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Thin Air
George E. Simpson
It's a mystery that dates back to World War II--what happened to the USS Sturman and its crew. For Naval Investigator Nicholas Hammond, the search will challenge him…and the answers will, like bodies floa...
Shadow of Ashland
Terence M. Green
“THE BOOK YOU HAVE TO READ”–Entertainment Weekly
"Things have to be settled, or they never go away."
Only weeks before she dies in March, 1984, Leo Nolan’s mother shows her son a rose she says w...
The Longest Way Home
Robert Silverberg
"What wonders and adventures he has to tell us," is how Ursula K. LeGuin characterized the world of Robert Silverberg, and in The Longest Way Home, he takes readers on another dazzling odyssey.
Joseph, jus...
Marriage Is a Bad Habit
Ruth Dickson
When Ruth Dickson released her 1967 book MARRIED MEN MAKE THE BEST LOVERS, it went off like a bombshell. Defenders of the “sanctity” of marriage rose up to dismiss her frank, innovative, thoroughly resear...
Orion's Dagger
Paula Downing King
With ORION’S DAGGER, Paula E. Downing presents the thrilling final installment of THE CLOUDSHIPS OF ORION trilogy, which Starlog magazine called “special...a thoroughly engrossing story.” The trio wa...
Fair Warning
George E. Simpson
America is set to finally end World War II with a devastating act--dropping the atomic bomb over Japan. But what if a secret mission was set in place to alter the course of history? In this fast-paced, and i...
Rogues of the Black Fury
Travis Heermann
When a band of shadowy fanatics abducts Javin Wollstone’s little sister, Bella, from his care, his only hope to bring her home is turning to a hard-bitten band of special warriors, the Black Furies, led by C...
The Sudden Star
Pamela Sargent
The appearance of a white star bathing the world in a deadly glare turns Earth into a nightmare of fear and death. Rape and murder are as common as suicide. Medical help is allowed only for certain diseases, a...
Philosophy and the Challenge of the Future
John Lange
The sciences, as opposed to politics and religion, have their roots in philosophy. Philosophy has been spoken of as the mother of the sciences, although she is, in many cases, more of a grandmother or grea...
The Man in the Moon Must Die
Jeff Bredenberg
What do a cunning old man, a code-slopper gone rogue, a pair of lowlife tech-runners, a sexually frustrated AI, and a hermaphrodite underworld boss have in common? They're all out to get Benito Funcitti, ow...
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Died Blonde
Nancy J. Cohen
There's no love lost between Marla and Carolyn Sutton. Carolyn has never forgiven Marla for leaving Hairstyle Heaven to open her own place, especially since Marla's clientele grew as Carolyn's faded away. Ca...
2001 Things To Do Before You Die
Dane Sherwood
Bestselling author Dane Sherwood is back with an astounding list of 2,001 things you always wanted to experience but never took time to live through. From taking a cross-country train ride to sending a m...
Smoked Out
Warren Murphy
Digger is an insurance investigator who drinks, chases women, asks smartass questions and gets help from his part-time hooker girlfriend. A humorous crime adventure series by the author of The Destroyer.
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The Harder They Fall
Jill Shalvis
The good doctor Hunter Adams’ steady life is suddenly wracked by a whirlwind. Trisha Malloy, vixen, lingerie saleswoman and magnet for disaster, has entered Hunter’s life and begun to destroy everything. H...
I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream
Harlan Ellison
First published in 1967 and re-issued in 1983, I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream contains seven stories with copyrights ranging from 1958 through 1967. This edition contains the original introduction by Th...
Dangerous Games
Michael Prescott
Maverick FBI special agent Tess McCallum (nicknamed "Super Fed" by an adoring media) (the central investigator in previous novel, Next Victim) is back and she’s got a new partner, one she doesn’t wa...
Seize the Fire
Laura Kinsale
Olympia St. Leger is a princess in desperate need of a knight in shining armor. Sheridan Drake, amused by Olympia's innocence and magnificent beauty, but also intrigued by her considerable wealth, accepts th...
China Quest
Elizabeth Lane
It is 1861 and Hong Kong is the most exotic, remote place on earth for a westerner like Serena Rose Bellamy Bolton. She is as greedy for love as she is for treasure. For Jason Frobisher, Hong Kong is just ano...
Survivor
William W. Johnstone
In a book that forms a coda to William W. Johnstone's "Ashes" series, Jim LaDoux, the grandson of the legendary General Ben Raines has seen his grandfather, and the last of his family, die in the beginnings of...
The Battle of Anzio
T.R. Fehrenbach
The Battle of Anzio was among the most bloody of the World War II conflicts. T.R. Fehrenbach's accurate account stunningly depicts the reality of the Allied forces' fight for survival on an Italian beach as t...
Everybody Had A Gun
Richard S. Prather
Shell Scott. He's a guy with a pistol in his pocket and murder on his mind. The crime world's public enemy number one, this Casanova is a sucker for a damsel in distress. When a pair of lovely legs saunters ...
The Hoax
Clifford Irving
The ultimate caper story, novelist Clifford Irving's no-holds-barred account of the literary hoax that stunned the publishing world, is the story of his faked “autobiography” of Howard Hughes. HOAX was fir...
Hair Raiser
Nancy J. Cohen
Not just your average South Florida beachcomber, Marla's now a volunteer for Ocean Guard, a coastal preservation group. She's even in charge of their upcoming Taste of the World fundraiser. But when chef Pi...
EMT Rescue
Pat Ivey
These are the trying, true stories of the mobile emergency medical technicians who often are the only thing standing between any one of us and death. Author Pat Ivey uses her extensive first-hand experiences a...
David Carr of the New York Times reports that, TriCityNews, a newspaper serving Monmouth County, New Jersey does not make its editions available on the Web, and has no intention of doing so. Except for a display of ad and product information, there’s no link to the news section of the paper. Okay, don’t believe it. Click here and see for yourself.
“Why would I put anything on the Web?” Carr quote the paper’s owner and publisher Dan Jacobson. “I don’t understand how putting content on the Web would do anything but help destroy our paper. Why should we give our readers any incentive whatsoever to not look at our content along with our advertisements, a large number of which are beautiful and cheap full-page ads?”
It’s tempting to call Jacobson’s attitude counter-intuitive, but it’s actually completely intuitive and logical. It’s also completely successful: according to Carr,
Into the teeth of a historic recession, the newspaper had just published the biggest issue in its history. The product is double-digit profitable, and it has been growing at a clip of about 10 percent a year since it was founded in 1999, right about the time the Web was beginning to put its hands around print’s neck.
Carr thinks it’s too early to call it a trend. TriCity is pretty much mom-and-pop in size and local in distribution. It may simply be that a lot of old-fashioned people like to read an old-fashioned newspaper the old-fashioned way, with newsprint on their fingers. At the same time, some major newspapers and magazine are rethinking this Information Wants To Be Free gimmick, which is truly counter-intuitive, especially when your bottom line is plummeting because nobody’s paying for clicks and Web ad revenue is not as lucrative as the paper version.
Look for a retrenchment of the “Free” business model to be a theme of the year to come. The Reformation started with an itemized list of complaints posted on a church door. Maybe the modern equivalent will be launched in Monmouth County, New Jersey.
Read the Times’s piece in detail. Go ahead. It’s free!
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David Carr of the New York Times reports that, TriCityNews, a newspaper serving Monmouth County, New Jersey does not make its editions available on the Web, and has no intention of doing so. Except for a display of ad and product information, there’s no link to the news section of the paper. Okay, don’t believe it. Click here and see for yourself.
