Sufjan Stevens' Record Label Denounces Amazon's Bulk Discounting

By Bonnie Stiernberg at 11:51 AM on September 21, 2010

His latest album is set to drop in October, and Asthmatic Kitty, the label of our Artist of the Decade, Sufjan Stevens, is urging fans to avoid picking up a copy on Amazon....  read more

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Chuck Klosterman's Essays Available Online for 99 Cents

By Bonnie Stiernberg at 2:30 PM on September 15, 2010

Look out, iTunes. Chuck Klosterman’s coming for ya....  read more

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Amazon Offers 70% Royalties to Kindle Authors

By Kristen Callihn at 2:00 PM on January 21, 2010

Amazon isn’t making any friends in the publishing industry. The online bookseller is tempting authors away from the typical publishing model by offering them a “70% cut of the sale of e-books sold for its Kindle readers, net of digital delivery costs,” according to the Los Angeles Times. The move will no doubt add more tension to the already strained situation between Amazon and big publishers, who’ve been worried about Kindle’s low price tags affecting their profits....  read more

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YouTube Considers Charging for Primetime-TV Streaming

By Gage Henry at 1:00 PM on December 3, 2009

Without overlooking Hulu’s 50 percent traffic increase in October too much, YouTube remains the steady king of video sites, and they want to keep it that way. This is why we can expect the streaming giant to try some new things in the near future, one of them being an online movie-rental service. Now, as a slight jab to their second-place competition, YouTube may soon offer premium TV content at a small fee for users, according to Media Memo....  read more

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The 20 Best Gadgets of the Decade (2000-2009)

By Paste Staff at 7:00 AM on November 21, 2009

The new Millennium got off to a great start where the world of gadgetry was concerned...  read more

Found in: Blogs, List of the Day

The Laptop Steering Wheel Desk (Awesome of the Day)

By Josh Jackson at 10:05 AM on November 19, 2009

So the Laptop Steering Wheel Desk may have been one of the most idiotic inventions ever, but we can all still rejoice in its creation if only for the comments section on its Amazon page....  read more

Found in: Blogs, High Gravity

The Laptop Steering Wheel Desk (Awesome of the Day)

By Josh Jackson at 10:05 AM on November 19, 2009

So the Laptop Steering Wheel Desk may have been one of the most idiotic inventions ever, but we can all still rejoice in its creation if only for the comments section on its Amazon page....  read more

Found in: Blogs, Awesome of the Day

Amazon and Zappos Join Forces

By Angela Pham at 2:30 PM on July 23, 2009

Like the forested land it's named for, Amazon.com is big. Really big. Even bigger now that it has acquired Zappos, the internet's biggest online shoe retailer. News of the partnership was announced yesterday by Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh via an all-employee e-mail, and it's a bit of a shocker for all....  read more

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TuneCore and Amazon Partner for On Demand CD Service

By Rachel Dovey at 4:50 PM on May 22, 2009

While the new Kindle may not be able to pronounce our president's name, the whole digital world hasn't gone straight to hell. According to Wired, TuneCore is gearing up to partner with Amazon's on-demand CD-printing and distribution service....  read more

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Amazon's Kindle DX Release Ignites Blogging Bonfire

By Rachel Dovey at 9:11 AM on May 11, 2009

Amazon's digital reader Kindle is being heralded by the press with a mixture of fear and adoration better suited to an apocalypse than a machine. But, according to some, the Kindle could turn out to be just that for the publishing industry....  read more

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