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Amazon working on smartphone with 3-D display, report says
In an effort to expand beyond the world of online retailing, Amazon.com is reportedly working on a high-end smartphone that would feature a 3-D screen. The device would allow users to see 3-D images without having to wear glasses, according to the...
Tags: Amazon.com Inc., The Wall Street Journal, Amazon Kindle Fire, Newspaper and Magazine
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Used e-books for sale? Not so fast
Is it legal to sell a used e-book? A Massachusetts start-up that hopes to start selling used e-books and other used digital content this summer suffered a legal setback in court recently when a federal judge ruled that it had infringed the rights of...
Tags: Authors, Patents, Copyrights and Trademarks, Judges, Crime, Law and Justice, Justice System
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Kindle TV? Amazon reportedly working on its own set-top box
Apple and Roku's dominance in the Internet-streaming TV set-top box market might be about to get interrupted by Amazon.com, which is reportedly working on a box of its own. The giant online retailer is working on a device due later this year that...
Tags: Amazon.com Inc., Marketing, Apple TV, Auction Service, Netflix Inc.
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Nokia to hold press event May 14 in London; speculation rampant
Nokia, taking a chapter right out of Apple's playbook, is sending invitations for a press event that gives only a hint of what it might be about. It's unclear what the Finnish phone maker will unveil at the May 14 event in London, but the invitation...
Tags: Tim Cook, Verizon Communications, Computer Hardware
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Selling stuff online just got a little easier with Sold
I value money, but when it comes to the hassle of selling “stuff” online, all that comes to my mind is “Ain't nobody got time for that,” as intoned by YouTube viral sensation Sweet Brown. While you are reading this, my iPhone 4...
Tags: Amazon.com Inc., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Prices, Apple iPhone, eBay Inc.
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E-books help fuel gains in U.S. book sales in 2012
Book sales rose 6.2% last year in the U.S., thanks to the continued growth of electronic publishing, according to newly released StatShot data from the Assn. of American Publishers. Electronic books, which a decade ago represented a tiny fraction of the...
Tags: Arts and Culture, Book, Literature, Apple Inc.
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Amazon extends AutoRip perk to vinyl records
Amazon.com's AutoRip, which gives customers free digital copies of CDs they purchase, is now available for vinyl records -- including those purchased in the past. Starting Wednesday, when customers buy AutoRip-eligible vinyl records, MP3 versions of the...
Tags: Music, Bruno Mars, Entertainment, Sound Recordings, Services and Shopping
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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: Amazon.com Inc., Jeff Bezos, Book, Apple iPhone, Otis Chandler
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Amazon to buy book-focused social network Goodreads
Amazon.com Inc., which got its start as an online bookseller, went on to create the Kindle e-reader and has gotten into book publishing, is now pushing into the social side of reading. The world's largest online retailer said Thursday that it had agreed...
Tags: Jeff Bezos, Books and Magazines, Zappos.com, Authors, Book
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Amazon's purchase of Goodreads panned -- on Goodreads
Over at the social reading website Goodreads, people take pleasure in writing reviews. Usually, they write about the books they’re reading. But in the last 24 hours, many have taken to reviewing Goodreads itself, and its sale to the book behemoth...
Tags: Amazon.com Inc., Otis Chandler
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Amazon goes social, acquires Goodreads
Amazon announced Thursday that it is acquiring social reading website Goodreads. The deal, which will be finalized in a few weeks, is the most prominent acquisition of a major book-focused startup in recent years. On Thursday afternoon, Goodreads...
Tags: Amazon.com Inc., Science and Technology, Book, Steve Jobs, Otis Chandler
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Amazon creates 'Send to Kindle' button for quickly saving articles
Amazon.com has introduced a way for users to quickly save and send news articles as well as other items to their Kindle devices for later, off-line reading. "The Send to Kindle Button lets people easily send that content to their Kindle so they can it...
Tags: Apple iPhone, BlackBerry
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