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 David Rozansky replied to a comment by Joyce Frohn on Publisher’s Weekly Article Has It All Backwards Nov 23, 2009 10:06PM EST
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David Rozansky replied to a comment by Joyce Frohn on Publisher’s Weekly Article Has It All Backwards "Thank you for the comment. I can't agree about subsidizing Luddites to learn how to work the Internet. That's like paying a carpenter to learn how to use a power saw. HTML and Word are the tools of the . . ." more Nov 23, 2009 9:25PM EST
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