Delicious LiveJournal Links for 7-20-2010

[andrewducker]

• Turmeric reduces Alzheimer's symptoms by 30%
  (tags: health brain diet food alzheimers)
• Inside the acrimonious AT&T/Apple relationship
  (tags: apple iphone network mobile technology att phones)
• Amazon Says E-Books Now Top Hardcover Sales
  (tags: ebooks amazon technology)
• Five reasons to envy the French
  (tags: charlesstross france healthcare technology trains transport)
• Leonardo was up for the role of Anakin. Oh, how I wish he'd taken it.
  (tags: LeonardoDiCaprio StarWars)
• Tobacco manufacturers target major music festivals to reach young audience
  (tags: marketing smoking advertising facebook festival music socialnetworking health)
• Comparative photos of Mount Everest 'confirm ice loss'
  (tags: environment globalwarming climatechange)

Comments

[a-pawson.livejournal.com]

Amazon's figures are slightly distorted. They have included all the downloads of old, out of copyright books which are available free of charge.

[andrewducker]

Aaah, interesting. Thanks!

For real comparison we'd need to look at numbers sold only of books which were available in both hardback and kindle forms, I suppose.