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...that is the envy of the "e-tailing" world. Service has been its secret weapon. Its website deftly mixes simplicity with depth, offering book reviews and personalized recommendations. Orders automatically generate a thank-you e-mail. And Amazon will hunt down any title you can't find, even out-of-print books, with the friendly zealousness of a small-town Midwesterner giving you directions to the doughnut shop. "Word of mouth is incredibly powerful online," explains Jeffrey Bezos, 34, Amazon's founder and CEO. "A dissatisfied customer can tell 1,000 people in a few minutes." Scott Ehrens, a managing...
...that on a macrocosmic scale, what people will know of us in the future is more or less random. Our reward will not be in the inscription of our names on credit cards in a museum's glass case a thousand years from now, or in copies of out-of-print books we authored or in the condemnations of the Starr Report. We cannot leave it up to History to decide whether what we do is worth doing. The consequences of what we do are ours to face--not 30 or 3,000 years from now, but today...
...Digital printing systems are breathing new life into out-of-print books. Lightning Print Inc. of LaVergne, Tenn., makes inexpensive ($15-$25), quickie paperback versions of older books, allowing bibliophiles to discover forgotten works from Phillip K. Dick, Doris Lessing and others. Only 150 titles are available to date, but the company hopes to offer 10,000 by year's end. The catch: Lightning Print works directly with publishers and prints only books ordered by them. To buy a Lightning Print book, customers must check with a bookstore or online seller to see what's in stock...
...copiously from Difficulties (1934), an exchange of letters between Sir Arnold Lunn and Father Ronald Knox. Lunn, who invented skiing's slalom, was then an agnostic--he later converted--and Knox a famous Catholic apologist. Most readers will have to take on faith Buckley's assertion that this out-of-print tome has not been fatally "anachronized...
...Barnes & Noble of the Web, however, is Barnes & Noble itself. In January the industry goliath announced plans to begin selling its estimated 1 million titles via America Online and a Website. Amazon countered by more than doubling its stock, to 2.5 million (including, a bit disingenuously, a million out-of-print books it will try to locate for you, an offer B&N quickly matched), and slashing prices up to 40% to surpass the bookstore's 30% hardcover discount...