Comments on: 44 of Top 50 Kindle Bestsellers are $0

By: Bill L

Bill L — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 23:08:33 +0000

Adam – exactly.

By: switch11

switch11 — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 04:05:15 +0000

thanks. 12 years in Irish Catholic Brother schools.

By: Robert

Robert — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 01:24:10 +0000

RE Lizzie Jan 4, 2010
“Google and Amazon are single subjects. “Google has to…” “Amazon has to…” Not the plural “have.”
That’s not a huge deal, but grammar still means something in a review intended for those who read a lot.”

The Brits recognize a company as plural and usage in the post strongly suggests the author is a Brit. Give him a break, Lizzie!
From Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_and_British_English_differences#Singular_and_plural_for_nouns):
The difference occurs for all nouns of multitude, both general terms such as team and company and proper nouns (for example, where a place name is used to refer to a sports team). For instance,

BrE: The Clash are a well-known band; AmE: The Clash is a well-known band.
BrE: Pittsburgh are the champions; AmE: Pittsburgh is the champion.

By: switch11

switch11 — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 20:00:22 +0000

artistic license.

By: Luzie

Luzie — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 18:40:04 +0000

Google and Amazon are single subjects. “Google has to…” “Amazon has to…” Not the plural “have.”

That’s not a huge deal, but grammar still means something in a review intended for those who read a lot.

By: Free as in “books” « debgpi

Free as in “books” « debgpi — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 05:03:52 +0000

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By: Melissa C

Melissa C — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 13:44:03 +0000

To top it all off…you don’t even need a Kindle anymore to read the Kindle books. Amazon now offers the free Kindle for PC software where you can just read the book on your desktop or laptop.

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El secreto de los libros más vendidos : Blogografia — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 12:01:30 +0000

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By: Adam S

Adam S — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 00:41:05 +0000

I think best sellers lists don’t mean much for free digital goods. I like many others pick up virtually every free book that is offered. I might read it someday. But most I will never touch. There is no loss of me getting a free book when it is offered, but also no loss for me not reading it. I saw that Amazon had over 1200 full albums that it was offering for free. But most of them have very little value because people don’t really want them.

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Thu, 12 Nov 2009 21:49:46 +0000

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