of literature, but these two name-drop like nobody's business, and seem to know everything about everyone! It made the central arguments of the book stronger because they have the historian's eye for recognizing that none of this is quite as 'New Business' as people might think it is, and that it's a straighter line than people might realize from the traveling book suitcases the Victorians used to the flash drives we use today. But it also left this reader feeling just a little stupid. Overall, a great book! Anyone who is serious about learning about this topic, and not just mouthing off about it, should give it a read. Comments: Am I the only one to note that Mrs Cabot discovered the book through a brick-and-mortar store, which paid for its physical presence, for the bookstore clerks who looked at the books published and took a chance, which the store accepted in turn. I nearly forgot to mention the store pays its taxes. And yet, the South American river took the sale. No dirty stuff like a physical presence, competent employees, taxes... Just a nice cloudy webstore. What about bemoaning that you cannot buy this in the US as an ebook, though you can buy it as a used book; that costs the author and publisher money I have no sympathy with the "poor retailer" thingy -- like everything they adapt or die as subsidizing inefficient things for the so called common good means ultimately that someone, somewhere (usually the