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...excess charges that were added [to the airline-ticket price] for fuel and miscellaneous." Other customers have complained that hotels rated as four-star turned out to be less than stellar. Frequent user Raquel Johnson of Bloomington, Minn., though happy with the service, warns, "Read all the fine print." Priceline does ask customers to initial all the rules and restrictions accompanying each purchase, shielding the company from liability for potential travel mishaps and disappointing accommodations...
...Harry Potter seems to have worked. The carefully built-up demand produced long lines of customers and the curious at the many U.S. bookstores open for business at the crack of Saturday. Some of these settings seemed surreal. At Books of Wonder in lower Manhattan, local TV and print reporters swarmed among the expectant book buyers. "The AP has already hit us," said Dave Lambert, 28, who was waiting with his girlfriend. You've got two lines here, one interviewing the other. A p.r. woman called out, "Anybody need a sound bite from Scholastic?" A satisfied film crew from...
...course, we have even more reason for our somewhat smug recognition. For, unless you've been living a hermit-like existence in one of those New York subway tunnels, you must know that this weekend sees the release of the fourth Harry Potter book, "The Goblet of Fire." The print run is huge, the hype is sky-high. Amazon.com is dealing with an onslaught of orders...
Zittrain spoke of the recently released novel Riding the Bullet by Stephen King, which was made available on the Internet with one stipulation--users could read the book online but could not print out copies...
...There is a certain arrogance in assuming that we mandarins know best what the masses should care about, and maybe page views are a populist corrective to that. But it was hard enough already for journalists--online, in print, on TV--to balance what people will reward with what, in our informed opinion, matters. With this irrefutable math, it may become impossible. "A lot of issues that are important in the long run are kind of wonky," says Salon's erstwhile media writer, Sean Elder. Subjects of limited appeal, like international news, may survive in niche publications, but what about...