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These days literary fiction has to contend with two factors that are increasingly central to the publishing process: timing and volume. In a market dominated by the big chain stores, if a novel doesn't sell a healthy number of copies in the first two weeks after its publication, its chances of gaining longer-term momentum are slim.

"The whole system is set up for impatience."

In 2005, almost half of all sales in the literary fiction category came from the top 20 best-selling books.

... the single most powerful person in American literary publishing. No, not Oprah, but a woman you've probably never heard of: Sessalee Hensley, the one literary fiction buyer for Barnes & Noble.

Promotional Intelligence

When you hear a song you like — even if it's halfway over — one press of a button records it from the beginning.

Once you record a song to the Helix's memory, that's where it stays. You can't burn it to a CD or transfer it to a computer; you can't move, copy or distribute it in any way.

When you hear a good song, you bookmark it on the player.

The player also offers a TiVo-like "wish list" feature: you plug in the name of a band or a song, and if that band or song ever comes on while you're listening to a different channel, the radio alerts you so you can tune in.

XM Radio Fans Can Record It if They Hear It

You know you've hit the big time when ...

The biggest porn stars in the world are using NewsCorp's MySpace.com to promote themselves, sometimes to teenagers, sometimes on pages replete with ad support from corporations like T Mobile and Weight Watchers.

As a result, Weight Watchers has pulled its advertising from the site. "Our rep has issued an immediate order to pull our ads from MySpace," says company spokesperson Grace Ann Arnold. "We'll be reevaluating that buy." T Mobile is "working with MySpace to rectify" the situation, according to the company's Tom Harlin.

What's the big deal?

McAfee SiteAdivsor says:

myspace.com: We tested this site and didn't find any significant problems.

Advertising on MySpace

A California appeals court ruled Friday that online reporters are protected by the same confidentiality laws that protect traditional journalists.

First Amendment Applies to Internet, Appeals Court Rules

Al Gore's presence is, in some ways, a distraction, since it guarantees that "An Inconvenient Truth" will become fodder for the cynical, ideologically facile sniping that often passes for political discourse these days.

An Inconvenient Truth

Virgil Wong's multiple careers as an artist and filmmaker, Web Center director, graduate faculty member, and Nia teacher support his on-going investigations in medicine, technology and the human body:

Artist and Filmmaker
Virgil is a National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) grant recipient and a film director whose work has premiered at the Sundance Film Festival. His installations, net art, films, paintings, drawings, and photographs have been exhibited in museums, galleries, and theatrical venues around the world.

Virgil Wong : Experiments on Art, Medicine, and Technology

"The thing that has changed is the consumers' perspective of what they expect from audio," said Dweezil Zappa, the 36-year-old musician who is performing the music of his late father, Frank Zappa, for new audiences. "I think younger consumers aren't familiar at all with really high-quality audio because for them a CD is the best thing they have ever heard."

"We are trying to add back a layer of quality, a layer of experience that people don't realize that they are missing," said Chris Bennett, president of Audistry.

Better Sound in Small Packages

MySpace discovered the intrusion earlier this year and blocked it. The Los Angeles-based company also reported the incident to authorities. During the course of the investigation, threats were made that unless $150,000 was paid, new exploit code would be released, according to the statement.

Teens arrested in alleged MySpace extortion scam

Paramount wanted $20,000 for 119 seconds of 'Paper Moon,' " Ms. Sams said. "The studios are so afraid of exploitation that they set boundaries no one will cross. Even after the prices were cut, we were $150,000 in the hole."

Unwilling to pay those fees, IFC's general manager, Evan Shapiro, helped Ms. Sams pursue another, more aggressive, tack, which may point the way for documentarians who want to tap movie iconography without paying studio prices. Its strategy involved some negotiating hardball, backed up by a willingness to fall back on the tricky legal doctrine known as fair use.

No Free Samples for Documentaries: Seeking Film Clips With the Fair-Use Doctrine