How the market works
Notes
The reviews are about books. These are about the machinery underneath them: why one recording is listed at five different lengths, what a label on a product page does and does not promise, and which field to check before you spend a credit.
Nothing here scores a book or tells you what to read next. That is what the shelf is for.
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Appreciation
Dolly Parton Put a Book in the Post Every Month for Thirty Years
Dolly Parton has died at 80. She spent thirty years posting a free book a month to any child who asked for one, and it now reaches one in six American under-fives.
How It Works
What Unabridged Actually Means on an Audiobook
Unabridged is a promise about one thing only, and it is not the thing most shoppers read it as. Here is what the word covers, what it does not, and the sentence that catches people out.