In violation of Section 1 of the Sherman Antitrust Act, it said, they had stifled competition and forced consumers to pay an average of two to three dollars more per book, for a total of at least a hundred million dollars.
According to the newly established Google Book Settlement Web site, Google will pay sixty dollars per book to copyright holders of scanned material included in its book-search feature, in addition to sixty-three per cent of all advertising returns.
(Amazon takes a commission on each sale and also gives you a credit of $3.99 per book for shipping, which you are responsible for).
And it is unnerving even New Orleanians who, more than most, are aware that, per the Book of Common Prayer, "in the midst of life we are in death".
With today's technology, authors can work with very competent print-on-demand companies and produce a hardbound book for around $10 (which still leaves them with a profit of $15 per book, compared with royalties of two bucks).
Buffett's chairman's letter in the 2009 Berkshire Hathaway annual report indicates that the per-share book value of Berkshire Hathaway has increased at a compounded annual rate of 20.03% since 1965.
For about $8 per book you get hundreds of quotes sent to your phone daily.
Tartt discusses how long it takes her to produce her work (about 10 year per book), and the toils of writing very long books in complete solitude.
"Furious" has also raced to $1 billion faster than any other movie, including one of said Cameron blockbusters ("Avatar" again), per the Guinness Book of World Records.
Young people born after plastic bags became the single most ubiquitous consumer item on the planet at 1 trillion per year (Guiness Book of World Records, 2009) will not recall the pre-plastic era when nobody ever said "paper or plastic" and we managed to shop with our own reusable bags.
