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 Amazon App Allows 
 Kindle Books on PCs 

Free download will let anyone buy and download e-books

Oct 22, 09 3:31 PM CDT
(Newser) - Amazon will introduce a free software app next month that will allow Kindle users to read their e-books on their PCs. What's more, the app works for non-Kindle owners: Anyone with an Amazon account will be able to buy the books and download them to their Window-based computers, notes CNET.... More »

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Kindle • personal computers • Amazon • publishing industry • e-readers • books • electronic readers • Kindle on PC

Wal-Mart Takes on Amazon
in Book Price War

...in bid to become biggest online retailer

Oct 16, 09 1:01 PM CDT
(Newser) - Good news for readers, but maybe not for the publishing industry: Wal-Mart has launched an aggressive price war against Amazon. The retailer is slashing the online price of 10 big-buzz books to $9 each. The company initially cut the price to $10, then lowered it further after Amazon quickly matched... More »

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publishing • price war • Wal-Mart • Amazon • online sales • publishing industry • Dean Koontz • books

 Amazon Cuts Kindle Price, 
 Offers Worldwide Wireless 

E-reader now just $259, but cheaper Sony device is making inroads

Oct 7, 09 6:27 AM CDT
(Newser) - Amazon slashed the price of its Kindle e-reader by $40 today and introduced a new edition of the device that will enable wireless downloads in 100 countries. The move brings the price of a Kindle to $259, which is still $60 more expensive than Sony's competitor. Amazon will also finally... More »

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Sony • electronic books • Kindle • Amazon • e-readers • Sony Reader

Online, Everyone's a Critic—but Not So Critical

Customer reviews tend to be positive

Oct 5, 09 11:19 AM CDT
(Newser) - Online reviewers are a little like T-Ball parents: To them, everyone’s a winner. Though the Internet is laden with snark and meanness, customer reviews are a bastion of the positive, with the average grade sitting at about 4.3 out of 5 stars, according to Bazaarvoice, a company that... More »

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online • reviews • Amazon • customer

Lost Symbol Sets Record in First Day

Da Vinci Code follow-up sells 1M copies in 24 hours

Sep 16, 09 2:12 PM CDT
(Newser) - To the surprise of exactly no one, Dan Brown’s Da Vinci Code follow-up, The Lost Symbol, is a smash hit, selling, between its hardcover and e-book editions, 1 million copies in its first day on the shelves, the New York Times reports. Amazon and Barnes &... More »

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Da Vinci Code • Amazon • book sale • Doubleday • Barnes & Noble • Dan Brown • publishing industry • The Lost Symbol

 Firms Refuse to 
 Cut Service to Stolen 
 Kindles, iPhones 

Product producers often know who stole a device, but won't say

Sep 7, 09 8:50 AM CDT
(Newser) - Digital gadget manufacturers may know who stole your cell phone, satellite radio or ebook reader, because they're often registered and used by the thief. But good luck getting tech companies to share that information, or even to shut off service to the device, reports the New York Times. Angry consumers... More »

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iPhone • Kindle • AT&T • Amazon • Sirius XM

(AP) - Sex and scandal have not been enough to make major sellers out of books about Bernard Madoff. According to Nielsen BookScan, neither a much-discussed tell-all by alleged ex-mistress Sheryl Weinstein nor a recent wave of biographies about the imprisoned financier have caught on with the public. Weinstein's Madoff's Other Secret,... More »

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Ponzi scheme • scandal • Amazon • Bernard Madoff • Jerry Oppenheimer • Sheryl Weinstein • Erin Arvedlund • Gerard Strober • Deborah Strober • Andrew Kirtzman

(Newser) - Microsoft, Amazon, and Yahoo are ganging up against Google Books, trying to quash its settlement with publishers and authors, the Wall Street Journal reports. The settlement, which still needs court approval, would allow Google to offer works scanned off library shelves online for free, provided publishers get a cut... More »

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Yahoo • Google • Microsoft • Google Book Search • Amazon • library

opinion

 Why the Kindle Stinks 


Jul 31, 09 10:34 AM CDT
(Newser) - Nicholson Baker wanted to like the Kindle, honest. But when he unwrapped it and began to see what all the fuss was about, he "tussled with a sense of anti-climax," the prolific author writes in the New Yorker. Things never improved. He slams the e-reader for having a... More »

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Apple • iPod Touch • book • electronic books • Kindle • Amazon • ebooks • iPods • e-readers • Kindle DX • Nicholson Baker

MARKETS

 Tech Snaps Nadaq's Streak; 
 Dow Climbs 24 

Amazon, Microsoft fall after weak earnings

Jul 24, 09 3:24 PM CDT
(Newser) - The tech sector exerted downward pressure on stocks today, snapping the Nasdaq’s 12-day winning streak, the Wall Street Journal reports. Microsoft sank 8.9% after reporting a 29% drop in quarterly earnings, while Amazon fell 8.3% after also reporting a disappointing quarter. Alcoa, Pfizer, and Merck helped the... More »

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Microsoft • Merck • Dow Jones • Alcoa • Pfizer • earnings reports • Nasdaq • quarterly reports • S&P 500 • Amazon

(Newser) - If you can't beat 'em, buy 'em. Amazon is shelling out about $900 million in cash and stock to purchase rival online retailer Zappos, reports TechCrunch. Zappos specializes in shoes, and the investment—the biggest in Amazon's 14-year history—suggests Jeff Bezos is looking to shore up his company's less-than-stellar... More »

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online retailers • shoes • Jeff Bezos • Amazon • Zappos

 Weird Stuff for Sale on Amazon 

Buy the world's largest book, or a life-size grim reaper statue

Jul 15, 09 7:05 PM CDT
(Newser) - Amazon.com long ago expanded beyond books and now offers appliances, musical instruments, and as Random Good Stuff points out, some decidedly odd items:
  • The world’s largest book. At 5 by 7 feet, the photographic book Bhutan includes lifesize portraits of its subjects. It's a steal at $30,
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UFO • UFO sightings • uranium • drive-through • Amazon.com • Amazon • bondage • Grim Reaper

Hacker Sends Confidential Twitter Files to Blogs

Cyber-scoundrel also hacks Twitter CEO's Gmail, Paypal accounts

Jul 15, 09 5:53 PM CDT
(Newser) - A hacker who gained access to a Twitter administrative account two months ago has been sending confidential files to bloggers, InformationWeek reports. Most of the documents sent to blogs such as TechCrunch have been only mildly embarrassing internal correspondence, but some contain security passwords. The hacker, who goes by “... More »

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hacker • Gmail • computer security • cybercrime • passwords • Amazon • Twitter • Evan Williams

GLOSSIES

How the Kindle Could Kill Book Publishing

...if an Apple e-reader doesn't kill the
Kindle first

Jul 9, 09 7:31 PM CDT
(Newser) - With the Kindle, Amazon's Jeff Bezos may be poised “ to do to book publishers what Steve Jobs did to the music industry,” writes Adam Penenberg in Fast Company: rapidly create a market from nothing and use it to rule over publishers with an iron fist, perhaps even “... More »

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Apple • publisher • book • Kindle • Amazon • ebooks • publishing industry

 Storied Paris Bookstore 
 Gets Long-Due Makeover 

After Joyce and Hemingway, Shakespeare and Co. spruces up

Jun 8, 09 7:27 AM CDT
(Newser) - Shakespeare and Company, the English-language bookshop on the left bank of Paris, has been a refuge for writers from James Joyce to Ernest Hemingway to William Burroughs. Its owner, the sainted George Whitman, is still around at 95—but as Amazon keeps growing, he's handed the shop over to his... More »

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literature • Paris • bookstore • expatriates • Amazon

(Newser) - The Peruvian Army has imposed a curfew and set up checkpoints following deadly clashes with indigenous tribes protesting plans to drill for oil and gas in ancestral homelands in the Amazon region, reports the BBC. Dozens of people, both police and protesters, were killed in the clashes that mark the... More »

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ecology • Peru • protests • Lima • Indian Tribes • Shining Path • green • oil drilling • protesters • Amazon rainforest • Amazon • Indians

(Newser) - Widespread flooding in northern Brazil has killed at least 49 people and forced nearly 408,000 from their homes, reports the BBC. More rain is expected in the area for another two weeks. The government has spent $435 million to help flood victims, but food supplies continue to dwindle. Flooding... More »

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Brazil • flooding • Amazon

(Newser) - What’s so great about “Three Wolf Moon,” a T-shirt that’s shot to the top of Amazon’s sales chart? Let top reviewer B. Govern explain. “Pros: Fits my girthy frame, has wolves on it, attracts women. Cons: Only 3 wolves.” That review went viral,... More »

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Internet • humor • Amazon • viral marketing • t-shirts

MARKETS

 Cisco Disappoints; Dow Off 102 

Investors await stress tests results

May 7, 09 3:27 PM CDT
(Newser) - A poor earnings report and forecast from Cisco led stocks down today, the Wall Street Journal writes. The networking giant, considered an indicator of the tech sector’s general health, noted a 17% drop in revenue, and projected bigger losses for next quarter. The Dow closed down 102.43 at... More »

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Google • Dow Jones • earnings reports • Nasdaq • Cisco • S&P 500 • Amazon

(Newser) - The Kindle DX offers crisper resolution than its smaller cousin, but it’s still not big enough to display a full newspaper page, and the price may hold some buyers back, Damon Darlin writes in the New York Times. “You never see the big picture—a full page—... More »

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entertainment • consumer electronics • Kindle • Amazon • newspaper industry • e-readers • textbook • Kindle DX

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