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Amazon loves Kindles, hates quantifying

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John Moe
Oct 26, 2010
Amazon.com is hoping to take a little of the shine off today's expected announcement of Barnes & Noble's Nook Color. Amazon says that they sold...
Posted In: Amazon, barnes & noble, business, gadgets, Kindle, Nook
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Amazon to offer Kindle Singles

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John Moe
Oct 12, 2010
They'll be short little things, length of a few chapters. Cheap too. There isn't a lot of difference between publishing a super long e-book and a...
Posted In: Amazon, business, Entertainment, Kindle, singles
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Amazon is busting out all over - app store, tablet, web thingie

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John Moe
Sep 28, 2010
Word has it that Amazon is about to launch an app store for Android devices. While it seems a little nuts at first that they're getting into a...
Posted In: Amazon, Books, business, Entertainment, gadgets, tablets
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Amazon poaches key game exec from Microsoft

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John Moe
Sep 7, 2010
This is kind of weird considering that Amazon is not exactly known for making original games. Nonetheless, Andre Vrignaud who served as MSFT's...
Posted In: Amazon, games, Kindle, Microsoft
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Apple takes a byte out of Amazon's margins

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author198
Sep 2, 2010
Amazon is already reacting to the creation of Apple's new streaming TV service and set-top box....
Posted In: Amazon, apple, tv
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A happy ending for Random House

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Larissa Anderson
Aug 25, 2010
Finally a publisher wins a fight in the brave new world of e-books. Last month, literary agent Andrew Wylie struck a deal with Amazon to publish a...
Posted In: Amazon, e-books, literature, Random House
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Amazon releases free games on Kindle

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John Moe
Aug 6, 2010
Because you can't go anywhere anymore without playing video games. Personally, I'd like to see games like Grand Theft Auto on the Kindle. But...
Posted In: Amazon, chaucer, Kindle
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Bezos says Hemingway doesn't need embedded video

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John Moe
Jul 29, 2010
That's why there's no video or audio capability for the new super cheap Kindle, according to Jeff Bezos who runs/is Amazon.com. Of course, there IS...
Posted In: Amazon, iPad, Kindle
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Amazon and Facebook get chummy

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John Moe
Jul 29, 2010
Shopping and friending, friending and shopping.
Posted In: Amazon, Facebook
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MID-DAY UPDATE: A reason to check the mailbox again

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Bill Radke
Jul 20, 2010
*The Mid-Day Update is a five-day-a-week podcast from the Marketplace Morning Report co-hosted by Bill Radke and Steve Chiotakis that wraps up the...
Posted In: Amazon, BP, Goldman Sachs, iPad, jobless benefits, Kindle, SEC, unemployment benefits

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