[LINK] Borders and A&R finished

[Tom Koltai]

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> [mailto:link-bounces at mailman.anu.edu.au] On Behalf Of Jan Whitaker
> Sent: Wednesday, 1 June 2011 9:20 AM
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> Subject: [LINK] Borders and A&R finished
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> 
> Not that I buy books from these places often, but does this mean 
> Dymocks, the big box stores, and the indies are going to get 
> the business now? Note the June 1 stocking death date. That's today.
> 
> >Fwd: Publishers Lunch 
> ><http://click.publisherslunchdaily.com/cp/redirect.php?u=NTAw
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> =&id=8531634>REDGroup
> >Fails to Reach Deal With Creditors, Will Stop Taking Stock on June 1


Shame.
It's a lot nicer to walk into a library with books on the shelves than
open a directory on a computer with 50K of ebooks in it... 

Our future genrations will probably have to travel to a museum to get
that sense of "I have arrived in the great hall of Alexandria... This is
where the scribes do their work.... WOW!"

Shame about that.
But from the green perspective (no more trees to be chopped down - it
has to be a good thing...
Although suddenly the Carbon offsets from industrialisation are
decreasing in value rapidly. 
(With everyone planting sequestration forests and no-one with any reason
to chop them down).

So, carbon trading has a null value... NEXT!

Does this mean the Green Party will now reform as something else ?

TomK