Doctorow succeeds partly due to self promotion, but that will only work for a few prominent authors. Not everybody can be an editor on boing boing.

So create your own e-book and associated infrastructure.

DRM's e-books (like on Amazon) are hard to lend out or re-sell. Prices are lower but more books are sold. Taking geography out of the distribution equation means that more books can be sold, without physically shipping a supply to every corner of the planet. Simpllfying the supply chain doesn't have to mean that the producer gets less money.

Isn't that because it is burning rubber? All the burns with that engine type are dirty.

Paper eliminates itself over time but I would agree that content from Amazon is not immune to fiddling in the back end.

Come on. Nobody buys reading material from shops any more. The only bookshops which remain in my city sell junk. But I don't like the idea of buying everything through Amazon either.

Bomb belts really should have grounding points.

Its also great for detecting suicide bombers.

End of stream? Did the NSA not flush that last buffer they read?

GS could, if they wanted to, put a 30 minute delay in their outgoing email, or maybe a second step through a web form to authorise outgoing mail. It could be set to hold messages going to known non-professional domain names.

There is an ad for gmail business on this page.

Yeah I wonder what its support length is.

ezmlm works fine for me.

It would be pretty poor if the VM couldn't be compiled for i686 or AMD64.

Android apps already run on Linux. Why can't I just fire them up on Ubuntu? The VM should br portable.