Amazon’s heavily-hyped e-reader, the Kindle, has finally released an international version and will be available in Australia this month. Why would you want one? Imagine buying, downloading and reading a new-release book, without getting out of bed. Exactly.
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The rise and rise of Amazon.com
Online retailer Amazon.com has long been the go-to site for cheap books, but the company has now sprawled into just about every product and market imaginable — and smaller stores, both real and virtual, just can’t compete. But is it a win for consumers or a loss for the free market?
Publisher: e-readers will kill books
CEO of French publishing group Hachette Livre, Arnaud Nourry, says digital books could kill off the market for print editions, with retailers selling electronic titles at a loss to keep prices so low, hardback books can’t compete.
Charting Amazon’s acquisitions
With news that online retail giant Amazon has bought out the slightly-less-giant online retailer Zappos for $920m, Meet the Boss have drawn up a handy chart tracking their ongoing global domination.
What the auto industry can learn from the Apple Store
Here’s a novel idea: get rid of car yards, and only manufacture cars on demand. So crazy it just might work?
#amazonfail: With book monopolies like these, no-one is safe
On Easter Sunday, weird things happened at uberbookseller Amazon, when the site suddenly reclassified certain titles as containing “adult” content.
