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| Mapes book pulled from Amazon |
| 2005-10-08 |
| EFL In fact, the book (which is due out on Nov. 8) seems to have disappeared completely from Amazon, except for its audio version ( Barnes and Noble still has the book, which is called âTruth and Duty, â online, with the Nov. 8 pub date (and no excerpt). The book is still featured at the site of the publisher, St. Martin's Press, which promises an excerpt--but not until pub day. Calls to a publicist at St. Martin's have not yet been returned. One clue in the mystery is that Kurtz writes that he had been meaning to get to this item âfor some time,â so perhaps the excerpt got pulled a few days ago. But it doesn't explain why the entire book has gone missing at Amazon. Among the excerpts quoted by Kurtz: -- âAnd right now, on the Internet, it appeared everything was falling apart. I had a real physical reaction as I read the angry online accounts. It was something between a panic attack, a heart attack, and a nervous breakdown. My palms were sweaty; I gulped and tried to breathe. . . . The little girl in me wanted to crouch and hide behind the door and cry my eyes out." --"Faxing changes a document in so many ways, large and small, that analyzing a memo that had been faxed -- -in some cases not once, but twice -- -was virtually impossible. The faxing destroyed the subtle arcs and lines in the letters. The characters bled into each other. The details of how the typed characters failed to line up perfectly inside each word were lost." --"To these people, there was no such thing as unbiased mainstream reporting, certainly not when it came to criticism of the president, no matter how tepid. To them, there was Fox News and everything else -- and everything else was liberal and unfair." Looks like he missed the part about peripheral spacing and all the other screw ups identified on page 1. Looks like Google doesn't have it cached, either. Going down the memory hole. |
| Posted by:Unaique Elmavish8448 |
| #4 Iva heard about stoned spacing... |
| Posted by: Wavy Gravy 2005-10-08 23:01 |
| #3 I have heard of proportional spacing.... |
| Posted by: Bobby 2005-10-08 22:18 |
| #2 Huh? |
| Posted by: Mono 2005-10-08 22:17 |
| #1 missed the part about peripheral spacing Is this a new thing? |
| Posted by: Caslon the Elder 2005-10-08 22:14 |