THE OMAMBA ABSURDITY (Political satire)

Hillary Clinton gave a speech in which, she said mounting debt threatened the United States' ability to chart its own course in the world. In The Omamba Absurdity, author T. Henry Corbin breaks silence on how this scenario played out in a similar geopolitical setting.

Synopsis:

Citizens of the most prosperous nation in the world, having fallen on hard times, elect an anti-business president who together with a self-indulgent congress has bankrupt the country, thereby creating an opening for an archenemy to hijack the nation’s leadership.

DIGITAL DEVICE SALES 2009

Book reading habits are slow to change. An update to the previous post from the same study group shows that with all the industry hype, electronic reading device sales (estimated)  represent two percent of the book buying public.

READ A BOOK TODAY

Everyday is National read-a-book-day. Sure, there’s a lot of good free stuff on the net and if you are a techie, know your way around the computer, you may think books have become obsolete. The facts would prove otherwise. According to Book Industry TRENDS 2007 published by the Book Industry Study Group (BISG) sales in 2006 rose 3.1% over 2005 and stand at 3.2 billion units sold, producing a revenue of $35.69 billion.
 

Some of the advantages of reading the real thing (book in hand vs. staring at a computer screen) are:

Uncensored (read what you want when you want)
un-Googled (no body is spying on your reading preferences)
no batteries needed
no malfunctions
do it anywhere
mark it up
share it
keep it on your shelf

Today’s production techniques have lowered the cost of producing a quality product.