In Which Jeff Bezos Gets a Paddling from China’s Xi Jinping Over a Bad Book Review
Amazon’s Jeff Bezos kowtows to China’s grand poobah Xi Jinping and deletes bad reviews of Xi’s absurd book.
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You Furnish Alexa, and He’ll Furnish the War
Alexa is a window into Amazon’s vast private intelligence network that lets it spy on U.S. citizens while it provides billions in services to the Intelligence Community–that we know of. Why promote Alexa with your music?
HFA/Amazon and MRI
Lot’s of quizzical…yes, that’s what it was, quizzical…reaction to the announcement by HFA that they will be handling a few items for Amazon. First of all, I have to say that it’s always encouraging when one of the Gang of Four tech oligarchs (per Eric Schmidt) like Amazon does something on the top of the […]
Jeff Bezos on Google Books: It doesn’t seem right that you should get a prize for violating copyrights
An excellent insight into the creepy Google Books settlement in an news.com interview by Caroline McCarthy of Jeff Bezos of Amazon–a tough customer himself. Bezos has done more to try to incorporate old and new business models far more successfully than any other entrepreneur save Steve Jobs. I remember being interviewed at length about the […]
Sony Reaches Deal to Share in Google’s E-Book Library
“It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.” In case you were wondering what the future holds for those who don’t oppose the Google Books class action settlement, there is a helpful story in the New York Times announcing a deal that Google has already made with Sony to […]
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