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...commerce tracking firm. Jill Frankle, director of retail research at Gomez Advisors, agreed. An online poll her firm conducted the week after Christmas that showed 86.2% of online shoppers were at least somewhat satisfied with their experience; 46.5% were very satisfied, 25.7% were satisfied, 14% only somewhat so. Less than 2% of the 1,000 survey respondents said they would never shop online again...
...able to survive." A lot of the reasons Amazon has done so well--bigger warehouses, superior customer service, low prices--have kept it deep in red ink. It will be harder for lesser-known e-commerce companies to get away with that. "Investors," Sharma says, "will become less and less tolerant of the money losers...
There's a financial upside for e-authors as well. Those who self-publish get every penny of sales, while those who work with e-publishers typically get royalties of 40% to 70% of sales. Compare that with the less than $10,000 the average author gets as an advance on a conventional first novel. Angela Adair-Hoy of Booklocker.com an e-publishing firm in Andover, Mass., says sales of the three nonfiction titles she has self-published average $4,000 a month...
Cryos has benefited from a bewildering patchwork of European rules governing sperm donation. In Britain, for example, the law dictates that a single donor can father only 10 children. In Denmark, whose population of 5 million is less than one-tenth of Britain's, the limit is 25. In Austria and Sweden, laws allow children conceived through sperm donation to seek the identity of their parents when the children reach age 18. Denmark, however, has more sweeping protection of donor anonymity: Cryos does not maintain a record of its donors' names, using a coded identification number instead. According to Schou...
...back. It's a variation on this pattern: A man imagines that the world must be incomparably better or incomparably worse in his time than it was before he arrived on the planet. To admit that life is 99.9 percent continuum (human nature and weather itself being more or less constant, with certain variations, and things tending to even out over the centuries, except for occasional ice ages) might make the man feel ordinary - or, in any case, not sufficiently superior to millions of his predecessors who, after all, suffer the hugely disqualifying human defect of being, at the present...