Amazon April Fool’s On Bin Laden Book?
I’ve been waiting to read the review of Steve Coll’s new book, The Bin Ladens: An Arabian Family in the American Century, which came out in hard cover today. Supposedly, the Pulitzer Prize winning author has done a wonderful job documenting the vast Bin Laden family’s history, including Osama’s life as one of 54 children.
But you’d never know that from looking at Amazon’s page, at least not today. Rather than a review of Coll’s book there’s a lengthy description of Roger Lowenstein’s book on pension debts and the destruction of large U.S. companies, While America Aged.
Mistake? Lousy April Fool’s joke? Computer glitch?
It’s hard to say — which is yet another reason why I hate April Fool’s Day — but if I were Coll I’d be pretty hacked off.
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All I ever get on Amazon these days is that half-page or greater ad for Kindle. I don’t want a Kindle. Make it go away.
I don’t even want to think about why Amazon would choose to feature the down-on-America book instead of the one about the Bin Ladens. Might have to change my buying habits.
Coll was on NPR’s Fresh Air today – good interview. This is normally not the kind of book I like to read but I would probably do so…if I could get it. Since I can’t get it from Amazon, I guess I will wait for the library.
How’s the library in LV these days? When I was growing up – the school library was often much better than the LV public library.
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It’s mediocre, but bigger than I expected when we moved here. They have a dozen computers and there’s always a small crowd around them, and the kids’ section usually has something going on, but it seems like I was having to special order most of the non-fiction books I wanted to read.
I either buy used books by the lot, shop Amazon or rely on the kindness of friends like Leslie, who sent me a nice batch of books earlier this year.
Sounds better than it used to be; I am pretty spoiled with the JoCo library system. Most of the folks around here don’t know how good they have it.
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