If Amazon is Santa, 400 folks living in RVs outside the Coffeyville, Kansas fulfillment center this winter are the elves....
Al Norman | Posted 12.19.2009 | Business
This week at Wal-Mart, the world's largest retailer was making the world's largest profit on shipping charges assessed to employees of the military overseas.
Matt Stewart | Posted 12.14.2009 | Books
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.
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...
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....
Dennis A. Henigan | Posted 12.03.2009 | Books
It seems apparent that, at least as to Lethal Logic, the Amazon customer views function more as a forum for the gun control debate than a forum for a debate about the book.
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...
William Petrocelli | Posted 12.01.2009 | Books
The major publishers are in a difficult position: they are service companies that function like manufacturing companies -- 20th century businesses in a 21st century economy.
Mario Almonte | Posted 12.02.2009 | Books
In Going Rogue, Palin flirts dangerously close to morally dubious grounds, and it is making supporters wonder if she too isn't spiritually corrupt and undeserving of their loyalty.
Michael Markarian | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics
The fight to stamp out animal fighting marches on, and with renewed vigor. The HSUS and HSLF will not rest until holdout cockfighters in every state are delivered nothing but long felony prison sentences.
Crain's New York Business | Matthew Flamm | Posted 11.09.2009 | Books
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...
Amazon.com | Posted 11.02.2009 | Books
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...
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...
Bruce Harris | Posted 10.27.2009 | Books
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.
Georgianne Nienaber | Posted 10.23.2009 | Books
I'm all for freedom expression even when it comes to veiled pornography, but I don't want to be tricked into buying it for God's sake.
AP | ANNE D'INNOCENZIO | Posted 10.19.2009 | Books
NEW YORK — Target Corp. has thrown itself into a heated price war on books expected to be top sellers. The Minneapolis-based discounter said Mo...
AP | ASHLEY M. HEHER | Posted 10.16.2009 | Books
CHICAGO — Taking a page from its original playbook, Wal-Mart Stores Inc. launched a full-fledged price war with Amazon.com Inc. and a nation of ...
Posted 10.15.2009 | Technology
Just in time for the holidays, Amazon.com has announced that it will offer a same-day delivery service to its customers, through an option called "Lo...
The Associated Press | RACHEL METZ | Posted 10.08.2009 | Technology
CUPERTINO, Calif. (AP)-Amazon.com Inc. is cutting the price of its Kindle electronic-book reader yet again and launching an international version, in ...
wsj.com | GEOFFREY A. FOWLER and JOSEPH DE AVILA | Posted 10.05.2009 | Technology
The Web can be a mean-spirited place. But when it comes to online reviews, the Internet is a village where the books are strong, YouTube clips are goo...
Posted 10.06.2009 | Business
Could a video game company actually be the world's greatest corporation? According to a new ranking from BusinessWeek and the consulting firm A.T. Kea...
Computer World | Matt Hamblen | Posted 12.02.2009 | Books
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...
Telegraph | Posted 11.16.2009 | Technology
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....
Rob Kall | Posted 10.17.2009 | Media
Daybreak was written by first time author and progressive activist David Swanson.
John Farr | Posted 10.17.2009 | Entertainment
Technology will only offer more quality film choices as time goes by. The trick for savvy consumers and movie fans will be to stay informed as to what's really good..
Gizmodo | | Posted 12.24.2009 | Technology