Embrace the e-book, Stephen King. It is not for an author to tell his readers how to read - Comment - Voices - The Independent

The guy can do what ever he wants with his books I guess. Personally I think this is mostly a publicity stunt. Over on Amazon it says:

I love crime, I love mysteries, and I love ghosts. That combo made Hard Case Crime the perfect venue for this book, which is one of my favorites. I also loved the paperbacks I grew up with as a kid, and for that reason, we’re going to hold off on e-publishing this one for the time being. Joyland will be coming out in paperback, and folks who want to read it will have to buy the actual book. [my emphasis]

The operative phrase here to me is “for the time being”. I’m sure he may actually believe what he said to some extent, but judging by his previous stunts, and how everyone has responded to this? Yeah, I’m going with brilliant media stunt. I’d say we’ll see an e-book version well in time for the Holiday sales, if not even by late summer.

May 20, 1990: Advice on Life from Calvin and Hobbes Creator Bill Watterson | Brain Pickings

Creating a life that reflects your values and satisfies your soul is a rare achievement. In a culture that relentlessly promotes avarice and excess as the good life, a person happy doing his own work is usually considered an eccentric, if not a subversive. Ambition is only understood if it’s to rise to the top of some imaginary ladder of success. Someone who takes an undemanding job because it affords him the time to pursue other interests and activities is considered a flake. A person who abandons a career in order to stay home and raise children is considered not to be living up to his potential — as if a job title and salary are the sole measure of human worth.

You’ll be told in a hundred ways, some subtle and some not, to keep climbing, and never be satisfied with where you are, who you are, and what you’re doing. There are a million ways to sell yourself out, and I guarantee you’ll hear about them.

To invent your own life’s meaning is not easy, but it’s still allowed, and I think you’ll be happier for the trouble.

Such a great man. Such a great article.

The Triumph Story (by mrpitv)

Sadly, a few years later the story of the TR was at an end, and soon after the story of Triumph was as well. A lot can be said about the British automotive industry, as in deed it has. I’ll just state that it’s sad that the real sports car scene essentially died with it with Triumph and MG in the early 80’s. Sure there’s been offers from others, but not as good sport as the Triumphs or 60’s Alfa’s. And the Miata is after all, when all is said and done, only a Mazda.

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The Guts of a New Machine - NYTimes.com

What’s under there is innovation, but where does it come from? I had given up on getting an answer to this question when I made a jokey observation that before long somebody would probably start making white headphones so that people carrying knockoffs and tape players could fool the world into thinking they had trendy iPods.

Jobs shook his head. ”But then you meet the girl, and she says, ‘Let me see what’s on your iPod.’ You pull out a tape player, and she walks away.”