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Business Wire (Free subscription) | 13 hours ago
SEATTLE & NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) and Penguin Group (USA) (NYSE: PSO) today announced the third annual Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award, the international competition seeking the next popular novel. For the first time, the competition will award two grand prizes: one for general fiction and one for best young adult novel. The 2010 competition will...
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Madd Money (Free subscription) | 12/04/2009
“This is one of the most despised bull markets ever,” Jim Cramer said on a recent “Mad Money” TV show. Despite all of the bearishness, Cramer said there is one stock that has more than 74 points of upside. That stock is Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN), a stock the bears don’t like, but also a stock [...]
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24/7 Wall St. (Free subscription) | 12/03/2009
It is impossible to argue against the success of Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) as a company, and it is also impossible to say that the stock is not on fire. After all, 52-week highs AND all-time highs are the greatest measurement a stock can get. The problem herein is that this last run has so [...]
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Business Wire (Free subscription) | 12/03/2009
SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) today announced the new Textbooks Trade-In program, which allows customers to exchange used textbooks in return for an Amazon.com gift card. Available year-round, the Textbooks Trade-In program will offer students the ability to trade in textbooks they no longer need for a great price. For more information about the Textbooks...
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Resource Shelf (Free subscription) | 12/02/2009
From the Bloomberg Story: Amazon.com Inc., the world’s largest online retailer, failed to persuade a federal judge to withdraw his preliminary approval of a settlement between Google Inc. and groups of authors and publishers over a digital book library. U.S. District Judge Denny Chin in New York yesterday rejected Amazon.com’s argument that the settlement is...
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Reuters UK (Free subscription) | 12/02/2009
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A former Amazon.com Inc worker has sued the online retailer, saying it shorts as many as 21,000 warehouse workers nationwide on overtime pay.
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p2pnet (Free subscription) | 7 hours ago
5 major publishers to take on Amazon LA Times Five major publishers — Conde Nast Publications, Hearst Corp., Meredith Corp., News Corp. and Time Inc. — announced Tuesday that they would join forces to develop an online storefront to rival Amazon.com Inc. The companies — which publish such titles as Sports Illustrated, the Wall Street Journal, [...]
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MediaBistro.com (Free subscription) | 10 hours ago
Amazon.com, Inc. (AMZN) and Penguin Group USA are teaming up for the third annual Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award--adding a prize for best young adult novel alongside the competition's usual grand prize for general fiction. In another rule change, the 2010 competition will permit novels that have been previously self-published. Authors can submit their work from Jan. 25, 2010 until Feb....
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Nerd World (Free subscription) | 11 hours ago
Five of the nation's largest publishers of newspapers and magazines are teaming up to challenge Amazon.com Inc.'s Kindle electronic-book reader with their own technology that would display in color and work on a variety of devices. Time Inc., News Corp., Conde Nast, Hearst Corp., and Meredith Corp., whose magazines include Time, Cosmopolitan and Better Homes and [...]
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L. A. Times Dodgers Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
Conde Nast Publications, Hearst Corp., Meredith Corp., News Corp. and Time Inc. plan to join forces to develop an online storefront for their content. Five major publishers -- Conde Nast Publications, Hearst Corp., Meredith Corp., News Corp. and Time Inc. -- announced Tuesday they will join forces to develop an online storefront to rival Amazon.com Inc.
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Tampa Bay Online (Free subscription) | yesterday
Five of the nation's largest publishers of newspapers and magazines plan to challenge Amazon.com Inc.'s Kindle electronic-book reader with their own digital format that would display in color and work on a variety of devices.
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San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | yesterday
Five of the nation's largest publishers of newspapers and magazines are announcing a joint venture to develop a digital newsstand for portable devices that would rival the system Amazon.com Inc. has made for its Kindle reader. Time Inc., News Corp., Conde... Newspaper - Time Inc - Amazon.com - News Corporation - Joint venture
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Boston Globe (Free subscription) | yesterday
LOS ANGELES - Five of the nation’s largest publishers of newspapers and magazines are teaming up to challenge Amazon.com Inc.’s Kindle electronic book reader with their own technology that would display in color and work on a variety of devices.
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Examiner (Free subscription) | yesterday
Five of the nation's largest publishers of newspapers and magazines plan to challenge Amazon.com Inc.'s Kindle electronic-book reader with their own digital format that would display in color and work on a variety of devices.
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San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | yesterday
Five of the nation's largest publishers of newspapers and magazines plan to challenge Amazon.com Inc.'s Kindle electronic-book reader with their own digital format that would display in color and work on a variety of devices. Time Inc., News Corp., Conde...
