Amazon's Supply Chain: When You've Got the Monopoly, You Set the Records

By Caleb Hannan

Seattle Weekly | January 4, 2010

Tech writers working this past holiday weekend were blessed with a last-minute gift from Jeff Bezos: On Dec. 26, Amazon issued a press release proudly trumpeting the fact that on Christmas Day, for the first time ever, its online superstore sold more electronic books than regular books.

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How to Save Booksnew

You may remember such classics as "How the Internet Slaughtered Newspapers" and "How Napster Decimated the Music Business." It's always the same story: Digitalization destroys profits. Whether it's newspapers, magazines, CDs or books ("pBooks," they call them now), the electronic assault on tangible media follows a familiar pattern.

Maui Time Weekly | Ted Rall | 02-15-2012 | Books

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Amazon to Begin Taxing Online Sales in Indiananew

Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels announced Monday that the state and Amazon.com have reached an agreement for the leading web retailer to begin collecting taxes on online sales.

NUVO | Jessica Wray | 01-09-2012 | Business & Labor

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Borders is Bankrupt. Will Books Survive?new

The next time you walk past the empty ghost store where your local Borders used to be, you may ask yourself: Are we becoming a post-literate society?

Maui Time Weekly | Ted Rall | 02-17-2011 | Media

Tags: Amazon, Books, Borders, Kindle

Apple's New iPad is Poised to Change the World of Publishing — Possiblynew

I can't tell you definitively whether or not the device will, in fact, change the future of publishing, or save newspapers and magazines, or, on the flip side, decimate bookstores and libraries Heck if I know. No one knows. Yet.

Colorado Springs Independent | Jill Thomas | 03-25-2010 | Tech