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Opinion: Will New Kindle Kill the Book?

(Aug. 27) -- To the delight of eager e-book readers, Amazon's new Kindle started shipping this week. But as the popularity of e-books climbs, so does the corresponding anxiety among book lovers about the future of traditional hardcover or paperback books. To some readers, the announcement by Amazon.com that Kindle...

Can E-Readers Stop the Demise of Book Reading?

(Dec. 11) -- For decades, the number of Americans who read books has been in decline. But with the emergence of hand-held devices such as Amazon's Kindle, Barnes & Noble's Nook and the Sony Reader, that sad story may be heading for a happier, more literate ending. According to recent findings released by the National...

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After 5 Years Of Bootstrapping, Behance Nabs $6.5M From USV, Jeff Bezos, Dave Morin & More

At the end of March, we covered Behance's major site redesign , at which point we learned that the startup was launching over 20K new projects every week, with 1 million projects created to date, and its network had doubled over the last month, with 10 million visits to its network in the last 30 days.

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The Baffling Mystery That Is Amazon.com

A couple months ago, realizing it would be futile to hold out any longer against the tsunami of pop cultural peer pressure, I decided to go ahead and read The Hunger Games.

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Blue Origin dishes more details on its Bezos-backed spacecraft

Blue Origin typically keeps pretty tight-lipped about its projects.

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Blue Origin, Jeff Bezos' Private Spaceflight Firm, Bets On Reusable Rockets

Blue Origin wants to fly under the radar all the way into space.

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Death To The Gatekeepers: Bezos Talks Innovation In The Publishing Space

The heart of Jeff Bezos' mission has always to circumvent the traditional "gatekeepers" of commerce.

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06/01/12 The Amazon Effect Source: Publishers Weekly From the start, Jeff Bezos wanted to "get big fast."
05/31/12 Amazon's California tax squeeze Source: Columbia Journalism Review (CJR) Amazon's long run of not paying state and local sales taxes is coming to an end as legislatures finally force the Internet retailer to compete on something of a level playing field with everyone else.
05/31/12 How To Stick With It When Your Ideas Are Ahead Of... Source: Fast Company I typed this out from my Shangri-La Hotel room in downtown Sydney, overlooking the harbor and the city's famous opera house.
05/29/12 Decoding share prices: Amazon, Apple and Facebook Source: The Guardian - London - UK There are many religions when it comes to calculating the "right" price for the shares of a publicly traded company.
05/25/12 Protesters disrupt Amazon shareholders meeting Source: Jacket Copy - Los Angeles Times Amazon's traditionally quiet shareholders meeting in Seattle was disrupted by protesters Thursday who questioned the company's support of a conservative group, the American Legislative Exchange Council, and its treatment of workers, the Seattle Times reports.

Background on jeff bezos

Jeffrey Preston "Jeff" Bezos (, born January 12, 1964) is an American entrepreneur who played a key role in the growth of e-commerce as the founder and chief executive officer of Amazon.com, Inc., an online merchant of books and later of a wide variety of products.

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