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I am probably a typical reader. I started out with my first Kindle eReader about 8-9 years ago. I have purchased about 300 books at an average price of about $8-9 dollars. Then I saw Amazon not being able to hold the price at $9.99 and I started buying less and less. Like Amazon said there are no costs for an eBook, or very little, and it all goes to the author and profit. The publishers must be very short cited. I was buying books like crazy when they were under $10 but now it doesn’t seem worth it. I have stopped buying a 40 plus book series after I had bought 40! I have bought maybe 5 in the last year. If the pricing was more fair I would have bought 50. We do have options. I get free books from project Gutenberg, both Canada (they have more and newer books) and U.S, I also just watch free TV, I have an antenna, or re-read my old books. There are also other options for free. At some point in time we need to say enough is enough! American Business = Short Sighted. Why does it have to be this way? Dumb, dumb, dumb. It is very disappointing. Charles Witsman Leesburg, Florida

John Ingram, chairman of Ingram Content Group, said his inspiration to create what would become Lightning Source occurred after he attended a BookExpo America show in the mid 1990s where Xerox was showing off its DocuTech machine, a huge printer that could quickly produce a single copy of a book. Back at Ingram’s LaVergne, Tenn., warehouse, he asked Y.S. Chi, who was then a senior executive at the company, “Why in the world are we wallpapering the warehouse with books? Wouldn’t it be better to store a digital file and print a book when there was demand?”

Proofread everything and check for formatting errors, then print it on high-quality paper or take the document to a printer.

Jeffrey Garten is not a bumbling idiot. He finds the house in Napa without difficulty. After all, any reasonably close reading of his resume suggests that he certainly either was, or equally likely was not, working for the CIA in Asia and Latin America for decades.

"The Wonky Donkey," featuring illustrations by Katz Cowley, had already sold hundreds of thousands of copies in New Zealand and Australia, where Clark, a native of Scotland, now lives. But until recently it had a much smaller audience in the United States. According to Scholastic, the book had sold about 75,000 copies and was out of print before the video caught on last month.

They also expanded fund-raising to include online raffles and auctions for such services as manuscript evaluations by best-selling children’s authors and “character naming,” with the winning donor’s name to appear in an as-yet-to-be-written novel. Another group of kidlit authors, agents and publishers made an online clearinghouse of original posters designed by prominent children’s book illustrators to protest family separation, all available for free download.

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Here, we’ve put together a convenient list of 40 of the very best kid keepsake ideas on the Internet. From creative storage options to easy crafts that have a functional use to brilliant ways for parents to repurpose and upcycle old clothes and shoes out of storage, these ideas will help moms and dads cherish the special times without filling the house with a bunch of unnecessary junk.

Whisk together eggs, half-and-half, vanilla, Grand Marnier and salt. Pour evenly over bread. Cover and chill at least 8 hours and up to one day.

Although the videos receive tens of millions of views, fans were desperate for a printed version of the quick-fix foodie tutorials. However, Fast Company reports that Tasty did not want to release one printed version for every taste, mainly due to the fact that when users experience the videos on Facebook they’re experiencing them through an algorithm; videos catered to the tastes of you and your friends. So, since the digital version is so customized, the company decided to come up with a way to customize the cookbooks. For $35, the cookbooks are printed on demand with more than 100,000 different combinations.

“People are more than willing to sit down for five hours and watch six episodes of The Walking Dead. We are in a digital arena fighting for that same customer as Netflix or Facebook. For all of us the fight really is around attention and our ability to bring it back to reading.”

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