Hot on the heels of the story in Publisher’s Weekly that “publishers could be losing out on as much $3 billion to online book piracy” comes a sudden realization of a much larger threat to the viability of the book industry. Apparently, over 2 billion books were “loaned” last year by a cabal of organizationsContinue reading “Go To Hellman: Offline Book “Lending” Costs U.S. Publishers Nearly $1 Trillion”
Author Archives: Thomas Guy
VP: Constitution ‘on its head’ | POLITICO 44
Vice President Joe Biden said at a Florida fundraiser Sunday that the 60-seat threshold for passing legislation in the Senate put a dangerous new roadblock in the way of American government. “As long as I have served, … I've never seen, as my uncle once said, the constitution stood on its head as they've done.Continue reading “VP: Constitution ‘on its head’ | POLITICO 44”
AT-ATs Invade Overland Parks, KS
Reddit user reddit_top photoshopped some photos of his snow-covered high school. The result is really top-notch.
Verizon, Microsoft Conspire to Make Users Miss Work
This guy on Reddit has a crazy story regarding some shenannigans by Verizon and Microsoft. Apparently, he uses his phone as an alarm clock. Normally, it works great. But when Verizon decides to install spyware on his Blackberry it crashes his phone’s operating system. Consequently, the alarm clock fails to go off and he missesContinue reading “Verizon, Microsoft Conspire to Make Users Miss Work”
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