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How To Easily Proofread And Edit Your Own eBook

7 July, 2017 // 7 Comments

You've finally written the last word of your manuscript, and it's all done and dusted. You're now a fully fledged writer! However, after the writing comes the editing, and that's where some writers [Read More ...]

Amazon Offers Prime Discount for Some US Customers Receiving Government Aid

6 June, 2017 // 3 Comments

Amazon is now discounting Prime for customers receiving certain types of government aid. (Corporations, farm subsidy recipients, and mortgage holders will not benefit.) On Tuesday Amazon said it [Read More ...]

Apple Launches HomePod Speaker to Bring Siri Into the Living Room

5 June, 2017 // 6 Comments

Apple is finally taking Alexa, which is available on a wide variety of hardware, seriously. On Monday Apple introduced the HomePod speaker to compete with Amazon.com Inc's Alexa assistant and Echo [Read More ...]

Apple Set to Expand Siri, Taking Different Route from Amazon’s Alexa

5 June, 2017 // 0 Comments

With its broad device support and constantly expanding skill set, Alexa its beating is competitors Cortana, Siri, and Google Home in the virtual assistant market. But it is still early days yet, and [Read More ...]

Amazon B&M in New York City

28 May, 2017 // 6 Comments

by Rickard Hollick Amazon’s new bricks and mortar store in Manhattan is on the third floor of the Time Warner Center. A few years ago we had a large Borders bookshop in this building, but of course [Read More ...]

Amazon Trounces Rivals in Battle of the Shopping Bots

12 May, 2017 // 2 Comments

Knowledge is power. This truism is why everyone in publishing reads the Author Earnings Report, and it is also why online retailers use bots to track their competitors' prices. Or rather, why they [Read More ...]

Amazon Cuts Free Shipping Minimum to $25

9 May, 2017 // 5 Comments

Amazon.com said on Tuesday it cut the threshold for free shipping to $25 from $35, upping the ante against Wal-Mart in a hotly contested battle for e-commerce supremacy. Amazon already offers free [Read More ...]

Amazon Sweeps US Market for Voice-Controlled Speakers: Study

8 May, 2017 // 0 Comments

The tablet market may be following the ereader market into a semi-permanent decline, but the smart home appliances market is still growing. And Amazon is in the perfect position to take advantage. [Read More ...]

EU Accepts Amazon eBook Commitments to Settle Antitrust Case

4 May, 2017 // 2 Comments

The most-favored-nation clause is a tool invented by Apple and used by Amazon to prevent being undercut by price competition. It is on house arrest in the European ebook market for the next five [Read More ...]

Amazon’s First-Quarter Revenue, Profit Beat Estimates

27 April, 2017 // 0 Comments

Amazon on Thursday reported first-quarter revenue and profit above expectations as sales at its retail and cloud-computing businesses increased, sending shares up more than 4 percent in extended [Read More ...]

Not Sure What to Wear? Amazon’s Algorithms May Help

27 April, 2017 // 0 Comments

Amazon wants to help you choose what to wear. The technology and retailing behemoth on Wednesday unveiled a voice-controlled camera, the Echo Look, and an app that recommends which of two outfits is [Read More ...]

EU Lawmakers Add Spotify and iTunes to Ban on Geo-Blocking

26 April, 2017 // 1 Comment

Do you know how Amazon tacks on surcharges in the Kindle Store for certain countries but not others? That practice is going to end soon - in the European Union, at least. European Union lawmakers [Read More ...]

Amazon Releases Chatbot Tools in Race to Dominate Voice-Powered Tech

20 April, 2017 // 0 Comments

Last week Amazon announced that they were making the Echo's unique compound microphone tech available to developers. Now it's doing the same with the entire platform. Amazon's CTO is working toward [Read More ...]

Thirteen Great Tools That Will Make Your Writing Shine

15 April, 2017 // 5 Comments

Writing is hard, even at the best of times. Putting down your thoughts in an orderly and compelling manner can be excruciating, so much so that trying to keep track of grammar, spelling, and other [Read More ...]

Amazon Inks Deal to Buy Souq.com

29 March, 2017 // 4 Comments

Amazon has almost no presence in the Middle East, andfor example it doesn't even sell ebooks in much of the region. But both of those details are bound to change with the purchase of Souq.com. [Read More ...]

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davemich on On eBooks Being a Dead FormatSo, some years ago Amazon announced that they were selling more ebooks than they were print books. But this guy
Smart Debut Author on Stop Blaming Amazon for the Actions of ConsumersMany of the comments above all suffer from the same serious logic flaw. Amazon ever-growing publishing industry dominance has ABSOLUTELY
Maria (BearMountainBooks) on Stop Blaming Amazon for the Actions of ConsumersAmazon has also changed how and when they show indie books--they now pretty much suggest you buy ads if you
Marion Gropen on Stop Blaming Amazon for the Actions of ConsumersYou are right, of course, that the true monopsony is a buyer, and that Amazon is only a distribution channel.
Allen F on Stop Blaming Amazon for the Actions of ConsumersWhat far too many people are missing is Amazon is trying to be/become the consumers' one-stop-shop for everything/anything (thus the
Isaac on Sony DPT-RP1 Hacked, Now Runs Android 5.1, Doubles as a Monitor (video)Why is it so hard to make a decent android powered eReader? 10-13in,high resolution, recent version of Android (probably with
Nate Hoffelder on Stop Blaming Amazon for the Actions of ConsumersMy problem with her arguments is that it assumes the current number of players is static, that Amazon cannot be