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Author Nick Hornby not feeling the fever pitch over e-books
Filed under: Misc. Gadgets, Handhelds
This won’t come as a massive surprise to most, but author Nick Hornby isn’t so into e-books. After walking into a British Borders book store to find the £399 ($790) Iliad for sale next to some £4 paperbacks, he poo-poo’d the platform in a guest column on the Penguin Blog. So [...]
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