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The Movie Chevron Doesn't Want You to See

Tracy L. Barnett | Posted 11.12.2009 | Green

Read More: Ecuador, Oil Industry, Human Rights, Chevron, Joe Berlinger, Rainforest, Crude, Environment, Texaco, Amazon, Pablo Fajardo, Green News
Tracy L. Barnett

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.

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Restoring a House in the City: An Interview With Ingrid Abramovitch

Cynthia Kling | Posted 11.11.2009 | Books

Read More: Ingrid Abramovitch, Ingrid-Abramovitch, Houses, Homes, Renovating a House in the City, Amazon, Renovation, Books News
Cynthia Kling

Ingrid Abramovitch recently published a book called Restoring a House in the City, about twenty-one very different and renovated houses

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The New HuffPost Books Widget

Paul Berry | Posted 11.10.2009 | Books

Read More: Glue, Bestellers, Indiiebound, Books, Books Widget, Barnes and Noble, Getglue, Widget, Amazon, Books News
Paul Berry

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.

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Amazon Sucks Up To Big Literary Agents

Crain's New York Business | Matthew Flamm | Posted 11.09.2009 | Books

Read More: Kindle, E-Books, Future of Publishing, Amazon Pricing, Ereaders, Literary Agents, Amazon.com, Publishing, Kindle eBooks, Amazon Kindle, New York Literary Agents, Book Agents, Authors, E-Readers, Ebooks, Books, Amazon, Books News

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...

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Wal-Mart, Amazon, Target In DVD Price War

AP | MICHELLE CHAPMAN | Posted 11.08.2009 | Business

Read More: Walmart, Price War, Target, Dvd Price War, Dvds, Wal-Mart, Amazon, Business News

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...

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Remote Amazonian Villagers Obsessed With TV, Soaps And Soccer

GlobalPost | Seth Kugel | Posted 11.05.2009 | World

Read More: Television, Amazon Rainforest, Amazon Villagers, Rainforest, Brazilian Television, Brazil, Amazon, World News

By Seth Kugel PRIMAVERA, Amazonas state, Brazil -- This riverfront fishing and manioc-farming community, four hours by motor-powered canoe from the...

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Lulu Takes On Amazon In eBooks

News & Observer | ALAN M. WOLF | Posted 11.04.2009 | Books

Read More: Bestsellers, Lulu eBooks, Price Wars, Amazon Kindle, Kindle, Amazon eBooks, Self Publishing, Books, Ebooks, Lulu, Barnes, Amazon, Ereaders, Books News

The Raleigh-based online book publisher is now selling electronic books by traditional authors, expanding beyond its lineup of self-published titles f...

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Amazon's Best Books Of 2009

Amazon.com | Posted 11.02.2009 | Books

Read More: Amazon.com, Top 100 Books, Top 10 Books, Amazon Picks, 2009 Books, Books, Let the Great World Spin, Best Books, Amazon, Best Books of 2009, Colum McCann, Books News

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...

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Amazon Wal-Mart Price War: Who's The Battle Really Against?

The New Yorker | James Surowiecki | Posted 11.02.2009 | Books

Read More: Walmart, Price Wars, Amazon vs. Wal-Mart, The Lost Symbol, Amazon Wal-Mart, Sarah Palin Book, Amazon Walmart, Sarah Palin, Bestsellers, Book Price Wars, Sears, Amazon.com, Target, Bestseller Price Wars, John Grisham, Book Pricing, Going Rogue, Books, Amazon, Dan Brown, American Airlines, Books News

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...

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Chevron's Man in Ecuador: Felon, Drug-Trafficker, and Liar, Oh My!

Han Shan | Posted 10.31.2009 | Green

Read More: Video, Chevron, Green News, Oil, Corporate Greed, Indigenous People, Chevron Ecuador, Lawsuit, Amazon, Corruption, Big Oil, Corporations, Green News
Han Shan

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.

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Not a Simple Price War -- It's a Fight Over What You Get to Read

William Petrocelli | Posted 10.28.2009 | Books

Read More: Predatory Pricing, Mass Merchandisers, Best-Sellers, Independent Bookstores, New Authors, Walmart, Price Wars, Wal-Mart, Book Publishing, Bookselling, Bestsellers, Target, Publishing, Bookstores, Books, Amazon, Books News
William Petrocelli

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.

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Predators in the Book Biz

Bruce Harris | Posted 10.27.2009 | Books

Read More: Amazon.com, Predatory Pricing, Stephen King, Wal-Mart, Vanderbilt, Sarah Palin, Publishing, Barnes & Noble, Price Wars, Book Publishing, Books, Aba, Amazon, Bestsellers, Books News
Bruce Harris

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.

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Gregory Maguire's New Novel Is Free

Entertainment Weekly | Thom Geier | Posted 10.22.2009 | Books

Read More: Charity, Gregory Maguire, Wicked, Free Books, Books, Gregory Maguire Wicked, Walmart, Price Wars, Free Book, Concord Free Press, Sears, Donations, Target, Amazon, Books News

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...

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Indie Bookstores Reject Bestseller Price Wars

The Cleveland Plain Dealer | Janet Cho | Posted 10.22.2009 | Books

Read More: Target, Price Wars, Independent Bookstores, Wal-Mart, Bookstores, Bookselling, Indie Bookstores, Books, Book Wars, Amazon, Bestsellers, Booksellers, Sears, Books News

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...

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BookPrep: HP's Print-On-Demand Service Launched

PC World | Juan Carlos Perez | Posted 10.21.2009 | Books

Read More: Publishing, Book Printing, Book Publishing, Espresso Machine, Books, Hewlett Packard, Print-on-Demand, Pod, Amazon, Hp, Bookprep, Magcloud, Books News

Hewlett-Packard, bullish about Web hosted print-on-demand (POD) services, has launched a new POD service called BookPrep for printing digital copies o...

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Target Joins Walmart Vs. Amazon Price Wars

AP | ANNE D'INNOCENZIO | Posted 10.19.2009 | Books

Read More: Walmart vs. Amazon, Walmart, Amazon.com, Target, Book Prices, Books, Bestsellers, Amazon, Books News

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...

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Amazon Tribe Teams Up With Google To Save Rainforest Home

sfgate.com | James Temple | Posted 10.19.2009 | Green

Read More: Google, Amazon Tribes, Amazon Rainforest, Tribes, Rainforest, Green Technology, Amazon, Google Earth, Green News

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 ...

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Wal-Mart: "If There's Going to be a Wal-Mart of the Web, It Can Be Amazon"

Steve Ross | Posted 10.19.2009 | Books

Read More: Cd, Book Publishing, Publishing, Discounts, Book-Prices, Jeff Bezos, Price War, Humor, Books, Future of Publishing, Wall Street Journal, Wal-Mart, Humor and Satire, Amazon, Books News
Steve Ross

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?

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Wal-Mart Vs. Amazon: Price Wars

AP | ASHLEY M. HEHER | Posted 10.16.2009 | Books

Read More: Amazon.com, America's Reading List, Wal-Mart, John Grisham, The Lost Symbol, Wal-Mart Prices, Books, Amazon, Bestsellers, Sarah Palin, Dan Brown, Walmart vs Amazon, Walmart, Wal-Mart vs. Amazon, Books News

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 ...

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Amazon.com: Same-Day Delivery Launched Through "Local Express" Shipping Option

Posted 10.15.2009 | Technology

Read More: Local Express Delivery Option, Same Day Delivery, Amazon.com, Amazon Delivery, Amazon Express Delivery, Amazon Same Day Delivery, Amazon.com Delivery, Same-Day Delivery, Express Delivery Amazon, Express Delivery, Amazon, Technology News

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...

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Akuntsu Tribe: Just 5 Members Remain

The Independent | Guy Adams | Posted 10.13.2009 | World

Read More: Language, Akuntsu, Akuntsu Tribe, Extinction, Ururu, Rainforest, Tribal Rights, South America, Brazil, Indigenous People, Amazon, Civilization, Funai, World News

They are the last survivors: all that's left of a once-vibrant civilisation which created its own religion and language, and gave special names to eve...

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Advice for the "Nothing I Do Really Helps!" Blues

Carine Fabius | Posted 10.07.2009 | Living

Read More: Philanthropy, At-Risk Youth, Nicholas Kristof, Haiti, Amazon, Healthcare, Mentoring, Living News
Carine Fabius

In the end, life is not made up of days and weeks and months and years but by each moment. And if only one moment can be made sweeter by just one of our acts, then we will have fulfilled our purpose.

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Kindle Price Cut: Amazon Launches International Version, Lowering Cost Of U.S. Version To $259

The Associated Press | RACHEL METZ | Posted 10.08.2009 | Technology

Read More: Bezos, E-Reader, Kindle, Sprint, Christmas, Kindle News, New Kindle, E-Book, Kindle Price Cut, Amazon.com, Seattle, AT&T, Wireless, Nextel, Kindle Price, International Version, Amazon, Cupertino, lab126, Ereaders, Technology News

CUPERTINO, Calif. (AP)-Amazon.com Inc. is cutting the price of its Kindle electronic-book reader yet again and launching an international version, in ...

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Online Reviews: "Lovey-Dovey" Critics Fuel Grade Inflation On The Web

wsj.com | GEOFFREY A. FOWLER and JOSEPH DE AVILA | Posted 10.05.2009 | Technology

Read More: Amazon Reviews, Amazon.com, Online Critics, Yelp, Internet, Online Criticism, Yelp Reviews, Online-Reviews, Internet Reviews, Amazon, Technology News

The Web can be a mean-spirited place. But when it comes to online reviews, the Internet is a village where the books are strong, YouTube clips are goo...

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Amazon 1984 Settlement: High School Student Awarded $150,000

Computer World | Matt Hamblen | Posted 10.02.2009 | Books

Read More: 1984, Amazon.com, Amazon 1984 Settlement, Amazon 1984, Amazon Kindle, Kindle, Amazon Settlement, 1984 E-Book, 1984 Settlement, Books, E-Books, Amazon, Ereaders, Books News

Amazon.com Inc. has agreed to pay $150,000 to settle a federal lawsuit brought by a Michigan high school student and an California academic whose elec...

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