Stories about Amazon’s latest skullduggeries, you may have noticed, have shorter and shorter life spans. At least within the industry. The company’s endless series of monopolistic accomplishments have been so… Read more »

Amazon announced last week that it was purchasing comiXology, a major platform for digital comics used by most comic publishers, including the two biggest, Marvel and DC Comics. As Michael… Read more »

Terrible people are hard to shop for. We all know that. Think of the countless times you’ve picked out something meaningful for your favorite dead-eyed sociopathic Leader friend, only to… Read more »

So much for “Customers Who Bought This Item Also Bought …” and “Frequently Bought Together”: A fascinating dispatch in Forbes reports that less than 10% of book purchases on Amazon… Read more »

In a provocative article for Forbes, Igor Greenwald ponders Amazon’s high, high stock price—and predicts a big crash. He begins by asking what it is that keeps share prices so high. Amazon, Greenwald… Read more »

There was a depressing article in the New York Times over the weekend about the rate at which novelists are expected to churn out books these days: two a year… 1 / Read more »

Jon Bruner of Forbes, with the assistance of Bitly, has created a fascinating map, which shows state by state where news sources are read and shared at above-average levels. Constructed from accumulated data,… Read more »