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Cheap Words: Is Amazon Bad for Books?
To many book professionals, Amazon is a ruthless predator; recently, the company has even started publishing books. A monopoly is dangerous because it concentrates so much economic power, but in the book business the prospect is especially worrisome: it would give Amazon more control over the exchange of ideas than any company in U.S. history.
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Why A Book Will Always Be Better Than A Kindle
Is there anything better than a good book? I don’t mean the electronic version you download on your Nook or Kindle with the Kate Spade cover you bought at Barnes and Nobles for $50. I’m talking about the faded letters of a worn hardback. I’m talking about the heavy weight of the hundreds of pages, bound up in your hands. I’m talking about the soft breeze of flipping through the pages, front to back, then back to front.
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Amazon Has Finally Made Its House of Cards.
Last April, Amazon dove into the original programming arms race. It made eight comedy pilots, put them on the Internet, and then selected the best two to expand into full series. The original batch of pilots all had a DIY, goofy, occasionally experimental vibe, excepting Garry Trudeau’s congressmen comedy Alpha House, which alone looked like a show that could air on a old-fashioned, broadcast-to-a-television network.
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Early Amazon.com investor says online retailer ‘probably destroyed a million jobs’
Seattle venture capitalist Nick Hanauer loves to stir the pot, poking holes in economic theories and taking his wealthy tech cronies to task over hot-button issues such as education, gun control and taxes.
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Amazon Coins Aren’t Bitcoin; They’re Microsoft Points
The definition of “crypto-currency” has gotten a little loose these days.
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#1 New York Times Bestseller, I Know This Much Is True is $1.99 on Kindle today. (4.5 Stars, 1894 Reviews)
#1 New York Times Bestseller, I Know This Much Is True (P.S.) - Kindle edition by Wally Lamb. It gets 4.5 Stars out of nearly 2000 reviews.
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An interesting info-graph about where are the top 100,000 websites hosted ? - Zombies Lounge
There are tons and tons of websites out there on the Internet. In that people would be interested to know the most-visited websites and visit those sites to know the news, but do you know which city leads the pack, which hosting provider is most popular, which country leads the list?? That’d be Dallas, Amazon, …
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Netflix mocks Amazon Prime Air with hilarious 'Drone 2 Home' video
Netflix's not-Qwikster DVD-by-mail business doesn't get the same amount of attention as the company's streaming arm, but as this video (embedded after the break) shows, it still has some imagination. Dug up by Hacking Netflix, the Drone 2 Home demo video imagines Netflix's famous red envelopes being delivered by quadcopter - wherever you may be (camping, in the office, in the bathroom - wherever).
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Today's Tablet Deals: How to Buy a Tablet Online Now | BestTabletFor.me
You NEED to read this before you buy a tablet online. Fresh tablet deals updated regularly conclude this guide to buying tablets. Get your tablet deals now.
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The Best Free Kindle Books 02/26/2014. 4 Stars or better with 52 or more reviews each. 14 eBooks total today.
Here are today's best free Kindle Books from AtoZwire.com, direct from Amazon and Amazon.co.uk. They are all well-reviewed (4 stars or better with at least 25 reviews each) by Amazonians like you and me, so rest assured that you won't have to scroll through a bunch of garbage to find a good free book to read right now. Since these books are only free for a limited time, be sure the price is $0.00 before checking out. Happy reading!
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See how Google's new 'Project Tango' smartphones sense the world
Netflix decided to have a little fun with the idea with its own promo for "Drone 2 Home," a service that promises delivery DVDs to your home in the minutes you would otherwise spend streaming your content. Hank Breeggemann, general manager for Netflix's DVD division, is shown to enlist a fleet of DJI Phantoms to fly into office bathrooms and cars delivering their goods, places you would obviously want to watch movies.
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Amazon said to be negotiating Prime streaming music service
Amazon is said to be holding talks with record labels about a potential music streaming service. A new report from Recode claims these discussions are still in the early stages; Amazon hasn't yet come close to finalizing the deals it would need to take on Spotify, Rdio, Beats Music, and Google Play Music All Access. Last year, we reported that Amazon was talking to the labels about an on-demand music service, and Recode has essentially confirmed that a dialog is ongoing.
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[shameless self plug] Acid Fire Love
My 14-part poem, *ACID FIRE LOVE: a postmodern sonnet* is available for free download on Amazon until Friday... It is a psychotropic explosion of literary flavors, and I think you should read it. Either that, or it's a mishmashed bowl of pig salad and the worst thing you've ever injected into your brain. You decide! It's free!
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Amazon workers face ‘illness risk’
Prof Michael Marmot was shown secret filming of night shifts involving up to 11 miles of walking - where an undercover worker was expected to collect orders every 33 seconds.
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Kidnapped Barcelona girl found in Amazon forest
A nine-year-old Barcelona girl who went missing seven months ago has been rescued from captivity deep in Bolivia's Amazon rainforest.
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Amazon's War On The House Of Otto, Germany's $18 Billion Family
Michael Otto’s family has been as omnipresent in German postwar retail as Wal-Mart, Sears and Target have in the U.S. So what does this 70-year-old patriarch of this $18 billion clan most want to talk about? A factory in Bangladesh.
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How Far Can Amazon Push Its Customers' Loyalty?
I'm an Amazon Prime addict. I started using the service in college when my brother told me I could get it for free for thanks to the online marketplace's Amazon Student program. The thought of free two day shipping was too good to resist as someone who was devouring books at an alarming rate for a senior thesis.
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Amazon Accused of Cheating Customers Through Shipping Costs
Amazon claims that a $79 annual membership for Amazon Prime provides free two-day shipping on "millions" of items, but for some products, the company is accused of encouraging sellers to inflate shipping prices, according to two recent lawsuits.
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Amazon’s near sweatshops and awful conditions: It doesn’t have to be this way
Labor conditions at Amazon and Wal-Mart are like the pre-New Deal era. These reforms, working elsewhere, would help...
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Musician Claims $5.2 BILLION In Damages In Copyright Infringement Lawsuit Against Apple, Amazon And CDBaby
The laws surrounding IP can certainly be absurd, and the ever-extending copyright term has turned the phrase "for a limited time" into a joke in search of a punchline. But there's nothing so absurd as those who take these laws into their own hands, find a lawyer willing to represent fools and pursue supposed infringement in court.
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