E-books: Amazon

competes with publishers; exclusives
e-books, books, music, ...
leveraging user purchasing history of all items
subscriptions
See also: Tablets & eReaders: Kindle; amazon.com
Amazon, Google on collision course in 2013 12/23/2012
Amazon Book Reviews Deleted in a Purge Aimed at Manipulation 12/22/2012
Amazon launches Kindle Singles in the UK 12/21/2012
China investigating Amazon's e-book business did Amazon flout local laws by piggybacking on the sales license of its Chinese partner, Chineseall.com; 12/14/2012
Amazon launches Kindle apps and e-bookstore in China, hinting at imminent Kindle arrival 12/13/2012
Amazon Publishing takes on Europe 11/28/2012
The Cult of Amazon: How a Bookseller Invented the Future of Computing Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2); 11/27/2012
Why did Amazon turn off buy buttons on Big 6 ebooks last night? "technical issues"; 11/9/2012
Booksellers Resisting Amazon?s Disruption 11/4/2012
Amazon to be stripped of tax advantage on sale of ebooks European commission tells Luxembourg to end VAT loophole, a decision that could close the gap with British ebook prices; 10/24/2012
Amazon brings Kindle Store to Japan, puts Paperwhite and Kindle Fire up for pre-order 10/24/2012
Amazon makes UK publishers pay 20% VAT on ebook sales Luxembourg-based company profits from European tax anomaly, itself paying only 3% VAT on digital books sold to UK readers; 10/21/2012
Amazon Struggles to Crack Publishing retailer boycott; 10/17/2012
Amazon debuts Whispercast service, lets organizations manage Kindles and Kindle content 10/17/2012
Amazon?s Next Big Business Is Selling You Amazon knows what you?ve bought, and has a pretty good idea of what you might want to buy next; 10/16/2012
Amazon Releases Kindle?s Lending Library In UK, Germany, France With 200,000 Books, Increases KDP Royalty Fund Amazon Prime members; 10/11/2012
Amazon delves into book subscriptions with Kindle Serials 9/6/2012
Amazon NY signs deal to sell its ebooks through other retailers 8/29/2012
Kindle-exclusive ebooks get lots of business 180,000 titles; 8/28/2012
Amazon?s Kindle hits stores in India as digital bookstore launches with over 1 million titles 8/22/2012
OneHundredFreeBooks Serves Up Free Kindle EBooks Every Hour 7/2/2012
More on eBooks Amazon; 6/13/2012
Amazon, Publisher Settle Digital Books Dispute Independent Publishers Group; 5/25/2012
Zero Dollar Books Shows You All the Best Selling Kindle Ebooks Currently Available for Free 5/9/2012
Voldemort?s Got Nothing On Jeff Bezos large publishers & DRM unnecessary; 4/21/2012
Amazon?s Jungle Logic (best-selling authors react to Amazon's attack on independent booksellers); 12/13/2011
Amazon, Now a Book Lender Kindle Owners Who Subscribe to Prime Service Will Be Able to Borrow E-Titles (1/month; 5,000 titles; 'Netflix-style'); 11/3/2011
In a Battle of the E-Readers, Booksellers Spurn Superheroes (Amazon deal with DC Comics); 10/19/2011
Booksellers are wary as Amazon tries to have it all 8/8/2011
Amazon?s Bid For The (UK) Book Depository: User Backlash And Regulatory Inquiry 7/5/2011
Find free and discounted Kindle e-books: eReaderIQ.com 4/8/2011

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