Tag: Amazon.com

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| May 15, 2011

advice sought

Yesterday I got this email from Amazon: We’re writing about your past Kindle purchase of The Lord of the Rings by...

| October 18, 2010

unpopular highlights

Virginia Heffernan: Amazon is quick to point out that you can always disable the [Popular Highlights] feature. But...

| March 24, 2010

okay, let’s review

Jason Kottke seems to like it when Amazon reviewers give a book, or some other item, a low rating because of...

| November 30, 2009

you do this, you do that

Rachel Cooke writes, “Amazon does not set the synapses crackling the way the sight of a pristine shelf of books does:...

| July 24, 2009

how to apologize

It's rare to see a straightforward public apology with nary a weasel-word in it, but that's precisely...

| July 17, 2009

wait — where did it go?

David Pogue, from here: This morning, hundreds of Amazon Kindle owners awoke to discover that books by a certain famous...

| July 16, 2009

the DRM debate

Over at The Digitalist, there are two posts by Michael Bhaskar — here and here — on DRM: Digital Rights...

| December 28, 2008

book buying

David Streitfeld has a curious essay in the NYT about bad times for the publishing industry — publishers not buying...