Amazon wants original comedy, children’s television ideas for Instant streaming
Is Lillyhammer not good enough for you? Is there an original programming itch that Netflix has yet to scratch? That's where Amazon comes in.
The online retailer has announced that its movie development arm, Amazon Studios,...
Amazon releases Cloud Drive desktop app for Mac and Windows
Amazon just launched its Cloud Drive app for Mac and Windows. The Amazon Cloud service unveiled last year, but now users can play with the desktop app counterpart, rather than their browser, to manage files in the cloud. Folders and files can transfer in the background, but the service does not support syncing or a...
Did Target Quit Selling Amazon Devices To Boost Its Apple Sales?
Amazon’s lineup of Kindle e-readers and tablets have been fairly successful devices for U.S. retailer Target, with the Kindle Fire becoming its best-selling tablet on Black Friday last year. However, a leaked memo has revealed that the...Amazon throws its e-book weight around. Again.
More heavy-handed behavior from the book world's 500-pound gorilla
FORTUNE -- Publishers who have had to deal with Amazon's (AMZN) arrogant reps know first hand the contempt with which they hold folks in the business of printing books on paper.
Now that the company is in the media's spotlight following the Justice Department's ass-backwards antitrust suit, the...
The Apple slingshot released: $57 billion in one clock tick
In two weeks, the company's value had been pulled down by nearly one Amazon
FORTUNE -- In the words of Jason Schwarz:
"If you can keep a good stock down then you are able to load up for the ride back up. It's like a slingshot -- the harder you pull, the more propulsion you generate." --...
Amazon Releases Free Mac App For Sending Documents To Kindle
Amazon today announced its “Send to Kindle” app for Mac users. The free tool can send documents from a Mac to registered Kindle devices (including the iOS Kindle app) wirelessly. Many...“Send to Kindle for Mac” Now Available
“Send to Kindle for Mac” Now Available Jacqui Cheng, reporting for Ars Technica: More than three months after releasing software for Windows-users to send documents to a Kindle, Amazon has now released the Mac version. Announced on Tuesday afternoon, the “Send to Kindle for Mac” application allows Mac users to wirelessly send personal documents to...
Ex-WSJ publisher: Apple’s 30% profit sharing ebook agency model is not a conspiracy
As Apple prepares to go to trial to fight the US Department of Justice's claims that the Cupertino company conspired to fix ebook prices with publishers, former publisher of the Wall Street Journal L. Gordon Crovitz has an interesting oped in today's...
Cue on agency model: ‘I don’t think you understand. We can’t treat newspapers or magazines any differently than we treat FarmVille.”
By now you probably know that the U.S. Department of Justice launched an antitrust lawsuit against Apple and two publishers this month following an investigation into Apple’s eBook pricing agency model. Three publishers, including Hachette, HarperCollins, and Simon & Schuster, decided to reach a settlement with the Department of Justice to return to Amazon’s set-your-own price wholesale...
Apple Wants Trial To Defend Against DoJ’s E-Book Pricing Allegations [Report]
The U.S. Department of Justice recently accused Apple and 5 large book publishers of conspiring to raise e-Book prices in the iBookstore. Experts said that it would be unlikely for Apple to be found as guilty of collusion, and now the Cupertino company is...Apple Wants Trial To Defend Against DoJ’s E-Book Pricing Allegations [Report]
The U.S. Department of Justice recently accused Apple and 5 large book publishers of conspiring to raise e-Book prices in the iBookstore. Experts said that it would be unlikely for Apple to be found as guilty of collusion, and now the Cupertino company is...
