Amazon’s stock continued to plummet yesterday, after the previous day’s shattering losses of more than $16 billion, with a “13 percent share-price plunge to $198.40,” which “wiped more than $2… Read more »
BAM opening 41 new stores Apple’s Newsstand success How Amazon makes money from the Kindle Whiting Award Winners In praise of first lines An American Editor Damn the Man! Save… Read more »
UK phone hacking scandal spreads to book publishing …
Britain’s phone hacking scandal (eventually to become America’s phone hacking scandal?) took a turn into the book world yesterday, when it was revealed that Scotland Yard had notified a publisher… Read more »
The 9%: Women on Wikipedia
Remember the surprisingly unsurprising news from the New York Times way back in January, that fewer than 15% of Wikipedia contributors were women? Then there was the even more depressing… 6 / Read more »
Are we possibly altruistic animals? Sometimes?
“Of all the murders committed in New York City in 1964 — 636, to be precise — only that of Catherine Susan Genovese launched a whole subfield of social science:… Read more »
1 in 5 dollars ends up as Wall Street Profit
Truth-Out.org highlights this salient and shocking fact from this Naked Capitalism article by David Graeber (author of Debt: The First 5,000 Years): Given the fact that interest payments alone takes… Read more »
