Word: cheapness
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...answer: entertainment, mostly, though preferably veiled as roundtable-worthy deliberation. They therefore spent much of the 90s working to combine this public desire with the industry’s newfound quick-response ethic. The result? The “instant book”—a cheap and profitable species of paperback. Furthermore, publishers pounced on so-called “hot-button” books, which dealt with the sensational, the “exclusive,” the controversial and often, the lurid side of the popular issues...
...Development and more tall buildings will fix the short supply,” he says, referring to the potential for expansion in the newly zoned North Point neighborhood. “It’s not exactly going to be cheap, but there will be more housing...
Eventually, I go home, have some dinner, and leave for Manhattan again, this time with my family to go see a Broadway show. Tickets are cheap these days. I’m missing the first game of the World Series, but then again, the Yankees win every game I watch. I figure that maybe I can pull a Scott and make a difference...
...Forward Spin: It will probably take until 2006 for cheap, sophisticated in-car data devices to become a mass phenomenon. Pieper is pushing Germany and France to follow the Netherlands? lead...
...meaning that an album sold online should cost $7-$10 less than one bought in a store—but it reduces the cost of promotion, because record labels can use customer profiling technology to make recommendations like Amazon.com does for books. In addition, because bandwidth is so cheap, there is essentially no marginal cost in digital distribution. That means that beyond the fixed cost of studio time, promotion software and bulk bandwidth, record labels will have essentially no cost. And yet they will still try to charge us $16.99 for albums downloaded over the Internet, meaning that they could...