The first rule of Yahoo is that you don’t talk to authors who write books about Yahoo
When chief correspondent at Business Insider Nicholas Carlson’s book, Marissa Mayer and the Fight to Save Yahoo!, was released in January, the New York Times called it “a lot of fun to read”. That’s… Read more »
Back to 2014? Another Amazon-Publisher Battle Takes Shape
Ebola. The Sochi Olympics. MH370. The annexation of Crimea by Russia. The rise of ISIS. “All About That Bass.” Amazon v. Hachette. 2014 was a great year! So let’s roll… Read more »
Amazon is just straight up letting people steal audiobooks now
Amazon’s perverse definition of “customer service for books” has turned into new, previously uncharted territory; they’re doing away with the “paying” part of shopping and just letting you just have stuff… Read more »
Why doesn’t Apple like Amazon, wonders the guy who just got $12 million from Jeff Bezos?
Business Insider owner Henry Blodget has questions. Questions like: Why can’t I buy Kindle ebooks more easily on my iPhone? Why does Apple insist on charging 30% in its app store?… Read more »
Nobody likes the Nook: Barnes & Noble’s stock jumps on news that it cut its entire Nook engineering division
Yesterday morning, Business Insider reported that Barnes & Noble laid off every hardware engineer in its struggling—to put it mildly—Nook division. According to Jay Yarow’s report, “The engineers were let… Read more »
We hope to see you again soon (cue ominous laughter)
Reading Business Insider is always an exercise in non-euclidean logic, but yesterday Slate blogger Matthew Yglesias pointed us to a doozy, a brief article on Amazon with reasoning so tortured… Read more »