Missing the "I want the X but can I change the..." you know that person the orders the chicken salad but wants to change the carrots for cheese, the mushrooms for onions, the olives for pickles, hold the egg and celery, exchange the croutons for sourdough buns and the chicken for a beef patty.
Not at all, each one of those animals is a vegetarian, though the pig may stray from time to time. Notice there is no shark fin soup or snake on the list. :)
Disappointed that Moya or the White Star didn't make this list. I know Firefly got a lot of love but part of a season and a movie doesn't quite match up to the life of Farscape or B5.
The death of Borders was a business story, the fact that B&N is on life support is a business story. The traditional publishing industry has played itself into a very flawed business model that needs to change.
Borders and B&N played the race to the lower price game and pushed the small book stores out, then came Amazon who hasn't been interested in making money selling books. If you were in the industry and didn't see all of this coming you failed your basic business classes.
Amazon has self publishing with an editor service, and that is one of at least a dozen such services. None of the big publishing firms have made any real self-publish service effort, why?
Books will be written, they will be reviewed, they will appear on "best of" lists, they just might not be in the same places they have been for most of the last 100 years. Patterson is a fine writer but the Potter series was passed over several times before if was given a chance so who can really say that the traditional publishing industry hasn't cost us just as many great stories as it has shown us?
Baseball players, like any other professional athlete, are entertainers their job is to put fans in seats, eyes on the TV and to sell merchandise. The attendance of baseball games league wide has been increasing year over year, TV ratings have been increasing as well and merchandise has been seeing a very steady increase. At least for baseball players the steady rise in salaries appears to be justified.
Since when has any job salary been linked to the benefit they provide to society?
I have heard quite often that Consulting software engineers are overpaid usually it comes from the people that called asking and are now paying us to clean up the mess they made of it.
Borders and B&N played the race to the lower price game and pushed the small book stores out, then came Amazon who hasn't been interested in making money selling books. If you were in the industry and didn't see all of this coming you failed your basic business classes.
Amazon has self publishing with an editor service, and that is one of at least a dozen such services. None of the big publishing firms have made any real self-publish service effort, why?
Books will be written, they will be reviewed, they will appear on "best of" lists, they just might not be in the same places they have been for most of the last 100 years. Patterson is a fine writer but the Potter series was passed over several times before if was given a chance so who can really say that the traditional publishing industry hasn't cost us just as many great stories as it has shown us?
Since when has any job salary been linked to the benefit they provide to society?