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    Old Media's E-Reader Saviors: A Comprehensive Guide

    Barnes & Noble is making an e-reader; Gizmodo published the first pictures today. With similar media-tech fusions out or anticipated from Amazon.com, Apple, Hearst, Time Inc. and others, it's tough to keep track. No worries; here's a list. More »
  • #apologies

    Today's the Day for Tech Companies to Issue Hushed Apologies

    The best time to say "sorry" to your customers is when no one else will hear you say it. That seems to be the thinking at Google, Amazon and AT&T, which are all ready to grovel to you, today. More »
  • #commenters

    Jeff Bezos Review: Do Not Buy This Thing I Sell, Ever

    Jeff Bezos recently apologized for corporate wrongdoing via his Amazon.com profile, allowing the CEO's customers to quickly investigate what he thinks of his own products. Mostly, he raves. One, however, is total crap, and Bezos thinks you should know. More »
  • #takebacks

    Amazon.com Sorry For Stealing Your Kindle Books, Being Creepy

    Hey, remember that time Jeff Bezos snuck in to your place and stole from your bookshelf that one time, before silently slipping away into the night? The Amazon.com CEO feels awful.
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  • #flackery

    Amazon Buys Zappos, Gives Press the Boot

    Amazon.com bought Zappos, the beloved online retailer of shoes, for $920 million, mostly in stock. Amazon's announcement was as direct as its business model; while reporters were calling the company in vain, CEO Jeff Bezos was dishing via YouTube. More »
  • #books

    Deleting is Publishing, And Amazon Never Removed 1984 From Your Kindle

    Is Amazon.com just trying to be creepy? It's already headed by a "chuckling maniac" being sued over defective Kindles and swindling newspapers on the e-book reader. Now his company is quietly deleting people's Kindle books. It's Orwellian. Literally. More »
  • #ebookwars

    Simon & Schuster Sticks It to Amazon, Partners With Scribd

    Simon & Schuster will announce today that it's struck a deal with Scribd.com to make around 5000 digital titles available for sale on the site, a move that sends a clear "screw you" message to Amazon and their little Kindle. More »
  • #science

    Jeff Bezos Wants Your Baby's Brains

    What will Amazon.com CEO Jeff Bezos do next, after launching his grand Kindle swindle on the newspapers? He's aiming to get inside your offspring's heads! More »
  • #printisdead

    A Bigger Kindle Makes Jeff Bezos Richer and Newspapers Poorer

    Amazon.com CEO Jeff Bezos unveiled the Kindle DX, a large-screen e-reader, today at the site of the New York Times's former headquarters in Lower Manhattan. The message: He's the future and newspapers are the past. More »
  • #printisdead

    Why the Large-Format Kindle Is Not a Life Raft for Newspapers

    Terminal patients often suffer colorful delusions. But none is as cruel as the fantasy Amazon.com has kindled among dying ink-stained wretches, who believe a magical electronic reading device will cure what ails magazines and newspapers. More »
  • #flackery

    Amazon.com Says 'Embarrassing' Error, Not Hacker, Censored 57,310 Gay Books

    After gay-themed titles disappeared from Amazon.com's search results this weekend, everyone looked for someone to blame. One hacker took credit. Some faulted an Amazon engineer in France. One source thinks it was the Conficker worm. More »
  • #censorship

    Why It Makes Sense That a Hacker's Behind Amazon's Big Gay Outrage

    Twitter had a big tizzy yesterday over Amazon.com's supposed censorship of gay and lesbian titles, did you hear? Just one problem: A well-known hacker has come forward and claimed the whole thing was his prank. More »
  • #flackery

    Why Amazon Can't Just Call Gay Blacklist a 'Glitch'

    (UPDATED) After stripping sales rankings from a variety of gay-themed books, from romance novels to histories, Amazon.com now blames "a glitch" for the changes and promises a fix. Good luck selling that line. More »
  • #books

    These Books Too Gay for Amazon

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  • #recessionomics

    Amazon Closes Warehouses, Doesn't Mind a Little Shrinkage

  • #armchairgeneral

    Why Amazon.com Should Buy Digg

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  • #copyfight

    Wacky Discovery Founder Sues Amazon.com over Kindle

    Discovery Communications, the owner of cable channels like FitTV and Animal Planet, is suing Amazon.com, maker of the Kindle, over an electronic-books patent taken out by its founder and CEO, John Hendricks, years ago. More »
  • #ebooks

    Esquire Editor Admires the Kindle, or At Least the Hearst Replacement

    Esquire editor David Granger loves the Amazon Kindle. Sort of. The e-book reader gives him hope that Internet-shortened attention spans will lengthen enough to spark a renaissance in books and magazines. He's utterly delusional. More »
  • #ebooks

    Hearst's E-Reader: The Last Stand of a Doomed Industry

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  • #jeffbezos

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    Jeff Bezos turned up on the Daily Show couch to promote Amazon.com's newest Kindle e-book reader. And as this clip shows, he laughed, and laughed, and laughed. Why wouldn't he? More »
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