Letter Published in The Economist

I had a letter to the editor published in The Economist this week:

Kinky Kindles

SIR – One of your readers urged us to “remember the lesson of Betamax video” when considering which e-book reader to buy (Letters, January 9th). One of the factors in the demise of Betamax was the availability of pornographic movies on VHS.

I bought a Kindle. Perhaps I should have waited to see on which e-book reader Hugh Hefner and Larry Flynt choose to distribute their magazines.


Gabriel Nell
Seattle

Well, I can check that one off my life's to-do list. I noticed there is a slight undercurrent of sexuality to some of the writing in The Economist. For example, they felt obliged to explain tea-bagging in an article this week. I traded on that tendency in this letter, and maybe that was part of why it was published. Besides it being extremely witty, that is. :)