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

Computer World | Matt Hamblen | Posted 12.02.2009 | Books

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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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Print Publishers Debate 'Hulu For Magazines'

Posted 12.02.2009 | Technology

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Print publishers have been searching for the business model that will keep them afloat and Time Inc. has put a new proposal in the mix: to create a 'H...

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Sarah Palin vs. Dan Brown: Battle of Bestsellers Turns Ugly (VIDEO)

Dan Mirvish | Posted 12.02.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Martin Eisenstadt, Twitter, The Lost Symbol, Going Rogue, Dan Brown, Amazon, Sarah Palin, Bestsellers, Comedy News
Dan Mirvish

By now, everyone's heard that Sarah Palin's new book Going Rogue: An American Life has upended Dan Brown's supremacy atop the bestseller lists. But the army of Brownies is not taking this lying down.

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My Kindle Ate My Homework: Amazon Pays For Deleting Student's eBook

Bianca Bosker | Posted 12.01.2009 | Technology

Read More: Kindle E-Book, Amazon Kindle, Kindle, Ereader, Amazon, Justin Gawronski, Ebooks, Ereaders, Technology News

Justin D. Gawronski, a high school senior from Michigan, has just made history, twice: not only did he settle a lawsuit that forced Amazon.com to clar...

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Kindle 2 Hits Europe In October

The Guardian | Charles Arthur | Posted 12.01.2009 | Books

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The Bookseller magazine says that "authoritative sources" have told it that Amazon will "finally announce the arrival" of the Kindle 2 e-book in the U...

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Just Listen -- Business Relationships That Last

Mark Goulston, M.D. | Posted 11.29.2009 | Living

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Mark Goulston, M.D.

Ed Wallace uses real-life stories, examples, and insights from his success as a sales leader to show you how to establish and maintain positive relationships, and the importance of credibility, authenticity, and integrity.

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Sarah Palin's E-Book Delayed; Publisher Stressing Hardcover Sales Of "Going Rogue"

Wall Street Journal | JEFFREY A. TRACHTENBERG | Posted 11.29.2009 | Media

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For the second time this month, a publisher has decided to delay the electronic-book release of a major new title in hopes of maximizing hardcover sal...

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Google and Amazon: Making Theft and Price-Fixing the Legal Default

Alex Green | Posted 11.28.2009 | Media

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Alex Green

An agreement between Google, The Authors Guild of America, and the Association of American Publishers has touched off the most vociferous battle between technology companies since the inception of the Internet.

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Quiet Voices from CGI: Those that Fight the Epic Battle in the Ecuador Rain Forest

Michelle Kraus | Posted 11.25.2009 | World

Read More: Chernobyl, Clinton Global Initiative, Joe Berlinger, Cgi, Rainforest, Ecuador, Chevron, Amazon Rainforest, Chevron Ecuador, Amazon, World News
Michelle Kraus

As they marshal the forces of good at the Clinton Global Initiative to help alleviate the atrocities leveled against the people and lands of Ecuador, let the games begin.

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Trudie Styler Invites Chevron Workers to the Movies

Michael Brune | Posted 11.25.2009 | Green

Read More: Amazon-Watch, Rainforest Action Network, Chevron, Crude, Rainforest, Ecuador, Celebrity Activism, Trudie Styler, Oil, Climate Change, Amazon Rainforest, Chevron Ecuador, Amazon, Green News
Michael Brune

Just because your CEO is entangled in one environmental and human rights controversy after another doesn't mean you can't care about the planet, does it?

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Gisele Bundchen UN Ambassador: Takes On Brazil President Over Amazon

AP | Posted 11.21.2009 | Green

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Dan Brown: 'The Lost Symbol' On Kindle Outselling Hardcovers

Telegraph | Posted 11.16.2009 | Technology

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The Kindle edition of Dan Brown's The Lost Symbol, his follow-up to 2003's smash hit The Da Vinci Code, has become the top-selling item on Amazon.com....

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Sex, Lies, and Videotape: Chevron's Spy Games Unraveling

Paul Paz y Miño | Posted 10.23.2009 | Green

Read More: Corruption, Human Rights, Corporate Responsibility, Ecuador, Environment, Corporate Social Responsibility, Chevron, Indigenous Rights, Amazon Rainforest, Amazon, Green News
Paul Paz y Miño

Given the overwhelming scientific evidence against the company, a potential $27 billion judgment possibly a month out, news of the "scandal" was seen by many as a fourth-quarter Hail Mary, if not something more sinister.

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Other Economists in the Room

Jane Smiley | Posted 10.19.2009 | Business

Read More: New York Times Magazine, No-Nothing, External Costs, Dickens, Marx, The Shock Doctrine, Hoover Institution, Trollope, Amazon, Palo Alto, Alan Greenspan, Finance, Keynes, Communist Manifesto, Proust, Oil, New York Times, Exxon, Frued, Kiev, Paul Krugman, Business News
Jane Smiley

I don't disagree with Paul Krugman, but he is missing out on some big issues that also need to be discussed and understood before we actually know what is going on in our world.

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Chevron's 'Dirty Tricks Operation' in the Amazon

Han Shan | Posted 10.19.2009 | Green

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

Unfortunately for Chevron, the truth has a way of bubbling to the surface, like crude in the steamy jungles of Ecuador.



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Amazon's Perfect Mistake

Michael Sigman | Posted 10.18.2009 | Media

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Michael Sigman

Amazon screwed up last month when it sold Kindle users an unlicensed version of a book. The online behemoth then compounded its goof.

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David Swanson's Daybreak Is Chart-Topping Inspiration

Linda Milazzo | Posted 10.16.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Publishing, Best Seller, Democracy, Glenn Beck, Michelle Malkin, Book, Non-Fiction, The Constitution, Amazon, David Swanson, Daybreak, Entertainment News
Linda Milazzo

A journey through Daybreak is an educational awakening, and an alert to the misdeeds of those we've elected. It's a clarification of why these deeds are wrong, why they must be challenged, and how they can be changed.

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Corporate Boards, Conflict of Interest and Copyright

Alex Green | Posted 10.16.2009 | Media

Read More: Al Gore, Copyright, Microsoft, Yahoo, Google Books, Open Book Alliance, Justice Department, Craigslist, Ebay, Amazon, Google, Media News
Alex Green

Much about the world we know can be delegated to the barons of tech, but the governance of copyright cannot or we endanger our access to open information and the ownership of our own words.

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More Companies Introduce Stripped-Down Packaging For Amazon

greenerdesign.com | Jonathan Bardelline | Posted 10.16.2009 | Green

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Seattle, WA -- Amazon.com has added two more companies to its Frustration-Free Packaging effort, expanding the number of products it offers in simple,...

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An Encounter with a Shipibo Girl in the Amazon

Karin Luisa | Posted 09.28.2009 | World

Read More: Peru, Cross-Cultural Encounters, Children, Beginning Spanish, Gringa-Indigenous Encounter, Amazon, Women Travelling Alone, Shipibo, Pucallpa, World News
Karin Luisa

While walking at dusk behind my hut in the Amazon, I ran into a little girl I knew crossing the grass , naked, with a towel in her hand, and I said, "what are you doing?"

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CRUDE: The Film Chevron Doesn't Want You to See

Han Shan | Posted 09.26.2009 | Green

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

This documentary chronicles the epic legal battle to hold Chevron accountable for its systematic contamination of the Ecuadorian Amazon.

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Amazon Wins Battle Over Kindle Version of Dan Brown's New Book

Huffington Post | Posted 09.21.2009 | Books

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It was announced today that Amazon will produce a Kindle edition of Dan Brown's new book, "The Lost Symbol," available the day it is published - Septe...

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Microsoft, Yahoo, Amazon To Challenge Google Book Deal

AP | MICHAEL LIEDTKE | Posted 09.21.2009 | Media

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SAN FRANCISCO — The fight against a legal settlement that would give Google Inc. the digital rights to millions of copyrighted books is starting...

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Whatever Happened To Amazon's "Save The Newspapers" Plan?

AllThingsD | Peter Kafka | Posted 09.14.2009 | Media

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Whatever happened to Amazon's plan to work with the New York Times (NYT) and the Washington Post (WPO) to bundle newspaper subscriptions with its jumb...

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The Writing on the Monitor: The Coming Death of Amazon.com

Alex Green | Posted 09.12.2009 | Business

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Alex Green

Like the auto companies before them, Internet retailers used your roads, your government, and your tax subsidized infrastructure to support non-viable companies that killed your local businesses. Nothing in life, as the saying goes, is free.

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