World Bank Still Not Lending With Environment (And Disasters) In Mind: Report
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 ...
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 ...
Dave Burdick | Posted 07.21.2008 | Green
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.
Silicon Alley Insider | Dan Frommer | Posted 06.30.2008 | Business
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...
Seth Godin | Posted 06.20.2008 | Business
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, ...
AP | MANUEL VALDES | Posted 06.06.2008 | Business
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 ...
Tamsin Rothschild | Posted 06.06.2008 | Living
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.
Mark Joseph | Posted 05.29.2008 | Home
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...
Julia Gorin | Posted 05.09.2008 | Politics
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...
AP | VALERIE BAUMAN | Posted 05.02.2008 | Business
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...
Fortune | Josh Quittner | Posted 04.15.2008 | Business
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...
Carol Hoenig | Posted 04.08.2008 | Business
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.
Fortune's Stanley Bing | Posted 04.08.2008 | Business
In the virtual universe, a cornucopia of colorful opportunities await!
Alison Rose Levy | Posted 04.03.2008 | Media
Amazon is now making moves on monopolizing the kind of books that people can read or write.
AP | JESSICA MINTZ | Posted 04.02.2008 | Business
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...
Fortune's Stanley Bing | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business
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?
Financial Times | Jonathan Birchall | Posted 03.05.2008 | Business
Amazon, the world's largest online retailer, is to start selling wine in the US, entering a business fraught with regulatory complexities and littered...
Publisher's Weekly | Jim Milliot | Posted 01.31.2008 | Business
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...
New York Times | LAURIE J. FLYNN | Posted 01.31.2008 | Business
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 ...
New York Times | BRAD STONE | Posted 01.11.2008 | Business
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...
BusinessWeek | Brian Burnsed | Posted 01.07.2008 | Business
Jimmy Wales isn't entertaining David-and-Goliath delusions when it comes to battling Google at Internet search. Wales, co-founder of online encycloped...
AP | JESSICA MINTZ | Posted 12.27.2007 | Business
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...
New York Times | Saul Hansell | Posted 12.16.2007 | Business
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...
TheStreet.com | Rudy Martin | Posted 12.14.2007 | Business
Fact: Over the last 12 months, TheStreet.com's Internet index of 21 leading technology stocks has risen 16%, significantly outperforming the 4% apprec...
Bill Barol | Posted 11.19.2007 | Business
I may end up lusting after the Kindle, Amazon.com's e-book. But there's something unattractive about Amazon's introductory strategy.
Silicon Valley Insider | Peter Kafka | Posted 11.19.2007 | Business
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...
Before the largest crowd of his campaign, Democratic presidential contender Barack...
**UPDATE 7/25** ThinkProgress now reports that the bar...
John McCain's famously cozy relationship with the press is getting a bit testy. Taking questions in...
There is one more John McCain gaffe that...
As we have observed throughout the last several years,...
In a flagrant political act, the State Department has...
Major news organizations are drawing...
** Update below: Nas delivers Fox petition to Stephen...
BARCELONA, Spain — Christian Bale swept into Barcelona on Wednesday night to attend a...
WASHINGTON — Rescue legislation sailed through the House on Wednesday aimed at...
I have a wait problem. I hate to wait. When...
Ashcroft Claims Waterboarding...
DotEarth | Andrew C. Revkin | Posted 07.22.2008 | Green