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Lady Gaga Sells 1.1M Born This Way in First Week

Amazon deal helps album hit milestone

(Newser) - Lady Gaga's new album Born This Way has zoomed to mega-hit status with sales of 1.11 million copies in its first week, making it the hottest-selling debut for an album since 50 Cent's The Massacre in 2005, according to Billboard . Only 17 albums in the last 20...

Amazon.com: Cambridge, Massachusetts Is Most 'Well-Read' City in US
 Best-Read 
 City in US: 
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SAYS AMAZON
May 26, 2011 10:35 AM CDT

Best-Read City in US: Cambridge

Home of Harvard has most Amazon book purchases per capita

(Newser) - No surprise here: College towns are prime spots for readers, according to a new study released today by Amazon. The online giant ranked Cambridge, Mass., home to Harvard and MIT, as the country's most well-read city. In second place was Alexandria, Va., which hosts George Washington University. Amazon's...

Lady Gaga Eats David Letterman's 'Late Show' Note Cards; Fans Topple Amazon Servers (VIDEO)
 Gaga Eats Dave's Note Cards 
May 24, 2011 8:24 AM CDT

Gaga Eats Dave's Note Cards

Plus, eager fans bring down Amazon servers

(Newser) - While addressing rumors about herself last night on the Late Show , Lady Gaga grabbed one of David Letterman’s note cards, ripped it up, and then … ate it. Dave, who had previously expressed concern over Gaga’s admission that she really did once eat a Barbie doll head (“...

Gaga Sells New Album for 99 Cents

Amazon.com 'Born This Way' offer also includes Cloud storage

(Newser) - Happy Monday, Lady Gaga fans: Visit Amazon.com today and you can purchase the singer’s new album, Born This Way, for just 99 cents. Of course, that’s a digital download—not a physical CD—but it also includes 20GB of Amazon’s Cloud Drive storage, Mashable reports. But...

Bristol's Memoir Yanked Off Amazon.com

Palin: I'll probably run for office someday

(Newser) - Bristol Palin's memoir has mysteriously vanished from Amazon.com's listings nearly as fast as it appeared. A pre-order page for an "Untitled Bristol Palin Memoir" to be released in June was available earlier this week but now appears to have been pulled, AP reports. A publicist at HarperCollins, Bristol's...

Amazon Yanks E-Book on How to Exploit Rankings: Author

But, lucky for you, it's back up for sale now

(Newser) - Amazon.com claimed it would be censorship to stop selling a how-to guide for pedophiles (although it eventually relented and removed the book )—but it reportedly had no problem yanking a book that slammed the company’s own product, the Kindle. In The Day the Kindle Died , Thomas Hertog...

Amazon Denies Hackers Behind Outages

Company's European sites taken offline for 30 minutes yesterday

(Newser) - Amazon says hardware problems, not attacks from pro-WikiLeaks hackers , caused its European sites to shut down on one of the busiest shopping days of the year. The company's British, French, German, Austrian, and Italian sites were down for about half an hour last night, the BBC reports. The "hacktivist"...

Google's 'Open' E-Books? Not So Open
Google's 'Open' E-Books?
Not So Open
OPINION
Dec 9, 2010 12:31 PM CST

Google's 'Open' E-Books? Not So Open

In fact, Amazon e-books will soon be more open

(Newser) - Google is making quite a big deal about the "openness" of its e-books , but Farhad Manjoo has news for you: "Google's e-books are 'open' in the same way that politicians are 'bipartisan' and oil companies are 'green,'" he writes on Slate . "Open" certainly sounds good, when...

On Black Friday, $89 Kindles
 On Black Friday, $89 Kindles 
Nov 24, 2010 6:48 AM CST

On Black Friday, $89 Kindles

Amazon.com announces deal on Facebook

(Newser) - There's no need to leave your house to snag a killer Black Friday deal, like the one Amazon just announced: a Kindle e-reader for $89. The site disclosed the deal on its Facebook page, David Carnoy reports for CNET . The only catch: You can only get the previous generation (Amazon's...

Another Pedophile Book Still for Sale on Amazon

'Understanding Loved Boys and Boylovers' has drawn complaints for years

(Newser) - The Pedophile's Guide to Love and Pleasure has been removed from Amazon's e-book store—but a similar book remains for sale. Understanding Loved Boys and Boylovers (which, disturbingly, has a 2.5 star rating) is described in Amazon's review of the book as such: "Defensive in tone and amateurishly...

Pedophile's Guide No Longer for Sale...

...but only after sales shot up 101,000% in less than a day

(Newser) - Outrage over The Pedophile’s Guide to Love and Pleasure may have convinced Amazon.com to stop selling the book, despite the company’s initial insistence that to do so would be “censorship.” The controversial e-book is no longer available on the site, Gawker notes, though it’...

Twitter Users Slam Amazon Over 'Pedophile's Guide'

Retailer refuses to censor e-book

(Newser) - Amazon has come under fire for selling a Kindle version of The Pedophile's Guide to Love and Pleasure. On the book's Amazon page, the author explains it is "my attempt to make pedophile situations safer for those juveniles that find themselves involved in them, by establishing certian (sic) rules...

Most Influential of 2010: Zuck
 Most Influential of 2010: Zuck 
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Sep 4, 2010 10:40 AM CDT

Most Influential of 2010: Zuck

Facebook founder tops Steve Jobs, Rupert Murdoch

(Newser) - Frighteningly enough, Mark Zuckerberg tops Vanity Fair 's list of this year's most influential people of the Information Age. The top 5 of its 100:
  1. Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook: His company is valued at around $25 billion, has more than 500 million members, runs 176 billion banner ads a month, and
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Apple, Amazon Joining Battle for Your TV

Apple to announce revamped version of Apple TV with Netflix

(Newser) - Amazon and Apple are both planning major pushes into the online TV business, insiders say. Apple will announce today a new set-top box that will deliver TV to consumers and include movies from Netflix, reports Bloomberg . Apple will offer 99-cent rentals of TV shows through its revamped, $99 version of...

Kindle Book Sales Overtake Hardcovers: Amazon

Even with iPad competition, sales of devices rise

(Newser) - Amazon is selling more books as Kindle downloads than as hardcovers, CNET reports . In the past month, the website sold 180 Kindle books for each 100 hardbacks. CEO Jeff Bezos calls the shift "astonishing, when you consider that we've been selling hardcover books for 15 years and Kindle books...

Real Housewife Slags Critic on Amazon, Gets Caught

Jill Zarin isn't very good at using fake identities

(Newser) - Note to Jill Zarin: Next time you anonymously plug your own book on Amazon.com, perhaps you should not list your real birthday on your fake profile. Also not a good idea: Linking your fake profile to a wish list with items on it for your real husband and daughter....

Another E-Book Publisher Challenges Amazon

Hachette is third major house to push for higher, iPad-style prices

(Newser) - Hachette has joined Macmillan—and, seemingly, HarperCollins—in demanding control over the pricing of its e-books sold through Amazon, a move apparently sparked by Apple’s more flexible model for titles that will appear on its iPad. Hachette sent a letter to agents yesterday announcing it would seek an Apple-style...

Amazon Offers Kindle Authors Whopping 70% Royalty

Pressures publishers to accept lower prices

(Newser) - In a bid to boost its ebook business, Amazon is now offering authors and publishers 70% of every sale of a title for the Kindle. The move more than quadruples the standard royalty of 15% or less, to put more in writers' pockets even as the price of their books...

E-Readers Abound, But Market Looks Gloomy

Many believe the era of dedicated gadgets is almost over

(Newser) - This year’s Consumer Electronics Show has seen the unveiling of a raft of new e-readers, but the would-be Kindle and Nook competitors could have a hard go of it. First off, some are pretty pricey—that Plastic Logic Que will cost $649 without 3G, or $799 with an AT&...

Wal-Mart Fights Amazon With Free Pickup at Stores

40% of online shoppers avoid shipping costs

(Newser) - Wal-Mart’s finally putting a dent in Amazon’s e-tailing dominance, thanks, ironically, to its ubiquitous brick-and-mortar outlets. Wal-Mart now allows online shoppers to pick up their goods at the physical store of their choice, avoiding paying shipping. It’s an old concept, but Wal-Mart’s got the stores to...

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