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Fun with amazon

March 28th, 2006 by Dave

it’s been a while since I looked at the amazon.com page for Cutting the Wire. According to something called the Fog Index, it’s pretty hard to read–only 6% of books are harder. But at 5,247 words per dollar, it’s a huge bargain. I also manage to use the word “gaming” 724 times, and “fight” 61 times. A numerologist could have a field day with all those numbers.

What I find strange is that the lists in the Listmania! section aren’t really related to the book at all. Most puzzling is the “So You’d Like To…” guides. For Amazon.com: Cutting the Wire: Gambling Prohibition And the Internet (The Gambling Studies Series): Books: David G. Schwartz

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David G. Schwartz

the die is cast

is the online home of David G. Schwartz, who writes extensively about Las Vegas, gambling, and history.

He's the Director of the Center for Gaming Research at UNLV and has a Ph.D. in United States history from UCLA. He's also taught a range of subjects, running the gamut from hospitality security to gambling history to writing creative non-fiction.

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