My brain isn't strong enough to actually read all that analysis of the profit from books. But it seemed like it leaned towards the either or but I could be wrong. Hardback or e-book, etc. What happens I think is first a book is published in either hardback or some never come out in hardback. They start in trade paper. Then they come out in e-book. Then after a suitable time....except for the very most popular books which stay in hardback for a very long time...they come out in mass paperback. So if the books are published in all available formats it seems the authors and publishers will eventually receive profits and royalties from all the formats at one time or another.

As for the map of entitlements. It's too late for me to read the article but the Right wants us to moan and groan about how horrible everything is. Oh, I have the vapors. However publishing a map from 2009 in the midst of what is the worst downturn since the Great Depression can't be very cheery. If and when the economy improves everyone will do better. If we can get out of Afghanistan and perhaps even stop being the policeman of the world we'd have even more money....replacing our crumbling infrastructure anyone? Spending some $ on improving our education? And if we can get the Bush tax cuts to expire even better. Europe is proving that just going for austerity...cut cut cut! is not working.

I'd be careful who you vote for in November.