Last year's General Prize was won by Philip Ball for his book Critical Mass: How One Thing Leads to Another.
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Amazon's rapid entry into entirely new businesses, including the Kindle and mass merchandising far removed from book sales, has helped it grow and grow.
Plenty of obstacles could prevent the e-book from going mass-market.
That is all right with Jeff Mayersohn, owner of the Harvard Book Store in Cambridge, Mass.
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Combined with the mass merchandisers, this 37 percent of the book market represents the heart of the business and the focus of much effort on the part of publishers.
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He and the rest of the Normandy's crew are used as just one example of a system that Apple patented, which turns game story choices into a unique comic book (nevermind the fact that Mass Effect comics exist on their own).
In his new book he looks at the rise of the mass affluent class and its discontents.
That's led some utopians, like Don Tapscott and Anthony Williams, authors of the book "Wikinomics, " to predict the rise of "mass collaboration" as the new form of economic organization.
The previous book examined the history of the postwar period, examining how mass affluence transformed American culture, making people more introspective and more focused on the achievement of non-material goals.
In his book he blames the CIA for faulty intelligence about Iraqi weapons of mass destruction (WMD).
The mass-circulation daily newspaper Bild (Picture) is serialising extracts of his book.
Blogger Dan Nosowitz, tongue planted in cheek, declared the Mini's trade-paperback size will make it a more highbrow option for e-book lovers than the smaller Kindle Fire, which more resembles a mass-market paperback.
The book explains how Earth will change for every degree rise in temperature - from droughts to mass extinctions.
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