Freelance Writing
Amazon has made the leap from bookseller to book publisher (and NOT just ebooks).
If you’re a writer, you’ve got to learn more here.
More info is also here at the New York Times; and more details emerge in this piece from the Christian Science Monitor.
“May You Live In Interesting Times” (a favorite and prescient piece of Chinese Fortune Cookie wisdom)!
Consumer Reports says that a federal bankruptcy court allowed Borders Bookstores to SELL customers’ contact information and purchase history (including info from one of its prior iterations, Waldenbooks) to BARNES AND NOBLE.
Read the Consumer Reports piece here.
Congratulations. You’re now a COMMODITY, not a customer.
Don’t like that idea? Then visit this link to scrub your info. But you’ve got to OPT OUT by October 29, 2011.