amazon.com is planning to open a retail store in seattle in the new few months, the blog good e-reader reports, citing ?sources close to the situation.? the site asserts that the store will focus on selling kindle e-readers, the kindle fire tablet, and related accessories, as well as the company?s growing collection of amazon exclusives ...

more schools than you might think are going ipad next year. amazon.com had better be listening.

amazon has reported a 57% drop in profits for the fourth quarter of the year.

amazon (amzn) is joining the growing online retail market in india and will be taking on national rival flipkart.com from herein.

amazon wants to eliminate the distance between its customers and its products. one way to do this would be to open up its own stores. very unlikely, analysts say. but no one expected apple to open stores, either. and amazon has made several moves -- announcing five new united states warehouses, testing out delivery lockers in new york and seattle, and continuing to experiment with a grocery ...

while amazon.com?s q4 and full-year 2011 earnings results proved disappointing to investors leading to a 11% drop after the announcement, we continue to believe that kindle fire volumes would push both e-commerce and e-content sales higher.

amazon wants to eliminate the distance between its customers and its products. one way to do this would be to open up its own stores.

much of the discussion about amazon is focused on its digital side, yet the company is relentlessly expanding into the physical. it has announced five new united states warehouses since late december, all with more than a million square feet.

amazon.com revealed that it has been slapped with a $53 million bill by arizona for uncollected sales taxes on internet transactions

amazon sold about 5 million kindles in the first couple months of sales. so, what do users like and dislike about it? a survey provides some answers. originally posted at nanotech - the circuits blog

online retailing giant amazon on thursday entered india with the launch of its shopping website junglee.

amazon prime offers free videos to subscribers; it's viewing them that's the problem.

amazon.com inc., the world’s largest internet retailer, started an online shopping service in india to profit from the world’s second most populous nation as it waits for the country’s retail regulations to loosen.

amazon has expanded its sales reach into sports memorabilia, the company announced on thursday.

amazon.com has set up a subsidiary in india, junglee.com, that aggregates products from local online and offline retailers, but does not sell them, it said...

hoping to tap into india’s rapidly growing e-commerce market, amazon (nsdq:amzn - news) is launching junglee.com in the country today.

amazon.com, inc. today announced the new sports collectibles store offering more than two million unique collectibles from major sports leagues and sporting events.

amazon.com is coming to india, with the thursday launch of junglee.com, a watered-down version of its global shopping portal.

bangalore (reuters) - the world's largest online retailer amazon.com inc entered india on thursday with the launch of its shopping website junglee.com, in a major boost to the country's fast-growing e-commerce market. seventeen years after amazon's online debut, the $88.4 billion retailer entered asia's third-largest economy where websites such as flipkart and makemytrip ltd are...

amazon.com inc., a backer of livingsocial, said the daily-deal startup had more than $500 million in losses last year and pegged its stake at $208 million, implying the company’s book value is $671 million.

amazon.com has announced its financial results for the fourth quarter of 2011, and on the surface the numbers are rosey: sales were up 35 percent compared to a year ago to a whopping $17.43 billion, and kindle device sales-across all kindle devices, ereaders and the fire tablet-were nearly triple last year’s total. however, the investment community isn’t terribly excited with amazon’s ...

amazon is pulling the plug on its payphrase program, which was originally set up so you can check out of the online retailer faster.

to no one's surprise, amazon.com shares are trading lower wednesday after the company reported a nearly $800 million miss at the top-line in the fourth quarter. there appeared to be a number of contributing factors to the miss, including softness in europe, weakness in video games, a mix shift toward third-party sellers and the disk-drive shortage caused by the flooding in europe; offsettin...

amazon.com inc's shares slid 12 percent in early trade on fears that heavy spending would hurt the retailer's profits even as revenue growth falls short of wall street expectations. on tuesday, the online ...

shares of amazon.com inc. got clobbered in premarket trading after the leading online retailer reported lower revenue than wall street was expecting and gave a disappointing outlook for the current quarter.

amazon.com inc. fell as much as 11 percent in extended trading after sales missed estimates, signaling that its investments in media services, kindle devices and shipping promotions have been slow to pay off.

barnes & noble will not sell amazon's books in its store to protest amazon's continued "push for exclusivity with publishers, agents and the authors they represent."

shoppers spent more money online this holiday season than ever before, and yet, amazon -the world's largest internet retailer- failed to meet wall street's sales expectations with its latest financial results.

amazon's fourth quarter earnings plunged after a strong surge in costs, the company reported tuesday, sending its after-market stock price sinking.

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amazon's fourth-quarter sales results weren't awful, but investors went ahead and punished the stock severely anyway.

amazon.com inc., the world’s largest internet retailer, missed analysts’ fourth-quarter revenue estimates and reported a 57 percent decline in profit, dragged down by shipping costs and the money-losing kindle fire.

san francisco (reuters) - amazon.com inc warned of a possible operating loss in the first quarter following a sharp drop in fourth-quarter profit, a sign that the online retailer is continuing to spend heavily on expansion and new ventures at the expense of shorter-term profits. shares of the company fell more than 9 percent. amazon forecast first-quarter operating results ranging from a loss o...

amazon.com posted fourth-quarter earnings that beat analyst expectations, but revenue came in short. tonight: catch fbn's special coverage of the florida primary at 7:55 p.m. et

amazon's fourth-quarter net income dropped sharply, weighed down by higher operating expenses even as revenue grew.

amazon reported a big decline in quarterly profit tuesday, while revenue surged, as the largest internet retailer spent heavily on expansion and new ventures.

amazon (nsdq:amzn - news) disappointed investors by reporting q4 2011 revenues of $17.4 billion this afternoon, up 35 percent from a year ago but missing analyst estimates. net income slid to $177 million on ...

amazon is growing fast. but that growth is outpacing its ability to make money, if the company's quarterly results are any indication.

when i was much younger one of my goals was to travel the length of the amazon river . that dream is never going to happen, but i can still travel down the mighty amazon by following the exploits of west hansen. this is the story as he prepares for the amazon express launching in...

don't expect eye-popping short-term results from amazon after the close.

online retail giant amazon.com (amzn) will slip into the earnings confessional after the close of trading this afternoon, and expectations appear to be running high ahead of the event. wall street is currently expecting a fourth-quarter profit of 19 cents per share from amazon, a figure that is down sharply from earnings of 91 cents per share in the same quarter last year. revenue, meanwhile, i...

apple sold a ton of ipads this past quarter. amazon.com probably sold a lot of kindles, too.

online retailer amazon.com inc. is expected to post strong revenue for the fourth quarter, as demand for its kindle e-reader and tablet devices likely buoyed holiday sales.amazon is scheduled to post its ...

amazon.com inc. is scheduled to report its fourth quarter fiscal 2011 results today after the bell. we witness limited movements in analyst estimates in the build-up to the release.

as an early customer of amazon.com, i have saved a great deal of money -- maybe thousands of dollars  -- by purchasing online. and it's starting to bother me.

amazon.com (amzn) is expected to report q4 earnings after the market close on tuesday, january 31 with a conference call scheduled for 5:00 pm et. analysts are looking for eps of 19c on revenue of $18.2b. ...

amazon.com has launched another cloud service, this time targeting the enterprise market.

amazon.com is expected to report booming fourth-quarter sales, thanks in part to the kindle fire tablet. but profits are expected to be thin - again.

seattle-based online retailer amazon.com inc. reports its fourth-quarter results on tuesday after the market closes. analysts are expecting solid revenue growth, helped by sales of its kindle tablet and e-reader devices and strong holiday sales.

given amazon’s reluctance to disclose hard numbers regarding the number of kindles it has sold and the interest in the kindle fire as a tablet competitor, we’re left with estimates that hopefully used ...

amazon.com inc's quidsi unit may be getting into sporting goods, challenging retailers in this niche, including dick's sporting goods, hibbett sports and cabela's, analysts at credit suisse said monday. ...

amazon.com is expected to report earnings tuesday of 19 cents a share, down from 91 cents a share in the year earlier period, despite strong kindle sales and a boom in e-commerce during the holiday season.

well, what retail sector is amazon.com going to rip apart next? credit suisse analyst simeon gutman has some thoughts on that question, which he shares this morning in a research note. gutman asserts that the company?s quidsi unit, parent of diapers.com and other sites, is going to enter the home furnishings category with a site ...

just how much of a success is the amazon kindle fire? according to one financial analyst, a very big one.

with amazon reporting fourth-quarter earnings tomorrow, the main attractions will be tablet figures and the effect on sales of e-books, music, video, and apps.

amazon does not collect sales taxes on merchandise shipped to south carolina, as it does not in most states.

critics of apple (nasdaq: aapl) have frequently pointed to the rise of amazon.com (nasdaq: amzn) and its kindle device as one of many potential reasons why the dominance of apple, and the continued ascent of the company’s shares, may not be as certain as they currently seem.

one analyst expects amazon to have sold 4 million kindle fires and 12 million e-readers overall.

q: i have an old kindle. i understand there's a program where you can trade in an old kindle for a new kindle fire.

the kindle fire is?on fire. despite some mixed reviews from the pundit class, consumers have flocked to amazon?s first entry into the tablet market. stifel nicolas analyst jordan rohan in a new research lifted his estimate for the company fourth quarter fire sales to 6 million units from 5 million. he also raised his financial ...

unlike traditional publishing companies, self-publishing programs like amazon's kindle select lack the keen eyes of publishers, leaving room for copyright violations. it also leaves room for plagiarism. that's exactly what an author and publisher or erotica found to be the case with some best-selling ebooks in the genre.

scientists record amazon's structure and biodiversity by bouncing laser beams off forest 400,000 times per second five thousand metres above the most biodiverse corner of the amazon, tropical ecologist greg asner and his team see a kaleidoscope of colours among a mass of green. huddled in a twin-engine dornier 228 aeroplane called the carnegie airborne observatory , the scientists are captu...

under draconian new restrictions introduced by the american corporation, traders who sell products more cheaply on other sites face expulsion from the amazon catalogue unless they agree to raise their prices.

s.c. buyers getting email reminders

everyone knows that amazon wants to extend its digital media offerings. any online retailer of analog media would. its executives know the long-term trends for sales of dvds, blu-rays and their players.

as reported by the new york times earlier today, an amazon merchant known as vip deals issued a letter to all customers that purchased the vipertek black leather, case folio cover designed for the newly released kindle fire. as detailed in the correspondence here, the merchant offered a full refund of the $10 case in exchange for a review on amazon. ...

south carolina residents who bought things last year from amazon.com are now receiving emails reminding them that they owe the state money, because the online retailer didn't collect the sales taxes.

facebook scammers have started redirecting victims through amazon's cloud in order to bypass malicious url filters, according to security researchers from...

amazon.com's kindle fire is selling like hot cakes. but how many has amazon actually managed to sell in the fourth quarter? we'l get more clarity on the actual numbers when the company releases its q4 earnings on january 31.

book-centered social networking site goodreads, which allows users to keep records of the books they read and share the information with others, has long sourced most of its basic book data from amazon ...

amazon believes the world should move its data into the proverbial cloud. but it seems to realize that some will continue to keep at least some of it down here on earth.

today in publishing and literature: it's tough to dislike amazon publishing if they're going to force the price of books to come down, michael bloomerg's taste in fiction as appraised by harold bloom, and mein kampf won't be published in germany this week.

analysts foresee amazon.com (amzn) announcing decreased profits on tuesday, january 31, 2012, when it reports its fourth quarter earnings. despite this, they are generally optimistic about the stock.

taking a shot at netflix, the retail giant is reportedly looking to move beyond amazon instant video by launching its own standalone, subscription video service, says the new york post.

bloomberg businessweek‘s january 30 cover story, "Amazon (NSDQ:AMZN - News) Wants to Burn the Book Business," includes rare interviews with larry kirshbaum, head of amazon publishing’s new york-based division ...

larry kirshbaum was the ultimate book industry insider-until amazon called

amazon may be thinking about spinning off a separate video streaming subscription service.

amazon offers companies a service that could potentially ease headaches around one of the less interesting, but critical and costly, parts of computing, data storage backup. it is probably a way to make companies comfortable with online computing, so they will do more interesting things with it later.

amazon just made life a little harder for old-line computer companies, by making a play for their data storage backup business. the bookseller’s amazon web services company has announced a service that will enable businesses to move their data to amazon’s data centers more easily than before.

san francisco (reuters) - netflix inc said on wednesday that it expects amazon.com inc to brand its video streaming offering as standalone service. netflix also said it expects amazon's standalone service to be priced below its own service. netflix made the prediction in a letter to shareholders that was posted on its website wednesday. the company warned in the letter that it will face ...

by alistair barr san francisco (reuters) - amazon.com inc (amzn.o) is expected to barely make a profit in the crucial fourth quarter and 2012 might not be much better as the largest internet retailer keeps ...

new york (thestreet) -- despite apple's strong ipad results during its fiscal first quarter, it's unlikely the tablets will eat into sales of amazon's kindle fire. rather, say analysts, the two devices can co-exist because they're fundamentally different from one another. ... click to view a price quote on aapl . click to research the computer hardware industry.

amazon (nsdq:amzn - news) subsidiary zappos, an online shoe retailer, faces a second lawsuit over a hacking incident involving 24 million customers. the new suit seeks to test courts’ "no harm, no foul" rule ...

amazon web services has launched a public beta test of aws storage gateway, which allows enterprises to back up application data in amazon's cloud using a...

santa barbara, calif., jan. 25, 2012 /prnewswire/ -- xform computing, inc. announces its alwaysonpc mobile app for android is available in the amazon apps store, with editions for kindle fire and other ...

amazon web services llc , an amazon.com company , today announced the aws storage gateway, a service that provides enterprises with a new option to securely upload data to the aws cloud for scalable, reliable, cost-effective storage.

jeff bezos and his team at amazon are weighing a move to beef up the web retailer’s video-streaming service - possibly carving it out as a standalone, subscription-based operation, industry sources told the post. such a move, if undertaken, would set the retail behemoth in the same competitive orbit as...

an isuppli report suggested that ipad would continue to dominate the tablet market with a market share of 66% while kindle's market share would increase to around 14%.

tallahassee - amazon.com is promising to bring between 2,500 jobs and 3,000 jobs to florida if lawmakers and gov. rick scott agree to a deal that would exempt the online retailer from collecting sales taxes for the next two years.

amazon lured in moms; now they're backing off the big savings.

the tussle between apple and amazon.com in the tablet market is increasing daily as the kindle fire has proven to be a significant threat to ipad sales.

j.p. morgan just came out with its best near-term stock picks and the favorite among the internet sector is good old amazon, which investors have soured on lately. it lagged the s&p 500 in 2011 and shares are off 25% from their all-time highs of $250 in october, hampered by what investors saw as a ...

channeladvisor, a global e-commerce solution provider that enables retailers to sell more across online channels, today announced that retailers can now list products on amazon canada through the marketplaces solution.

amazon hits google where it hurts

since google inc. introduced its android operating system in 2007, the company’s strategy has been simple: give it to developers for free and make money when consumers click ads on the web or through apps. that model is hitting a snag.

amazon.com, baidu, and tencent are bypassing google's apps and undermining its mobile-ad-revenue strategy

hiring at the new amazon distribution center near cayce will increase in mid-summer after installation of more automated packaging equipment, company officials said monday.

columbia, sc (wltx) -- it's been nearly a year since amazon decided to locate in lexington county and now they've decided to expand.

amazon.com officially confirmed monday its plan to invest $50 million in the palmetto state by opening a new facility in spartanburg county.

target is trying a new tactic to take down online rivals like amazon.com and sent a letter to its vendors demanding help keeping stores from turning into showrooms where shoppers check out the merchandise but then buy it online for less.

rain forest could go from sink to source

while amazon.com's notoriously low margins are a source of concern in the upcoming full year 2011 results, a recent statistic released by rbc capital markets reaffirms our earlier stance that the media consumption on kindle fire would be instrumental in reviving the future margins of the company.

amazon.com, inc. today announced plans to open a new fulfillment center in spartanburg county, south carolina. the facility will create hundreds of new full time job

joyent, the cloud provider for linkedin and gilt groupe, gets a humongous round.

publishers and booksellers are looking for new ways to compete with the goliath of online retailers. just before christmas, amazon infuriated booksellers with an app that allowed customers to check out prices in brick and mortar stores and then get a discount if they bought from amazon instead.

amazon web services llc , an amazon.com company , today announced that customers can now run their microsoft windows server applications within the aws free usage tier - a program designed to help new aws customers get started in the cloud.

i'd say you have to see the amazon for yourself to understand how vast it is, but i've been there, and even i can't imagine it

let's take a look.

apple may have thrown down the gauntlet for the ipad in education, but don't count amazon out.

starting january 24, though, amazon moms won't have it quite so good.

san francisco (reuters) - amazon.com inc is setting up its first "fulfillment center" in india as the world's largest internet retailer tries to break into the world's second most-populous nation. fulfillment centers are giant warehouses that help amazon and other online retailers store many products, ship them and handle returns quickly. the fulfillment center is based in mumbai, the b...

because the internet giant has been especially eager to get moms into the habit of shopping at amazon, for years it has made them offers many caregivers could not refuse, including a year's free amazon prime membership and hefty discounts on diapers and other essentials. starting january 24, though, amazon moms won't have it quite so good.

from the beginning, the main goal of amazon prime, the membership program that includes benefits such as free two-day shipping on all orders, was to get consumers into the habit of buying regularly at amazon-to change "people’s mentality so they wouldn’t shop anywhere else," in the words of one former amazon staffer. because the internet [...]

we all know that the amazon kindle fire sells for only $199.99, and amazon reportedly losses $2 to $3 on each sell. but selling a device for a loss - amazon is actually making profitable money from it. according to ... continue reading → amazon kindle fire could be more profitable product than you think is a post from: siliconangle we're now available on the kindle! subscribe today .

online retail giant's lovefilm not in a loving mood as it takes a serious shot at netflix, u.k.

amazon helped start the "NoSQL" movement. and now it’s giving the cause another shot in the arm. nosql is a widespread effort to build a new kind of database for "unstructured" information - the sort of information that comes spilling off the internet with each passing second.

(reuters) - amazon.com inc's highly anticipated entrance into india's retail market may be limited to operating an online marketplace for other merchants, the times of india reported thursday. the world's largest internet retailer may launch amazon marketplace, an online platform that will connect shoppers with third-party retailers -- similar to rival ebay inc's approach, the n...

amazon.com has launched its dynamodb fully managed nosql database service, targeting businesses that need to deal with large amounts of data. the service will use the company's traditional pay-as-you-go model, and amazon will take care of the administrative side of things, such as hardware provisioning and configuration, replication and partitioning.

the amazon basin, traditionally considered a bulwark against global warming, may be becoming a net contributor of carbon dioxide (co2) as a result of deforestation, researchers said on wednesday.

though amazon loses money on the production of each kindle fire, the company more than makes up for it in digital media sales -- just as planned. with its chintzy feel, slow interface and bugs, the kindle fire hasn't impressed. but for amazon that doesn't matter, because for each kindle sold, the company makes over $100 in additional revenue, according to  research from investment fir...

the online retailer is scaling back the deals in its "amazon mom" program.

amazon.com, inc. (nasdaq:amzn) began shipping its much-anticipated kindle fire tablet nov.14, a day earlier than its original nov.15 shipping date. there are some assumptions that amazon is selling its tablet for a loss at $199, but it doesn't appear to be the case considering the long-term aspects of the device.

in a live video stream from amazon headquarters on january 18, amazon cto werner vogels and general manager of amazon web services swami sivasubramanian announced the availability of a new database-as-a-service offering based on the company's dynamo storage engine. called dynamodb , the service is a "nosql" database, with access based on key-value pairs, and is offered as a fully managed ...

i'm not buying the hype around amazon.com -- i think it's time to sell the stock.

amazon today released dynamodb, a speedy, scalable database service designed for web applications.

online retailers zappos.com and amazon.com are being sued in kentucky by a texas woman alleging that she and millions of other customers were harmed by the release of personal account information.

the amazon rainforest is in flux, thanks to agricultural expansion and climate change. in other words, humans have "become important agents of disturbance in the amazon basin," as an international consortium of scientists wrote in a review of the state of the science on the world's largest rainforest published in nature on january 19. ( scientific american is part of nature publishing group...

in 2007, amazon.com published a paper on its distributed datastore dynamo, which the company uses to power its e-commerce site. the paper inspired several open source nosql projects, including apache cassandra, bigcouch (soon to be merged into apache couchdb) and ... continue reading → amazon challenges its open source progeny with hosted dynamodb service is a post from: siliconangle we'r...

amazon today announced a new service to let web...

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the amazon kindle fire might be a more profitable company than you think. rbc capital analyst ross sandler reached that conclusion in a research note this morning, after he assessed the results of a proprietary survey of 216 kindle fire owners. ?one high level conclusion is that kindle fire unit economics are likely to be ...

an indian tribe in brazil's amazon says its drinking water is getting polluted as the eletrobras-vale owned "pandora" dam gets underway.

amazon faces a lawsuit from a customer stemming from the recent zappos.com hacker attack.

the amazon kindle fire might be a more profitable company than you think.

amazon's dynamodb is a big data enabler that will give enterprises an avenue to try non-traditional databases.

amazon web services llc, an amazon.com company , today announced the launch of amazon dynamodb, a fully managed nosql database service that provides extremely fast and predictable performance with seamless scalability.

plagiarized editions for sale in amazon’s kindle store show how the company is still adapting to the world of original content creation. at the same time, the stolen books may also present a test of the ...

amazon makes an ambitious move into publishing, print as well as digital. it's snagging both obscure and bestselling authors. this means more alternatives for readers and scribblers -- for now, anyway.

while modern warfare 3 was amazon's best-selling boxed video game in 2011, it couldn't climb higher than 8th in the retailer's pc download chart, where deus ex reigned supreme.

shoe retailer zappos is facing a national class action suit one day after it warned customers that its servers had been hacked.

amazon unveiled new publishing tools for developers, as the capabilities of the kindle fire and other tablets inspire publishers to bring e-books to a whole new level.

game on, microsoft.

london, united kingdom-- - a partnership between gnappies and retail giant amazon means that in addition to the full hybrid nappy range being available on the gnappies website, it is also available at ...

when state officials ended their tax war with amazon.com last fall, the giant internet retailer promised to bring 10,000 jobs to california.

marketwatch’s choice for ceo of the year in 2011 rose to new heights in american business by keeping the focus on customers - no matter what wall street would think.

amazon released some new figures about the success of the kindle direct publishing (kdp) select program, which launched in december. the retail giant says that the kindle e-book lending library now features over 75,000 titles, and demand is on the ... continue reading → amazon seeing success on both sides of the kindle isle is a post from: siliconangle we're now available on the kindle! s...

online retailer amazon has published a list of its best-selling video games for 2011. the list includes both physical and digital sales. as you probably predicted, call of duty: modern warfare 3 took the top spot, followed by just dance 3 and the elder scrolls v: skyrim. as for digital pc sales, deus ex: human revolution came out on top, with battlefield 3 and the sims 3 taking #2 and #3 ...

doesn't matter if it's a roku box, blu-ray player, or app-powered tv. just link it to your amazon count and presto: five bucks to blow on video. originally posted at marketplace blog

enterprises can now run windows server in amazon's cloud for up to 750 hours per month at no charge, using the aws (amazon web services) free usage tier, the company said on sunday.

san francisco , jan. 16, 2012 /prnewswire/ -- today, leading dietary supplement brand nature made announced amazon advertising as its agency of record to lead all brand positioning and integrated marketing ...

amazon lovefilm has inked a licensing deal with disney uk in an effort to keep customers from switching over to netflix's online film and tv streaming subscription service, which launched last week in the uk and ireland.

amazon web services now offers windows server, not just linux, as a free option for lightweight use. that's good and bad news for microsoft's competing azure.

zappos, the amazon-owned fashion retailer, warns its 24 million customers their information may have been exposed by a cyber-attack

lovefilm, an amazon company, has partnered with disney uk in a deal that will give lovefilm members access to full seasons of some of the most iconic american television series eve

london , january 16, 2012 /prnewswire/ --branded service will bring top us tv series from abc studios to lovefilm uk memberslovefilm, an amazon company, has partnered with disney uk in a deal that will ...

amazon web services llc , an amazon.com company , today announced that customers can now run their microsoft windows server applications within the aws free usage tier - a program designed to help new aws customers get started in the cloud.

by not collecting the sales taxes from virginia residents, the state is missing out on millions of dollars in tax revenue, the retailers claim.

huge geometric shapes in brazil suggest that contrary to conventional understanding, parts of the rain forest may have been home to large populations.

the e-book maker says 295,000 books were borrowed in december, and the number of kindle direct publishing titles has grown to 75,000.

amazon launched the kindle owners lending library back in november, 2011. available to amazon prime members to borrow for free, the library is a huge boon for self-published authors, or as amazon styles them, "Kindle Direct Publishing" (kdp) authors. basically, ...

for amazon, december 2011 will go down as a highlight of the year, with record-topping kindle sales and now, the successful launch of the kindle owners’ lending library, which put 295,000 e-books into the hands of readers last month.

amazon released some strong revenue numbers thursday around kdp select, its lending library program for self-published authors.

amazon's erotica section isn't just rife with tales of lust, incest, violence, and straight-up kink. it's also a hotbed of masked merchants profiting from copyright infringement.

apple and amazon came in first and second for customer satisfaction among mobile shoppers, says foresee results.

today in publishing and literature: amazon has a plagiarized erotica problem, plagiarized erotic stories are making big money in the amazon kindle store, a taste of bookstore porn, and the curious marketing strategy for jodi kantor's the obamas.related: a new fleshy book blog; jobs biography is amazon's 2011 bestseller

kindle format 8, or kf8, uses web technologies such as html and css to show much more elaborate e-book layouts. (credit: amazon) the dividing line between writing books and writing programs just got a big step blurrier. that's because amazon has now released tools for creating books using web technologies . those tools include hypertext markup language (html), used to describe web pages, an...

ann arbor, mich. , jan. 12, 2012 /prnewswire/ -- e-retail giants apple and amazon are head and shoulders above the competition in a study of customer satisfaction with top retail mobile sites and apps ...

the release of new kindle tools to create books using html and other web technology dramatically expands graphics and formatting options.

amazon vp bill carr announced yesterday that the retailer has agreed to start offering movies on ultraviolet, but for some reason didn't reveal the studio. originally posted at

no, we're not kidding.

amazon currently give self-publishers the barest minimum of data. it's in their interests to support publishers by providing more stats, but will they?

when we think about self-publishing, we mainly think of the legion of fiction writers hoping that amazon’s kindle store will provide for them a path to riches and fame. the sparkling successes of amanda hocking or john locke do rather draw the eye.

amazon web services has added four locations where enterprises can use its direct connect network service to communicate with its cloud, the company said on...

amazon.com’s expansion foray continues, as the e-commerce giant entered into two more tv streaming deals with bbc worldwide and itv, which should strengthen its european tv streaming arm lovefilm further.

amazon has reached an agreement with the indiana government to begin collecting sales taxes on purchases shipped to that state, marking the latest twist in the retail giant's often contentious relations with state governments over tax issues.

amazon (nsdq:amzn - news) publishing is launching a new series, "Book Lust Rediscoveries," curated by librarian and npr commentator nancy pearl. pearl will select a handful of out-of-print books each year to ...

amazon has launched a proper touch-friendly mobile version of its kindle store, which is smart considering that you are most likely to be browsing it from a phone or an ipad (or a kindle fire, i guess).

online retail giant amazon.com has won local approvals to build a million-square-foot "fulfillment center," with 850 full-time workers and up to 2,500 seasonal jobs, on 78 acres in middletown, del., a half-hour south of wilmington.

hollywood’s effort to sell digital copies of movies got a boost when amazon.com inc. (amzn) , the largest online vendor, agreed to use the industry’s common system for storing and streaming films on its kindle fire tablet.

ultraviolet, the digital-locker effort supported by most of the major film studios, chalks up a big day at ces by announcing deals with amazon and samsung. questions still linger about why uv has appeared to struggle to attract movie distributors.

an amazon.com executive said tuesday that the retailer has signed a deal with a hollywood studio to sell movies that can be downloaded from an online "locker" system five studios have put together.

equinix, inc. , a provider of global data center services, today announced the availability of amazon web services direct connect in equinix international business exchangeâ„¢ data centers in tokyo and singapore.

back in july, amazon (nsdq:amzn - news) and other content providers pulled the purchasing options from their ios apps, in order to comply with apple’s new in-app purchasing restrictions. today amazon launched ...

amazon on tuesday introduced a touch-optimized kindle store for ipad that will allow readers to purchase or read kindle e-book selections via safari.

indianapolis - amazon.com will begin collecting indiana’s 7 percent sales tax from customers in 2014. gov. mitch daniels and amazon announced an agreement monday that could lead to indiana collecting at least $20 million more in annual sales tax revenues. the agreement follows a lawsuit by indianapolis-based mall owner simon property group against the state. traditional retailers have lobbied...

amazon.com will begin to collect indiana’s 7 percent sales tax from customers in 2014, which could bring an estimated $20 million in revenue to the state’s economy.

amazon.com this morning released new kindle sales stats and called this the best holiday on record for the product line - no surprise, given that it was the first shopping season for the company’s $199 kindle fire tablet.

amazon.com and indiana governor mitch daniels unveiled an agreement on monday that may mean that the world's largest Internet retailer starts collecting sales tax in the state in 2014.

akamai, facing increased competition from amazon, was downgraded to "sell" by one "Fast Money" analyst. find out why.

fortune -- as recently as your grandparents' generation, Sears was the household goods icon for middle class Americans. The thick Sears catalog was the family go-to source for mail ordering anything from eyeglasses to bicycles, and, in earlier decades, even patent medicines and pre-cut houses complete with kitchen sinks. Sears, which opened for business in the late 19th century, called itself ...

amazon.com plans an expansion of its chattanooga distribution center that will eventually add hundreds of jobs.

netflix on monday launched its streaming video service in the united kingdom, where amazon's rival service dominates.

no question about it: the amazon kindle fire is the one non-ipad tablet that is gaining considerable traction in the tablet market against the apple ipad. but it is coming at the expense of other kindle e-readers.

the holiday season has proved to be a major sales boost to online retail giants such as amazon which has set digital sales records for most of this period. however, high costs have been a major source of investor concern with the company’s shares declining since its q3 2011 earnings were reported.

best buy has done an excellent job at becoming a showroom for amazon.com.  now best buy is working hard at charging more than the competition, making poor service poorer and not stocking what customers want.

amazon's Lovefilm service now has major new competition with the arrival of Netflix streaming-video service in the U.K. and Ireland.

london , january 9, 2012 /prnewswire/ --film & tv subscription service experiences record-breaking yearamazon's LOVEFiLM today announces that they have reached two million subscribers driven by a record ...

amazon said thursday that it sold more than one million kindles a week in december with the new kindle fire tablet computer its top-selling item.

already the size of 17 football fields, amazon’s chattanooga distribution center is about to get bigger.

she said amazon mined her imdb account to learn her age and then posted it on her profile, leading acting offers to dry up