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Hey! I Found Someone Defending Amazon

I’m-a do the whole Andrew Sullivan Daily Dish thing and just trot out some articles about publishing and bookselling and the like. Slate’s Farhad Manjoo, who is known mostly for his irreverent takes on restaurant Web sites and the abhorrence of two spaces after a period, wrote a long piece defending Amazon for its convenience,  both for readers and writers. I guess that’s a decent stance to take–more people are reading and writing now as a result of Amazon. The Kindle has made people more voracious in their reading; sales are up; the industry might not totally be dead. Continue reading

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