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e-books and their readers

Over the past few years, various e-readers have been sparking up in the press- most notably the Amazon Kindle and the Sony Reader. And now Google is jumping in as well to, in Microsoft’s opinion, monopolise the digital book format, a sure sign that something big is happening.

I’ve always quite snobbishly rejected e-books and their e-readers, [...]

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Remove the plural from tools and…

It’s six months old now but I’ve only just got around to reading this eulogy for the focus group.

In it, some recent marketing errors are highlighted. Namely:

Tropicana’s new logo
Motrin advertising
Facebook’s Terms of Service
Sci-Fi/Syfy rebranding

The author chasistes the companies for not listening. Rather bizarrely, she then squarely places the blame for this on the use of [...]

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