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This episode 204, recording on Thursday, April 6th.

I'm here with Rebecca Shinsky, and we're coming to you from BookWrite.com.

Hello, welcome back.

Oh, thanks, thanks, thanks.

I'm back.

Good show with you guys last night.

I'm so sad I wasn't here for the Microsoft e-books story.

I know I think we were we made some appropriately skeptical noises in your honor.

I appreciate that I felt that we already got some email from people about the

Microsoft thing.

Oh, but mostly it was isn't this ridiculous I love hearing you guys talk about

ridiculous e-book initiatives because it's like just such an

or though a lot a lot a few people did write in to say that they do read on their

laptops at work okay or school or whatever because you know I respect that sneaky reading you do it I seem to be working and making business fingers and then and actually you're reading

So that's good. And I guess the other thing is that the people who, there are a couple of people wrote in that

they have a Surface Pro, which is a convertible, a laptop tablet thing.

And they were wondering if maybe, you know, since Microsoft and the operating system

knows all of your activities, that maybe they were seeing people use the Kindle app

on those devices and say,

hey, enough people are using our tablets for reading that we might as well like

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