Watch Out, Amazon: Google to Start Selling Books
Amazon.com — formerly known as Earth’s biggest bookstore — is about to meet a formidable competitor in the bookselling business: Earth’s biggest search engine. The New York Times reports this morning...
View ArticleIs Apple Actually Pushing for the $10 iPad E-Book, After All?
We’ve spilled a fair amount of digital ink chronicling the life and death of the $10 e-book: Amazon’s attempt to find that magic, iTunes’-like number which would entice a new generation of readers to...
View ArticleAmazon Sells More E-Books Than Hardcovers
E-books have hit the mainstream, and for the first time are consistently outselling their pulp-and-ink brethren, according to Amazon.com. Amazon hit a symbolic milestone last holiday season, when for...
View ArticleAmazon Says New Kindle Is Its Top-Selling Product
Giant online retailer Amazon.com announced Monday that the latest version of its popular Kindle e-reader has become the top-selling item in the company’s history — surpassing the previous champ, Harry...
View ArticleAmazon Spars With States Over Taxes
Amazon’s escalating battle with several cash-strapped states over collecting sales tax on web purchases is yet another example of technology — and particularly internet commerce — outpacing U.S. law....
View ArticleAmazon Profit Down 33 Percent on Higher Spending
Tell me if you’re heard this one before. Hugely successful internet company reports solid quarterly sales numbers, but because it is investing heavily in people and infrastructure, Wall Street slaps...
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