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June 2010
Remembering Larry King…
No, he’s not dead. But Larry King has finally taken the hint and he is calling it quits on his CNN TV show that on occasion seems like it went on the air a century ago.
His ratings have been in decline. He used to get all the hot guests - not so much any more though. He has interviewed presidents, athletes, authors, movie stars. The rich. The famous. And the scandal-ridden.
His questions over the years often had the impact of feathery cream pies but hey, he ruled Televisionland (and Radioland) for decades. That’s a feat.
He has written books. He has gotten married. And divorced. Married. Divorced. Yada yada yada.
Some readers might recall that 3 years ago I attended a dinner party at Larry’s palatial mansion in Beverly Hills. It was a party to celebrate the publication of the autobiography of the billionaire Ted Turner.
Of course Ted is the guy who was Larry’s boss at CNN for so many years. Ted was there. Oprah’s people were there. I got a number of close views of Mrs. King (number 7) flitting among their guests. The Kings never spoke to me. But Ted did. I had quite a conversation with the man who once owned the Atlanta Braves baseball club.
It has been weird to remember that night in light of more recent developments; the Kings’ marital troubles, her recent alleged suicide attempt, Larry’s job slowly withering away. He told one incredibly tasteless joke at his wife’s expense that night. Did you know that there is a portrait of King in his house that is made entirely out of jelly beans? An incredible likeness, too.
No Larry King is still with us. But I have to say that up close he reminded me a little bit of King Tut. And that was 3 years ago….
For more on Larry King’s retirement plans click HERE:
Vick Mickunas
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TweetAmazon weirdness
For the past hour I have been trying to log on to the website for Amazon.com to look up some information about a book. It will load then I cannot access any books. Weird. The greatest commercial website on the planet and they are losing millions of dollars in revenue for every minute that the site is malfunctioning.
Try it. Let me know what you see. www.amazon.com
Vick Mickunas
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TweetFirst Oprah author wiped out by Ponzi scheme
This has not been a very good year for the best-selling author Jacquelyn Mitchard. According to an article in the Saint Paul Pioneer Press:
“Wisconsin author Jacquelyn Mitchard has seen a number of her dreams come true.
Her novel, “The Deep End of the Ocean,” was the first pick of Oprah Winfrey’s influential book club, and it later became a movie starring Michelle Pfeiffer. She’s launched a writer’s retreat on Cape Cod and recently adopted two daughters from Ethiopia orphaned by AIDS.
Mitchard, a widow, has also seen some dreams dashed. Among them, she learned last year that she’d lost virtually all her money in an alleged Ponzi scheme orchestrated by an Apple Valley money manager.
The alleged fraud is believed to have bilked more than 1,000 investors out of about $190 million, according to court papers, leaving many without retirement funds or life savings.
“We learned we’d lost everything in a crippling theft by a hometown boy posing as an investment counselor,” Mitchard wrote in an open e-mail to her readers and friends Thursday. “The guy promised to help some of the thousand victims recover their hard-earned life savings, but he lied to the federal judges.”
The “hometown boy” she refers to is Trevor Cook, a former investment manager who pleaded guilty in April to federal counts of mail fraud and tax evasion. Cook, 38, formerly of Apple Valley, has yet to be sentenced, but he could spend up to 25 years in prison for his crimes. Cook, who was ordered held in contempt of court in January, remains at the Sherburne County Jail, awaiting his fate.”
To read the rest of the story click HERE:
Vick Mickunas
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TweetThose Russian spies…
According to the New York Times: “Ten people have been arrested for allegedly serving as secret agents of the Russian government with the goal of penetrating U.S. government policymaking circles.
The Justice Department announced the arrests Monday.
According to court papers in the case, the U.S. government intercepted a message from Russian intelligence headquarters in Moscow to two of the defendants. The message states that their main mission is ”to search and develop ties in policymaking circles in US” and send intelligence reports.”
If there was one good thing about the Cold War it was this: it inspired some fabulous espionage novels. The decline of the Soviet Union also signaled the demise of a certain type of spy novel. Will this new wave of alleged Russian spies inspire a new wave of great espionage fiction? It’s possible.
For more on the new spy novels by Alan Furst and Olen Steinhauer click HERE:
Vick Mickunas
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TweetHave you had enough soccer?
OK, the USA has been eliminated from the World Cup. Can we get back to the true American Pastime again? You know, baseball.
There are some great new baseball books just out in paperback:
Satchel - the Life and Times of an American Legend by Larry Tye (Random House) is a fabulous biography of the legendary hurler Leroy “Satchel” Paige.
Munson - the Life and Death of a Yankee Captain by Marty Appel (Anchor Books) is another must-read baseball bio of the brawny Ohioan, Thurman Munson. The Yankee catcher died in a tragic plane crash.
Cooperstown Confidential - Heroes, Rogues, and the Inside Story of the Baseball Hall of Fame by Zev Chafets (Bloomsbury) ranges wildly across a cast of some colorful characters from baseball’s past.
And speaking of colorful characters, this Sunday I’ll be reviewing Big Hair and Plastic Grass: A Funky Ride Through Baseball and America in the Swinging ’70s (Thomas Dunne Books) by Dan Epstein. Baseball was a clean cut, conservative sport. Then the 1970’s happened. Wow! Remember the hair? The wacky uniforms? The Disco Demolition? It’s all here.
Batter up! Put that soccer ball back in the closet….
Vick Mickunas
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Tweet“Ultimate thrill ride”
I have found that there are many wonderful aspects to writing for the Cox Ohio newspapers. I love sharing books. I love turning readers on to new titles. I love hearing from readers. I love discussing various topics with you. And I love reading your comments.
Here’s one more thing: I’m always tickled when one of my reviews gets picked up by another newspaper through wire service syndication.
My recent review of Lee Child’s latest thriller “61 Hours” just ran yesterday in a newspaper in Montreal. Check it out by clicking HERE:
And my recent piece about the new memoir by Christopher Hitchens, “Hitch-22” ran this week in St. Paul- click HERE:
Vick Mickunas
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Tweet3 million iPads sold in 80 days…
No wonder they are cutting prices on eBook readers like the Amazon Kindle and the Barnes & Noble Nook. The Apple iPad went on sale 80 days ago. Apple sold 2 milllion iPads during the first 60 days that the device was available. And that pace would seem to be increasing as Apple just announced that they sold another million units during the last 20 days as the product became available outside the US.
The iPad is a tablet computer so it is much more than just an eBook reader. But apparently some iPad buyers are experiencing some frustrations. The iPad is an Apple product but Apple cannot control every aspect of customer service issues. To learn more about the exasperations some customers are describing click HERE:
Vick Mickunas
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TweetMeth kills
I’m reading a depressing book, “Methland-the Death and Life of an American Small Town” (Bloomsbury) by Nick Reding.
It is the story of how the scourge of meth labs and meth abuse rent the social fabric of the small town of Oelwein, Iowa.
Oelwein was typical of many small midwestern towns. Local industry was in decline. The farm crisis and consolidation of family farms into big agribusiness concerns had been another blow to the local area. And many of the gifted young people could not leave soon enough - they went off to college then never returned except, perhaps, for visits.
When the scourge of meth hit Oelwein it wreaked a terrible devastation upon the town. In small Iowa towns they are used to dealing with damaging storms. But when the tornado of meth swept through it took all that they could do just to survive.
They did. Things got better. But it is a harrowing story. And it could happen where you live….
Just out in paperback.
Vick Mickunas
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TweetPrices plummet on Nooks and Kindles…
The eBook wars are getting nasty. Barnes and Noble just cut the price on the Nook, their proprietary electronic book reader. Now Amazon.com has slashed their price again on their device, the Kindle. How low can they go? Much lower, I think.
According to a report from KIMA TV in Yakima (in Amazon’s backyard):
“A price war is heating up in the electronic reader market, as Amazon cut the price of its Kindle e-reader below $200 Monday just after Barnes & Noble did the same with its competing Nook device.
The rapid-fire moves are fanning flames in the still-small but rapidly growing market that the book industry sees as a major part of its future.
On Monday afternoon, online retailer Amazon.com Inc. slashed the price of the Kindle by $70 to $189, just a few hours after bookseller Barnes & Noble Inc. reduced the price of the Nook by $60 to $199 and said it would also start selling a new Nook with Wi-Fi access for $149.
Both the Kindle and the original Nook can wirelessly download books over high-speed data networks; the Nook also has Wi-Fi access.
Seattle-based Amazon has lowered the Kindle’s price several times since the e-reader with a grayscale screen debuted in 2007 at $399. In October, the online retailer dropped the price to $259 from $299. Amazon also sells a larger-screen Kindle, the Kindle DX, for $489.
The Nook was released late last year for $259.”
To read the rest of their report click HERE:
How low will prices need to go before you consider buying one of these devices?
Vick Mickunas
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TweetThey sent me a brassiere…
My mail just arrived. There was one package that seemed a bit odd. The return address was listed as a New York publisher. But the package seemed suspicious. It was soft and it felt like it contained an article of clothing, not a book.
So I opened it. You can imagine my astonishment. The package contained a brassiere. I’m not making this up.
I get superb service from my mail carrier. But mistakes happen. This package arrived with delivery confirmation. My carrier scanned the bar code. The New York publisher didn’t send me a bra. The Postal Service tracking would indicate that the book this publisher sent me has now arrived. But it hasn’t.
Here’s what happened~how I got this bra; the customer who ordered it lives in Ohio. I know that because I peeled back the address sticker with my address and it revealed the address beneath it. According to that information the bra was delivered to the woman who ordered it. She refused the package.
The bra was being returned to the seller. Then it seems that the adhesive sticker with my address came off the package that contained my book and it got stuck on top of the address on the package containing the bra.
So I have a bra. My book is AWOL. I can’t wait to take this package in to my local post office to explain what happened.
I want my book.
Vick Mickunas
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TweetBuy me this for Father’s Day, please!
I don’t have any children. Father’s Day comes and goes every year. I get nothing. No gifts. No cards. I get squat.
If I had any children I would tell them what I really want for Father’s Day. It just came out in January. I want this: The Oxford Companion to the Book (First Edition) edited by Michael Suarez SJ and H. R. Woudhuysen
Here’s the product description from Oxford’s website:
“The Oxford Companion to the Book is the first reference work of its kind covering the broad concept of the book throughout the world from ancient to modern times. Along with such subjects as bibliography, the history of printing, editorial theory and practice, and textual criticism, it also engages with newer disciplines such as the history of the book and the electronic book. Additionally, the companion provides an engaging analysis of how books and societies have shaped one another. Written by the world’s top scholars in bibliography and book history, the companion is an authoritative and highly informative work of reference for an international readership across a vast range of disciplines.
This unique two-volume work is organized into two parts. Part I is a substantial series of introductory essays-over forty essays offer generic histories of the subject as well as surveys of the history of the book around the world, including the Muslim world, Asia, Latin America, and Sub-Saharan Africa. Part II of the companion comprises an A-Z section of over 5,000 entries on every aspect of this exceptionally rich and diverse subject, ranging from brief definitions and biographical entries to more extensive treatments. Both parts of the text are richly illustrated with reproductions, diagrams, maps, and examples of various typographical features.”
Do you see why I want it so badly??
And there’s more: click HERE
Makes me wish I had kids….
Vick Mickunas
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TweetShe is half demon, half angel, raised as a witch…
The Amazon.com Out of Stock Products Report just came out for this week. That moonshiner’s memoir is no longer the most sought after (and unavailable) book over on Amazon.
This week many readers are apparently looking for Angelic by Kelley Armstrong. This book is in the supernatural romance genre that has been so popular of late. The main character is Eve Levine. She is part demon and part angel.
It is a 2010 title but for some reason (perhaps high demand?) there are no copies of it available at the moment on Amazon.
With your Out of Stock Products report, I’m Vick Mickunas….
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TweetAn interview with Glenn Beck
“The Overton Window,” Glenn Beck’s new novel is being described as a thriller. Published yesterday, it is currently the top selling book at Amazon.com.
I have not read the book yet but I’m reading some of the press on it. Some are claiming that in this novel Beck foists the blame for 9/11 on “liberals.” Of course this is a work of fiction. I’ll reserve judgment until I have had a chance to peruse Beck’s book for myself.
In the meantime the Beckster just did an interview about the book for his employers at FOXNEWS. To read the transcript of it click HERE:
Vick Mickunas
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Tweet“Me and My Likker”
Every week Amazon.com publishes a list of the most sought after books that are not currently available from Amazon. They compile the figures from customer searches.
This week the most sought after book on Amazon is “Me and My Likker - the True Story of a Mountain Moonshiner” by Popcorn Sutton.
As you can see this book is spiral bound and I’m guessing it must be privately published.
A moonshiner’s memoir is in high demand. Amazing.
Vick Mickunas
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Tweet“Awkward Family Photos”
We have all seen them. Most of us have been in them; those awkward family photos.
My mother used to keep her camera handy for those candid shots. I hated having my picture taken especially since it happened so often.
My dislike for the process was immortalized in numerous snapshots. There I am making a face. There I am teasing my sister. There I am looking away as I admire my toy pistol.
A new book, “Awkward Family Photos”” (Three Rivers Press) has preserved some zany shots of families from all over. It’s hilarious.
As we prepare for Father’s Day there will be many more opportunities to create even more of those awkward family photos.
They have a website that offers a sampling of some of these classic shots ~ click HERE:
Vick Mickunas
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TweetCan a neo-conservative be an atheist, too?
Christopher Hitchens loves being at the center of attention. A former socialist, Hitchens has drifted to the right in his politics and he could be called a neo-con these days. Or not..
A bit hard to pin this guy down. He is definitely an atheist, though. Hitchens just published his memoir; “Hitch-22”.
To read my review of it click HERE:
Vick Mickunas
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TweetWho the Hayek was Friedrich von Hayek?
Well, if you watch Glenn Beck you might know. A collection of the late von Hayek’s writings just shot up to the top spot on Amazon.com’s list of hourly bestsellers.
Beck is doing a pretty good Oprah impression these days. When the Big “O” slaps her imprimatur on a book it sells. Ditto for the Big Beck”O.” Impressive.
For more on “The Road to Serfdom” and the Glenn Beck/von Hayek connection click HERE:
Vick Mickunas
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TweetTalkin’ baseball: “Rolen on the River”
I love baseball. I’m reading a really swell new baseball book; “The Last Hero: A Life of Henry Aaron” by Howard Bryant.
The Reds are having a great season so far. They are rollin’ right along behind Scott Rolen.
My fantasy baseball team isn’t doing too well but I did have the good sense to draft the fireballing Washington Nationals pitcher, Steven Strasburg. I had him active on my roster this week when he whiffed 14 Pittsburgh Pirates in his major league debut. And he has one more start this week against the woeful Cleveland Indians.
Did I mention that I love baseball?
And while the Reds are doing so well you might want to check out this new song and video by Ryan Parker, it is titled “Proud Dusty - Rolen on the River” click HERE:
Vick Mickunas
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TweetAmazon scrubs a bogus “customer reviewer”
Some readers of this blog might recall my posts about Amazon.com’s customer reviewers. Amazon.com has a fabulous system of allowing customers to review books and anything that Amazon sells on their website.
Unfortunately, Amazon’s system can be easily abused. I have written about Harriet Klausner, Amazon’s leading customer reviewer. Harriet “reads” and “reviews” books on Amazon.com by the thousands. Unbelievable, right? I even did an interview on NPR’s “All Things Considered” about Harriet and Amazon’s customer reviewing system.
Let it be said that Amazon does make some efforts to police their site. I just saw a blog post that indicates how some bogus reviews from one PR firm have now been scrubbed by Amazon. This is a very interesting development. click HERE:
How did I learn about this blog post? A PR firm sent it to me (of course!)
Vick Mickunas
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TweetGraduation? Father’s Day? gift ideas are here…
Are you looking for that special gift for a recent graduate? I have just the thing for you; A Dictionary of Modern English Usage (Oxford) by H.W. Fowler. Henry Watson Fowler was an extraordinary scholar of the English language. This essential guide was first published in 1926.
Your graduate will have the perfect tool for navigating through the proper words, grammar and style for clear and concise writing. Whenever your graduate wonders about when to use Who or Whom, the proper usage of a parenthesis, when to use longer words, the false allurements of elegant language, etc. Linguistic marvels and clarifications abound here. I wish somebody had thought to give me this book for my graduation.
Are you looking for a Father’s Day gift that will inspire and delight the whole family? click HERE:
Vick Mickunas
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TweetFormer drug agent has got Sarah Palin’s back…
This press release about a new book just crossed my desk:
“Author June Werdlow Rogers, PhD, is employing an empathetic yet straightforward approach in revealing to Sarah Palin that she was one of the people discussed in her new book, “Cracking the Double Standard Code,” A Guide to Successful Navigation in the Workplace. Werdlow Rogers plans to send one of the first books hot off the press of Cable Publishing to Palin. It is her hope that, unlike her reactions to author Joe McGinniss, Palin will recognize Werdlow Rogers’ motives as sincere.
It was unnecessary for a move next door to Palin to observe, as “Cracking the Double Standard Code” acknowledges, that a primary challenge for Palin during the 2008 presidential campaign was facing the double standard that women leaders routinely encounter. The central question posed in the chapter that discusses Sarah Palin’s VP Campaign and Governorship is just how well she dealt with the many obstacles and pitfalls that she encountered. Werdlow Rogers’ states, “I relish the possibility of Palin’s awareness and understanding of The Code to become a better leader.”
In “Cracking the Double Standard Code,” the author, a retired Special Agent in Charge for the DEA, has brought to light a shadowy code of conduct imposed on women leaders, and it turns out that her undercover work was not limited to bad guys: She was also amassing a wealth of evidence about how women leaders are treated and perceived differently in male-dominated environments such as the DEA. June’s twenty five years of investigating and leading, together with a social scientist’s approach originating from her doctorial pursuit, created the unique combination of skills used to uncover this strict pattern of behavior expected of women leaders. In finding ways to survive and thrive in this relatively hostile atmosphere, her reward for successful navigation was a trek to the top.
To help others, June holds nothing back in tackling thorny subjects like gender stereotypes surrounding PMS, menopause, and cat-fighting. Employing a relaxed and colorful conversational tone, this frank and dynamic commentary’s targeted audience is women leaders and those who mentor them about how to succeed. With provocative titles like Her Faults Are in High Definition, What a Woman Says is Fair Game to Kill or Steal, and Give Her the Post-Partum Blues, each chapter first presents evidence of the standard imposed through captivating anecdotes and then provides powerful advice for successful navigation.”
Which begs the question; is Sarah Palin a feminist?
Vick Mickunas
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TweetWhat do you remember?
I’m reading Hitch-22, the new memoir by Christopher Hitchens. I’m about 75% finished with the book.
Hitchens is a Brit who became a US citizen a few years ago. He’s a bit of a political gadfly. His viewpoints are often unpredictable. This memoir is quite entertaining.
He makes some amazing admissions. For example, Hitchens reveals that he is essentially bisexual but that he has been primarily heterosexual since he has gotten older and lost his good looks to the point that men are not attracted to him in the way they might once have been.
While he makes these candid admissions he also makes some stunning omissions as well. I just read the section where he describes how he became a US citizen in 2006. The ceremony was arranged by his pal, the head of the Dept. of Homeland Security. In passing Hitchens mentions the name of his wife. This was the first indication that the reader has that he is even married. There’s been no courtship. No wedding described. Apparently, there are children, too! Bizarre. Perhaps he is telling his story out of sequence and he’ll get to the part about his wife, later?
This got me thinking. I imagine that you could have 100 people experience the same incident together and every single person would remember different aspects of the thing that occurred.
What is the nature of memory? How do we select our memories? This Hitchens memoir reminded me of a memory. Some years ago my neighbor died. She was an elderly widow. She and her late husband had built their house in the mid 1950’s. It was filled with all the things they had accumulated over a half century.
Her only survivor was an elderly sister who lived far away. Her sister was in her mid eighties and handling the estate was quite complicated. We were helping her out and after some discussion we offered to buy the house and whatever contents the sister decided to leave there.
So we did. The house was filled with our neighbor’s furniture, clothing, books, household supplies, you name it. It was a fascinating project to go through all this stuff.
Our neighbor had been a meticulous person. Almost everything in the house had some sort of a record that went along with it. In her closets all her dresses had index cards which enumerated every date when a particular outfit had been worn, the occasion, the people involved, etc.
There were cards in every book that provided dates the books were read, re-read, and any thoughts she had about the books. There was also extensive marginalia in every book. She had an incredible library. Things like first editions of Mark Twain.
There were household products in bright containers. Many were obsolete brands. It seemed that they had rarely discarded anything.
The most fascinating reading turned out to be her daily diary, a memoir of sorts. In it she recorded all the mundane details of her daily existence. When she awakened. What time she opened the drapes. What sorts of birds had come to her feeders. Which annoying neighbor cats (mine) were lurking about.
She described every meal she ate in detail and when she consumed the leftovers that was also noted. Her correspondence. Her phone calls. Her visitors. All there. Dates. Times.
What do we remember? And why? What is important to recall?
Was my neighbor an excessive diarist? Or did this attention to detail allow her to keep her mind sharp? To stay moored to daily life? She was elderly. Living alone. Afraid.
I had not thought about her until I began reading the Hitchens book.
Then I remembered….
Vick Mickunas
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TweetAmazon fights back-Kindles are coming to Target…
Amazon.com is fighting back in the eBook reader wars. Apple just announced that they have sold 2 million iPads during the first 2 months that the product has been available.
Amazon’s propietary eBook reader, the Kindle, has been the early leader in the eBook market. Now Amazon’s fighting back as this market just keeps getting more competitive. Apple has retail stores for selling their iPad, a tablet computer that is ideal for reading eBooks. Barnes & Noble is selling their Nook eBook readers at their retail locations. Many other competing devices are available at “brick & mortar” stores.
Amazon has been selling all those Kindles on-line. Until now. Amazon just announced that as of this Sunday you will be able to purchase Kindles at many Target locations as well.
Now that Amazon will be selling their leading product, the Kindle, in retail stores we will see that the battle for eReader dominance will continue to escalate. This should be interesting…remember VHS vs. Beta? Yesterday’s technology wars are the eBay collectibles of today.
For more on the story click HERE:
Oh, and here’s a link to a story about Target’s test marketing of the Kindle: click HERE:
Vick Mickunas
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Tweet2 million iPads sold in just 60 days…
Last week Apple surpassed Microsoft as the technology company with the highest monetary valuation. Apple keeps putting out hot consumer products, iPods, iPhones, and now the iPad.
Apple just released their sales numbers for the first 2 months of iPad sales: 2 million. Wow. This looks like yet another huge hit for Apple. When was the last time Microsoft had a hit product? I can’t recall?
Over at Amazon the crunching of these iPad numbers must be putting a bit of a crimp in any sales projections for their Amazon Kindle eBook reader. The iPad and the Kindle are competing platforms for electonic book readership. Imagine the collective gasps over in the Seattle region where both Amazon and Microsoft have their headquarters. 2 million iPads…gasp!
For more on the story click HERE:
Vick Mickunas
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