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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

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

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

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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Join Arianna And Carl Honore In A Live Discussion on "In Praise Of Slowness"

Amy Hertz | Posted 11.18.2009 | Books

Read More: Internet, Books, Lunch, Carl Honore, In Praise of Slowness, Arianna, Vacation, Huffington Post, Amazon, Books News

Thursday, November 19th at 3pm Eastern, we're having our first live event on Huffington Post Books. Arianna will be hosting a video chat with Carl Honore and HuffPost readers to talk about In Praise of Slowness.

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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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