Author name: Kassia Krozser

Why Maureen Dowd Should Avoid Bookstores

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Recently, Maureen Dowd went to a bookstore. This shouldn’t be news, but one suspects this was a rare event in her life. One also suspects she’ll avoid the experience in the future. What she saw terrified her: nubile pink books snuggled up against aged gray novels. Surely she thought the sweet young things would take the gravitas right out of William Shakespeare. The thought that fake fiction had made its way into our home is alarming Dowd’s faux outrage was because the sea of chicklit that threatened to drown out the classics. Yeah, it’s not like most of those are […]

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Puzzling Over MySpace

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We woke today with grand plans to execute a post with brilliance and wit, but now we’re, well, thinking about the MySpace thing and, as always, remain puzzled by the media’s insistence that it’s going to save the world (when we all know that fate rests on the fragile shoulders of Peter Petrelli). While we’re all for going where the action is and whatnot, the truth of the matter is that MySpace is a train wreck disguised as a useful tool. On the surface, MySpace is the bee’s knees. It’s blogging, it’s tagging, it’s social networking. You have sound, words,

Marketing For Introverts

Save The Bookstore, Save The Community

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Far be it for us to tell other people how to run their business, but we simply cannot take the strain any longer. For weeks now, all the major newspapers have run stories about the decline of this neighborhood bookstore, the threat to that small shop, the fear that we’re losing the souls of our communities as we lose our bookstores. The answer is both simple and near-impossible: rethink the bookstore. This is true. The homogenization of our shopping districts is creating a distinct dullness to our hometowns. It is hard for the small, local business to compete with the

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The Bad Harry Potter Decision

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It is all the rage to write about the upcoming Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. And there is, indeed, so much to write. The release date, the title, the potential for spoilers to ruin a perfectly nice. And then there’s the fact that the book won’t be released as an electronic edition. None of the Potter titles have been available as ebooks. The most commonly cited reason is a fear of piracy. Woe to the stupid pirate who tries to argue that he or she is selling a legitimate version of the book (as we vaguely recall happening a

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