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 10.02.2009 | 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..
greenerdesign.com | Jonathan Bardelline | Posted 10.16.2009 | Green
Seattle, WA -- Amazon.com has added two more companies to its Frustration-Free Packaging effort, expanding the number of products it offers in simple,...
Tamara Conniff | Posted 09.26.2009 | Entertainment
Music sales are plummeting -- both digital and physical. In part, this is due to the economy -- if a consumer has to choose between dinner and a CD, most will choose dinner.
Alex Green | Posted 09.12.2009 | Business
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.
Patricia Martin | Posted 09.12.2009 | Chicago
Jobs and opportunity are shifting away from giant corporations to small and mid-sized companies, where there is a growing commitment to "culture" -- the spirit of the place.
Tom Alderman | Posted 09.06.2009 | Media
With their proprietary software for Kindle readers only, Amazon has adapted a "we-win, you-lose," VHS vs. Betamax business model.
Gerald Sindell | Posted 09.05.2009 | Business
In the online book business, two giants duke it out for our business. While Amazon's Jeff Bezos has created online shopping perfection, at B & N, an order "confirmation" really means, "We'll try."
Michael Giltz | Posted 09.05.2009 | Entertainment
The Soloist was oscar bair but no one was nibbling. Down on his luck Downey helps talented but homeless Foxx in this TV movie-ready story.
Chip Conley | Posted 08.27.2009 | Business
Zappos has proven that "karmic capitalism" isn't just a catchy cliché, but it's also a very effective means to run a business and cash out at an extremely impressive return on investment.
Daisy Whitney | Posted 08.27.2009 | Media
Lionsgate's digital business is realizing 95% profit margins across new media venues like iTunes, Amazon, CinemaNow, Hulu, and YouTube.
Michael Markarian | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics