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Take the austere little paperbacks down from the shelf and you can hold the collected works of J.D. Salinger - one novel, three volumes of stories - in the palm of one hand. Like some of his favorite writers - like Sappho, whom we know only from ancient fragments, or the Japanese poets who crafted 17-syllable haiku - Salinger was an author whose large reputation pivots on very little. The first of his published stories that he thought were good enough to preserve appeared in the New Yorker in 1948. Seventeen years later he placed one last story there and drew down...
Fresh off the bench, Ryabkina picked up a loose puck and fired an unassisted top-shelf shot that Union goaltender Alana Marcinko barely saw coming...
Leblanc opened the scoring less than five minutes into the game off a good effort from Killorn. The sophomore skated up the right and put a shot on net. Big Green goalie Jody O’Neill deflected the puck, but Leblanc picked up the rebound and went top-shelf to light the lamp...
There's been a lot of fuss about Amazon's Kindle e-reader. But it's not high-class, top-shelf fuss - the fuss has a slightly tinny, synthetic quality to it. For example, Amazon announced that on Christmas Day, for the first time ever, it sold more e-books than regular paper books. Which is impressive. Except Amazon won't say how many e-books that is. Or even how many Kindles are out there. (Get the latest gadget news and reviews at Techland.com...
...Avatar with a marketing and distribution budget of $1 million; 2012 was backed by 715 prints and an ad outlay of around $500,000. Three years ago, a big release meant releasing somewhere between 100 to 200 prints at a fraction of the cost. With films having smaller shelf lives now, companies are trying to capture cash flows in the first few days after their release, says KPMG's entertainment-practice head Rajesh Jain...