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more about #amazoncom more comments → A Pimp Named DaveR: I'm not usually a harsh person, but... AT&T, I'm really not effing interested in how hard it is to do the thing FOR WHICH YOU'RE CHARGING ME MONEY. E... more » iplaudius: AT&T iPhone data plan ($30) + unlimited voice ($100) + unlimited text ($20) + GPS nav. ($10) = $160/mo. How is it even possible to have a pre-tax $1... more » Mike Byhoff: Seth is begging for a wedgie. more » Tremonius: Back in the nineties, the short megalo Gingrich drew a four million advance from Murdoch. The book was to be standard fascist drool, lists about corpo... more » DennyCrane: Sorry, but I only buy books from Teve Torbes. Or Lamar Alexander #2. more » gawkimo: Let's apply Forbes' flat-tax philosophy to this book thing, shall we? Which scenario is more of a burden to the individual in each scenario: a.) Bi... more » Borromeo: Taxpayers financing a rich man's ego-testicle delusions...what's new. more » edosan: So does that mean that if we buy The 13th Warrior we're safe from him sneaking into our houses and stealing it back? more » Magister: He apparently loves milk, with or without snickerdoodles. more » Slackferno: Bezos hates Vikings. Vikings not terribly fond of Super Saver shipping policy. more » Cheap Shot: Banderas is all kinds of fail to me. He was up there with Penelope Cruz from his Almovodar films and then he married fake ass crazy woman Melanie Grif... more » The_Lovely_Miss_Bronx: That scream you just heard came from Jeff Bezos, after Banderas' devoted and very protective wife Melanie Griffith ripped his balls off. more » edosan: "We're sorry you guys got angry. We won't do this again until the next time we decide we want to." more » deltasierra: Principles?! Amazon has principles?! Then kindly explain to me why I read in the publishing trade papers that Amazon is patenting software to insert... more » raincoaster: So he SAYS. You just wait and see: this time next year the big story will be how Bezos broke into ten thousand homes and took back their Keds. more » -
#printisdead
Old Media's E-Reader Saviors: A Comprehensive Guide
Barnes & Noble is making an e-reader; Gizmodo published the first pictures today. With similar media-tech fusions out or anticipated from Amazon.com, Apple, Hearst, Time Inc. and others, it's tough to keep track. No worries; here's a list. More » -
#apologies
Today's the Day for Tech Companies to Issue Hushed Apologies
The best time to say "sorry" to your customers is when no one else will hear you say it. That seems to be the thinking at Google, Amazon and AT&T, which are all ready to grovel to you, today. More » -
#forbes
Steve Forbes' Desperation For Bestseller Credibility: Having Employees Expense His Book
You'd think Steve Forbes would be content having his name slathered all over his various properties. You'd be wrong, because Forbes wants to be the author of a bestseller, too. Badly. Badly enough to spend company money buying his book. More » -
#commenters
Jeff Bezos Review: Do Not Buy This Thing I Sell, Ever
Jeff Bezos recently apologized for corporate wrongdoing via his Amazon.com profile, allowing the CEO's customers to quickly investigate what he thinks of his own products. Mostly, he raves. One, however, is total crap, and Bezos thinks you should know. More » -
#takebacks
Amazon.com Sorry For Stealing Your Kindle Books, Being Creepy
Hey, remember that time Jeff Bezos snuck in to your place and stole from your bookshelf that one time, before silently slipping away into the night? The Amazon.com CEO feels awful.
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#flackery
Amazon Buys Zappos, Gives Press the Boot
Amazon.com bought Zappos, the beloved online retailer of shoes, for $920 million, mostly in stock. Amazon's announcement was as direct as its business model; while reporters were calling the company in vain, CEO Jeff Bezos was dishing via YouTube. More » -
#books
Deleting is Publishing, And Amazon Never Removed 1984 From Your Kindle
Is Amazon.com just trying to be creepy? It's already headed by a "chuckling maniac" being sued over defective Kindles and swindling newspapers on the e-book reader. Now his company is quietly deleting people's Kindle books. It's Orwellian. Literally. More » -
#ebookwars
Simon & Schuster Sticks It to Amazon, Partners With Scribd
Simon & Schuster will announce today that it's struck a deal with Scribd.com to make around 5000 digital titles available for sale on the site, a move that sends a clear "screw you" message to Amazon and their little Kindle. More » -
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#science
Jeff Bezos Wants Your Baby's Brains
What will Amazon.com CEO Jeff Bezos do next, after launching his grand Kindle swindle on the newspapers? He's aiming to get inside your offspring's heads! More » -
#printisdead
A Bigger Kindle Makes Jeff Bezos Richer and Newspapers Poorer
Amazon.com CEO Jeff Bezos unveiled the Kindle DX, a large-screen e-reader, today at the site of the New York Times's former headquarters in Lower Manhattan. The message: He's the future and newspapers are the past. More » -
#printisdead
Why the Large-Format Kindle Is Not a Life Raft for Newspapers
Terminal patients often suffer colorful delusions. But none is as cruel as the fantasy Amazon.com has kindled among dying ink-stained wretches, who believe a magical electronic reading device will cure what ails magazines and newspapers. More » -
#amazonfail
Twitter Meets Mass Hysteria
Now that it appears that last weekend's Amazon-banning gay-books Twitter storm was much ado about nothing, Clay Shirky has an insightful essay, "The Failure of #amazonfail," about why it's hard to let the outrage go. More » -
#flackery
Amazon.com Says 'Embarrassing' Error, Not Hacker, Censored 57,310 Gay Books
After gay-themed titles disappeared from Amazon.com's search results this weekend, everyone looked for someone to blame. One hacker took credit. Some faulted an Amazon engineer in France. One source thinks it was the Conficker worm.
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#censorship
Why It Makes Sense That a Hacker's Behind Amazon's Big Gay Outrage
Twitter had a big tizzy yesterday over Amazon.com's supposed censorship of gay and lesbian titles, did you hear? Just one problem: A well-known hacker has come forward and claimed the whole thing was his prank. More » -
#flackery
Why Amazon Can't Just Call Gay Blacklist a 'Glitch'
(UPDATED) After stripping sales rankings from a variety of gay-themed books, from romance novels to histories, Amazon.com now blames "a glitch" for the changes and promises a fix. Good luck selling that line. More » -
#books
These Books Too Gay for Amazon
(UPDATED) As if it wasn't hellacious enough working customer support for Amazon.com on Easter, the online book store's reps must now explain why gay romances (and other books) are too "adult" to rank. More » -
#armchairgeneral
Why Amazon.com Should Buy Digg
Digg needs to sell itself. Kevin Rose's headline-voting site is drowning; the more popular it gets, the more red ink it generates. But who needs a bunch of news stories rated? Here's an idea: Amazon.com. More » -
#copyfight
Wacky Discovery Founder Sues Amazon.com over Kindle
Discovery Communications, the owner of cable channels like FitTV and Animal Planet, is suing Amazon.com, maker of the Kindle, over an electronic-books patent taken out by its founder and CEO, John Hendricks, years ago. More » -
#ebooks
Esquire Editor Admires the Kindle, or At Least the Hearst Replacement
Esquire editor David Granger loves the Amazon Kindle. Sort of. The e-book reader gives him hope that Internet-shortened attention spans will lengthen enough to spark a renaissance in books and magazines. He's utterly delusional. More »
