Martin Bekkelund outlines a story from his friend Linn, who found that Amazon closed her account and wiped her extensive Kindle library, then offered only boilerplate text snippets for an explanation of why. I’ve been looking all morning for a … Read more →
Amazon Will Pay Shoppers $5 to Walk Out of Stores Empty-Handed – some website Strange world we live in. Before the internet, you’d probably get punched if you walked into a competitor’s store to hand out $5 coupons. Now Amazon’s … Read more →
The full video of Amazon’s Kindle press event from Wednesday is now online. Bezos does a good job, and I like the little touches. For example: when he describes press criticism of the original Kindle, slides display key quotes, but … Read more →
I figure this lack of branding due diligence is right up there with “Qwikster,” yeah?
Amazon Silk—Amazon’s Revolutionary Cloud-Accelerated Web Browser Amazon’s engineers built a new browser for the Kindle Fire. In the process the company took a new approach, called “Dynamic Split Browsing,” of separating certain tasks between the local hardware and the company’s … Read more →
Live Blog: Amazon’s New Tablet – Digits – WSJ Amazon has positioned its tablet well for media consumption, complete with complete cloud backup and a justified knock at Apple for taking so damn long to cut the cord. The e-ink … Read more →
Amazon’s Appstore: Rotten to the Core Amazon’s biggest feature by far, has been their Free App Of The Day promotion. Publicly their terms say that they pay developers 20% of the asking price of an app, even when they give … Read more →
Amazon Launches Kindle Textbook Rental Service, Allows Students To Store Notes In The Cloud – TechCrunch Sounds like a solid first step, but the rental price in the example TechCrunch offers is designed to screw students into buying the book … Read more →
“In other words, this isn’t an argument between two equally reasonable positions. It’s an argument between reason and emotion, between your brain and your gut. Amazon has no intellectually sound arguments against collecting taxes from residents—by all ethical and civic … Read more →
