We hope to get a bit more stock to Amazon this week and are thinling about the Kindle/ebook. Can you tell my the attraction of ebook formats? I have never tried them so I would value a lesson in what is good or attractive about them.

If you have the time.

I haven't asked about the numbers yet. Haven't had the courage.

Thanks for the link. Good article.

I wonder when people will remember that they have the power to change laws. Even financial ones. The Irish can't walk away from their mortgages the way Americans can. But what happens if the Irish decided to elect a party to change that law?

Unthinkable? Let's see what a year of greatly increased suffering does. I think the unthinkable is goint o get an airing in several countires.

Andrew,

Thank you! Say the word and I'm there.

yet when you explain it simply , they perk up considerably.

Talking about hope, or a distinct lack of it, here is a very well thought out analysis of the crisis in Ireland, by Morgan Kelly:

Mauled by the Celtic Tiger

A small extract:
'If one family defaults on its mortgage, they are pariahs: if 200,000 default they are a powerful political constituency. There is no shame in admitting that you too were mauled by the Celtic Tiger after being conned into taking out an unaffordable mortgage, when everyone around you is admitting the same.'