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Except for stuff like The Apprentice and Top Chef, I gave up network TV a decade ago. When cable came, I thought I would love their more focused programming but then I started dropping off after they'd force 7 minute or more commercials on us. I don't even watch TV on the computer. It's easier to just rent or buy the DVD for the programs/movies I want. I was on network TV on 60 minutes and the announcers for 60 minutes actually DROOLED about how SHORT their commercial breaks were. Fast forward to now on cable TV when I thought I would love watching the entire series of Lord of the Rings each night BUT in the right bottom corner of the TV screen, the cable channel was DROOLING YES!! about the SHORTness of their commercial breaks. I was playing my video games at the same time and realized it's not fun at all to just be a passive couch potato watching cable tv even if it IS my favorite movie. I'd rather watch the movie on DVD on my OWN TIME, IN MY OWN WAY, able to stop and resume it whenever I want to eat, go to the bathroom, talk on the phone with a friend, play a video game, get on the internet, etc. That's what the internet gives. It gives us the right to DO WHAT WE WANT WHEN WE WANT and not be SPOONFED by the commercial big companies.
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narramissic writes "Having already abandoned ebooks once, Barnes & Noble is jumping back into ebooks with the purchase this week of ebook seller Fictionwise. Why is the format suddenly hot? Look no further than the top 10 Fictionwise bestsellers, says blogger Peter Smith. Once again it seems like 'porn is blazing a path to a new media format. Of the top 10 bestsellers under the 'Multiformat' category, nine are tagged 'erotica' and the last is 'dark fantasy.' Need more proof that folks (let's take a leap and call them women) who read 'bodice rippers' like the privacy of ebooks? Author Samantha Lucas (who writes for publishers like Cobblestone Press and Siren Publishing) tells Smith that she sells almost all of her novels in ebook format."

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