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if you can cite it here i could let you know. that's one of the famous quotes in the book, used everywhere as the excerpt, so i know it already.  |
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/s...oryId=98331242
The formatting at the start is dire, but the paragraph breaks start behaving in an expected fashion a little way down...
Rather than quote the whole chunk
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ha, nice ! i've not heard of them but i like the idea, for obvious reasons.  now we just have to get them to make ebooks...
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It will be good if they do
Some of their titles look rather interesting.
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"staggering" is a much more polite word than i might use... 
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I spent part of today with my 11 yr old nieces, so I'm still in non-swear mode!
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but i am trying also to be optimistic (i'm also writing to publishers frequently.
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I'm writing to them in fits and starts. And the odd author (odd as in occasional, although I think at least one of them is definitely odd as in eccentric.)
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in fact i wrote to gallimard when i saw the pocket edition of the paper book was coming out, to "gently remind" them of the ebook price and "confirm" that they would naturally be lowering it accordingly... i got no reply from them
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That annoys me more than a reply that suggests they've not understood about ebooks - at least with that you have something to work on.