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• Amazon.com Announces That E-Book Sales Passes Paper Books On Christmas Day

  
  Pulse2 - Technology News And Reviews — Authority: 521
  During the holiday season Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) announced that sales of e-books has slid past the sales of paper books. Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos also mentioned that the Kindle was the most gifted product in the company’s history. “We are grateful to our customers for making Kindle the most gifted ...
  20 hours ago

• Jeff Bezos on the Inevitable Obsolescence of Books [Blockquote]

  
  Gizmodo — Authority: 889
  Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos tells Dan Lyons , aka FSJ, just how deep his "missionary zeal" for spreading the gospel of the Kindle runs: One day, its going to kill books entirely. The full quote: Lyons: Do you think that the ink-on-paper book will eventually go away? Bezos: I do. I dont know how long it will take. ...
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• That Would Not have Worked For Long

  
  Revelations From An Unwashed Brain — Authority: 550
  A small bit from slashdot has made me think of how the government works, and how interesting it might be to see the trail of money in the overall telling of this long and winding story. theodp writes “Recalling that CEO Jeff Bezos originally explored placing Amazon.com on an Indian Reservation near San ...
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• Amazon Sells More Kindle Books Than Real Books On Christmas

  
  WebProNews Feed — Authority: 691
  Amazon.com has announced that for the first time ever, customers purchased more Kindle books than physical books on Christmas Day. In addition, Amazon said its Kindle reader has become the most gifted item in the companys history. The Kindle Store boasts more than 390,000 electronic books. "We are grateful to our ...
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• Kindle sets records at Amazon

  
  TECH.BLORGE.com — Authority: 588
  The Kindle e-book reader from Amazon is cutting some new notches in its belt on the sales front, both in physical readers and via virtual books, and may be remaking an industry in the process.The Kindle e-reader climbed to the top of the sales charts at Amazon this Christmas. In it’s annual report on holiday ...
  2 days ago

• Amazon Kindle goes bonkers

  
  BEANIEVILLE - a day trading, swing trading and investing blog — Authority: 140
  Great news! This Christmas, AMZN sold more ebooks than physical books on the site, and the Kindle is the most popular item sold in the companys history. AAPLs iTablet might eventually be competition but the problem is their batteries wont last long when you go mobile. I own AMZN. SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE) ...
  3 days ago

• Using Sony Readers to share classics with others: Upbeat public library story for the holidays

  
  TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home — Authority: 656
  A small Oregon library will lend out three Sony Readers to patrons—complete with public domain classics such as Jane Austen ’s Pride and Prejudice and Lewis Carroll ’s Alice’s Adventure’s in Wonderland . The experiment begins in January. Sony Readers use the industry-standard ePub format, with ...
  5 days ago

• Is Amazon Working Backwards?

  
  Bits — Authority: 784
  Newsweek’s current issue features some impressive Q&As with people in business and politics “who impact the big stories of the day”.In the technology portion, Newsweek interviews Amazon’s chief executive, Jeff Bezos, in order to explore some of the thinking behind Amazon’s business strategy as it moved from ...
  5 days ago

• Is Amazon Working Backwards?

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 904
  Although Amazons Jeff Bezos says, "We start with the customer and we work backward," a solid core of customers remain unsatisfied with the Kindle.
  5 days ago

• New Franchise Opportunities

  
  Business to Business b2b | Marketing | eCommerce | Telemarketing — Authority: 160
  Affiliate program (or so called, partner program) – is a form of business cooperation between the seller and partners, in which the partners attract visitors to the merchant site and receive bonuses as a percentage or a fixed amount for any specified action (such as visiting certain pages, filling out of forms, ...
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• Exponentials R Us: Seven Computer Science Game-Changers from the 2000’s, and Seven More to Come

  
  Xconomy — Authority: 668
  Computers , Internet , wireless Ed Lazowska wrote: Forty years ago, in 1969, Neil Armstrong left footprints on the surface of the moon. It was an extraordinary accomplishment. Also in 1969, with much less fanfare and at much less expense, Len Kleinrock’s programmer Charley Kline sent the first message ...
  5 days ago

• Amazon Kindle gets its DRM stripped (for the time being)

  
  MainGadget — Authority: 162
  If there is one near universal gripe folks have with the Kindle, it’s the DRM-laden files. It’s no wonder, then, that the thing has been a lightning rod for the “information wants to be free crowd,” almost since the beginning. Sure, we’ve seen Mobipocket , .epub, and .pdf files used on the device, but if you ...
  6 days ago

• The Customer Is Always Right: Jeff Bezos

  
  The Washington Post — Authority: 952
  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 retailers bestselling product. Bezos spoke to NEWSWEEKS Daniel Lyons about the device, how the Apple tablet might affect it, and the next phase of digital dis...
  1 week ago

• TechStars in Seattle Will Be “Centralizing Force” for Entrepreneurs and Startups, Investors Say

  
  Xconomy — Authority: 668
  startups , Investors , community Gregory T. Huang wrote: Not to hype this too much, but TechStars coming to town could be the rallying point for a new generation of high-tech entrepreneurship in Seattle—the likes of which we haven’t seen before. At least, that’s the word from two of the main ...
  1 week ago

• No bookstore soon in Laredo, Texas, if B&N goes ahead: Vacuum for e-books to fill? Maybe even Bezos role?

  
  TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home — Authority: 656
  The people of Laredo, Texas , may soon have to drive 150 miles to get to a bookstore. Barnes & Noble plans to close the only bookstore in this town of about 233,000, as part of its shutdown of the B. Dalton chain. Ironically the Laredo store is profitable. But until a replacement B&N store opens, Laredo ...
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• Venky Harinarayan on Kosmix

  
  Talking with Tim — Authority: 124
  Venky Harinarayan In the past few months, while researching for this site’s various interviews, I’ve found Kosmix to be quite effective in providing me with a great deal of background for questions. Curious to learn more about the helpful web presence, I contacted its staff for an email interview.  They ...
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• Turnabout Is Fair Play: BoomTown Decodes Rupes Journalism-Is-Not-a-Free-Cow Op-Ed!

  
  BoomTown — Authority: 696
  Last week, BoomTown translated an opinion piece that Google CEO Eric Schmidt had published in The Wall Street Journal, which was focused on defending the search giant from criticism that it was, well, killing journalism. One of the louder critics, in fact, has been Rupert Murdoch, chairman and CEO of News Corp. ...
  2 weeks ago

• Discounted Kindles for publishing coolies—but why not free spaceship seats for execs? Charm the right people, Jeff!

  
  TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home — Authority: 656
  Poor, cash-strapped Amazon can’t even scrape up enough enough money to list my small-press novel properly and remove the unauthorized DRMed edition inflicted on Twilight Times Books and me . Maybe my publisher needs to forge Random House credentials to get a little more loving care. Then even if Amazon keeps ...
  2 weeks ago

• Lean Thinking and the Amazon Kindle

  
  shmula — Authority: 91
  I receive emails from recruiters – frequently.  So, as a favor to them, I am posting a job for your interest: the hiring company is Amazon.com. Below is one job description and contact information, but if you go to the Amazon.com website, there are over 50 open positions looking for people with experience in Lean ...
  2 weeks ago

• Please, boycott my novel—Jeff’s DRMed edition, that is. Did Bezos lie, about DRM, on Jon Stewart’s show?

  
  TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home — Authority: 656
  I figured that it would be a timesink to get Amazon to stop DRMing The Solomon Scandals . Sure, enough it has been, and the damned DRM edition is still up at Amazon despite my objections and my publisher’s. Amazon’s Kafkaesque e-forms don’t simplify the task. So much for Jeff Bezo’s claim to Jon Stewart ...
  2 weeks ago

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