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Merchandising ebooks is a problem not really solved yet

June 14, 2011 by Mike Shatzkin 30 Comments

I have always been in the process of reading at least one book since I was about 8 years old. When I was a little kid, I’d find them in the house (Dad was in publishing) or at the library in my home village of Croton-on-Hudson or in the school library. Sometimes extraordinary measures delivered […]

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