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...indows. Opera nibbles at Microsoft's Internet Explorer. Amazon drubbed traditional booksellers. eBay thrashes Amazon. Bell was forced by Covad Comm... ...uch as the recently established African Trade Insurance Agency or the more veteran American OPIC (Overseas Private Investment Corporation), the Bri... ...d a refund of all war and terrorist liabilities above $100 million per airline. The Americans later extended the coverage until mid-May. The Europea... ...nnovation generates the very tools that facilitate further innovation. The eminent American economist Robert Merton - quoted in Sigma 3/2001 - desc... ...Valuation Portfolio Management Theory and Technical Analysis Lecture Notes In American novels, well into the 1950's, one finds protagonists us... ...y a paper titled "Doing it Now or Later", published in the March 1999 issue of the American Economic Review. In it the authors suggest that over-in...

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...rs between the types of intermediaries are blurred. Barnes and Noble (the American bookstores chain) has, in effect, become a publisher. Many publis... ... The result was a globe encompassing network of academic institutions. The American Pentagon established the network of all networks, the ARPANET. Ot... ...lterior motives of members of the ruling political echelons (the infamous American Paranoia), a lack of variety and of catering to the tastes and in... ...e and commercial hands. Public radio was doomed to be marginalized. The American administration withdrew from its last major involvement in the Int... ...ample, provides such a resolution service in Hebrew. The Association of American Publishers (APA) has an Enabling Technologies Committee. Fittingl... ...dit, the proliferation of publishers, and the cutthroat competition among booksellers was such that price regulation (cartel) had to be introduced. N... ... relative haste with which they came to adopt it, egged on by authors and booksellers. IV. Intellectual Pirates and Intellectual Property Despite... ...ctions to increasing demand. As early as the 18th century, publishers and booksellers expressed the fear that libraries will cannibalize their trade... ...t there are no limits to the ingenuity with which publishers, authors, and booksellers, re-invent old practices. Technological and marketing innovati...

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...s? Even the ones they claim to have been dictated by gods or aliens? Even if American copyright law requires “an author,” presumably a human one? 9 Ca... ...true copyright statute—was produced partly because of publishers’ fights with booksellers; the authorial right grew as an afterthought. 5 The history o... ...r the films of the Second World War, or footage on the daily lives of African-Americans during segregation, or the music of the Great Depression, or th... ...hey were successful. 36 As Yochai Benkler puts it, Alice Randall, an African American woman, was ordered by a government official not to publish her cr... ...nt of the romantic theory of authorship in the context of contemporary Anglo-American copyright law. But when one looks at the his- tory of the French... ... in restraint of trade” or the Supreme Court decisions that dispossessed the American Indians on the theory that they did not comprehend the concept o...

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... accounted for an estimated 80 percent of the world’s total e-mail. 59 North American PCs led the world in De- cember 2006, producing approximately 46... ...demics, social analysts, and industry leaders surveyed by the Pew Internet & American Life Project in 2004 predicted serious attacks on network infras... ...to outright prohibit the continued distribution of defama- tory materials by booksellers and newsstands, much less continued possession After the Stal... ...o tinkering PC owners in their homes, had grown to include 20 percent of all Americans. Id. at 9. Among adult Internet users, meanwhile, 65 percent co... ...lity for others.” Id. at 423–24. 6. Between 1985 and 1995, the percentage of American homes with answering machines increased from 13 percent to 52 pe... ... 2007); John B. Hor- rigan & Lee Rainie, The Broadband Difference: How Online Americans’ Behavior Changes with High-Speed Internet Connections at Home ...

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...d, impressive, highly pictorial.” JOE KNOEFLER in the L.A. Times: “...an American writer gifted with...perception and sensitivity.” FRANK TANNENBA... ...dence have now been established at V VOICES FROM THE PAST xiv the American Heritage Center of the University of Wyoming, the Nettie Lee Bens... ...Heritage Center of the University of Wyoming, the Nettie Lee Benson Latin American Collection of the University of Texas, and the Rare Books Collect... ... of St. Paul’s. I’d like to be back at the Exchange, for the armorers and booksellers and glovers. I’d like to stare off-stage at a thousand rapt fa... ...hildren, reapers, sowers, which comes first? Which the most important? We Americans expropri- ate, accomplish, destroy. The rough rock becomes polish... ...the slaves on board those vessels have been returned to Liberia. Now, an American ship, the Erie, out of Portland, has been captured off the West A...

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... automobiles, aeroplanes, waterplanes, and such-like, mobile purposes. The American Kemp engine, differing widely in principle but equally prac- ticab... ...the world until the twentieth century. Then, the growing impatience of the American people with the monstrous and socially paralysing party systems th... ... to become a military power, and maintained a small standing army upon the American model that was said, so far as it went, to be highly efficient, an... ...d upon the Thames Embankment. He made his way through the galleries of the booksellers and the National Gallery, which had been open continuously day ... ...dy; the children in the streets knew them. And yet the world still, as the Americans used to phrase it, ‘fooled around’ with the paraphernalia and pre... ... touch with that gigantic childishness which was the characteristic of the American imagination. For the Americans also were among the simple peoples ...

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... , and his almond eyes almost closed as he did so. There were two or three American men, in black coats, rather yellow and dry of skin: they were theo... ... tall and slim. He held himself with a deliberate grace. Weeks, one of the American students, seeing him alone, went up and began to talk to him. The ... ...one, went up and began to talk to him. The pair were oddly contrasted: the American very neat in his black coat and pepper-and-salt trou- sers, thin a... ...rtain disinclination for society. Fraulein Hedwig was gone, and Weeks, the American who generally accompanied them on their rambles, had set out for a... ...y under Hayward’s influ- ence. Hayward did not like Weeks. He deplored the American’s black coat and pepper -and-salt trousers, and spoke with a scorn... ...as dead and forgotten, his book of poems sold in remainder by second- hand booksellers; his life seemed to have served nothing except to give a pushin... ...e looked at the old shops, still there, still selling the same things; the booksellers with school-books, pious works, and the latest novels in one wi...

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...to this the country has continued to flourish. It is a singular feature in American life that at the beginning of this century, when the proprietor of... ...al use in the west of England, whence it is most prob- ably derived by the Americans. The latter draw a distinction between a sled, or sledge, and a s... ...construction used for temporary purposes in the new countries. Many of the American sleighs are elegant though the use of this mode of conveyance is m... ...uke and his cousin, being Pennsylvanians by birth, were not Yankees in the American sense of the word. 48 The Pioneers CHAPTER V “Nathaniel’s coat, s... ...offered its advantages, and a second edition of the base was given, as the booksellers say , with additions and improvements. It was necessarily large... ... nation as their grandfather The former was generally called, by the Anglo-Americans Iroquois, or the Six Nations, and sometimes Mingoes. Their appell...

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...ge line of sea-board (stretching through twenty-four hundred miles) of the American United States; may enjoy fifty years for lei- surely repentance; a... ...h, for one hundred and fifty years, the judicious public has al- lowed the booksellers to incorporate, along with other refuse of the seventeenth and ... ... ever made to translate even his satires, epistles, or ‘Lutrin,’ except by booksellers’ hacks; and that no such version ever took the slightest root a... ... well known upon that coast; and ‘faults’ may be a flash term for what the Americans call ‘notions.’ A part of the cargo it clearly is; and one is not... ...informer? A French- man, reader, —M. Simond; and though now by adoption an American citizen, yet still French in his heart and in all his prejudices. ...

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... who deserve a special word of condemnation. One of them was Scots; the other claimed to be American; admitted, after some fencing, that he was born i... ...ne, for instance, the composition of which he had bought years ago for five dollars from an American pedlar, and sold the other day for a hundred poun... ...ead break in the course of our enjoyment. STEERAGE TYPES WE HAD A FELLOW on board, an Irish-American, for all the world like a beggar in a print by Ca... ... this man had travelled over most of the world, and enjoyed wonderful opportunities on some American rail- road, with two dollars a shift and double p... ...several, and among these at least one of the seaman, judged me to be a petty officer in the American navy; and I was so often set down for a practical... ...p on the inside. I went to banks, post-offices, rail- way-offices, restaurants, publishers, booksellers, money-chang- ers, and wherever I went a pool ...

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...his on account of the nec- essary expenses for new characters, and because booksellers give not their money by handfuls to young authors; although to ... ... with mine. T o prove this by experience, I taught music gratis to a young American lady, Mademoiselle des Roulins, with whom M. Roguin had brought me... ...s finished, the difficulty was to find a bookseller who would take it. The booksellers of Paris are shy of every author at his beginning, and metaphys... ... reimbursed me. Diderot had prom- ised me a retribution on the part of the booksellers, of which he has never since spoken to me nor I to him. This un... ... works I had upon the stocks promised me, without extorting money from the booksellers, supplies sufficient to enable me to work at my ease without ex... ...l. However, as she reproached me with suffer- ing myself to be the dupe of booksellers, she wished me to leave to her care the printing the work, that... ...ly connected with him to pass his name over in silence. M. du Perou was an American, son to a commandant of Surinam, whose successor, M. le Chambrier,...

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... were a small marble-topped centre table covered with back numbers of “The American System of Den- tistry,” a stone pug dog sitting before the little ... ...knew absolutely nothing further than that she 17 Frank Norris was Spanish-American. Miss Baker was the oldest lodger in the flat, and Maria was a fix... ...at one time possessed of an incalculable fortune derived from some Central American coffee plan- tation, a fortune long since confiscated by armies of... ...te such a statement. Look at your facts, look at your figures. I am a free American citizen, ain’t I? I pay my taxes to support a good government, don... ... the postman shoved it through the door. I thought it was a number of the ‘American Sys- tem of Dentistry’ at first, and when I’d opened it and looked... ...ir and sitting down. “No, I—the fact is, I’ve sold my apparatus; a firm of booksellers has bought the rights of it.” “And aren’t you going to bind boo...

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... the market of literature; and the sudden ruin that fell on so many of the booksellers could scarcely have been expected to leave unscathed one whose ... ...y grandsire, the inditer of this goodly matter, was rather lengthy, as our American friends say. Indeed, I reserve the rest of the piece until I can o... ...rvade every civilized country. Amongst their mountains, as among the North American Indians, the various tribes were wont to make war upon each other,...

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...ery day be- yond the round tower built by Francois I., to look out for the American packet, enduring the keenest anxieties. Moth- ers alone know how s... ...d his friend Giroudeau lived among a circle of journalists, actresses, and booksellers, where they were re- garded in the light of cashiers. Philippe,...

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..................................................................... 182 THE AMERICAN POPULATION .......................................................... ...ory of this development and arrive at any other conclusion. The French and Americans can laugh at our aeroplanes, the Ger- mans are ten years ahead of... ...lf and dominate the tailor- ing of the world, while Brazilians, Frenchmen, Americans and Germans fly. That we are hopelessly behindhand in aeronautics... ...l Warren. And failing that, I wish that Charles Dickens, who wrote in his “American Notes” with such passionate disgust and hostility about the first ... ... return in the autumn. Again, there is a stream of thousands of prosperous Americans to summer in Europe. Compared with any European country, the whol... ...o meet the needs of wholesale buying. So he would go ei- ther to wholesale booksellers, or directly to the various pub- lishers of the books and editi...

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...lish-speaking man. No doubt the spirit of the inquiry is more British than American, that the aban- donment of Rousseau and anarchic democracy is more... ...e aban- donment of Rousseau and anarchic democracy is more com- plete than American thought is yet prepared for, but that is a difference not of quali... ...ed develop principles of primary importance in the fundamen- tal schism of American politics between the local State gov- ernment and the central powe... ...e papers were first published in the British Fortnightly Review and in the American Cosmopolitan. In the latter peri- odical they were, for the most p... ...d, is the gist of this paper—that only a very small minority of English or American people have more than half mastered the splendid heritage of their... ...d invitingly accessible as possible. The machinery we have in hand are the booksellers and the newsvendors, the circulating libraries, the post-office... ...o the hundreds of thousands of copies of our national classics sold by the booksellers, on the one hand, and on the other to the absolute incapacity o...

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...nd finally developed into the University of Pennsylvania; and he founded an “American The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin 3 Philosophical Society”... ...ned he received a place only second to that of Washington as the champion of American indepen The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin 4 dence. He die... ...tton Mather in his church history of that country, entitled Magnalia Christi Americana, as ‘a godly, learned Englishman,” if I remember the words righ... ...r. I now had access to better books. An acquaintance with the apprentices of booksellers enabled me sometimes to borrow a small one, which I was caref... ...hands. They wondered to see, from this and several instances, that the Water American, as they called me, was stronger than them selves, who drank st... ...company being increased to one hundred: this was the mother of all the North American subscription libraries, now so numer ous. It is become a great ...

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...me of which were at a con- siderable distance from Lichfield. At that time booksellers’ shops in the provincial towns of England were very rare, so th... ...t had been the subject of im- portant consideration in a former reign. The booksellers who contracted with Johnson, single and unaided, for the execut... ...o be paid for the copy-right. I understand that nothing was allowed by the booksellers on that account; and I remember his telling me, that a large po... ...nolds; Mr. Millar, Mr. Dodsley, Mr. Bouquet, Mr. Payne of Paternoster-row, booksellers; Mr. Strahan, the printer; the Earl of Orrery, Lord Southwell, ... ...iga- tion, by transmitting to me copies of two letters from Dr. Johnson to American gentlemen. On Saturday, April 3, the day after my arrival in Londo... ...as to the justice and wisdom of the conduct of Great-Britain to- wards the American colonies, while I at the same time requested that he would enable ... ...tled, Taxation no Tyranny; an answer to the Resolutions and Address of the American Congress. He had long before indulged most unfavourable sentiments... ...not but be very obnoxious to Johnson, for he was not only a patriot but an American. He was afterwards minister from the United States at the court of... ...lancholy; and I mentioned to him a saying which somebody had related of an American savage, who, when an European was expatiating on all the advantage...

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...ly, of course, on the “picture book” quality that contemporary English and American prose appears more and more destined, by the conditions of publica... ... to reach its maximum, no doubt, over many of the sorry businesses of “The American,” for instance, where, given the elements and the essence, the lon... ...tion of several shorter pieces. Inevitably, in such a case as that of “The American,” and scarce less indeed in those of “The Portrait of a Lady” and ... ...to his new arrangement had yet had from him—was that he was practising his American in order to converse properly, on equal terms as it were, with Mr.... ...o, it’s his way. It belongs to him.” But she had wondered still. “It’s the American way. That’s all.” “Exactly—it’s all. It’s all I say! It fits him—so... ...w I always adore. And I’ve been to the National Gallery and to a dozen old booksellers’, coming across treasures, and I’ve lunched, on some strange na...

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...o poor and thread-paper a soul, I am going to try for the best. These good booksellers of mine have at last got a Werther without illustrations. I wan... ...uary 1st: this morning I got January 3rd. Into the bargain with Marie, the American girl, who is grace itself, and comes leaping and dancing simply li... ...RS. SITWELL [MENTONE, JANUARY 1874.] … Last night I had a quarrel with the American on poli- tics. It is odd how it irritates you to hear certain poli... ...rain ten to fourteen days’ journey; warranted extreme discomfort. The only American institution which has yet won my respect is the rain. One sees it ... ...ally, I regret to say, empty. Could your recommendation introduce me to an American publisher? My next book I should really try to get hold of here, a... ...ta in the West. I see I am in a grasping, dismal humour, and should, as we Americans put it, quit writing. In truth, I am so haunted by anxieties that...

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...e shall hereafter see) to an analogous conclusion with regard to the South American ostrich, the females of which are parasitical, if I may so express... ...t from their habits. The Saurophagus sulphuratus is typi- cal of the great American tribe of tyrant-flycatchers. In its structure it closely approache... ...Bra- zil, nothing struck him more forcibly than the splendour of the South American vegetation con- trasted with that of South Africa, together with t... ...elan, certainly three, and probably five species of rhinoceros; and on the American side, two tapirs, the guanaco, three deer, the vicuna, peccari, ca... ...the wild plains of Northern Patagonia: and first for the largest, or South American ostrich. The ordinary hab- its of the ostrich are familiar to ever... ...h operas are excellently performed. We were also surprised at seeing large booksellers’ shops, with well-stored shelves; — music and read- ing bespeak...

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... knight; all the ladies at Church this afternoon were in mourning; all the booksellers are wild; and Lintot says not a third of the copies of the Spec... .... I have seen no grandee of V ersailles that has the noble bearing of this American envoy and his suite. They have the refinement of the Old W orld, w... ...ne good service elsewhere than at Quebec,” the King said, appealing to the American Envoy: “at Bunker’s Hill, at Brandywine, at Y ork Island? Now that... ...ely Antoinette flashed fire, but it played round the head of the dauntless American Envoy harmless as the lightning which he knew how to conjure away.... ...n they speak of the terrible “Repudiator.” She was the first of the mighty American war-ships that have taught the domineering Briton to respect the v... ...lf on board the “Dettingen,” which he carried sword in hand. Even when the American boarders had made their lodgment on the “Dettingen’s” binnacle, it...

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... hill, will cry shame upon the unworthy age that drove one of the fathers of American song to end his days in a Shaker village! “ During this harangue... ...d, by letter,” continued Oberon, reddening with vexation, “to some seventeen booksellers. It would make you stare to read their answers; and read them... ...es; and he tells me fairly, that no Ameri can publisher will meddle with an American work,—seldom if by a known writer, and never if by a new one,—un...

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...e satis- faction any one has in himself, or gives to others, in so hasty a confutation of what I have written. The booksellers preparing for the Fourt... ...t it does. 20. Sticking on and under-propping. Whatever a learned 159 John Locke man may do here, an intelligent American, who inquired into the nat... ...in confu- sion. 6. Another reason for the necessity of names to num- bers. This I think to be the reason why some Americans I have spoken with, (who ... ...n lost among us, we should in a few ages be unavoidably reduced to the wants and igno- rance of the ancient savage Americans, whose natural endowments...

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... was hers, had been illustrious, to see it dis- 55 Flaubert played at the booksellers’, repeated in the newspapers, known to all France. But Charles ... ...r for calls. I saw that the very moment that I came in. I’ve the eye of an American!” He did not send the stuff; he brought it. Then he came again to ...

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