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Targeted Quality: The Advent Of On-Demand DVDs

John Farr | Posted 10.17.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Edward G. Robinson, Video on Demand, Best Movies by Farr, George Feltenstein, Alain Resnais, Warner Home Entertainment, Cary Grant, Thirteen/WNET, Alfred Hitchcock, Amazon.com, Warner Brothers, Reel 13, Warner Archive Collection, John Garfield, Fdr, Classic Movies, Warner Home Video, Criterion Collection, Entertainment News

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..

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More Companies Introduce Stripped-Down Packaging For Amazon

greenerdesign.com | Jonathan Bardelline | Posted 10.16.2009 | Green

Read More: Amazon.com, Frustration Free Packaging, Amazon Packaging, Green-Packaging, Amazon, Green News

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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Why Red Bull Might Save Music

Tamara Conniff | Posted 09.26.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Green Day's New Album, Amazon.com, Coca-Cola, Red Bull Recording Label, Itunes, Green Day, Starbucks Music, 21st Century Breakdown, Ipods, Cds, Red Bull, Music Industry, Best Buy, Entertainment News

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.

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

Alex Green | Posted 09.12.2009 | Business

Read More: Amazon.com, Sales Tax, New York Sales Tax, Amazon Kindle, Kindle, Eliot Spitzer, Amazon, Business News

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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Culture and Commerce: Zappos, Francesca's Sow Spirit

Patricia Martin | Posted 09.12.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Amazon.com, Chicago Restaurants, Scott Harris, Mia Francesca, Francesca's, Francesca Pignataro, Zappos, Culture, Amazon Zappos, Chicago News

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.

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The e-Book Wars: Is Pornography Next?

Tom Alderman | Posted 09.06.2009 | Media

Read More: William Lynch, Kindle, Sony Reader, E-Books, Plastic Logic, Blackberry, Steve Haber, Vhs, Porn, Dvd, Pornography, Amazon.com, Sony, Barnes & Noble, HD DVD, B&N.com, Book Sellers, Public Libraries, Audible.com, Blu-Ray, Iphone, Sony Betamax, Epub, Betamax, Media News

With their proprietary software for Kindle readers only, Amazon has adapted a "we-win, you-lose," VHS vs. Betamax business model.

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I Trusted You

Gerald Sindell | Posted 09.05.2009 | Business

Read More: Barnes & Noble, Jeff Bezos, The-Genius-Machine, Customer Service, Amazon, Amazon.com, Birthdays, Barnes and noble.com, Business News

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."

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DVDS: New Miss Marple Doesn't Slay Me and More

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.

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Amazon's Acquistion of Zappos: A Superb Example of Karmic Capitalism

Chip Conley | Posted 08.27.2009 | Business

Read More: Capitalism, Business, Amazon, Zappos, Amazon.com, Jeff Bezos, Amazon Acquisition, zappos.com, Business News

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.

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Video: Lionsgate Realizing 95% Margins on Digital Business

Daisy Whitney | Posted 08.27.2009 | Media

Read More: Digital Media, Lionsgate, Break.com, Web Video, Cinemanow, Weeds, Hulu.com, Mad Men, Amazon.com, Itunes, Saw Movies, Youtube, Lionsgate Digital Media, Natpe, Hulu, Media News

Lionsgate's digital business is realizing 95% profit margins across new media venues like iTunes, Amazon, CinemaNow, Hulu, and YouTube.

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Back To School Kindles

Giles Slade | Posted 08.09.2009 | Media

Read More: Amazon.com, Sony, Boston Globe, Kindle, Ereader, New York Times, Washington Post, Ebooks, Google, Eink, Prs-700, Ereaders, Media News

The freshman class of 2009 can be expected to arrive as every other freshman class does in new clothes, excited, well-scrubbed and horny, but many of them will also have Kindles under their arm.

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Pirates Have Boarded The Good Ship Europe: Will Music, Media and Movie Companies Walk The Plank?

Nathan Hegedus | Posted 07.10.2009 | Media

Pirates have been the scourge of the music and film industry for years, swapping and "stealing" songs and movies with no regard for the law. But now the pirates will be making the law.

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Octomom Twitters While Giving Birth to Global Pandemic

B. Jeffrey Madoff | Posted 06.18.2009 | Media

It's important to create a viable financial model for online news delivery so journalists who research and report the real stories, stories that impact our lives, can continue their work and be compensated for it.

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Amazon's Kindle DX: The End of Paper?

Dan Dubno | Posted 06.08.2009 | Media

Read More: Arthur Sulzberger Jr., Amazon.com, Jeff Bezos, Dan Dubno, Joe Jacobson, New York Times, Kindle DX, Amazon Kindle, Amazon.com Kindle, Boston Globe, Malcolm Gladwell, Media News

Everyone who has predicted the demise of paper has so far been completely wrong. But that was before the advent of a fully-functional full-figured e-book reader.

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Large-Screen Kindle: NOT A SAVIOR For Print And Delivery Industries

venturebeat.com | Posted 06.05.2009 | Green

Read More: Kindle, Large-Screen Kindle, Waste, E-Books, E-Reader, Big-Screen Kindle, Green Technology, Amazon.com, Green News

So will it work? Well, the current version of the Kindle already offers subscriptions to various newspapers and magazines, and both Amazon and publish...

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KINDLE DX: Big-Screen Kindle Could SAVE RESOURCES While Making Bank

Huffington Post | Dave Burdick | Posted 06.04.2009 | Green

Read More: Amazon.com, Kindle Screen Size, Green Technology, E-Books, Big Screen Kindle, Kindle DX, Big Kindle, Amazon Kindle, Kindle for Textbooks, Reducing Waste, Kindle DX Leak, Slideshow, Green News

I've been seeing more and more Kindles on the trains lately, and maybe it's just because I'm about to move a ton of books yet again -- that is, rent a...

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A Business Model for Journalism Where Writers Get Paid

Michelle Haimoff | Posted 05.30.2009 | Media

The only economically viable option for the future of journalism lies in the direct corporate sponsorship of content.

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Drowning in Twitter World

Geri Spieler | Posted 05.29.2009 | Media

Read More: Icon, Blogs, Amazon.com, Linkedin, Sara Jane Moore, Twitter, Geri Spieler, Social Networking, Nielsen, Red Room, Diggers, Facebook, Huffington Post, Neilsen Survey, Myspace, President, Media News

OK, so maybe it's just me, but all this Social Networking is just too much pressure!

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Amazon.com anti-GLBT "Glitch" Infuriates Web 2.0 Denizens

Theresa Darklady Reed | Posted 05.15.2009 | Media

Read More: Amazon.com, Gore Vidal, GLBT Community, Tristan Taormino, Censorship, Rachel Kramer Bussel, Media News

"Glitch or not, my erotica books still have no rankings," Rachel Kramer Bussel complained via Twitter, adding the hash tags, #glitchmyass and #amazonfail to drive home her point.

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Amazon Censors Gay Books

Emma Ruby-Sachs | Posted 05.14.2009 | Media

Read More: Literature, Amazon.com, Equality, Gay Rights, Brokeback Mountain, James Baldwin, Books, Amazon Sales Rankings, Gay, Jeanette Winterson, Censorship, Media News

What progress we have made that a few stories on the internet can make a giant like Amazon apologize and change because their actions offend notions of equality and decency that include LGBT Americans.

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Cheney and Lesbians!?: Tag Teaming Amazon in Response to Sales Ranking Censorship

Lisa Derrick | Posted 05.14.2009 | Media

Read More: Amazon.com, Lgbt, Gay Glitch, Amazon Glitch, Amazon-Sales-Rankings, Books, Amazon Sales Rankings, Amazon Censorship, Censorship, Amazon, Media News

The first book that pops up on Amazon when searching the word "homosexuality" is A Parent's Guide to Preventing Homosexuality. Unlike Heather Has Two Mommies, this book has a sales ranking.

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People vs the Authors Guild, don't turn off text to speech in Kindle 2

James Love | Posted 05.07.2009 | Business

Read More: Amazon.com, Amazon.com Kindle, Kindle 2, Business News

As has been written about extensively in the press and the blogsphere, the Authors Guild has pressured Amazon to disable the text to speech feature in...

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Keep the Baby -- Throw Out the Bathwater

Larry Gellman | Posted 05.04.2009 | Business

Read More: Google, Energy, Investments, Ibm, Stock Market, Economic Crisis, Bank of America, Gold, Democrats, Barack Obama, Amazon.com, Apple, General Motors, Finance, Financial Crisis, Republican Party, Personal Finance, Republicans, Citigroup, Akamai, Business News

Those of you who are waiting for the economy to get "back" to normal will probably be waiting for the rest of your lives.

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Clash of the Kindles

Abigail Pogrebin | Posted 04.29.2009 | Living

Read More: Amazon.com, Marriage, Amazon Kindle, Kindle, Living News

Amazon, I'll still laud your product to strangers because there's nothing like holding hundreds of books in the palm of your hand. But my husband and I might need separate bedrooms.

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