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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 tasks. In July of this year, users began to notice…
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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 city filled with bookstores, and SF Weekly takes a look…
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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 too much like a room with most of the air…
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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 over at WIRED.
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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.
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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 most important innovation, but is quick to cite the company’s…
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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.
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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. The guild alleges Amazon is a monopoly responsible for price…
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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 Haruki Murakami’s latest book of essays, Novelist as a Vocation. A…
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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 rise as they begin acting more like traditional independent bookstores…
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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 Denver Post has found that customers of indie bookstores just aren’t…
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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 banality.