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Wordsworth Books, on the other hand, offers 10 percent off most titles, paperback and hardcover alike...
...PDAs to failure. The handwriting recognition on these early models was atrocious, with Gary Trudeau lampooning in his "Doonesbury" strip the Newton's inability to recognize text. Secondly, devices like the Newton were too big and bulky to be of any use. Early PDAs were as big as a paperback novel and almost as heavy. They could be transported, but weren't truly portable in any sense of the word. They also required expensive add-ons to connect to desktop computers. At up to $1,000 a pop, these devices were no small investment for the average...
This teeny little paperback, complete with a diamond ring on its cover, has become a word-of-mouth hit, selling 50,000 copies in the past month alone; 235,000 copies have been shipped to stores since its publication in early 1995. But The Rules is not just a book; it's a movement. Around the country, Rules Girls are spontaneously forming themselves into support groups. They are paying $45 a pop to attend Rules seminars and forking over $250 an hour for phone consultations with authors Ellen Fein and Sherrie Schneider--neither of whom is a credentialed anything...
...than a princess phone; portable ultrasound machines that fit in the trunk of a car. There is even a hand-held mri scanner in the works that is about the size and shape of a catcher's mitt. And last week the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved a paperback-size automatic defibrillator that can shock a stopped heart back into a normal rhythm...
...record straight about the cost of the book. You say that at the end of buying the six installments, a reader will have shelled out a total of $18.94 for "what would have cost around $6.99 if it had been a normal, one-volume, mass-market paperback." The retail prices for new books from authors like King are as high as $27.95 in hard cover and $7.99 in paperback. To the millions of King fans who would pay $27.95 to read a new King novel, $18.94 is a reasonable price. The public has made this series a huge success...