Due to circumstances beyond my control, it now looks like I'm going to have to cancel my intended trip to San Francisco, and won't be able to meet any of the people I hoped to.
You know what I want to invent, pop-up spikes that you roll out over the road that switch to tire-shredding mode when they detect over-driven bass from dubstep.
There's a lawsuit filed on Apple and various book publishers accusing them of "Price fixing" for setting up the Agency model that prevented Amazon from deep discounting of their books
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Another thing for the "E-Books should be much much cheaper than Print books" crowd... Amazon not only take a 30% cut of the gross, but they also charge publishers 10p per MB on every download! So not only do ebooks have the same fixed production costs, they pay for data-warehousing and shipping too!