But these arguments need much better supporting material than the book provides.
She's ready to spend another year or more on the project, with the hope of visiting subjects across the country and eventually crafting the material into a book.
"I've done a lot of things I'm not proud of, such as getting my girlfriend pregnant when I was 23 and the way I handled that, " Jobs is quoted as saying in the promotional material for the book, being penned by Walter Isaacson.
Mr Friedman's opponents dismiss his campaign as a joke and whisper that he is running only to provide material for another bestselling book.
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Common sense would hold that a person who legally acquires copyrighted material such as a book or music CD generally has the right to resell it at a later time.
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The facts of this case are prime reading material for any law school case book.
Managers at Canterbury's Marlowe Theatre said they did not want to book him because his material would upset supporters and patrons of the venue.
Instead, it's compatible with "Mobipocket" books, a digital format that offers more than 100, 000 titles, though many are noncopyrighted classics, romance novels and science fiction--hardly the material recommended by Oprah's book club.
Last year the auction house sold a collection of Gandhi material, including his glasses and prayer book.
Last year the auction house sold a collection of Gandhi material, including his glasses and prayer book, which Mr Westwood-Brookes called "highly important".
On Thursday night, Johnson phoned his teaching assistant from the hospital to say he was bored and to ask for some reading material so he could work on the book, the university article said.
In fact, read it even if you're an optimist, because Mr. Johnson's book will give you lots of material to brighten the outlook of your gloomy friends.
This kind of functionality would be invaluable for, say, bloggers wanting to turn years of writing into a book, or for companies with material scattered across departments that they want to pull together into a single publication.
Long story short: I wrote it as a chapter book instead of a coffee table book because I have a lifetime of material on the subject and I wanted to share it.
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Other authors in recent years have used Internet material without attribution, including Chris Anderson, whose 2009 book "Free: The Future of a Radical Price" contained passages taken verbatim from Wikipedia.
Nor did Goodwin's Time essay address the embarrassing fact that in 1993 she chastised Joe McGinniss , author of a book about Edward Kennedy , for allegedly lifting material from The Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys without proper attribution.
Normally the release of the Federal Reserve's Beige Book alone would give Wall Street plenty of material to obsess over, but on Wednesday there was the added element of a slew of scheduled comments by central bank officials.
We actually got a Guinness Book of World Records for developing this lightest solid material in the world.
The Proprietary Association of Great Britain, which is responsible for checking marketing material from pharmaceutical companies, backed its decision to approve the book.
As in the other instances, Ambrose cites Anson's book, but does not put quote marks around the borrowed material.
The dress "was made from kitchen curtain material -- and people went crazy, " Pulitzer said in her book, "Essentially Lilly: A Guide to Colorful Entertaining, " excerpted on her company's website.
This tension, between the force of the material world and the will of the imagination, lies at the centre of this book.
This book, which describes the descendants of a civilisation that has converted the material in its planets into a giant ringlike structure around its sun, was inspired by Freeman Dyson's idea that a truly technologically advanced species would endeavour to capture as much light as possible by building a spherical shell around its central star.
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Next is the publication of a "look book" for the final design and models built from foamcore, a strong, lightweight material.
There is duplication across the behind-the-scenes material, and an annoying corporate type reading blankly off an autocue in an effort to advertise the book spin-offs from the movie.
Earlier this year, Pew research found that about one in five U.S. adults have read an e-book in the past year, and that e-book users tend to read over 30% more books per year than people who only read printed material.
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Rather than discussing the already worn (and to me irrelevant) debate of digital book versus analog book, I talked about future technologies like brain computer interface, real-time simulation and programmable material, and how these will change the face of literature far beyond the Kindle, perhaps eventually eliminating text altogether.
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