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...consumers are quickly discovering that Kindle’s flaws outnumber its shiny, new features, as evidenced by the fact that it has only a three out of five star rating on Amazon??s own website.The biggest hurdle Kindle faces is its cost. Consumers used to the relatively inexpensive iPod (80 gigabytes for $250 at Amazon) may balk at Kindle’s $400 price tag. Worse, $9.99 per book feels like highway robbery, given that Amazon will deliver hardcopies of gently used books to your door for half that price, shipping included...

Author: By Adam R. Gold | Title: Stick to Hardcover | 11/30/2007 | See Source »

...also makes it difficult, and in some cases pricey, to get books you already own on and off of your machine. PDF support is nearly nonexistent. And though Kindle’s 90,000 book selection is an improvement over past e-book readers, it is tiny relative to Amazon??s inventory (or Widener’s, for that matter...

Author: By Adam R. Gold | Title: Stick to Hardcover | 11/30/2007 | See Source »

...timeframe it covers, but in the diversity of women Ulrich discusses, the book touches on many female figures throughout history whose stories somehow relate to the lives and works of Ulrich’s three archetypal women.Ulrich’s examination of the so-called “Amazon??—a woman combative in many realms, whether displaying courage for her country in time of war or raging against the men who commit crimes against her—is authoritative and powerful. Her dialogue on “Shakespeare’s daughters?...

Author: By Denise J. Xu, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Overlooked Women Make History | 10/5/2007 | See Source »

...anti-Coop sentiment furthermore underlines an unjustified sense of entitlement. Students implicitly understand the cost of comparison shopping, of compiling the list of needed books (either via syllabi or illegal note-taking at the Coop) and trolling though sites like Amazon??explaining why many still end up shopping at the Coop. Yet since Crimson Reading had streamlined and greatly expedited bargain hunts, many now find it unreasonable that the Coop has complicated the process by forbidding the collection of ISBNs. In short, if you do not want to undergo the burdens of comparison shopping—sans...

Author: By Christopher B. Lacaria | Title: Flying the Coop | 9/23/2007 | See Source »

...Titled Amazon, its smooth, dark silhouette outlines a muscular woman atop a wide-eyed horse’s back, her left hand gripping the horse’s mane while her other hand is positioned to fling a pointy spear. The moment is one of everlasting tension, freezing the Amazon??s attack at the brink of its culmination...

Author: By Jackeline Montalvo, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Centennial Celebration Exhibit | 11/7/2003 | See Source »

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