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Amazon and Zappos Join Forces
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
Found in: Culture, NewsTuneCore and Amazon Partner for On Demand CD Service
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
Found in: Culture, NewsAmazon's Kindle DX Release Ignites Blogging Bonfire
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
Found in: Books, NewsAmazon and Google make books extra portable
It looks as though you can all but throw out the library card that's been hiding behind all of the other plastic in your wallet. With the announcement of Amazon's 230,000-plus Kindle e-book titles being formatted for your cellphone, the idea of actually going to the library is one step closer to becoming completely obsolete.... read more
Found in: Books, NewsSpringsteen tirelessly keeps working to promote his Dream
Having trouble keeping track of all of Bruce Springsteen's activities lately? You're not alone. The Boss has been incrementally promoting the crap out of his new album, Working on a Dream, due Jan. 27.... read more
Found in: Music, NewsBruce Springsteen premieres song via MySpace/Amazon
In October, Bruce Springsteen premiered the title song of his new record, Working on a Dream, at a Barack Obama rally in Ohio. A few weeks later, we got a partial preview of the album version during a "Sunday Night Football" halftime highlight reel. Now, the Boss has put out another teaser for the Jan. 27 release, in conjunction with MySpace Music and Amazon.com.... read more
Found in: Music, NewsUnglued: Only Played Once!
Trawling Amazon’s used CD listings, Paste noticed a startling trend. If the comments sections are to be trusted, incredible numbers of music fans are buying albums, playing them exactly one time, and then whisking them off to the land of eCommerce. To get to the bottom of this phenomenon, we embarked on a rigorous series of fake interviews with these hasty sellers, to find out why a certain album graced their CD player exactly once, and not a moment more.... read more
Found in: Music, FeaturesT-Mobile G1 debuts with access to Amazon's 6 million tracks
If Apple's iPhone was the opening shot in the battle for cellphone dominance, the return volley has just been issued from a superpower no less mighty: Google. In the spirit of American entrepreneurship the Silicon Valley behemoth has swaggered onto the scene to offer up the debut model of their own touch-based cellphone: the G1 Android.... read more
Found in: Music, NewsAmazon.com launches IMDb-like band database
Say you find yourself cruising Amazon.com one midnight dreary, browsing new music and scoping out rare EPs, when suddenly you find a band you've never heard of before. You're intrigued, but first you have to do some essential fact-checking to make sure that you're not accidentally copping some Creed cover record (perish the thought). But what a pain! You've got to open a new tab, browse Last.fm, and then refer back to the Amazon page. You call that 21st century technology? We want everything now! You can sleep a little bit easier tonight, brave internaut, because Amazon is about to... read more
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