Displacement Of Local Peoples As Coporations Buy Carbon Offsets
THERE IS ANOTHER vexing question inherent in preserving forests: What happens to the people who use the land? Efforts to protect biodiversity in the d...
THERE IS ANOTHER vexing question inherent in preserving forests: What happens to the people who use the land? Efforts to protect biodiversity in the d...
Robert J. Elisberg | Posted 11.19.2009 | Technology
Today, if you can plug it in, there's a good chance an iPod accessory will be created for it. From time to time, we like to look at a few of those accessories, and here's the latest few.
nytimes.com | MOTOKO RICH and BRAD STONE | Posted 11.18.2009 | Technology
Many people who want to read electronic books are discovering that they can do so on the smartphones that are already in their pockets -- bringing a w...
Stephanie Vaughn Hapke | Posted 11.18.2009 | Technology
If you are looking for a solid e-book reader, with the backing of the leading online bookseller, and are not willing to wait, go for it. I definitely think you will be impressed. I know I was.
Amy Hertz | Posted 11.18.2009 | Books
Thursday, November 19th at 3pm Eastern, we're having our first live event on Huffington Post Books. Arianna will be hosting a video chat with Carl Honore and HuffPost readers to talk about In Praise of Slowness.
Tracy L. Barnett | Posted 11.12.2009 | Green
Many have heard of Chevron-Texaco's contamination of the Amazonian rainforests. Joe Berlinger's film, Crude, brings the battle to bring them to justice to life in a way words cannot.
Cynthia Kling | Posted 11.11.2009 | Books
Ingrid Abramovitch recently published a book called Restoring a House in the City, about twenty-one very different and renovated houses
Paul Berry | Posted 11.10.2009 | Books
There is a cool new widget appearing today at the bottom of book articles, going site-wide next week, and we're really excited about bringing it to you.
Crain's New York Business | Matthew Flamm | Posted 11.09.2009 | Books
Amazon.com has gone on a charm offensive. The online retailing giant flew out a dozen of New York's top literary agents last week for a day of meetin...
AP | MICHELLE CHAPMAN | Posted 11.08.2009 | Business
NEW YORK — First it was books. Now it's DVDs. Wal-Mart Stores Inc. started another price war Thursday, trimming the online preorder prices of s...
GlobalPost | Seth Kugel | Posted 11.05.2009 | World
By Seth Kugel PRIMAVERA, Amazonas state, Brazil -- This riverfront fishing and manioc-farming community, four hours by motor-powered canoe from the...
News & Observer | ALAN M. WOLF | Posted 11.04.2009 | Books
The Raleigh-based online book publisher is now selling electronic books by traditional authors, expanding beyond its lineup of self-published titles f...
Amazon.com | Posted 11.02.2009 | Books
Amy Hertz at Huffington Post: It's the battle of the "best of" lists, movies, television, and of course books. We've seen Publishers Weekly, now Amazo...
The New Yorker | James Surowiecki | Posted 11.02.2009 | Books
Amazon and Wal-Mart hardly seem reckless, though. So why did they go to war? The answer is that they didn't, really. Sure, Wal-Mart is making a statem...
Han Shan | Posted 10.31.2009 | Green
To defend itself in a major environmental lawsuit in Ecuador, it appears that American oil giant Chevron is employing methods -- and people -- that are as dirty as the toxic waste pits it left scattered across the rainforest floor.
William Petrocelli | Posted 10.28.2009 | Books
What looks like a simple price war between Amazon, Target, and Walmart over a handful of bestsellers is symptomatic of a much deeper problem in the book business.
Bruce Harris | Posted 10.27.2009 | Books
The pre-printed price, establishing the value of a book, is the temptress that has seduced the biggest merchants in the country to go for each other's jugular.
Entertainment Weekly | Thom Geier | Posted 10.22.2009 | Books
The Next Queen of Heaven, a new novel by Wicked author Gregory Maguire, is available starting today for the low, low price of $0.00. That's not a typo...
The Cleveland Plain Dealer | Janet Cho | Posted 10.22.2009 | Books
Independent booksellers say they have no intention of joining the fight among the bigger chain stores over the $9 prices of 10 highly anticipated best...
PC World | Juan Carlos Perez | Posted 10.21.2009 | Books
Hewlett-Packard, bullish about Web hosted print-on-demand (POD) services, has launched a new POD service called BookPrep for printing digital copies o...
AP | ANNE D'INNOCENZIO | Posted 10.19.2009 | Books
NEW YORK — Target Corp. has thrown itself into a heated price war on books expected to be top sellers. The Minneapolis-based discounter said Mo...
sfgate.com | James Temple | Posted 10.19.2009 | Green
The chief of an endangered Amazon tribe will unveil today the product of an unusual partnership with Google Inc. that pairs high tech with indigenous ...
Steve Ross | Posted 10.19.2009 | Books
Where will this pricing war end? Is it in anyone's interests besides the consumers? At what price should inexpensive hardcovers reasonably come -- at the expense of the author's income?
AP | ASHLEY M. HEHER | Posted 10.16.2009 | Books
CHICAGO — Taking a page from its original playbook, Wal-Mart Stores Inc. launched a full-fledged price war with Amazon.com Inc. and a nation of ...
Posted 10.15.2009 | Technology
Just in time for the holidays, Amazon.com has announced that it will offer a same-day delivery service to its customers, through an option called "Lo...
Mother Jones | James Ridgeway | Posted 11.20.2009 | Green