College Economics 101: College students — and their cash-strapped parents — are looking to Amazon.com’s Kindle reader and other online textbooks as a way of saving money.
The only drawback that students may see to electronic books is that they can’t sell them back to the bookstore at the end of the semester and then buy beer with the proceeds.
Later, gator: Khaki pants, boat shoes and Izod shirts, the uniform of the preppy, is back in fashion, but men are advised to update the look with bright colors or a bold plaid.
You’re probably expecting us to make a snide comment about preppy fashion, but we’re still holding back guffaws from the last kid we saw wearing low-riding cargo shorts and a straight-billed ball cap askew on his head.
Couldn’t have said it better myself: Government regulators are cracking down on businesses that review their own products and services and attempt to pass the praise off as independent comments on the Internet, a practice called “Astro-Turf” marketing.
You won’t see The Buzz plugging himself under an assumed name on the Internet. Mom said she’d do it for us.
—Jon Bauer, Herald staff
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