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Glenn Switkes: Mourning the Loss of a Passionate Fighter for the Rivers

Peter Bosshard | Posted 12.22.2009 | Green


Peter Bosshard

We mourn the loss of a dear friend and passionate fighter for the rivers. Glenn Switkes, the Amazon Director of International Rivers died of lung cancer in Sao Paulo on December 21.

Free eClassics Courtesy Of Google

The New York Times | Mick Sussman | Posted 12.21.2009 | Books


I recently read Emerson cover to cover, so to speak, on my iPhone's Kindle app -- a lesson both in Transcendentalism and the advantages of digitized l...

Walmart's Latest Quest: Dominating Internet Shopping

yahoo.com | ANNE D'INNOCENZIO | Posted 12.17.2009 | Business


With a week to go before Christmas, division CEO Raul Vazquez says Walmart.com's holiday sales are growing two or three times faster than Web sales ov...

Letter to New Chevron CEO, John Watson: You Have an Opportunity to Resolve Human Tragedy in Ecuador

Han Shan | Posted 12.17.2009 | Green


Han Shan

This letter references a confidential corporate memo that provides shocking insight into the reckless practices employed by Texaco (now Chevron) in Ecuador.

Borders Plans To Sell eBooks

AP | MAE ANDERSON | Posted 12.16.2009 | Books


NEW YORK — Book seller Borders Group Inc. is entering the electronic book market, partnering with a Canadian digital book company to sell e-book...

Hey Publishers, Screwing Your Best Customers Is A Mistake

Matt Stewart | Posted 12.14.2009 | Books


Matt Stewart

By denying the value of e-books, S&S, Hatchette and HarperCollins will make it harder for their power-readers to buy from them, to champion their books, to spread literary joy quickly and easily.

Inside The Lives Of Amazon.com Warehouse Employees: Long Hours, Long Walks, And Heavy Lifting (PHOTOS)

Huffington Post | Bianca Bosker | Posted 12.11.2009 | Technology


What goes on behind the scenes at a giant online retailer like Amazon.com? A job posting for openings at Amazon.com's largest "fulfillment center" in...

Amazon Disc On Demand Promotion Gives You Instant Gratification

9 to 5 Mac | Posted 12.10.2009 | Technology


Buying gifts for the holiday can have a little reward component to it, can't it? Amazon thinks so. Their new 'disc+ on demand' service allows you to...

Amazon Video On Demand: Buy A DVD, Watch The Movie In Minutes

newteevee.com | Posted 12.10.2009 | Technology


Amazon.com just launched a promotion dubbed Disc+ On Demand that may well be the start to the industry's first major multi-platform retail experience....

The Publishers Run into Sharp Elbows

William Petrocelli | Posted 12.07.2009 | Books


William Petrocelli

Many familiar independent booksellers are gone, and they've been replaced by big-box retailers with far sharper elbows. At the moment, they -- not the publishers -- appear to be controlling the book business.

Short Stories for $3.99: the Atlantic/Kindle Deal is Not So New

Wednesday Martin | Posted 12.07.2009 | Books


Wednesday Martin

As of December 7, short stories by Christopher Buckley, Edna O'Brien (and by January Curtis Sittenfeld, and presumably many others) are available on Kindle, courtesy of a deal with the Atlantic Monthly.

Publishers Pay For Bookstore Displays

Fast Company | Adam Penenberg | Posted 12.07.2009 | Books


Step into any Barnes & Noble and the first thing you see are tables covered in books. 'Tis the season, so there's the "Happy Holidays" table, with its...

Borders Grasps at Circuit City Gameplan

Gerald Sindell | Posted 12.03.2009 | Books


Gerald Sindell

If you're just interested in what's new, you now need to visit twenty or thirty categories all over the store to see what's new in each one. Behold the art of browsing, enhanced.

eReaders Through The Eyes Of Thriller Writers

The New York Times | PETER WAYNER | Posted 12.03.2009 | Books


What do authors think of the new electronic replacements for bound paper? Some are traditionalists who want nothing to do with electronic readers -- o...

Cyber Monday Brings Bump In Book Sales

Christian Science Monitor | Marjorie Kehe | Posted 12.01.2009 | Books


For some shoppers, post-Thanksgiving shopping means dreams of an Olympus 10.0 Megapixel or a widescreen Bluetooth GPS navigator. But there are also co...

GeekGirl Reviews: E-Book Readers - Sony Reader Pocket Edition

Stephanie Vaughn Hapke | Posted 11.30.2009 | Technology


Stephanie Vaughn Hapke

If you are looking for a no-frills e-book reader that supports all the common formats and does not need wireless access, the Sony Reader Pocket Edition could be the reader for you.

Brazil: 'Gringos' Must Pay To Stop Amazon Razing

AP | MARCO SIBAJA | Posted 11.27.2009 | Green


MANAUS, Brazil — Brazil's president said that "gringos" should pay Amazon nations to prevent deforestation, insisting rich Western nations have ...

Borders, Barnes & Noble Experience Major Losses

Huffington Post | Jessie Kunhardt | Posted 11.25.2009 | Books


Things aren't looking good for big booksellers Borders and Barnes & Noble. The AP reports that both chains have posted major losses for this quarter, ...

Oil Giant Chevron Accused of "Extortion" on Capitol Hill

Han Shan | Posted 11.23.2009 | Green


Han Shan

Chevron is making an extraordinary lobbying effort to evade responsibility for its massive toxic contamination of the Ecuadorian Amazon. In solidarity with all communities where Big Oil puts profit ahead of people, we must say "no more."

Free eBooks For Kindle: How To Find Them

CNET | John P. Falcone | Posted 11.23.2009 | Books


[F]ear not, Kindle owners: you too have access to many of the ... public domain titles, numbering in the thousands. The problem is finding them. While...

Google Books Settlement: Key Players Comment

The Huffington Post | Amy Hertz and Jessie Kunhardt | Posted 11.23.2009 | Books


It's been three years since the lawsuit was filed that launched the Google Books Settlement, a long series of back-and-forth negotiations about the co...

Displacement Of Local Peoples As Coporations Buy Carbon Offsets

Mother Jones | James Ridgeway | Posted 11.20.2009 | Green


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...

The Writers Workbench: It's an iPod World

Robert J. Elisberg | Posted 11.19.2009 | Technology


Robert J. Elisberg

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.

Smartphones Challenge The Rise Of eReaders

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...

GeekGirl Reviews: E-Book Readers - Amazon Kindle 2

Stephanie Vaughn Hapke | Posted 11.18.2009 | Technology


Stephanie Vaughn Hapke

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.