Adam_S
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I've just been reading about the big incident yesterday (let's not go into debating that) and just found out they're banning books and newspapers from flights out of Great Britain...
sorry,
WTF!
Most of the other bans I can understand, especially considering the threat they were stopping. and since I'm not flying anywhere in the next three months, I'll just hope for the bottled water restriction to come down and hope that the electronics restriction doesn't infect US domestic flights.
But if you're going to take away all electronic entertainment you have to leave people something to read. Those in-flight magazines are much more dangerous weapons because I actually think they're deadly to read.
I can't imagine a flight without any means to entertain myself.
And I've never seen a book I'm really interested in in the airport book stores, or if I have, I've already read it and own a copy.
Has some airport employees seen the shawshank redemption too many times?
Is the next step after taking away our entertainment mandatory sedation during the flight, for our own safety?
Sorry but I could stomach most of the other temporary restrictions, but taking away books hacks me off something fierce.
Also, the book publishing industry, especially in Great Britain, has razor thin margins. Ask anyone in the book industry and airports make up a massive, truly massive, quantity of sales. Cut out that and you're condemning many of their publishers to bankruptcy. In fact, for America, I've been told that there is a surefire way to make the new york times bestseller list, and that's to get a display at airport terminals. You'll sell enough copies that even if your book wasn't available in regular bookstores you'd make the top ten.
Adam
(you know an entrepreneur could have made a lot of money yesterday showing up with a thousand padded envelopes and a boatload of postage and offering to mail people's belongings back to their local residence. I imagine it would have hacked off airline workers drooling over the bonanza of resellable and free stuff yesterday, but man you could have made some serious cash mailing some of the stuff people were forced to toss)
sorry,
WTF!
Most of the other bans I can understand, especially considering the threat they were stopping. and since I'm not flying anywhere in the next three months, I'll just hope for the bottled water restriction to come down and hope that the electronics restriction doesn't infect US domestic flights.
But if you're going to take away all electronic entertainment you have to leave people something to read. Those in-flight magazines are much more dangerous weapons because I actually think they're deadly to read.
I can't imagine a flight without any means to entertain myself.
And I've never seen a book I'm really interested in in the airport book stores, or if I have, I've already read it and own a copy.
Has some airport employees seen the shawshank redemption too many times?
Is the next step after taking away our entertainment mandatory sedation during the flight, for our own safety?
Sorry but I could stomach most of the other temporary restrictions, but taking away books hacks me off something fierce.
Also, the book publishing industry, especially in Great Britain, has razor thin margins. Ask anyone in the book industry and airports make up a massive, truly massive, quantity of sales. Cut out that and you're condemning many of their publishers to bankruptcy. In fact, for America, I've been told that there is a surefire way to make the new york times bestseller list, and that's to get a display at airport terminals. You'll sell enough copies that even if your book wasn't available in regular bookstores you'd make the top ten.
Adam
(you know an entrepreneur could have made a lot of money yesterday showing up with a thousand padded envelopes and a boatload of postage and offering to mail people's belongings back to their local residence. I imagine it would have hacked off airline workers drooling over the bonanza of resellable and free stuff yesterday, but man you could have made some serious cash mailing some of the stuff people were forced to toss)