In one sense, I’m a few days late on this Amazon Kindle thing. Newsweek already reviewed it for goodness sakes. I’ve been scooped by the lethargic print media. What can I say? It’s been a whole week squeezed into two and half work days. In another sense, I saw it coming months ago. (Not that is was so hard to see this one coming.)

Publishers are going to compete with free content.

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My wife wants to be Rachel Ray. Based on the dinner, she cooked last night, I’d say she’s well on her way! Pork chops with cooked apples. Homemade macaroni and cheddar with broccoli and curly, spiral noodles instead of tube macaroni.

At our house the Food Network is a favorite channel. We subscribe to Rachel Ray’s magazine. We buy her books. Our daughter has even adopted Rachel Ray’s signature word.

“Mommy, this is YUM-o!” she says.

Which got me thinking about context. I’ve heard statistics about cookbooks being one of the most popular selling genres in publishing. And travel books. Why is that?

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