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A great hour-long interview with Jeff Bezos, mostly centered on the new Amazon Kindle e-book reader but with other interesting tidbits on innovation in general. 101 of 112 current New York Times Bestsellers Represents all major publishers Most new releases are $9.99 (although I want to read “War and Peace” and that one is only [...]
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The article is here: In October, the online retailer Amazon.com will unveil the Kindle, an electronic book reader that has been the subject of industry speculation for a year, according to several people who have tried the device and are familiar with Amazon’s plans. The Kindle will be priced at $400 to $500 and will [...]
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As bloggers and news agencies are starting to realize, Amazon.com is currently testing a navigation redesign. Just head on over to Amazon to check it out. If you see the older tabbed design, clear your Amazon cookies and go back to the site repeatedly until you see the new design. Either way, I believe the [...]
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Many moons ago, about 1,780 of them to be exact, I used to manage much of the Amazon.com customer review process, the stuff you don’t see from the front-end of the site – the moderation and maintenance of tons of reviews on millions of products. It was a fun job and I learned a ton [...]
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Several folks have been asking me to put together one of these “top 10″ lists for a while. The whole exercise was significantly more challenging than I thought it would be. I tried to use each author only once. Please feel free to post you own “top 10″ lists in the comments. I’d love to [...]
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Perhaps the reason I’m so excited about this is that I was already planning on purchasing a TiVo TCD648250B Series3 HD Digital Media Recorder within the next several months (please, please let the price keep coming down) and these features just increase the value proposition of that purchase, but I also think the slickness of [...]
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I just found out about a coordinated technical effort to track down the missing Jim Gray – and we can all take part. For those of you who haven’t heard, Jim Gray disappeared at sea January 28th, apparently on a trip to spread his mother’s ashes. While the Coast Guard has had to call off [...]
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