My trend-spotting habit dates back to 1999, when it was all commodity books (powered by the success of Mark Kurlansky's Cod).
Consumers do not need much handholding when buying simple commodities, like books and tapes, or even standard office supplies, Ms. Wheatley explained.
Not surprisingly, some of the trailblazers in Internet commerce, particularly sellers of commodities like books and music, are breathlessly clearing the brush, fully expecting that the pack will soon follow into the m-commerce wilderness.
That question leads to others: What kind of commodity is a book?
Leisure is a precious commodity, and this book remains a useful resource for anyone interested in knowing more about the pathogens that conspire against our pursuit of it, from the mundane to the truly outlandish.
Workers' party colleagues, however, say Rousseff was forced to focus on the economy because, unlike her predecessor, she could not count on a commodity boom to balance the books.
On the same day as the release of the PWYP Norway report, a new book called Commodities: Switzerland's Most Dangerous Business was published by the Zurich-based NGO the Berne Declaration.
Long-Term Capital, a giant hedge fund, had held trillions of dollars in derivatives -- complex contracts linked to securities or commodities -- on its books.
Oddly, the novel is particularly powerful, and particularly relevant to Grushin's 21st-century American readers, as a book about commodity fetishism.
With every allowance for the virtues of treating books as commodities like any other, the literary marketplace might still be made distinct from the community of readers.
