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I have received email from the CEO of Redcats USA (which includes the former Lane Bryant lines including King Size) that he will address the problem described in the previous article (see below) when he returns to the US next week. This is very satisfactory, and of course I do not expect he can address the issues raised via Blackberry.

I should point out that King Size (so far as I can tell) doesn't have my money. UMG does. My issues with King Size are about customer relations and their policies regarding copromotion.

This is a long tale of consumer woe. I won't hold it against you if you skip it. Read the whole article.

I never heard of James Frey until the story broke that his memoir had been researched by The Smoking Gun and found considerably wanting in veracity. By that time I knew there was another literary fraud out there. Read the whole article.

The Xerox commercial is at it again. You know the one. The smart-ass kid shows up the old-fart professor by explaining that owing to on demand publishing, everyone can get published. It is, of course, a crock. Read the whole article.