paperbacks for less than $5? Most of us don't read romance novels, sorry.
Yah, I thought the kindle/ebook hardware was rather lame until I noticed how much paperbacks are lately. Getting books still in hardback for ~15% over paperback(or cheaper, for trade size), it didn't seem so bad.
There are a few authors I might always buy in hardback, but if paperback prices ever go over ebook prices, I'd probably never going to buy another paperback. But then I'm the kind that rarely sells back a book.
PS, why do they use trade size for books? I get why they do it for advance copies, since it is formatted the same as the hardback, but why for retail?
On a big movie, a theater usually gets more like 10% for the first week or two.
Only smaller theaters get completely raped, but that's because they have to compete for reels with the chains, frequently they won't even get the movie on release(especially if their broker hates them).
You might be able to get a better deal(say the 30% you could get on an "average" movie), but usually it involves also taking a movie the studios expect to bomb and showing it a certain number of times, which ties up a projector that could be showing a good movie.
Funny, many optical mouses can be trivially hacked into a infrared greyscale camera because it has a CMOS sensor grid in it that can be read by serial port.
It was on slashdot just last year. Story link is dead, see http://spritesmods.com/?art=mouseeye
I just had an awesome(or terrifying) image of Teddy Ruxpin and Hello Kitty trying to convince a child to choose one of them, while holding miniture assault weapons behind their backs.
He's a graphic designer, he doesn't work with reality. He might think to trademark the names and perhaps get a design patent, but his invention currently consists of "stick a big touch panel on your desk and ask a geek to make it work".
You can do the same thing by buying an aftermarket touch panel kit from dealextreme and gluing it to a bit of plexiglass instead of a screen.
Butlers
Holodecks might be realistic, but it aint like bossing around real people.
Or murdering, for the same reason.
In the US it's not, in the UK the truth can be libelous.
Thousands of writers copyright material under a name that isn't their legal one, many without revealing their identity to the copyright authorities. You do trade the life+70 to just 95 years in the US, unless you identify yourself to the copyright office before the term is up.
Some of the first kindle2 batch had an issue where it wouldn't fully darken or lighten while in sunlight. I got mine a bit later and haven't noticed a problem, but the sunlight doesn't get into my office too much.
Piracy was coined by book publishers in the 17th century in response to what happened when they failed to produce cheap books instead of expensive ones.
It isn't new.
You might want to get his tongue checked to see if he can detect sugar. You could try a taste-test between un/sugared water or perhaps bake some cookies without the sugar.
I don't remember how rare it is in people, but it is supposedly common in felines.
Where else the alien bowling ball?
Glory Lane, by Alan Dean Foster.
An 80's punk bumps into an alien that likes bowling, as the ball, when it isn't pretending to be jewelry so as to cop a feel. Threatened by the melting of his brain head(been there, done that), he and a few others end up on a galactic chase leading to the potential destruction of the universe, the discovery that neanderthals are considered our more civilized cousins, and that shopping is the most important thing, like, ever.
Except maybe that humor is a scientifically provable cosmological constant. If it weren't for the fact that it'd get ruined, this should so be made into a movie.
I'm guessing you've never heard of a 3 x 3 MIMO config, it allows you to increase spectral use or signal without an increase in power.
Welcome to the present.
Clifford Simak would be a good one for the 40/50's. Most of his sci-fi is rural/laid-back and while his heros are like cardboard, his aliens have depth.
Goblin Reservation is a sci-fi/fantasy mashup where somebody has to solve his own murder in a future where time-travel is used to settle educational disputes and science has found where fantasy creatures were hiding.
The Visitors covers our interaction with incomprehensible aliens that turn trees into easy to drive flying saucers, ruining the autoindustry. It isn't a trade, they eat cellulose and literly shit cars with idiot-proof antigravity.
Well, they do tend to be designed to increase surface area(without increasing tissue volume) and thus radiate more heat, so technically...
Line breaks, have you heard of them?
If you write books like that then either you don't need to worry about piracy or you really need to thank your editor.
And if inventory, shipping, "stripped" returns, and distribution fees weren't eating up 80% of the cost of a book, you might be making better royalties.
Or it could be that while you are in line for the shot, somebody else is in line with the misguided idea that vaccines cure instead of prevent and is quietly giving you and the rest of the queue what he thought was just the flu.
I've seen a lot of people come down with the flu after hanging out in a waiting room with a bunch of sneezers. My doc's waiting room now has a sign: "flu-symptoms? Use side door".
Much like small bands/indie movies can be hard to find, books rarely have the mass desire necessary. Books have been traded for decades on IRC/usenet(I downloaded books before my first mp3), but books generally aren't popular enough to be mass downloaded, except as "every *** book" collections on D*oid.
When the last Harry Potter book got scanned early, my mother actually complained that she couldn't find it on P2P, even though she had pre-ordered and would be getting it at midnight release anyway.
I've never heard that for any other book, although I've been noticing a lot more of the "books for people who don't generally read" floating around on non-book trackers, as well as movie tie-in books. I wouldn't be suprised if teen-angst fiction really drags books into the "everybody pirates" realm.
Plus they cause osteonecrosis when they don't dissapate/flex as much force as bone. If you get a joint replacement in your 20s, you'll probably live long enough to require another when the ends start to decay.
Alas, you can't in the current client.
http://www.google.com/support/wave/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=163057
If you don't want people to watch you type, use a text editor and C&P when you are ready to post.
I'm sure other clients will add the option for "burst" mode.
Clearly you interact with people who know that top-posting is evil and have no urge to reply to each email before reading the following responses that have been sitting in their inbox for 3 days.
I envy you.
You can set your status to "not available to chat" and treat it just like email.
Don't look at the blinking and it can't bother you.
The point of advertising is not to inform, it is to induce action. Buy stuff, visit a website, vote a particular way.
Informing can do that, but implication or outright misinformation generally works better.