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Jeff Bezos on the Inevitable Obsolescence of Books
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos tells Dan Lyons, aka FSJ, just how deep his "missionary zeal" for spreading the gospel of the Kindle runs: One day, it's going to kill books entirely. The full quote: More »Remainders - The Good, Bad and Ugly Things We Didn't Post (and Why)
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Jeff Bezos, you trickster. Here I was, resisting the urge to buy one of your Kindles, and then you throw at me Annie Little and her cute "Fly Me Away." I want my life to move in stop motion.Audible Menus and Giant Fonts For Blind and Vision-Impaired Kindle Users in 2010
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