The company announced it would close one third of its bookstores the next year as more people chose to read e-books.

该公司宣布，由于越来越多的人选择阅读电子书，明年将关闭三分之一的书店。

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Once you understand those basic costs of outages, you next need to determine the acceptable total yearly cost of downtime a a "i."e. how much business or productivity can you afford to lose each year?

一旦您理解了这些问题的基本成本，下一步您需要确定的是每年可接受的故障成本——即每年您可能损失多少业务或生产量？

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A spokeswoman for Waterstone's confirmed that the company plans to launch an e-reader next year but declined to provide further details.

水石公司的女发言人确认了公司未来发布电子书的计划，但是拒绝提供更多细节。

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The cost of e-reading devices keeps dropping, and it's likely that in the next year or two companies like Amazon may be giving away basic e-readers for free (on the principle that you can make more money selling "blades" than "razors").

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Instead, the full-length, sequin-and-rhinestone-encrusted number will be the "crown jewel" of an e-commerce collectibles Web site the pair expect to launch next year.

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Hartmann tells us the E-Plus cellular operation will break even next year or in 2000.

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