What Amazon Is Getting From Goodreads
A community of reviewers that’s many times as active as Amazon’s.
A community of reviewers that’s many times as active as Amazon’s.
Writers Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick explain why partnering with Amazon will mean more blood and guts.
The corporate world is mining your life for juicy, personal details. Should you be paranoid? Read and decide.
Amazon’s democratization of publishing proves there’s truly something for everyone. Even if your “thing” is being sexually attracted to garden gnomes. [Warning: NSFW language.]
Catering to binge-watchers, CBS has sold rerun rights to Amazon Prime and Hulu first.
Philippe Dubost, a Paris-based product manager found a new way to sell himself to future employers: By turning his resume into a Amazon.com product page. In an email to The Today Show blog, Dubost said he’s received over 100 job offers since his resume started going viral.
Including a $550 cat hamster wheel (pictured) and “Dude Wipes.” Via the excellent The Worst Things For Sale.
The most essential luxury gadget.
So. Much. Stuff.
It’s the one part of your phone that might not be getting better. Why every major mobile company is re-creating reality from scratch.
In these trying economic times, all of us have to sacrifice… It’s only $16.50! (via regretsy.com)
“If you want to tape your dog (or cat) to the ceiling, Scotch Tape simply will not be sufficient.”
“Dear Inflatable John, I never thought it would come to this. But I fear it’s time to say good-bye.”
We’ve been promised magical tablets that would do amazing things for decades. Do the tablets we actually have live up to that?
There’s a bunch of them: a whole new Kindle Fire family, and new ereaders that are better than the current ones.. And they’re shockingly cheap.
A former employee of Amazon sent a message to its founder on Sunday, asking him to donate to a Washington state same-sex marriage referendum. She hadn't worked there since 2001. Two days later, Bezos pledged $2.5 million.
Da Bird cat toy really makes the fur fly, apparently.
If only this was real and not a parody. (via tastefullyoffensive.com)
The Big Thing in tablets is the tiny tablet — a thing that’s about 7 inches, give or take. So far, they’ve mostly felt like giant phones. But here’s what a 7-inch (or so) tablet should be like, according to some of the industry’s best interface designers.
And there’s a copy of the book you can buy for $1,111.
Amazon’s Prime Instant Video gets a little bit better all the time. There’s actually stuff I can watch now! But have you ever tried using it? Ugh.
The online retailer is pouring money into its new Gilt-esque division that specializes in high fashion clothing. Despite being better known for selling everything from gardening tools to cat trees, it has the fashion industry on edge.
Thanks to Amazon, the price of a hit ebook was $9.99, the same way hit songs cost 99 cents. But then Apple and the publishers changed all that, alleges a lawsuit brought by Justice Department.
Best Buy has never really understood the internet. And now it’s sort of dying.
The people we don’t think about when we play Angry Birds or post pictures of our brunch with Instagram.
For intstance, did you know Pepsi was named after a stomach enzyme?
Summer is coming. Every well dressed Amazon will need this when they hit the beaches of Paradise Island.
I don’t want to meet the people who viewed these items.
Even the worst movies have their fans.
And this atrocious incident is hardly an isolated case. According to statistics, from 2003 to 2010, 452 indigenous people were murdered in Brazil, though the actual number could be much higher given the intimidation that keeps isolated tribes from coming forward.