The program gives people who are interested in a particular author a way to get new insights into them, and gives the authors a way to develop more of a one-on-one relationship with readers.

We hope to make these changes as quickly as possible.

This year seems to be more business as usual for online retailers. Last year people went online because it was new, it was novel. Last year being more experimental, being new and novel, retailers could get away with a little bit more. But this year, people expect more.

There's definitely a healthy number of people going online to shop. One thing is the fact that Thanksgiving fell so much earlier this year than last year. There's less of an urgency for some people to go and get those products as soon as possible.

The number of people writing poems is vast, and their reasons for doing so are many, that much can be surmised from the stacks of submissions.

It's fun to fall in love with something new every week. In the summer the first new potatoes make people crazy. You eat them with butter, dill and herring.