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Amazon Studios. Amazon Studios? Amazon Studios!

Nov 17, 2010
This is bonkers. Amazon is crowdsourcing new movies in an effort that seems to go beyond simple PR promotions. More like Wikipedia meets Mechanical...

Send an Amazon gift card to someone's Facebook wall because you love sadness

Nov 2, 2010
Now you can buy someone a gift card that isn't really a card, just a credit at Amazon, really, and have it sent straight to their Facebook. It...

Amazon loves Kindles, hates quantifying

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...

Amazon to offer Kindle Singles

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...

Amazon is busting out all over - app store, tablet, web thingie

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...

Amazon poaches key game exec from Microsoft

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...

Apple takes a byte out of Amazon's margins

Sep 2, 2010
Amazon is already reacting to the creation of Apple's new streaming TV service and set-top box....

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A happy ending for Random House

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...

Amazon releases free games on Kindle

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...

Bezos says Hemingway doesn't need embedded video

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...