About half of a roughly $11 million collection of 19th century gold pieces unearthed by a California couple has been sold, an organizer said on Wednesday, with sales at Amazon.com surpassing $1 million in just the first hour. Some 1,400 coins were put on sale beginning on Tuesday by San Francisco-area numismatic firm Kagin’s Inc….
Now that Jeff Bezos has purchased the Washington Post, the newspaper’s star blogger has been promoted to even greater influence as a Featured Amazon Reviewer.
The American online retailer Amazon.com has stopped selling a jigsaw puzzle featuring the Dachau Nazi concentration camp following complaints. The puzzle has 252 parts that together form a picture of the camp. Before it was taken offline Oct. 1, the product description said the toy was intended for customers eight years old and above. It…
There is no doubt that e-books are a bright spot in the dismal economics of publishing. The current market is strong — according to a recent Harris Interactive poll, one in six Americans now uses an e-reader, and that number will grow as consumers become more comfortable with the technology. Actually, the potential for growth…
It’s boxed Judaism, plus shipping and handling. Two friends have turned their faith into a money-making venture, the Boston Herald reports. Seth Burstein and Ian Framson were playing Taboo, the popular Hasbro game, when it struck them: “Dude, we should make a game called Tajew and have all of the clues related to Judaism,” Burstein…
The short answer? Get Nat Hentoff to review it in the Wall Street Journal. In Saturday’s paper, the eminent jazz critic published an appreciation of “Cantors, Klezmorim and Crooners 1905-1953,” a three-disc box set of remastered archival Yiddish music that was released in late 2009. Hentoff had only good things to say about the remastered…
The iPad is a fox. In his book about Tolstoy and Dostoevsky, Sir Isaiah Berlin famously quoted a fragment of Archilochus who distinguishes between fox and hedgehog: “The fox knows many little things. The hedgehog knows one big thing.” The former (like Tolstoy) were cunning whereas the latter (Dostoevsky) were utterly effective. Both had their…
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