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No e-book for Stephen King's new novel, 'Joyland'
In a move to bump up physical book sales, Stephen King will not release an e-book version of his new novel, "Joyland," the Wall Street Journal reports. It’s something of a radical move for the man who stood onstage with Amazon’s Jeff Bezos...
Tags: The Wall Street Journal, Amazon Kindle, Amazon.com Inc., Stephen King, Book
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Chan Lowe: The Internet sales tax
This is going to be interesting. Republican dogma unequivocally asserts that taxes stifle free enterprise. But here we have a situation where the imposition of a tax will benefit a segment of the retail universe that is a mainstay of traditional...
Tags: Republican Party, Politics, E-Commerce Industry, Elections
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Amazon reports 22% increase in Q1 revenue, 37% decline in profit
Amazon.com reported a 22% increase in revenue in the first quarter but a hefty decline in profit. For the three months ended March 31, the e-commerce behemoth said profit fell 37% to $82 million, or 18 cents a share, from $130 million, or 28 cents, a...
Tags: Global Expansion, Quarterly or Semiannual Financial Statements
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Amazon 'TV pilots' are set to fly (Part 1)
Los Angeles Times Television CriticAmazon, the online bookseller turned online department store, turned e-book-reader manufacturer, turned publisher, turned video streaming service, turning movie-and-TV studio, has posted its first 14 "TV pilots" -- six kids' shows and eight grown-up...Tags: Community (tv program), Computing and Information Technology Industry, John Goodman, Animation (Movie Genre), Entertainment
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Biblioracle: Tom Sawyer economy
Amazon has purchased the book-oriented social networking site Goodreads for an undisclosed sum. Speculation from Bloomberg Businessweek based on other social media properties (like Instagram and LinkedIn) puts the market price close to $1 billion. Other...Tags: Chicago Tribune, LinkedIn Corp., Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., Jane Austen, Authors
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Millennial Media looking past market swings to chart growth
Millennial Media's stock has lost three-fourths of its value since the Canton company went public a year ago as an established force in the mobile advertising market. Ask CEO Paul Palmieri about that, and he'll repeat what he deems wise words from a...
Tags: Marketing, Politics, Advertising, James B. Kraft, Pandora Media, Inc.
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Amazon's Jeff Bezos backs Henry Blodget with $5 million
The Securities and Exchange Commission may have booted Henry Blodget off Wall Street, but the former Merrill Lynch & Co. Internet analyst has attracted some big fans for Business Insider Inc., which he co-founded in 2007. A major endorsement for the...
Tags: U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Amazon.com Inc., Walmart
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Amazon announces it will buy book-recommendations site Goodreads
Amazon.com Inc., which started as an online bookseller before becoming the e-commerce behemoth it is today, is buying book-recommendations site Goodreads. Amazon announced the deal Thursday. The purchase price was not disclosed. Goodreads, a San...
Tags: Otis Chandler, Amazon Kindle, Amazon.com Inc., Book, Apple iPhone
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Amazon's Jeff Bezos hails recovery of some Apollo F-1 engines
Jeff Bezos: founder and CEO of Amazon.com, and now, bona fide ocean explorer. A year after vowing to send a team into the ocean to find F-1 engines from the historic Apollo 11 moon launch, Bezos announced Wednesday that the team had recovered F-1 engine...
Tags: Oceans, Petroleum Industry, Science and Technology, Neil Armstrong, Space Programs
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Google launches Keep, a note-taking app for Android devices
Google has released Keep, a convenient note-taking app for Android smartphone and tablet users. The app, which is available now on Google Play, is designed to make it easy for users to take notes and sync them across their mobile devices and on the...
Tags: Google Play, Car Safety Tips and Advice, Amazon Kindle, Amazon.com Inc., Google Inc.
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Daniel Pink says we're all salesmen in 'To Sell Is Human'
One in nine of us works in sales, according to the U.S. government. The other eight in nine of us work in... sales, according to Daniel Pink. We just don't sell it as such. "They're not stalking customers in a furniture showroom, but they — make...
Tags: Chicago Tribune, Colleges and Universities, David Mamet, Arthur Miller, The New York Times
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Organizers set to release letter from corporate backers of gay marriage
A coalition of gay marriage advocates plans to release a letter this week signed by top Illinois executives and companies endorsing same-sex marriage as an economic imperative, giving a powerful push to a bill that state lawmakers could take up as early...
Tags: Illinois Elections, Motorola Mobility, Inc., Politics, The New York Times, Chicago Tribune Columnists
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