Not exact matches
First, N.T. Wright, Bishop of Durham, responded (Correspondence, June / July 2008) to Richard John Neuhaus» comments on his new
book, Surprised by Hope,
which had included a criticism that its «concrete eschatological expectation» of a
physical resurrection on a perfected earth was «more suggestive of Joseph Smith
than St. Paul»» noting that Mormons were simply taking seriously the relevant passages in the New Testament at the very time that «the Western Protestant church... was eliminating the ancient concrete eschatological expectation.»
And like the
books in
physical bookstores, Apple products are priced higher
than competitors,
which obviously costs sales.
The biggest news to come from that press release was the fact Amazon's Kindle and Kindle
books were the biggest sellers, wherein Kindle
books sold more on Christmas day
than their
physical counterparts -
which...
62 % of the respondents have said that they still prefer to hold
books as a
physical product rather
than in digital format, whilst one fifth of 16 - 24s feel that they don't want to be restricted to a particular device, such as the Kindle,
which prevents
books from being shared with friends easily.
«I think that ultimately we will sell more
books in Kindle editions
than we do in
physical editions,» Bezos said in the interview,
which was held in the Cupertino offices of Lab126, the Amazon subsidiary that developed the Kindle.
The biggest news to come from that press release was the fact Amazon's Kindle and Kindle
books were the biggest sellers, wherein Kindle
books sold more on Christmas day
than their
physical counterparts -
which honestly makes a whole lot more sense then people are giving credit for.
So, while an ebook might have less value to you
than a
physical book, there are definitely specific classes of
books (i.e. those that I read as disposable entertainment) for
which an ebook has greater value to me.
To the public library, of course — a place
which offers more
than just
physical books on shelves, by the way (programs for toddlers and young adults, literacy programs, workshops for job searchers and senior citizens, free community meeting spaces, etc.).
I like
physical books a lot more
than ebooks (I don't have a tablet or ereader so the best I can do is a laptop,
which is shit compared to paper
books) so pirating ebooks would only cheapen my reading experience, excuse the pun.
Inspired by an observation by Michael Faraday (in a course of six lectures on the Chemical History of a Candle) in David Deutsch's
book The Fabric of Reality that «there is no more open door by
which you can enter into a study of natural philosophy
than [by] considering the
physical phenomena of a candle», Parreno's goal for the exhibition was to use its methods of display and artworks to explore the idea of light as an entity — one
which alters what we see, and camouflages what we can not.
Even Google's and HTC's phones that have Active Edge functionality feature more
than one
physical button on the sides, not to mention they also have fingerprint sensors,
which count as
physical buttons in my
book.