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News December 2, 2010
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Shop Amazon, Wikipedia Style

Amazon isn’t shy about finding new ways to sell books, and now they’ve rolled out a fairly creative one. Using the Creative Commons license, Amazon is recreating Wikipedia articles about authors and books, hosting them on Amazon.com, and inserting links to buy books referenced in the articles. From CNet: “Shopping-enabled Wikipedia pages are a new [...]

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eBooks, Editorials October 15, 2010
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NPR’s Libraries and eBooks Report Highlights eBook Ignorance

The good folks at NPR’s Marketplace did a story on the state of ebooks and libraries the other night. At first I was excited, since it’s great to hear any story about ebooks, especially library programs that tend to fly under the radar. But NPR’s reporting was so horribly, egregiously, painfully inaccurate that I really [...]

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eBooks, News September 30, 2010
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Amazon’s New Pirated Book Policy

(image courtesy Houston News) Just last year there was a pretty serious controversy over how Amazon handled pirated books in the Kindle store. Since anyone can upload a book to Amazon, a version of 1984 was uploaded and sold without the copyright holder’s permission. Amazon took an unfortunate stance of removing all copies without warning, [...]

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eBooks, Editorials September 20, 2010
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State of the eBook: The Return!

Hello and welcome back to State of the eBook! The series had a bit of a summer vacation, but news is slowly picking back up! So pull yourself away from your new Kindle/nook app/iBooks and check out what’s been going on in the ebook world! Fuzzy Math A few bits of creative and flexible number [...]

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eBooks, News August 25, 2010
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Amazon Is Having a Great Week

While B&N had some disappointing financial results, Amazon is riding high on some good news this week. They’ve had glowing early reviews for the Kindle 3, and some (unofficial) numbers indicate they’re trouncing Apple in the ebook wars. First, the Kindle 3 reviews. CNET, Kindle Review and several other sites received review units, and everyone [...]

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eBooks, News July 20, 2010
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Amazon Announces Huge eBook Sales Numbers As the Sky Falls on Publishers

(image courtesy Vator.tv) Amazon is normally very tight-lipped about Kindle sales. Today, though, they pulled back the curtain a bit, and the peek inside should be enough to send traditional publishing and bookstores screaming for their xanax. Apparently, in the last three months, Amazon has sold 180 Kindle eBooks for every 100 hardcover books. This [...]

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Editorials July 15, 2010
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Thanks Amazon for Linking Me Up With Old Friends … um … I Think …

Before I start this story, here is a Public Service Announcement – if you use Amazon.com’s Wish List feature, be aware that unless you explicitly link each list to an address, it will direct shipments to whatever your default address was … WHEN THE LIST WAS CREATED! Please do yourself a favor and make sure [...]

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News May 7, 2010
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Need Something Small for Amazon Super Saver Shipping? Try This!

Have you ever been shopping at Amazon.com, have exactly what you need, but then realize that it you could only find something for $4 you would get free shipping? I know I have … and typically end up over-spending as a result! But now with FillerItem.com all you need to do is figure out how [...]

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News April 21, 2010
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Amazon Fights For Customer’s Privacy

One of the great things about ordering from Amazon is that there’s no sales tax. Clicking “buy now” takes far less time than driving to a 0% sales tax state. Well, not so much if you’re the state government losing out on those juicy taxes. North Carolina is taking that VERY seriously, and is demanding [...]

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News March 16, 2010
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iTunes and Amazon MP3… It Is No Contest

photo credit: gwen I was listening to Spark Radio the other night, and when I heard a song that I liked a lot. I jumped over to the iTunes application on my iPhone and purchased the song for $.99. The next day I was thinking to myself that perhaps the rest of the album was [...]

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eBooks, Editorials February 22, 2010
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Publishers, Pricing, and Pretensions

(image courtesy CFO Daily News) Friday afternoon The Consumerist reported on a comment made by Michael Cader on a publishing industry site. Essentially, he said that if you can afford an ebook reader, you can afford higher ebook prices. Needless to say, many of us at Gear Diary vehemently disagreed. Each of us had our [...]

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eBooks, News February 9, 2010
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Amazon Hangs a “Help Wanted” Sign

Amazon is hiring…and it looks like the über-Kindle might be coming! The NY Times Bits Blog are either combing Amazon’s job listings or looking to jump from the Grey Lady before all newspapers are swallowed by the iPad. In either case, they spotted a few interesting listings [Note: Listings may not be entirely accurate. For [...]

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eBooks, News February 7, 2010
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Random House Stands Alone With Amazon?

Random House has weighed in on the eBook price wars, and it looks like Macmillan, Hachette and Harper Collins won’t be sending them a fruit basket next Christmas. At the American Bookseller’s Association Winter Institute meeting, Random House made it clear they aren’t interested in pursuing the same “agency model” as their three colleagues. From [...]

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eBooks, News February 2, 2010
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Apple Forces Stanza To Remove USB eBook Transfers

(Image courtesy TechCrunch) Ask an iPhone user their favorite ebook application, and you are likely to get one answer: Stanza. This app allows you to read books from various public domain and DRM free sources, as well as load ePubs and ereader books via USB. Well, scratch the USB bit as of last night’s update. [...]

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News December 10, 2009
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Amazon Introduces “Disc+ On Demand” System

‘On demand’ video systems are great to allow you to watch something immediately, but if you want to go back the following day or week or month and watch it again … you have to pay again. Buying a DVD is great because it means you can watch the movie whenever you want, but it [...]

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