Sentences to ponder

The topic is consumer protests over price hikes for eBooks and here is one response:

“The sense of entitlement of the American consumer is absolutely astonishing,” said Douglas Preston, whose novel “Impact” reached as high as No. 4 on The New York Times’s hardcover fiction best-seller list earlier this month. “It’s the Wal-Mart mentality, which in my view is very unhealthy for our country. It’s this notion of not wanting to pay the real price of something.”

Here is the article; I giggled when I read that.  Here is a short biography of Douglas Preston.