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Nowhere close to the physical lending model yet...
"Moreover, Amazon will restrict borrowers to one title at a time, one per month. Borrowers can keep a book for as long as they like, but when they borrow a new title, the previously borrowed book automatically disappears from their device."
A candid take on self help books by a person who read 340 of them in a 2 year period. The only book he finds useful is Richard Wiseman's "59 seconds". One thing interesting about the amazon links to the books in his reviews is that they are affiliate ones...
Quote: "Here’s the thing. Self-help books are written to sell, not to help."
Quite a lot of information on how quotes get mangled over time & get popular thus immortalizing the person who made the quote. Then again, sometimes quotes are misattributed. It also mentions a couple of books that help verify the authenticity of quotes & traces their origins.
"Public circulation is what renders something a quotation. It’s quotable because it’s been quoted, and its having been quoted gives it authority. Quotations are prostheses. “As Emerson/Churchill/Donald Trump once observed” borrows another person’s brain waves and puts them to your own use. (If you fail to credit Emerson et al., it’s called plagiarism. But isn’t plagiarism just the purest form of quotation?) Then, there is a subset of quotations that are personal. We pick them up off the public street, but we put them to private uses. We hoard quotations like amulets. They are charms against chaos, secret mantras for dark times, strings that vibrate forever in defiance of the laws of time and space. That they may be opaque or banal to everyone else is what makes them precious: they aren’t supposed to work for everybody. They’re there to work for us. Some are little generational badges of identity. Some just seem to pop up on a million occasions. Some are razors."
The comments section pretty much exemplifies what not to do if you are an author who has received a negative review.
As always, hindsight is a wonderful thing.
Chris Anderson's response to Malcolm Gladwell's review of his book "Free" in the New Yorker, in particular to the journalism business model point.
Bottom line is that you still gotta earn enough for your daily bread whatever your business model.
Quite a different take on free by Malcolm Gladwell with a bunch of examples, summed up thus: "The only iron law here is the one too obvious to write a book about, which is that the digital age has so transformed the ways in which things are made and sold
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"The Invisible Gorilla reveals the numerous ways that our intuitions can deceive us, but it's more than a catalog of human failings."
Why it's important some kind of tagging so that bots can interpret & classify posts.
The public domain is the greatest resource in human history: eventually all knowledge will become part of it. Its riches serve all mankind, but it faces a new threat. Vast libraries of public domain works are being plundered by claims of "copyright". It's
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