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I apologize for my 3.9% potty-mouthiness. I haven’t yet researched the algorithms of the cuss-o-meter, however. I’m not quite sure what words I use are considered ‘cussin’
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Quote - A Pittsburgh couple is suing Google for invasion of privacy, claiming that the web giant’s popular “Street View” mapping feature has made a photo of their home available to online searchers.
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Quote - Marking a radical departure from traditional book-publishing practices, HarperCollins says it will launch a new book imprint that won’t accept returns from retailers and will pay little or no advances to authors.
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Quote - Stumbling over its multibillion-dollar plans for a high-tech census, the government says it will go back to counting the nation’s 300 million people the old-fashioned way - with paper and pencil.




April 5th, 2008 at 7:48 am
[...] I’m Sorry To Say That This Indicates the Death of Publishing Posted on April 5, 2008 by Aunt B. Over at Rex Hammock’s, he’s reporting that Harper Collins is launching an inprint with a “new” business model, where they won’t offer advances and they won’t take returns. [...]