In an information, or "symbolic," economy, in other words, the goods themselves are physically worthless: they are mere print on a page or code on a disk.
When Peter Becker, the president of Criterion, set out to make a DVD of "Rules" in the summer of 2001, he knew he had to find a better source than a mere print.
Fewer and fewer subscribers are opening Playboy's magazines, and companies buying ad pages barely make up for the mere cost of printing and distributing them, but they've finally found the perfect solution to all their problems: charging more for fewer issues.
In 1860, Hayes had embarked as a celebrity; he returned over a year later a mere afterthought, ridiculed in print.
What are being compared are thus not whole prints, but mere fragments.
Now researchers from Wuhan, China, have used nanoparticles to reveal the merest smudge of a print, even on difficult surfaces such as plastic and coins.
Although copies located elsewhere allowed some of these films to survive, mostly as lower-quality prints or mere fragments of film, over 75% of Fox's feature films from before 1930 are completely lost.
And yet here we are: Amazon has just announced that it is now selling more eBooks than it is selling print editions, a mere four years after launching the Kindle.
That's right, for a mere $1,300, the factory will print your face and put it on a doll's body, or it will capture the likeness of a cherished pet.
Sales have totaled some 175,000 copies after an initial hardcover printing of a mere 3,000, according to the publisher, the New Press.
An advance of just $2,000 was forthcoming from Tyrant, according to the WSJ, and a mere 3,500 copies were initially printed – until rave reviews began to flood in from publications including the New York Times, which called it "perhaps the finest and most unsentimental love story of the new decade".
