March 2012
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"Who Decides What Gets Sold In The Bookstore?"
I just found out that Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) is rejecting my new manifesto Stop Stealing Dreams and won’t carry it in their store because inside the manifesto are links to buy the books I mention in the bibliography.
Quoting here from their note to me, rejecting the book: “Multiple links to Amazon store. IE page 35, David Weinberger link.”
And there’s the conflict. We’re heading to a world where...
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"SFWA is redirecting Amazon.com links"
In recent days, Amazon.com decided to remove more than 4000 e-books from its website after a pricing dispute with IPG. The Independent Publishing Group is one of the largest independent distributors in the United States.
While Amazon has the right to decide with what company it does business, its removal of many of our authors’ books from its ordering system will have an economic impact on...
February 2012
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“Canada’s Torstar reported fourth-quarter and fiscal year results Wednesday, and...”
– http://lunch.publishersmarketplace.com/2012/02/like-others-harlequin-sees-sales-soften-and-margins-hold-up/
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“Today, people continue to reignite heated debate about the worth of SF –...”
– http://www.ballardian.com/unblinking-clinical-from-ballard-to-cyberpunk
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“State representatives on Friday advanced legislation to launch a study into what...”
– http://m.trib.com/news/state-and-regional/govt-and-politics/wyoming-house-advances-doomsday-bill/article_af6e1b2b-0ca4-553f-85e9-92c0f58c00bd.html
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“Who R U Texting 2 Nite?” - The Carper...
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The Occupy Super PAC Non-Story: How Lazy Hacks... →
That “Occupy SuperPAC” you might have heard about? Not actually a thing.
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Tumblr Staff: A New Policy Against Self-Harm Blogs →
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One of the great things about Tumblr is that people use it for just about every conceivable kind of expression. People being people, though, that means that Tumblr sometimes gets used for things that are just wrong. We are deeply committed to supporting and defending our users’ freedom of speech,…
Interesting! On one level, I agree completely, but am sort of worried about the...
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“Much of the unpublished work saw print in Cancelled Comic Cavalcade, a Summer...”
– DC Implosion - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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“The Osborne Effect states that prematurely discussing future, unavailable...”
– Osborne effect - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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“Every morning at 4 a.m., Wajeeh Nuseibeh walks through the walled Old City of...”
– Muslim family holds key to sacred sepulchre / For centuries, their ancestors have opened door to church where Jesus believed buried
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“The philosophy of cosmicism states that there is no recognizable divine...”
– Cosmicism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Why Mass Effect is the Most Important Science... →
Big claim. Interesting article. Can’t wait for Mass Effect 3 in a few weeks.
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“In 1979, McDonald’s introduced the Happy Meal. Sometime after that, it was...”
– slacktivist » The ‘biblical view’ that’s younger than the Happy Meal (via rachelfershleiser)
“Scientists have taken a first early step toward escaping the limits of a...”
– Today in crazy science news: http://mobile.businessweek.com/news/2012-02-19/transistor-made-using-a-single-atom-may-help-beat-moore-s-law.html
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“Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu, who is running for Congress in Arizona,...”
– Romney Loses Ariz. Co-Chairman Amid Allegations : NPR
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