Amazon Reviews: A Rumpus Roundup
Amazon filed suit against more than a thousand fake reviewers earlier this week. Amazon is going after reviewers who sold their reviews for $5 on Fiverr, an online platform for minor…
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This Week in Indie Bookstores
The Canadian bookstore that discovered a hundred-year-old photo album has solved the mystery of the photos’ origin. They belonged to an Edmonton man born in 1919. San Francisco is a…
Unlocking the eBook
Craig Mod writes for Aeon on ebooks’ technological stagnation: …it was a stark reminder that pliancy of media invites experimentation. When media is too locked down, too rigid, when it’s…
The Price of Instant Gratification
In their continued quest to conquer the world, Amazon has quietly launched a new program, called Amazon Flex, which hires contract delivery drivers on demand, much like Über. Read more…
Weekly Geekery
Your divine visions are in your head. When online feedback shapes a story. Mischief and math in Amazon’s book pricing. The processes of empathy.
A Look Back at Amazon’s Twenty Years
Publisher’s Weekly has a retrospective on Amazon.com’s 20 years of selling books, DVDs, electronics, and everything else. The article cites the introduction of the Kindle and the Kindle e-bookstore as Amazon’s…
Weekly Geekery
Software is better than your psychiatrist. The human carnage of Amazon. Uterus transplants! Only science can answer your questions. All hail the King of Reddit.
Amazon’s Antitrust Problems
Authors United, a trade guild representing 500 authors, submitted a formal request to the Department of Justice seeking an investigation into Amazon, accusing the online retailer of violating antitrust laws.…
Japanese Bookstore Beats Amazon to the Punch
In what can aptly be described as a preemptive strike against online retailers like Amazon, major Japanese bookstore chain Kinokuniya bought up to 90% of the first print run of…
This Week in Indie Bookstores
A new wall mural has been installed in Los Angeles’s The Last Bookstore to coincide with a new rare books section. Bookstores in train stations and airports are seeing sales…
Indie Bookstore Customers Shun E-Books
E-books are proving unpopular for independent bookstores. Amazon’s juggernaut Kindle device is only available from the online retailer, but independent bookstores can still sell e-books through devices like Kobo. But the…
Highest Grossing
Capital ruins everything. For the Irish Times, Fiona O’Connor laments the age of the literary blockbuster: “I like it, I like it”, the anti-critic’s jingling ethos in the celebration of…