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

Peter Bosshard | Posted 12.22.2009 | Green

Read More: International Rivers, Obituary, Amazon, Glenn Switkes Obituary, Glenn Switkes Rivers, Glenn Switkes, Glenn Switkes Amazon, Green News
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.

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Free eClassics Courtesy Of Google

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

Read More: Nook, Google, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ereader, iPhone App, Emerson, Barnes, Google Settlement, Google Books, Amazon, Books News

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...

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Walmart's Latest Quest: Dominating Internet Shopping

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

Read More: Walmart, walmart.com, Retail Sales, Web Retail, Target, Wal-Mart, Amazon, Business News

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...

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

Han Shan | Posted 12.17.2009 | Green

Read More: Texaco, Corporations, Big Oil, Contamination, Ecuador, Oil, John Watson, Amazon Watch, Chevron, Corporate Greed, Indigenous People, Lawsuit, Amazon, Green News
Han Shan

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

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Borders Plans To Sell eBooks

AP | MAE ANDERSON | Posted 12.16.2009 | Books

Read More: Borders Books, Bookstores, Borders, Booksellers, Borders eBooks, Books, Ebooks, Amazon, Ereaders, Barnes and Noble, Books News

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

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Hey Publishers, Screwing Your Best Customers Is A Mistake

Matt Stewart | Posted 12.14.2009 | Books

Read More: Nook, E-Reader, Publishing, Kindle, Books, Book Publishing, Hatchette, Harpercollins, Apple Tablet, Business Model, Amazon, S&s, Amazon.com, Apple, Simon & Schuster, Customers, Pricing, Sony, Books News
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.

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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

Read More: Amazon Employees, Amazon.com, Slideshow, Amazon Workers, amazon.com Employees, amazon.com Workers, Amazon, Amazon Warehouse, www.amazon.com, Amazon Employee Kansas, The Secret Lives of Amazon. Com Employees, Amazon Employees Huffpost, Amazon and Workers Walk Miles, Huffington Post Amazon Employees, What's It Like Working at amazon.com, Technology News

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...

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Amazon Disc On Demand Promotion Gives You Instant Gratification

9 to 5 Mac | Posted 12.10.2009 | Technology

Read More: Amazon Dvd Promotion, Disc on Demand, Disc on Demand, Amazon Dvd, Amazon Promotion, Amazon Disc on Demand, Amazon on Demand, Amazon, Technology News

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...

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

newteevee.com | Posted 12.10.2009 | Technology

Read More: Disc on Demand, Amazon Disc, Amazon Dvd on Demand, Amazon Dvd, amazon.com Disc on Demand, Amazon Disc on Demand, Amazon on Demand, Amazon, Amazon.com, Technology News

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....

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The Publishers Run into Sharp Elbows

William Petrocelli | Posted 12.07.2009 | Books

Read More: Crown Books, Walmart, Book Publishing, Future of Publishing, Bookselling, Publishing History, Bertelsmann, Independent Booksellers, Barnes and Noble, Target, Publishing, Anti-Trust Laws, Viacom, Borders, Books, Amazon, Costco, Books News
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.

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

Wednesday Martin | Posted 12.07.2009 | Books

Read More: Short Stories, Curtis Sittenfeld, Wilkie Collins, Publishing Industry, Wednesdy Martin, Kindle, Charles Dickens, E-Reader, Fiction Sales, Christopher Buckley, Atlantic Monthly, Contemporary Fiction, Changes in Publishing Industry, Victorian Fiction, Amazon, Reading, Edna O'Brien, Ereaders, Amazon Kindle, Ebooks, Books, Books News
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.

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Publishers Pay For Bookstore Displays

Fast Company | Adam Penenberg | Posted 12.07.2009 | Books

Read More: Bestsellers, Gift Books, Holiday Shopping, Barnes and Noble, Supermarket, Marketing, Borders, Booksellers, Viral Loop, Publishers, Punkd, Bookstores, Amazon, Books News

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...

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Borders Grasps at Circuit City Gameplan

Gerald Sindell | Posted 12.03.2009 | Books

Read More: Marketplace of Ideas, New Non-Fiction, Bookstores, Browsing, Amazon, Borders Bookstore, Books News
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.

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eReaders Through The Eyes Of Thriller Writers

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

Read More: Lee Child, Kindle, Novels, Reading, Thrillers, Ereaders, Writers, Joseph Finder, Thriller Writers, Writing, Authors, Ebooks, Books, Amazon, John Updike, Fonts, Books News

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

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Cyber Monday Brings Bump In Book Sales

Christian Science Monitor | Marjorie Kehe | Posted 12.01.2009 | Books

Read More: Buying Books, Amazon.com, Independent Bookstores, eBook Sales, Bookstores, Cyber Monday, Bookselling, Ebooks, Books, Book Sales, Amazon, Books News

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...

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

Stephanie Vaughn Hapke | Posted 11.30.2009 | Technology

Read More: Sony Reader, Pocket Edition, Sony, Reviews, E-Book Readers, Nook E-Reader, Kindle, Barnes and Noble, E-Readers, Technology Reviews, Amazon, Technology News
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.

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Brazil: 'Gringos' Must Pay To Stop Amazon Razing

AP | MARCO SIBAJA | Posted 11.27.2009 | Green

Read More: Amazon, Amazon Rainforest, Amazon Logging, Amazon Rainforest Logging, Amazon Deforestation, Amazon Summit, Lula Da Silva, Brazil, Green News

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

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Borders, Barnes & Noble Experience Major Losses

Huffington Post | Jessie Kunhardt | Posted 11.25.2009 | Books

Read More: Ereaders, Nook, Walmart, Price Wars, Stocks, Books, Borders UK, Barnes and Noble, Bookselling, Bookstores, Amazon, Kindle, Borders, Digital Books, Bookstore Chains, Ebooks, Books News

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, ...

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Oil Giant Chevron Accused of "Extortion" on Capitol Hill

Han Shan | Posted 11.23.2009 | Green

Read More: Corporations, Big Oil, Lobbying, Ecuador, Lobbyists, Oil, Chevron, Corporate Greed, Barack Obama, Lawsuit, Indigenous People, Amazon, Green News
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."

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Free eBooks For Kindle: How To Find Them

CNET | John P. Falcone | Posted 11.23.2009 | Books

Read More: Sony eReader, Amazon Kindle, Kindle, Google Books, Barnes and Noble Nook, Books, Ebooks, Free eBooks, Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Nook, Ereaders, Books News

[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...

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Google Books Settlement: Key Players Comment

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

Read More: Copyright Infringement, Open Books Alliance, Google Books Settlement, Copyright Law, Copyright, Google Books, Google Settlement, Orphan Books, Foreign-Language Books, Books, Antitrust, Amazon, Google, Authors Guild, Books News

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...

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Displacement Of Local Peoples As Coporations Buy Carbon Offsets

Mother Jones | James Ridgeway | Posted 11.20.2009 | Green

Read More: Chevron, American Electric Power, General Motors, Carbon Offsets, Corporations, Sustainability, Amazon Rainforest, Indigenous People., Amazon, Climate Change, Green News

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...

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The Writers Workbench: It's an iPod World

Robert J. Elisberg | Posted 11.19.2009 | Technology

Read More: iPod Accessories, Apple Ipod, Apple, Ipod, Griffin, Amazon, Technology News
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.

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Smartphones Challenge The Rise Of eReaders

nytimes.com | MOTOKO RICH and BRAD STONE | Posted 11.18.2009 | Technology

Read More: Smartphone, Smartphone Ereader, Smartphone Reader, Amazon Kindle Smartphone, Kindle, Phone App Reader, Ereader, Kindle Smartphone, E-Reader, Smartphone E-Reader, Reading Phone, Phone App Reading, Amazon, Technology News

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...

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GeekGirl Reviews: E-Book Readers - Amazon Kindle 2

Stephanie Vaughn Hapke | Posted 11.18.2009 | Technology

Read More: Kindle 2, Reviews, Amazon, E-Book Readers, Technology News
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.

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