Juan Goytisolo on accepting 2014 Cervantes Prize

"To Cervantes’ hero, and to the readers like myself whose lives have been touched by the grace of his novel, it is difficult to resign ourselves to the existence of a world laboring under the shadow of unemployment, corruption, precarious living conditions, growing social inequality and the exile of young professionals.”

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Amazon losing ground?

“Amazon also has a hardware problem, as the Kindle was its most successful product. The rest of its hardware is really struggling. The Kindle Fire tablet was only successful in the States. The Fire Phone was a disaster. Apple outsells it by some distance in phones and tablets.”