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World Bank Still Not Lending With Environment (And Disasters) In Mind: Report

DotEarth | Andrew C. Revkin | Posted 07.22.2008 | Green

Read More: Andy Revkin, Rainforest, World Bank, Environment, The Burning Season, Amazon, Rain Forest, Green News

Back in 1989, when I spent four months scouring the road-laced reaches of the western Amazon researching my first book, The Burning Season, I learned ...

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Esquire Demonstrates How to Make Green Technology Really Wasteful

Dave Burdick | Posted 07.21.2008 | Green

Read More: Kindle, Green Technology, Electronic Paper, E Ink, Esquire, Kindle Display Technology, Amazon, Green News

Imagine my dismay when I read today about the amazingly un-green way in which Esquire, to which I subscribe, will be employing the E Ink technology next month.

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Old Tricks In The Futile Battle Against iTunes

Silicon Alley Insider | Dan Frommer | Posted 06.30.2008 | Business

Read More: mp3s, Apple, Napster, Realnetworks, Online Music Store, Mtv, Itunes, Amazon, DRM-Free Music, Business News

Rhapsody is set to take on Apple's (AAPL) iTunes, Amazon's (AMZN) MP3 store, and Napster (NAPS) with a new, long-awaited DRM-free music store, launchi...

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Kindle User Defends E-Book Reader, Makes Suggestions To Amazon

Seth Godin | Posted 06.20.2008 | Business

Read More: Kindle Upgrades, Books Are Not Dead, Kindle for Women, Kindle Features, Kindle E-Book, Kindle, Oprah Books, E-Books, Books for Women, Sustainable Publishing, Oprah's Book Club, Paperless Publishing, Green Publishing, Technology for Women, Kindle Review, Print Is Dead, Amazon, Business News

Might be of interest to investors, readers, writers, designers, marketers, etc. Or not... Two months ago, I got a Kindle. It's a fascinating device, ...

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Amazon.com Goes Down For More Than 2 Hours

AP | MANUEL VALDES | Posted 06.06.2008 | Business

Read More: Amazon, Amazon Server, Amazon.com, Business News

SEATTLE — Amazon.com's Web site experienced problems in North America for more than two hours in the middle of the day Friday because of system ...

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Poetry Is (Anything But) Dead...

Tamsin Rothschild | Posted 06.06.2008 | Living

Read More: Literature, Book Industry, Inspiration, Tamsin Rothschild, Writing, Books, Poet, Beyond Words, Literary Magazine, Book Expo, Modern Poets, Poetry, Amazon, Bea, Living News

Having just published my first book of poetry, it is incredible to me that after a couple of days at the Book Expo America they tell me that poetry is dead.

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New Film, Hakani, Tackles Infanticide; Premieres In Hawaii

Mark Joseph | Posted 05.29.2008 | Home

Read More: Documentaries, Tribes, Brazil, Infanticide, Amazon, Movies, Child-Killing, Home News

David Cunningham premiered his latest film, Hakani, on the Big Island last night and I joined 100 or so guests to screen it. The film tackles the diff...

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Do the Clintons Feel Our Pain, or Do They Cause It?

Julia Gorin | Posted 05.09.2008 | Politics

Read More: Funny, Kosovo, Clintonisms, Gorin, Julia, Humor, War, Monica, Obama, Clintons, Amazon, Hillary, Bosnia, Barack, Eliot, Spitzer, Lewinsky, Elliot, Comedy, Bill, Politics News

That's the question that Clintonisms: The Amusing, Confusing and Suspect Musing of Billary attempts to answer. Dating back to the 1960s and through b...

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Amazon sues NY over Internet sales tax collection

AP | VALERIE BAUMAN | Posted 05.02.2008 | Business

Read More: Amazon, Amazon Sales Tax, New York Sales Tax, Business News

ALBANY, N.Y. — Amazon.com is suing New York over a new law that requires out-of-state online companies to collect sales tax from shoppers in New...

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Jeff Bezos, Survivor

Fortune | Josh Quittner | Posted 04.15.2008 | Business

Read More: Billionaires, Amazon Web Services, Online Retail, Jeff Bezos, Dotcom Crash, Amazon, Business News

The helicopter was out of control and Jeff Bezos, the dotcom billionaire who founded Amazon, was pretty sure he was about to die. He was pinioned in t...

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More Bad News for Books

Carol Hoenig | Posted 04.08.2008 | Business

Read More: Desiderius Erasmus, Publishing, Self-Published, Book Surge, Lawsuit, Amazon, Books, Pod, Business News

Whereas traditional publishing has become such a difficult industry to break into, self-publishing provides opportunity. Now that opportunity is in jeopardy for many writers.

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A World Where Money Grows On Trees?

Fortune's Stanley Bing | Posted 04.08.2008 | Business

Read More: Car Sales, U.S. Economy, Digital Economy, Digerati, Retail Sales, Internet Sales, Forrester Research, Amazon, Economy, Business News

In the virtual universe, a cornucopia of colorful opportunities await!

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Writers and Publishers Fight Amazon Takeover

Alison Rose Levy | Posted 04.03.2008 | Media

Read More: Authors, Writers, Print on Demand, Independent Press, Commercial Publishers, Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Media News

Amazon is now making moves on monopolizing the kind of books that people can read or write.

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Amazon Launches Text-Message Shopping

AP | JESSICA MINTZ | Posted 04.02.2008 | Business

Read More: ISBN, UPC, Online Shopping, Text Shopping, TextBuyIt, Amazon, Amazon Text Shopping, Business News

SEATTLE — Amazon.com Inc.'s brick-and-mortar competitors have yet another reason to fear the Web: a new service that lets shoppers compare price...

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My Economic Stimulus Package: Random Acts of Spending

Fortune's Stanley Bing | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business

Read More: Itunes, Amazon, Bush Stimulus Plan, Corporations, Economics Stimulus Package, Business News

I have an idea to stimulate the economy. This weekend, let's all go out and spend some money. If any of you could purchase a couple million American-made cars this weekend, could you please do so?

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Amazon.com To Start Selling Wine Online

Financial Times | Jonathan Birchall | Posted 03.05.2008 | Business

Read More: Tom Szkutak, Wine Sales, Wineshopper.com, Amazon Wine, Amazon, Wine, Business News

Amazon, the world's largest online retailer, is to start selling wine in the US, entering a business fraught with regulatory complexities and littered...

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Amazon Buys Audible For $300 Million

Publisher's Weekly | Jim Milliot | Posted 01.31.2008 | Business

Read More: Amazon.com, Audible, Amazon, Steve Kessel, Business News

Amazon has increased its presence in the spokenword audio market, announcing this morning that it has agreed to acquire Audible, Inc. the country's la...

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Amazon Doubles Profit

New York Times | LAURIE J. FLYNN | Posted 01.31.2008 | Business

Read More: Holiday Shopping Season, Amazon.com, Amazon Profits, Jeff Bezos, Amazon, Business News

Amazon.com, the leading online retailer, had a lot of good news in its financial report Wednesday, but it was overshadowed by just a small bit of bad ...

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Holdout Sony Now Selling On Amazon MP3 Store

New York Times | BRAD STONE | Posted 01.11.2008 | Business

Read More: Sony Music, Amazon MP3, Amazon, Sony BMG, Business News

Sony BMG, the music company, announced Thursday that it would become the fourth and final major label to begin selling digital music on Amazon.com, of...

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New Wikipedia Search Engine Includes A Human Touch

BusinessWeek | Brian Burnsed | Posted 01.07.2008 | Business

Read More: Mitch Kapor, Reid Hoffman, Marc Andreesen, Wikia Search, Online Encyclopedia, Goog, S Wikipedia, Jimmy Wales, Internet Search, Amazon, Wikia, Bessemer Venture Partners, Google, Internet Search Engines, Business News

Jimmy Wales isn't entertaining David-and-Goliath delusions when it comes to battling Google at Internet search. Wales, co-founder of online encycloped...

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Warner Agrees To Sell Music Without Copy Protection On Amazon

AP | JESSICA MINTZ | Posted 12.27.2007 | Business

Read More: Warner Music, Amazon, Warner Music Group, Bronfman, Business News

Warner Music Group, a major holdout on selling music online without copy protection, caved in to the growing trend Thursday and agreed to sell its tun...

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Why Amazon Should Buy eBay

New York Times | Saul Hansell | Posted 12.16.2007 | Business

Read More: eBay Amazon, Meg Whitman, Amazon.com, Jeff Bezos, Ebay, Amazon, Business News

For years it was impossible to even suggest that Amazon buy eBay because eBay's market value was three or four times that of Amazon. And there was goo...

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Tech Trends To Watch In 2008

TheStreet.com | Rudy Martin | Posted 12.14.2007 | Business

Read More: Rimm, Research in Motion, VeriSign, Avocent, Monster.com, Interactive, Iac, Technology Stocks, Amazon, Monster, Business News

Fact: Over the last 12 months, TheStreet.com's Internet index of 21 leading technology stocks has risen 16%, significantly outperforming the 4% apprec...

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Kindle: Prettier Than Books (And Smarter, Too)

Bill Barol | Posted 11.19.2007 | Business

Read More: Kindle E-Book, Jeff Bezos, Amazon, Bezos Kindle, Amazon.com, Kindle, Amazon.com Book, E-Book, Amazon.com Kindle, Business News

I may end up lusting after the Kindle, Amazon.com's e-book. But there's something unattractive about Amazon's introductory strategy.

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Why Amazon's Kindle Is No iPod

Silicon Valley Insider | Peter Kafka | Posted 11.19.2007 | Business

Read More: E-Books, Kindle iPod, Amazon E-Book, Kindle E-Book, Kindle, Jeff Bezos, Amazon, Business News

Newsweek's Steven Levy previews Amazon's (AMZN) new $400 Kindle e-book in 4,757-word cover story. Amazon, he says, believes it has created the "iPod o...

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