And tablets, which are priced similarly to top e-readers, also work well for reading e-books.

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They prefer to report and describe, and to let their readers work it all out for themselves.

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After all, writers write for readers to read their work.

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Many readers felt it would have been better left as an unfinished work for scholars to inspect.

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But the end product is such that I get a lot of response back from my readers saying how much they enjoyed my work and they would like for me to do more.

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For new readers, THE CONTRARIAN TAKE offers up some of this data work to Forbes Blog readers under what we call The Contrarian Take Databank .

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Sutter's work on the Change the List series -- in which readers voted on social justice issues for him to cover -- won the Batten Medal for public service journalism from the American Society of News Editors.

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As its title suggests, this work brings its readers from the Crash of 1929 and ensuing Great Depression through economic confusion that set the stage for the Panic of 2008 and the Great Recession.

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Readers of Work in Progress are invited to visit my personal site, When Fridays Were Fridays, for a celebration and a contest I am running this week.

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