The resulting rise in interest rates has already been sufficient to feed a small but noticeable rise in mortgage rates. (theglobeandmail.com)
House Rabbit Society chapters in Idaho and Chicago report a more noticeable rise in summer, as «Easter bunnies» hit puberty and reality sets in for owners. (news.nationalgeographic.com)
And all of those events — the devices, the ebook surge, the introduction of the agency business model, and the Department of Justice suing most of the big publishers, a very noticeable rise in successful independent publishing, and the increased leverage of the trading partners with whom publishers negotiate their revenues and their costs — were head and body blows to the titans of the industry. (idealog.com)