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Four Books Purchased at Barnes&Noble
Here is the book list I took to Barnes&Noble today.
Heat Wave, by Richard Castle
The Lost Symbol, byDan Brown
Dracula: The Un-Dead, by Dacre Stoker and Ian Holt
And Another Thing, by Eoin Colfer
I watch "Castle" on Monday nights on ABC TV. Who is the ghost writer? Wouldn't it be interesting if it were Jane Ann Krentz? See my earlier blog post on her Arcane Society Novels, and one of her pseudonyms, Castle. The TV series is "must see TV" for me. I have a very short must see list.
I read Dan Brown's DaVinci Code and Angels and Demons, and I collected the movies on DVD. I was as eager to purchase the latest title as I was with each release in the Harry Potter series. I did not purchase the other two titles. If I do, it will be to collect them. It may be years before I read them again.
The Harry Potter series I pre-ordered on Amazon.com months in advance of release. There are degrees of importance in my eagerness to purchase. The purchase of four titles in a single visit to Barnes&Noble is out of my character, and even moreso, I bought a B&N Membership today. Amazon.com has not lost me as a customer, but that service has value greater than advertising revenue, and for years has meant more to me than a seller of books. I don't believe the armchair critics and Wall Street analysts who pigeonhole successful growth companies, and minimize their profit potential. The world of bricks-and-mortar B&N and dot com Amazon is changing again. ABC TV's "Castle" is a new play on integration of traditional business and the latest web 2.0 innovations. How about the TV commercial where the girl friend can't tell the difference between online gaming and a movie?
I have an old copy of Dracula, by Bram Stoker. I must have bought it at a used book sale. I wonder if Dracula: The un-Dead will make the best seller list. I learned about the new release in USA Today, as I did the release of And Another Thing, a new extension of Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
I read the Thursday edition of USA Today faithfully for the best seller list and the review of new releases. Amazon.com did not get to me first with recommendations for any of my purchases today. There are other reasons why I haven't bought Kindle instead of purchasing physical books. Let's just say Amazon and Apple have hamstrung themselves by partnering with Internet Service Providers (Sprint and AT&T) that have no interest in serving my neighborhood.
Heat Wave, by Richard Castle
The Lost Symbol, byDan Brown
Dracula: The Un-Dead, by Dacre Stoker and Ian Holt
And Another Thing, by Eoin Colfer
I watch "Castle" on Monday nights on ABC TV. Who is the ghost writer? Wouldn't it be interesting if it were Jane Ann Krentz? See my earlier blog post on her Arcane Society Novels, and one of her pseudonyms, Castle. The TV series is "must see TV" for me. I have a very short must see list.
I read Dan Brown's DaVinci Code and Angels and Demons, and I collected the movies on DVD. I was as eager to purchase the latest title as I was with each release in the Harry Potter series. I did not purchase the other two titles. If I do, it will be to collect them. It may be years before I read them again.
The Harry Potter series I pre-ordered on Amazon.com months in advance of release. There are degrees of importance in my eagerness to purchase. The purchase of four titles in a single visit to Barnes&Noble is out of my character, and even moreso, I bought a B&N Membership today. Amazon.com has not lost me as a customer, but that service has value greater than advertising revenue, and for years has meant more to me than a seller of books. I don't believe the armchair critics and Wall Street analysts who pigeonhole successful growth companies, and minimize their profit potential. The world of bricks-and-mortar B&N and dot com Amazon is changing again. ABC TV's "Castle" is a new play on integration of traditional business and the latest web 2.0 innovations. How about the TV commercial where the girl friend can't tell the difference between online gaming and a movie?
I have an old copy of Dracula, by Bram Stoker. I must have bought it at a used book sale. I wonder if Dracula: The un-Dead will make the best seller list. I learned about the new release in USA Today, as I did the release of And Another Thing, a new extension of Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
I read the Thursday edition of USA Today faithfully for the best seller list and the review of new releases. Amazon.com did not get to me first with recommendations for any of my purchases today. There are other reasons why I haven't bought Kindle instead of purchasing physical books. Let's just say Amazon and Apple have hamstrung themselves by partnering with Internet Service Providers (Sprint and AT&T) that have no interest in serving my neighborhood.
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