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...Israeli government claims that the military operations in Gaza are a last resort to stop rocket attacks by Hamas and that all alternatives have been investigated. What about this: giving Palestinians a state and a future? It would only cost some land. Do Israelis value land more than hundreds of Palestinians' lives? Being strong does not mean winning wars but achieving peace. Is the Jewish state really as strong as it is depicted? Mohamed Kebaili, PARIS...
Consider the advance system, whereby a publisher pays an author a nonreturnable up-front fee for a book. If the book doesn't "earn out," in the industry parlance, the publisher simply eats the cost. Another example: publishers sell books to bookstores on a consignment system, which means the stores can return unsold books to publishers for a full refund. Publishers suck up the shipping costs both ways, plus the expense of printing and then pulping the merchandise. "They print way more than they know they can sell, to kind of create a buzz, and then they end up taking...
...within 10 years. Writers podcast their books and post them, chapter by chapter, on blogs. Four of the five best-selling novels in Japan in 2007 belonged to an entirely new literary form called keitai shosetsu: novels written, and read, on cell phones. Compared with the time and cost of replicating a digital file and shipping it around the world--i.e., zero and nothing--printing books on paper feels a little Paleolithic. (See 25 must-have travel gadgets...
...Moscow More Voices Silenced In a chilling reminder of the high cost of speaking out in Russia, a prominent human-rights lawyer and a journalist were gunned down by a masked assassin in broad daylight on Jan. 19. While authorities have no immediate suspects, the lawyer, Stanislav Markelov, had opposed the early release of a Russian officer convicted of killing a Chechen woman. More than 1,000 people gathered in Grozny, the Chechen capital, to condemn the shootings...
...transition office. This is a new kind of politics, with the potential to be the most powerful citizen army in U.S. history. If so, it will more likely be a force for civility - for "boring" things like good governance, for new ideas about how to control the cost of entitlements (which Obama pointedly mentioned in his speech) - rather than a rabble spamming the offices of recalcitrant Republicans. It will fit neatly into the Obama zeitgeist...