Only if you sell them to academic libraries (who always seem willing to buy yet another copy of Pride and Prejudice), but most people are just getting that stuff free on the Kindle/Nook.

I had to stop half way through the first quote because my work has a stick policy against smashing my computer with my chair and yelling profanities.

There are times when what you say is true, but I always like to point to Jules Verne, who's English print books are shells compared to the French. The American publishers thought the books to dense, especially for the young audience to whom they wanted to sell the books.

I'm not talking about realistic vs. unrealistic, I'm talking about plan old ugly and funny looking.

Ok. I officially can't handle it anymore. It all looks so plastic, so cartoony. I try to dismiss it, to say it's posters, or that it's early footage used in trailers and to not worry. But at the end of the day it just looks dated. Dated before it's even come out. The less-human (so to speak) aliens look the best…

I agree. I mean if they didn't hire the voice actor for some of the the 'major' background Lanterns until just recently, then these people can't have much a of a presence in the film. I'm all for acknowledging fans and the legacy of the characters, but there comes a point where you have to put aside that stuff and…

Thanks much. That clears it up, no free Hulu on 360, even if it is free on the PC. It would just be nice to be able to watch free Hulu stuff on the 360, but I understand why we can't. Now to decide if it's worth the 8 bucks a month for Plus.

I've never really been clear on this. The way I understand it you will ONLY have access to Hulu Plus through 360, correct? There would be no regular Hulu. So you could not simply watch what is on regular Hulu on your 360.

Trash and recycle bins are really sketchy territory legally in the US. On the one hand they are private property, especially if on land you own. On the other hand a number of laws have been passed and held up in court that say they can be searched, without warrant, by police. So really though you are legally…

For some of these people it is also about an acceptable cultural lifestyle. Some women really feel that if they have kids they would be doing harm to those kids by getting a job (or even if they don't have kids, if they have a husband they would be damaging his pride by working), yet they still want to contribute…

I have always found the big savings in couponing are for things I don't need, or really don't want. Often times things that I think are actively harmful - high sugar, low nutrition junk. Just buying store brands and keeping and eye on in store card-linked sales saves quite a bit, and I never have a crate of chips…

In the end until we close tax loopholes (for goodness sake, when someone like GE pays no taxes [and takes home large tax intensives on top of that] the holes are too damn big) and take some control of military spending all other efforts to 'tighten our belts' will just be for show.

This is pretty much what I said in another comment. The real problem is that internally and externally libraries are not good at communicating their services. Not only do libraries not know they can get things from other institutions, but the ones that do know haven't communicated that information to their patrons.

Our library has a large staff dedicated to scanning materials from print to send digitally. I'm talking about 3-5 people working eight hours a day on it. If we can't do that we scan and mail, how fast it comes will depend on what sort of delivery is used (typically dependent of if we send to institutions with FedEx…

Inter Library Loan. Yeah, all libraries should have at least a small system that handles it. Ours is fairly large, lending and borrowing from around the world, but not all are that big or fast. But if you need journals your school library doesn't have, just ask about their ILL system, chances are good you have…

You bring up the real issue. Access is an issue that will be mostly sorted out by libraries. The real problem is ownership. How much right do researchers and the institutions that host them have over the material they write and publish. This is what needs to be addressed, and it is in many ways just a microcosm of…

Almost all university libraries are hooked into an ILL system that would have had access. In our system it's often less than 24 hours to get a copy digitally. Public libraries are harder off, but many of them link into the same systems, letting their 'popular' material out in exchange for access to academic stuff.…

"On the cost side, some have gone all digital, some print only by request, and others print for libraries only."

She threatened to sue right when it went up, but I think couldn't because of the deal she signed. This sounds to me like she's found other grounds to sue on not based on the stock photo contract. But I would have to read more about it to be sure.

Stock photo.