Talk about whiplash. Rep. Jesse Jackson, Jr, Democratic Congressman from Illinois who was just a month earlier extolling the virtues of his new iPad is now blaming it and the rest of Apple products for killing jobs. Since you're able to download your books or your magazines on your iPad, Jackson claims that the iPad and all its conveniences have killed Borders and Barnes & Noble. Though we've heard so much fanfare about the eBook, the Kindle and now the iPads killing the book, isn't all jus...
>>>Talk about whiplash. Rep. Jesse Jackson, Jr, Democratic Congressman from Illinois who was just a month earlier extolling the virtues of his new iPad is now blaming it and the rest of Apple products for killing jobs. Since you're able to download your books or your magazines on your iPad, Jackson claims that the iPad and all its conveniences have killed Borders and Barnes & Noble. Though we've heard so much fanfare about the eBook, the Kindle and now the iPads killing the book, isn't all just a hipster fantasy? But Jackson, well him and his statements we can't so easily explain.
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