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Will Amazon Kill Off Book Publishers? - Room for Debate
What happens when more writers have the option of a one-stop shop: agent, publisher and bookseller.It will make them very uncomfortable. The costs of publication have dropped precipitously. Paper publication will be very limited. -
Monopoly vs. Diversity in Book Publishing - Room for Debate
Publishing isn’t about developing algorithms. It’s been about art-making and speaking truth to power.The art in publications is in the text. The printing and cover are a frame but they are information too. Agents and publishers add very little value to an eBook. -
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My Life As an Undocumented Immigrant
“This story is incredible: My Life As an Undocumented Immigrant - http://nyti.ms/lXmdB9”http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jose_Antonio_Vargashttp://joseantoniovargas.com/Waiting for actions from the federal government.
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Amazon Enters Publishing: There's No Going Back - Room for Debate
Writers are increasingly taking on a mind-set like app developers in that they will align with the big platforms, be it Kindle or the Apple Store.It will get more writers contracts. The only way a paper only publisher will be able to retain a writer will be to place them under contract.Negotiating those contracts will be the task of the the agents. -
Do Good Debaters Make Good Presidents? - Room for Debate
Rick Perry has performed poorly in the G.O.P. debates and his ratings have fallen. Does it matter?I devoutly hope so. -
The Case Against Law School - Room for Debate
Should the standard three-year law school model, followed by passage of the bar exam, be the only path to a legal career?A profession can set its own rules for entry. Should does not apply. -
Amazon Offers Writers New Opportunities - Room for Debate
Amazon did what any successful business tries to do: it looked for opportunities to grow by offering different services than its competitors.Yes. -
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Electric Kool-Aid Marketing Trip
“Mr Stanley (Owsley, I presume) meet Mr. Jobs - http://nyti.ms/ekqpMW no Purple Haze here...”The Republicans would love to use that distortion field.The phone companies have changed their signaling protocol.Everything goes on the net.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skypehttp://www.skype.com/intl/en-us/homeThis appears to be significantly degraded.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VoIPhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HamSpherehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ooma Probably not this one.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Voice This or skype
https://www.google.com/voice/?setup=1#setup/
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Bucking the Trend at Women's Colleges - Room for Debate
Cultural forces lead many young women to believe that there are some fields of study that just aren’t for them.
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What We've Discovered
Jane McAuliffe, president, Bryn Mawr College
What they believe and the facts are different things.
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Help for Parents and Society - Room for Debate
Longer school days can lead to fewer crimes committed by young people and a decline in teen pregnancy.
Unsupervised children will explore possibilities. There are those who will help them find things not in the child's best interest.
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In New York, Del Posto Is a Modern Italian Master
“Sifton gives Del Posto 4 Stars in NYT - http://nyti.ms/c3d8FL One of only 7 restaurants in NYC so rewarded.”
Tell me when to make the reservation.
Del Posto - Home Page
Del Posto is the ultimate expression of what an Italian restaurant should be. Joe
Bastianich, Lidia Bastianich and Mario Batali represent a convergence of ...
delposto.com/Del Posto - Chelsea - New York Magazine Restaurant Guide
The art of elegant tableside service resurfaces downtown at this Italian restaurant
by Mario Batali and Co. See the review of this Italian restaurant at 85 Tenth ...
nymag.com/listings/restaurant/del-posto/Del Posto - Menu
The concept of trans-generationalism manifests itself in a cuisine that combines
the creativity of contemporary culinary sensibilities with the powerful draw of ...
delposto.com/menu.htmDel Posto - Chelsea - New York, NY
392 Reviews of Del Posto "I'm taking my parents here. It was that good. It was that
affordable. The weekday lunch there is the best deal you can get. You also get ...
www.yelp.com/biz/del-posto-new-york
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Have Consumers Become More Willing to Pay for Content? - Room for Debate
Have consumers changed their expectations about what media will be free or cheap, as the Napster era has yielded to iTunes?
Free or cheap content is much less available than it was.
This is a rather strong signal.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netflix They have become a bad deal.
http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Apple_unveils_new_iPods,_Apple_TV;_updates_iOS,_iTunes
Not significantly better.
The Netflix customer loss is only about four percent.
I am going to have to study on this.
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Netflix, in Reversal, Will Keep Its Services Together
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Netflix Loses Subscribers, Though Earnings Rise
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Netflix Market Value Shrivels
7 hours ago ... A brutal stock market reaction to Netflix's subscriber losses has left the company with a market value about one-quarter of what it once ... -
Netflix Lost 800000 Members With Price Rise and Qwikster Plan ...
1 day ago ... Reed Hastings, the chief executive, talks about the missteps that cost subscribers and sent the stock plunging.
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Addictive Personality? You Might be a Leader
“Addictive Personality? You Might be a Leader - http://nyti.ms/p2pU06”
This is a very familiar description. It probably fits you too.
I never developed the skills required to lead a team effort.
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Single-Sex Schools: Separate but Equal? - Room for Debate
A new study debunks the benefits of segregation by sex in the classroom, and says the practice does more harm than good. Should it be illegal?
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What Our Research Shows
Richard Fabes, professor of child development
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Title_IX"No person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any education program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance..."—United States Code Section 20,"Although the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was originally written in order to end discrimination based on race, color, or national origin, the act tremendously helped to energize the women’s rights movement which had somewhat slowed after women’s suffrage in 1920.[2] On the same token, while Title IX is best known for its impact on high school and collegiate athletics, the original statute made no explicit mention of sports."
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In New York, Del Posto Is a Modern Italian Master
“Sifton gives Del Posto 4 Stars in NYT - http://nyti.ms/c3d8FL One of only 7 restaurants in NYC so rewarded.”
Tell me when to make the reservations.
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Electric Kool-Aid Marketing Trip
“Mr Stanley (Owsley, I presume) meet Mr. Jobs - http://nyti.ms/ekqpMW no Purple Haze here...”
Get it right and it will be a hit. The pursuit of artistic perfection is well worth the time and attention.
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The Psychology of Occupy Wall Street - Room for Debate
There's a common thread in the Occupy protests worldwide: everyone is mad. Do they have more in common than anger?
There are certainly angry people there.
I suspect this is a very sophisticated nonviolent demonstration.
"First they ignore us, then they laugh at us, then they fight us, then we win" Gandhi
is all over at the moment.
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One Step Back From the Digital World
Over the last year I’ve started to notice that while technology allows us to connect to people far away, it can simultaneously disconnect us from people who may be directly in front of us.
Absolutely true. I find if I am staring at the screen I am doing nothing else. These days there is little else I want to do.
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Come Again, Republicans?
Republicans, who claim to be worried about the deficit, are suddenly determined to overturn one of health care reform’s central cost-control mechanisms.
http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/10/25/very-serious-americans/
"Digby finds Paul Ryan, winner of an award for fiscal responsibility, saying, well, something:
RYAN: Let’s review for a moment the path we are on, where we stand right now. It pains me to say this, but it’s become clear that the president has committed us to the current path: higher taxes, more dependency, more bureaucratic control, inaction on the drivers of our debt — just not even dealing with it — and painful austerity, the kind you see in Europe.
So unless Obama agrees to sharp spending cuts, we’ll be forced into austerity? What?
Wait, it’s worse: just the other day, Ryan and colleagues were praising European-style austerity; they bought into the “expansionary austerity” thesis just as it was collapsing intellectually.
On a somewhat related note, John Quiggin reads the original Alesina/Ardagna paper on expansionary austerity, and finds that they got all the facts about Australia wrong. Most notably, they depict a decline in spending on unemployment benefits that was the result of an economic expansion as an expansionary spending cut. Geez."
http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/?s=very+serious 261 hits
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What Our Research on Single-Sex Education Shows - Room for Debate
Single-sex education fails to produce academic benefits and inflates gender stereotyping.
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What Our Research Shows
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Title_IX
"No person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any education program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance..."
—United States Code Section 20, "Although the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was originally written in order to end discrimination based on race, color, or national origin, the act tremendously helped to energize the women’s rights movement which had somewhat slowed after women’s suffrage in 1920.[2] On the same token, while Title IX is best known for its impact on high school and collegiate athletics, the original statute made no explicit mention of sports.".
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