Sales of digital audiobooks jumped 18.2% [in 2023], while e-book sales rose 2%. As a number of industry members have predicted, sales of digital audio are poised to pass e-book sales: last year, digital audio sales were $2.07 billion, compared to $2.14 billion for e-books. In total,...
Praise for the Lanny Budd Novels “Few works of fiction are more fun to read; fewer still make history half as clear, or as human.”— Time “When people ask me what has happened in my long lifetime, I do not refer them to the newspaper files and to the authorities, but to [...
I learned that: 1) I have no aptitude for bridge, probably because of my non-mathematical mind; 2) I’m too lazy to learn something new that’s difficult for me; 3) I have newfound respect for friends and family members who are proficient bridge players; and 4) I’d rather read a ...
the diligent, intelligent, and, above all, frugal elite; the other, lazy rascals…. Thus it came to pass that the former sort accumulated wealth, and the latter sort had at last nothing to sell except their own skins. And from this original sin dates the poverty of the great...
For her,bookswere as necessary to life as bread. 对她来说,书就像面包一样,是生活必需品。 柯林斯例句 Booksare often stacked in higgledy-piggledy piles on the floor. 书本经常乱七八糟地堆在地板上。 柯林斯例句 New dietbooksappear at a rate of nearly one a week. ...
There is a sequel to this book that I tried but couldn’t get into – one book about these people was enough for me. The Narrow Road Between Desires by Patrick Rothfuss I have said and will say again that I would read ANYTHING by Patrick Rothfuss, I love the way his mind works. ...
Every year the Royal Society, the world's oldest independent scientific academy, awards a prize for the best new popular science book. Here, Luke O'Neill—Professor of Biochemistry at Trinity College, Dublin, and chair of the 2021 judging panel—discusses the latest shortlist: six new popular...
Point being, WordPress is the latest in what seems to be every web service ever trying to squeeze more money out of its userbase by stripping away a purpose of the service only to sell it back to the highest bidder. Amazon was the first for me that I noticed engaging in this behavior...
we hear how locals here were forced to sell their land to Franco’s government when the river was dammed in the 1960s. This raised the water level substantially, submerging mills, and destroying people’s homes and livelihoods. One local remembers watching bears fish for salmon on shallow stre...
p. 58) of his bindings. The rationale for the graduated lining structure is that the stiffness needed for a book to open well at any given place varies. The centre of the spine takes the greatest strain and should be the stiffest, while less stiffness is required near the beginning and ...