Welcome, NY Times readers
The NY Times has an article today about The Variant, the Kindle
Mr. August, who wrote it for possible inclusion in an anthology of work by well-known screenwriters, tested the story with about two dozen of the 6,000 or so people who follow him on Twitter. They persuaded him to change the first sentence, trim some paragraphs and shorten the title from “The Egyptian Variant.”
You can read the whole article here.
One correction: In the interview, I said that I’d earned enough to buy “about four Kindles.” But I misremembered how much they cost: $359.
As of Friday, I’d made enough to buy 2.73 Kindles.
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June 1st, 2009 at 4:41 pm
Ha. Nice.
I bet Amazon likes your use of “Kindle” a monetary unit…or are you starting a trend?
“Nice house. How much?”
“A thousand Kindles.”
“The listing says 987.”
“It went up.”
June 1st, 2009 at 4:58 pm
My favorite “measurement” is the tried and true size measurement “as big as Rhode Island”; as in “an iceberg as big as Rhode Island” or “his ranch is as big as Rhode Island”
(yes, it’s my home state)
June 3rd, 2009 at 7:41 am
Wow, that NY Times writer kinda threw a big spoiler out there, even after he wrote “without giving too much away…”
Yeesh!