Archive for the 'amazon.com' Category
Canadian booksellers want Amazon to stay out
March 11th, 2010Jacket Copy – “If it’s up to Canadian booksellers, Amazon.com will be barred from opening on-the-ground operations in the country. “Individual Canadian booksellers have traditionally played a key role in ensuring the promotion of Canadian authors and Canadian culture,” Canadian Booksellers Assn. President Stephen Cribar said Monday. “These are values that no American dot-com retailer [...]
Booksellers fighting Amazon’s Canadian bid
March 10th, 2010Reuters – “Fearing an apparent assault by Amazon.com on Canadian culture, the Canadian Booksellers Association is urging the federal government to block the U.S. Internet retailer from establishing a physical presence north of the border. Amazon.com has applied to the Heritage department for permission to establish its own fulfillment business here after using Canada Post [...]
Authors join fight in Macmillan’s battle with Amazon
February 4th, 2010Guardian – “Writers hit by Amazon’s removal of their titles are cutting links to the online shop and calling on readers to boycott it”
Amazon Said to Buy Touch Start-Up
February 4th, 2010NYT – “In a sign that Amazon wants to upgrade its Kindle e-reader to compete head-on with the Apple iPad, Amazon has acquired Touchco, a start-up based in New York that specializes in touch-screen technology, a person briefed on the deal said Wednesday.”
Amazon, pre-empting Apple and Google, ups royalties
January 21st, 2010Reuters – “Amazon.com Inc will offer higher royalties on the discount books sold for its popular Kindle electronic reader in a move to boost profitability and preempt the anticipated entry of Apple Inc and Google into the e-book market.”
The Customer Is Always Right
December 23rd, 2009Newsweek – “No one has been more surprised by the success of the Kindle than Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos. The electronic book reader has become the online retailer’s bestselling product. Bezos spoke to NEWSWEEK’S Daniel Lyons about the device, how the Apple tablet might affect it, and the next phase of digital distribution.”
Amazon.com Fails to Get Judge to Reject Google Pact
December 2nd, 2009Bloomberg – “U.S. District Judge Denny Chin in New York yesterday rejected Amazon.com’s argument that the settlement is “doomed from the start and fails to satisfy even the low standard for preliminary approval.” He said Amazon.com can make its arguments during a Feb. 18 hearing to determine if the agreement should be granted final approval.”
Amazon to pay $150,000 over Kindle eating Orwell – and teen’s homework
October 1st, 2009Jacket Copy – “Amazon has agreed to pay $150,000 in a lawsuit filed by Justin Gawronski, who sued the online retailer after George Orwell’s novels “1984″ and “Animal Farm” were deleted from his Kindle, along with his homework. The money, after going to the law firm representing the teen, will be donated to charity. Gawronski [...]
Amazon Sued for Kindle Deletion of Orwell
August 1st, 2009AP – “A high school student is suing Amazon.com Inc. for deleting an e-book he purchased for the Kindle reader, saying his electronic notes were bollixed, too.”
Read the complaint
Amazon Faces a Fight Over Its E-Books
July 26th, 2009NYTimes – “Last week, Jeffrey P. Bezos, chief executive of Amazon, offered an apparently heartfelt and anguished mea culpa to customers whose digital editions of George Orwell’s “1984” were remotely deleted from their Kindle reading devices.”
Amazon.com Acquires Lexcycle E-Book Reading Software
April 28th, 2009Bloomberg – “Amazon.com Inc., the world’s largest Internet retailer, bought a company that makes an electronic-book reading application for the iPhone and iPod Touch media player. The company, called Lexcycle Inc., announced the deal today on its blog. Amazon.com spokeswoman Cinthia Portugal confirmed the acquisition, without giving terms.”
Amazon Filler Item Finder
November 2nd, 2008OK, this is really useful – “Certain items at Amazon.com qualify for free shipping, but sometimes purchase fall short of the minimum $25 needed to recieve the free shipping. Enter the amount you need to get free shipping in the box above to see a list of products that will get you free shipping.”
Amazon rings up shopping via text-message
April 2nd, 2008Webware – “Amazon TextBuyIt is designed to let mobile device users window-shop, compare prices, and purchase products from Amazon.”
Ah, now I understand why it’s important for library catalogs to be accessible on mobile devices.
Book Lovers Ask, What’s Seattle’s Secret?
March 9th, 2008New York Times – “TEN years ago, Nancy Pearl started a program for public libraries here that she hoped would get adults excited about literature. It was called, “If All of Seattle Read the Same Book.†Free copies of “The Sweet Hereafter,†a novel about a tragic school bus accident, were distributed to individuals and [...]
Amazon is Teasing Me
March 2nd, 2008Will Richardson – “Holy game changer, Blogman!”
DRM-Free downloads in 2008
January 27th, 2008Amazon.com–News Release – “Amazon.com (NASDAQ:AMZN) today announced that in 2008 the company will begin an international rollout of Amazon MP3, Amazon’s DRM-free MP3 digital music store where every song is playable on virtually any digital music-capable device, including the PC, Mac(R), iPod(R), Zune(R), Zen(R), iPhone(TM), RAZR(TM), and BlackBerry(R). Amazon MP3 is the only retailer to [...]
Back It Up
December 15th, 2007David Rothman – Adobe-Amazon DRM snafu shows need for librarians to help e-stores back up ‘protected’ books
More on Amazon.com
December 9th, 2007Mike Adams – “Is the U.S. government trying to profile the psychology of its citizens by secretly data mining their book purchasing habits?”
Learning From Amazon.com
November 28th, 2007Nice!! A Q&A with an Amazon lawyer on how they fought for privacy and user records.
Amazon Does Not Have to Reveal Names of Used Book Buyers
November 27th, 2007Maybe when the feds go after library patron data, they will remember this.
Amazon.com V. Librarians
September 29th, 2007Now, who is the better for recommendations?
(via)
Amazon.com Remodeling
September 27th, 2007A tour of the changes.
Amazon Widgets
September 18th, 2007“Amazon.com today launched “Amazon Widgets,” a series of small, visually dynamic and easily configurable widgets that feature products from Amazon on blogs, websites and social networking pages.” (via)
On Demand
August 12th, 2007Mashable – “CreateSpace, which is part of Amazon’s family as a self-publishing tool, has launched a new Books On Demand service.”
Where Do You Rank on Amazon?
August 6th, 2007NYT – “Mr. Shepard is not alone. Forget writer’s block — many authors put their manuscripts aside because they cannot stop checking their rankings.”
My book once broke into the top one million. I haven’t checked it in a while.
Amazon Browsing
July 9th, 2007I’m more of an Amazon searcher, but if you like to browse, see this post from Read Write Web.
Amazon Tagging RSS Feeds
June 7th, 2007Amazon has introduced RSS Feeds for tagging items.
So, Amazoners can tag books. So can LibraryThingers. I wonder if someone can write a script combining the two. Oh Tim!!!
Oh Amazon…
March 23rd, 2007Hey, does anybody out there want a number 9? It’s going to cost ya over $250,000. I always wonder why librarians want their catalogs to be like Amazon.com. So much grat material in there. . (via)
