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...President Kennedy Has Been Shot (Nov. 16, 8 p.m. E.T.) tells how print and broadcast reporters covered the shooting in the quaint days before cable news and mobile satellite crews. A TV cameraman inside the book depository had to throw his tape out the window so it could be rushed to the studio, and Walter Cronkite recalls that CBS had no camera ready in its newsroom for his reading of the bulletin. This is an intriguing piece for news junkies, but it's curious that CNN should air it, since the dignity of men like Cronkite (and they...
...until Jeff Bezos intervened. On Oct. 23, the Amazon.com CEO (and TIME's 1999 Person of the Year) unveiled a new feature called Search Inside the Book. Amazon had spent the spring and summer digitally scanning 33 million pages--that is, every page from more than 120,000 in-print titles--and putting them in a vast searchable computer archive. Before on Amazon you could look only for names of books; now, to the chagrin of some authors, you can pinpoint a text reference on the very page where it appears and call it up in a jiffy...
...offer us the inside of every book, Amazon has a long way to go: the Library of Congress holds 19 million tomes, and about 3 million are in print. But Bezos is off to a blazing start. To go the distance, he's appealing to authors' dreams of immortality. Let us digitize your work of genius, he tells them, and the reading public will have access to it forever. Soon Amazon hopes to start its own publishing service, serving up fresh copies of any title the moment you ask for it. The phrase out of print could soon lose...
...have to be bound for Florida, a cruise or a cabana to appreciate something from mauishirts.com Each print is identified by name (Banana Tree, Bird of Paradise), and most have matching sarongs...
Olympus P-10 Printer It's a chain reaction: first came the digital cams, now come specialized photo-only printers like the P-10. It uses dye sublimation to produce a photo-lab-quality print in just 44 seconds. olympus.com...