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TechFan #164 - Amazon and Hachette

TechFan

My Mac Productions MyMac.com Tim Robertson

Gadgets, Technology

3.830 Ratings

🗓️ 31 May 2014

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

Tim Robertson and David Cohen discuss the battle between Amazon and Hachette, as well as the business of book publishers and digital downloads in general. With WWDC coming right up, the guys also discuss what to expect Apple will announce this coming Monday.

Transcript

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0:00.0

You're listening to another great podcast in the Stoplight Network.

0:07.0

TechFund Podcast.

0:10.0

164.

0:11.0

164.

0:12.0

164. And it is And it is Tech Fan podcast number 164.

0:44.2

I'm Tim Robertson.

0:45.1

He is David Cohen all the way over the UK.

0:48.8

So how's the weather over there today?

0:50.6

Actually, you know what?

0:51.2

It's sunny, which I find disturbing because it's not normal like this.

0:55.2

It's really nice and sunny here, too, so it's supposed to get up in the 80s, Fahrenheit, of course.

1:01.5

It's mildly warm here, but it's nice.

1:05.4

It has been a terrible week.

1:06.9

We always say here that whenever you have a bank holiday, then the weather's always terrible.

1:11.1

And sure enough, on Monday, it was appalling.

1:13.6

Yeah.

1:14.3

So.

1:14.9

The day you can not get out and do stuff.

1:16.6

That's the day that all the nasty weather will hit.

1:18.8

Exactly.

1:19.5

Yeah.

1:19.6

I think that's called Murphy's Law, isn't it?

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