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Will Kindle's Free Samples Change the Structures of Plots?
One of the curious things about SEO optimization is that it works by altering webpages so that they market themselves: that is, instead of creating ads external to the thing advertised, you re-shape the thing itself so that it’s easier to find and more interesting and attractive to link-clickers. And if we can do it with webpages, why not with, say, books? Why shouldn’t books undergo whatever ongoing tweaking they need to be as successful as possible?
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John Lennon’s manuscripts for his album Plastic Ono Band
P. S. look at John’s hand-writing in the song My Mummy’s Dead..
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The second most beautiful N ever designed…
After this one, of course.
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Peter Sellers did four different spoken word versions of The Beatles’ She Loves You: as Dr. Strangelove, with a Cockney accent, with an Irish accent, and with an upper crust English accent (above).
Found this here.
Before Apple came…the pip.

Another brain pickings story: Fascinating archive video of Steve Jobs at the early days of NOVAGRAM… I mean NEXT…
Skip to 5.20 to see some sensational braces and a large collection of un-likeable people talking urgently in a room.
Nice cameo from Paul Rand at the start too!
Full story here:
http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2011/11/24/steve-jobs-and-next-pbs-documentary/
Brain Pickings...
Top children’s books of 2011 (my picks are 10 & 11) from the excellent Brain Pickings site.
Also check out the top photography books of 2011:
http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2011/12/05/best-photography-books-2011/


