“Conversations have been good,” Peduto said. “I did talk to Dara, and I’m looking forward to meeting with him the next time he’s in Pittsburgh. I think there’s a culture change that’s happened.”
“I mean, nobody at the beginning had any clue how big Amazon could become,” Kaphan told GeekWire’s John Cook. “Nobody. Certainly not Jeff. I have spreadsheets of his projections from when he was trying to hire me. And I don’t remember the specific numbers, but it was a lot, lot smaller than it turned out to be.”
“And there would also be lots of innocent bystanders.”
“Clearly Amazon has been left crying in its clicks after being jilted by Target,” said Gasper. “Amazon is really the only one of these major retail tech companies that would seem to need a partner.”
“China has made the structure to make this super cluster work for a long time. The government provides grants and incentives to people who want to be part of it. It’s where the convergence comes. When you have that many people working toward the same direction, it will be big,” said McLaughlin.
“I drive by the spheres once a week and every time it feels like I’ve just time traveled to an alien planet,” Willingham told GeekWire in an email Tuesday. “I’ve just never seen anything like them.?I’m really into drone photography and architecture is my favorite thing to shoot.?I get the same feeling of awe looking at these biodomes than if I were at the Grand Canyon.”
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“He won an Oscar just three years ago for writing the breezy?Midnight in Paris, and within the past decade Blue Jasmine and Vicky Christina Barcelona have both won high praise for their performers,” the article states. “But Allen’s output has been undoubtedly scattershot since the mid-‘90s, with a series of duds usually surrounding every mild-to-moderate hit.”
“Because of the huge market potential, it (China) is expected to become the largest tourist-export destination, just behind Europe and the US,” Zhong said.
“In the last decade, and especially the last couple of years, the number of piracy complaints handled by the Authors Guild has skyrocketed, which is why we no longer could sit by and allow book piracy entities like KISS Library to continue to rob authors and publishers of their ability to earn a living,” Preston, president of the Authors Guild, said in a statement. “We are filing this suit not only on behalf of ourselves but for the thousands of authors who labor years to write a book, putting their hearts and souls into every sentence, only to see their income lost to book piracy.”
“If you go back 15 years ago, they were considered a bright new thing on the landscape,” said John Mutter, co-founder and editor-in-chief of the book industry newsletter Shelf Awareness. “Now, especially to a lot of publishers and independent booksellers, they are considered the Darth Vader of the business.”