Washington Post, Jeff would like to introduce you to these Amazon devices
When Jeff Bezos bought The Washington Post last year, we all wondered why. Why would Bezos want to get into newspapers? Surely newspapers are grazing peacefully alongside the “sickly gazelles” (read: publishers) that Bezos… Read more »
Amazon expands warehouses, should anticipate more problems in the U.S. and Eastern Europe
Scott Wingo, CEO of Channel Advisor, has been investigating the spread of Amazon Fulfillment Centers on his blog. He noticed he was getting next-day shipments even when he hadn’t requested… Read more »
The DOJ’s messing with publishers again. Is this a power play by Amazon?
At the Wall Street Journal, Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg reports that the U.S. Justice Department “has gone back to the publishers asking about any recent pricing discussions they may have had… Read more »
What does it mean to ‘amazon’ something?
If we’re at the point of using ‘amazon’ as a verb, allow me to suggest a few definitions. In an online tease for a BBC2 documentary about Amazon, the world’s… Read more »
MobyLives reads Brad Stone’s The Everything Store
Alex Shephard: Hi Dustin! Are you excited to order products from Amazon.com and have them delivered on Sundays, while you do your crossword puzzles and eat fluffy croissants? Dustin Kurtz:… Read more »
Biography of Jeff Bezos is biased, claims entirely unbiased wife of Jeff Bezos
I will say this about MacKenzie Bezos: she used her name. If you haven’t been following the furor around Brad Stone’s new biography of everyone’s least-favorite braying billionaire, well, perhaps… Read more »
Issuing a defiant statement, B&N joins indies in banning books published by Amazon
Let me get this out of the way: I told you so. Late yesterday, in a dramatic statement from its Chief Merchandising Officer, Jaime Carey — why it wasn’t the CEO, I… 2 / Read more »