Guess print sales are really down: The Wall Street Journal and Amazon
are launching online wineries in an effort to
make more money
trafficking in getting people wasted than they were by getting them to
read
। Amazon's site isn't up yet, but mosey on down to
WSJwine to get all sorts of Sideways without ever leaving your small,
dark apartment.
Sounds great. Especially if you're 16 and no one is checking IDs:
Oh, and I finally figured out the error pages: unless you pick a state
and swear to being at least 21, you can’t order anything.
One
needs only to supply a legitimate state name and credit card info to
purchase a couple bottles of Merlot. Which means Rupert Murdoch can
expect a 3am phone call from the home of Sarah Palin, who's furious one
of the News Corp. chieftan's $300 bottles of Pinot Noirr got Bristol
drunk and knocked up again.