PTJ 183: The Ships at Sea and All the Boys in Khaki




POP | TECH | JAM show

Summary: Ebooks are hot and romance-novel ebooks are even hotter, as the genre pulling in huge sales every year.  On this week’s episode, journalist <a href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/h/laura_m_holson/index.html">Laura M. Holson</a> discusses how the ebook industry has created the need for more male models to grace the digital covers of these romantic reads. Meanwhile, El Kaiser and J.D. ponder the headlines, including Apple’s week of new products and pitfalls, Amazon’s urgent warning to Kindle owners, the rolling robot that delivers pizza and the hazards of letting Internet users suggest names for large important government research ships.<br>