Word: paperback
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...which the movie has been rather faithfully adapted by Kubrick and co-writer Frederic Raphael would have been more in the know. Titled Traumnovelle (Dream Story), it was first published in 1926 by Arthur Schnitzler, a Viennese playwright, physician and friend of Freud's, and has been available in paperback in the U.S. since 1995. Like a lot of the novels on which good movies are based, it is an entertaining, erotically charged fiction of the second rank, in need of the vivifying physicalization of the screen and the kind of narrative focus a good director can bring to imperfect...
...WARS Attention, e-shoppers: Online stores are now doing silly things to attract your business, including, it seems, selling dollar bills for 50[cents]. Last week Amazon.com upped its discounts on best sellers (hardcover and paperback), from about 30% to 50% off list price, a money-losing move that rivals Barnesandnoble.com and Borders.com quickly matched. Meanwhile, Shopping.com has introduced a 125% satisfaction guarantee, and Onsale.com and Outpost.com are offering free shipping...
...morning the name of the town on the road map you're reading seems unnecessarily small. Then you notice how microscopic the print on the medicine bottle has become. How the addresses in the phone book have become exasperatingly inscrutable. And how they're just not printing paperback novels very well anymore: the text seems like one big blur...
...find more than a few frustrations, however. For instance, since the books are distributed as bytes online rather than on expensive paper, you might expect to get a break on price. You don't. For example, Into Thin Air, which I bought, costs $6.39 whether you get it in paperback or electronic-book format. And forget about instant delivery. It can take hours for your order to be processed and your book delivered. (In my case, it took significantly longer since the e-mail address I used to set up my eBook was different from the one I had used...
...certainly in that group. As are people who don't want to lug around a ton of books when they're on the road. The visually impaired especially may appreciate a feature that lets you increase the font size, making eBooks considerably easier on the eyes than the average paperback. For everyone else, though, I'd say stick with paper--at least...