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January 21, 2010
Kindle Users "Revolt" Against Amazon's Most Popular Book
Amazon's customer service department deals with some particularly unruly book worms."Game Change," a deliciously juicy deep-background gossip fest about the 2008 election, is currently Amazon's number-one bestseller. But if you judged it strictly by its customer review (a paltry two out of fi ... More >>
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March 29, 2010
Amazon Tells Customer Missing Part Was Eaten By Alligator
"Yeah, about that fish you ordered..."Schoolkids have "the dog ate my homework." But what absurd excuse can companies fall back on when they fail to deliver? How about, "Your package has been eaten by an alligator"? A Consumerist reader named Will says that's the reply he got from Amazon whe ... More >>
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April 2, 2010
How to Buy Pot on Amazon.com (With Credit Card and a Big Caveat Emptor)
Also comes in peach, mint and blondeConsumer alert: Back in January, Daily Weekly observed that it was probably an exaggeration for other publications to call a California medical marijuana seller the "Amazon.com of Pot." The "Craigslist of Weed" seemed more accurate, based on the seller's ma ... More >>
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April 23, 2010
Amazon Is Basically the Online Wal-Mart Now
The offline Amazon.Last September, The New York Times asked "Can Amazon Be the Wal-Mart of the Web?" Now they've answered their own question: yes, yes it can. Amazon, it writes, has reached its "long-expected inversion point." Which sounds like something you'd encounter when trying to produc ... More >>
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May 26, 2010
Privacy's Bedfellows
The ACLU hooks up with Amazon in a tussle with North Carolina.
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June 17, 2010
Why Did Zappos Sell to Amazon?
Zappos, that place the sold you those shoes that one time? They've got this crazy idea that keeping their employees and customers happy is more important than profits -- they pay100-percent of their worker's premiums and encourage calls to customer support. Which is why CEO Tony Hsieh (pictu ... More >>
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September 13, 2010
Amazon's New Kindle Ad Takes Shot at Apple's iPad (VIDEO)
Besides being a lot cheaper, the one thing that makes Amazon's newest Kindle a better e-reader than Apple's iPad is its visibility in direct sunlight. Smartly, those are the two features Amazon is now touting in its latest commercial. The new spot premiered today on Good Morning America. Watc ... More >>
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October 4, 2010
Amazon Has Been Rickrolling Us This Whole Time
You're no stranger to love. And neither are you a stranger to the internet phenomenon of Rickrolling, when a seemingly innocuous link or video suddenly becomes a long-lost love note from high-waisted '80s ginger Rick Astley. But did you know that Amazon, everyone's favorite online retailer, h ... More >>
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October 22, 2010
FTC Investigation of Amazon Over Fake Bamboo Clothes Not the First
Today, the Seattle Times reports that Amazon.com officials admitted that the Federal Trade Commission is investigating their company over reports that many of their bamboo clothing items are not bamboo, but rayon, a type of polymer. Though the Seattle-based internet superstore was quick to de ... More >>
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October 26, 2010
Federal Court Says State Can't Demand Customer Data From Amazon
The case that pitted two unlikely partners: the American Civil Liberties Union and Amazon.com, against the North Carolina Department of Revenue is over. A federal judge today ruled that the state doesn't have the right to request purchasing details--like who their customers are and what they ... More >>
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November 9, 2010
Where to Find Molecular Gastronomy Supplies
So, you're ready to make Organic Cheetos and Spherified DRY Lavender Soda Bellinis, but you can't seem to find sodium alginate and calcium chloride at the neighborhood market. Don't worry - you're not alone. Luckily, there are a number of online suppliers who can easily fill the "Mo ... More >>
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November 10, 2010
Amazon Selling "Pedophile's Guide" on Website, Non-Pervs Not Amused
Budding perverts who'd like to know how they can keep "loving" little boys and girls without ending up getting "loved" by a large prison cellmate, need look no further than Amazon.com. There they'll find "The Pedophile's Guide to Love and Pleasure," by Phillip R. Greaves II--a book that promi ... More >>
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November 26, 2010
If Your Visa's Not All Maxed Out Yet, Amazon's Got $5 and $6 Copies of Some of the Year's Best Albums From Vampire Weekend, LCD Soundsystem, the National, Sufjan Stevens, etc.
Amazon.com is selling The National's High Violet for $4.99 between 9 a.m. and 1 p.m. on Saturday, Nov., 27.But, yes, there is a catch. You've gotta plan your shopping a bit in advance. Amazon's been selling a ton of records at a discount all weekend, but only for a few hours. The good news is ... More >>
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December 1, 2010
Calls to Boycott Amazon Spring Up Over Hosting of WikiLeaks Servers
UPDATE: After inquiries by Sen. Joe Lieberman over its hosting of WikiLeaks' servers, Amazon has now given the boot to the controversial site. More here. As we reported yesterday, in the hours before WikiLeaks published its latest cache of secret government files, a hacker tried to shut it ... More >>
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December 3, 2010
Julian Assange Says Using Amazon to Host WikiLeaks Servers Was All Just a Free Speech Test
Infamous WikiLeaks head and human-elf hybrid, Julian Assange, took the internets today for a live chat with the UK's Guardian newspaper. Besides ripping his home country of Australia, the United States and diplomats from seemingly all walks of life, he contends that when he partnered with Ama ... More >>
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December 14, 2010
"Amazon Gypsies" Converge on Kentucky Trailer Park in Search of Work (VIDEO)
They're not what most people would picture as "migrant workers." They're mostly white, they have campers and RVs, toddlers and lap dogs--everything but steady, year-round jobs. But at a trailer park in Campbellsville, Ky., scores of these "Amazon Gypsies" come every year to plug their mobile ... More >>
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December 27, 2010
Kindle Is Top-Selling Product of All Time on Amazon
Amazon sold 13.7 million items in one day on Nov. 29. About 9 million of those were Kindle 3's. That makes it the No. 1, all-time, super-best-selling thing on Amazon ever.
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January 18, 2011
Amazon Selling Do-It-Yourself Gastric-Bypass Surgery Kit
UPDATE: Amazon has removed the DIY gastric-bypass surgery kit from its website. Apparently people will have to settle for kitchen knives and rubber bands from now on. Paying $18,000 to $35,000 for a gastric bypass surgery is fine--if you want it performed by "doctors." But who needs those no ... More >>
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January 19, 2011
Amazon.com Sells Steroids in Bulk
P-Plex. Finaflex. Phera-Plex. If those sound like names for steroids, it's because they are. Some of them are illegal and all of them are available right now on Amazon.com.
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February 8, 2011
PSBJ: Amazon Plans Empire Expansion With Massive Real-Estate Lease Downtown
Anyone who still thinks that Amazon hasn't overtaken Microsoft as Seattle's principal economic engine needs to read the report in the Puget Sound Business Journal on Monday.
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March 11, 2011
Amazon Closes Affiliates in Illinois Over Tax Law, But Is Running Out of Places to Hide
Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn had barely finishing curving the last "n" of his signature on new online retailer tax legislation before Amazon sent out a message to all of its Prairie State that they would no longer be getting paid. That makes four states that have passed laws requiring individual A ... More >>
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April 12, 2011
Amazon to Offer Discount Kindle (That's Crammed Full of Ads)
How much is the fact that your Kindle doesn't try and sell you toothpaste worth? Because if it's worth $25 or less, then Amazon has quite the deal!
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May 11, 2011
Amazon's Sweetheart Tax Deal in Tennessee Makes Strange Bedfellows of Walmart and Mom-and-Pops
It's hard to feel sorry for Walmart. But when it comes to the collection of sales tax, and how they have to do it at their stores while Amazon mostly avoids doing it on its website, it does seem a bit unfair.
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May 20, 2011
Amazon's New Trade-In Service Is Great, But eBay Still Pays Better
Amazon's brand new trade-in service will pay me $366.20 in store credit for a random sampling of gadgets, games and stuff I gathered up from around my house. EBay will (depending on the final bid) pay me about $546.24.
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May 26, 2011
Amazon and Barnes & Noble Use Stupid Math to Magically Double Kindle and Nook's Battery Life
On Tuesday, shoppers in the market for a new E-reader tablet would have seen graphics and advertisements that said the Amazon Kindle has a one-month battery life. By Wednesday, those same graphics and ads would have showed the device's battery life had suddenly doubled. A technological break ... More >>
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May 27, 2011
Seattle Ranked 9th "Most Literate" City by Amazon
Let's get one thing straight: Amazon's opinion as to what makes a city "most literate" is how many books one buys from Amazon. So as long as you're comfortable with that type of grossly-slanted scale being applied to a city's supposed reading population we can move on to what has been deduced ... More >>
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May 31, 2011
Amazon Lost $3.2 Million Selling Lady Gaga Album for $1
Fortunately for Amazon, that money will probably be returned in droves if it ends up boosting the company's new Cloud Player like it's supposed to.
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June 7, 2011
Pick Up Tuesday's Hottest Album Releases Without Breaking the Bank
Arctic Monkeys.Though Apple's 2011 World Wide Developer Conference on Monday still has the the web abuzz over fancy tech words like "iOS 5" and "Lion," it's again time to focus on what really matters in life--buying stuff cheap. Today happens to mark the release of several highly anticipate ... More >>
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June 14, 2011
New Lockers, Old Tricks: Amazon and Apple's New Toys Could Be Music-Subscription Training Wheels
Do you find it difficult to remember to synch your iPod? Have a hard time keeping track of your mp3s every time you get a new computer? Solutions to these and other first-world digital struggles are being released almost by the hour. And in the past three months, two of the world's biggest te ... More >>
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July 18, 2011
Borders Bookstore Is Now Officially Dead
Are you happy now, Amazon?
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August 8, 2011
Are King County's Juvenile Inmates Movin' On Up to Beacon Hill's Old PacMed Hospital?
The old PacMed Hospital--most recently the corporate headquarters for Amazon.com--stands all but empty on its ominous perch atop Beacon Hill. Similarly, the Youth Services/Detention Center (juvie) on 12th Avenue in the Central District, is aging, inadequate and underused. Could a solution ... More >>
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September 12, 2011
Amazon Continues War on Libraries With Netflix-Esque Book-Borrowing Program
Using weapons of mass convenience, Amazon.com is continuing its assault on the concept of physical libraries, now with a reported new program planned that would let users rent books digitally much as Netflix users rent films.
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September 20, 2011
Amazon Workers in Pennsylvania Work, Quite Literally, In a Sweatshop
Lehigh Valley, Pennsylvania is not known for its blazing-hot temperatures. But the Amazon.com warehouse in Lehigh Valley, Pennsylvania is another story.
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September 21, 2011
Free Kindles Available Now at Seattle Public Library
In perhaps the most subtle move thus far in its war on physical books, Amazon announced today that it would be giving Kindles to some 11,000 libraries across the country to be loaned out for free--starting right here at the Seattle Public Library.
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September 27, 2011
Amazon Announces 'Kindle Fire' Tablet--Other Captain-Planet-Themed Products May Follow
There are fewer surefire ways to connect with Generation Y'ers than with shameless '90s pop-culture references. So perhaps that's why Amazon has laid the groundwork for a whole new line of products subtlety themed after America's favorite cartoon earth saver.
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October 4, 2011
Amazon Is Already Selling 50,000 Kindle Fires Per Day
In the time it takes you to read this sentence, Amazon will have sold another three Kindle Fire tablets. And the device isn't even available yet.
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October 31, 2011
Amazon Gets Failing Grade for Political Transparency, Says Study
Question: What do Amazon and Disney have in common? Answer: Both company's founders had/have a strange interest in cryogenics. Oh, also both companies are apparently extremely secretive about how they spend money to influence national politics.
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November 7, 2011
Comment of the Day: Kindle Swindle Is Bad PR
On Friday we shared with you the tale of zombie-novel author James Crawford and his book Blood Soaked & Contagious--particularly the hellacious trouble Mr. Crawford had when he tried to sell the book via Amazon's Kindle Direct Publishing. One reader put into perspective the trade off between ... More >>
Music
November 9, 2011
Amazon's Second Chapter: Music
Before the rule of iTunes and the mp3, Amazon shook up the music industry the old-fashioned way.
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November 11, 2011
Amazon Loses $5 on Every $79 Kindle It Sells, Analyst Says
Love Amazon? Buy the the Kindle e-reader! It's a great deal at $79. Hate Amazon? Buy the Kindle e-reader! You may help put the company out of business.
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November 23, 2011
Food Geek Gift Guide: 2011
I've assembled a list of must-have cooking gear, kitchen toys, and foodie fetishes for 2011. If you have a food geek in your life and you're looking for gift inspiration, I'm here to help. They say "'tis better to give," but 'tis best to give to someone who'll cook you dinner in return! ... More >>
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December 13, 2011
Amazon Pulls Christmas Cremation Deal from Website
Giving the gift of cremation for Christmas had never been easier. That was, however, until Amazon decided to make it hard again.
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December 15, 2011
2011's Top Six Developments for Seattle's Lazy
James Lee, 2010. It's most definitely still December. That means two things for certain when it comes to pop culture: there isn't a whole lot to watch on television, and you've probably been reading a lot of yawn-worthy, boilerplate "Best of 2011" lists lately. After this week's dramatic fina ... More >>
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December 19, 2011
Occupy Amazon! Online Retailer's 'Price Check' App Unleashes the Fury of the 99 Percent
It took less than a day for Amazon.com's new "Price Check" app to be attacked by critics as unsupportive of local bookstores and businesses (isn't that Amazon's whole game?). It took a little longer than a day for the Occupy movement to incorporate the app into its list of hateworthy corporat ... More >>
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January 12, 2012
Nancy Pearl Inks Publishing Deal With Amazon
Nancy Pearl, Seattle's celebrity librarian, book guru and author of best-seller Book Lust: Recommended Reading for Every Mood, Moment and Reason, has signed a deal with Amazon.com to create a series of "Book Lust Rediscoveries," which will publish six out-of-print or out-of-stock books per ye ... More >>
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January 16, 2012
Virginia Joins the Fight to Take On Amazon
Following in Texas' footsteps, Virginia retailers are making a strong push to make Amazon.com charge sales taxes after the Seattle-based retail giant opens two large distribution centers in the state. At issue is the vexing question as to how growing online sales should be taxed. Now, Virgini ... More >>
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January 18, 2012
Amazon's Rep as Online Bully Who Practices 'Scorched-Earth Capitalism' Is Gathering Steam
Last month one of the country's leading novelists, Richard Russo, penned an op-ed piece for the New York Times which focused on how Amazon was encouraging customers to visit brock-and-mortar bookstores and use its price-check app to earn a 5 percent credit on Amazon purchases.
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January 27, 2012
NYT Report: Amazon Merchant Bribed Buyers For 5-Star Reviews
After a recent purchase of a slim black leather case folio cover from Amazon merchant VIP Deals, some customers got back an unusual letter along with their product. "Thank you for your recent purchase from VIP Deals," the letter read. "We invite you to write a product review for the Amazon Co ... More >>
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February 2, 2012
Barnes & Noble Goes To War With Amazon
Barnes & Noble is waging a desperate battle to remain relevant and viable in a world where cheaper online rivals and discount bookstores are threatening its very survival. The country's largest traditional bookseller now says it will no longer sell in its 700 consumer stores any books publish ... More >>
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February 7, 2012
Don't Tell Jonathan Franzen, but Amazon Looks to Open Real Stores Here and Nationwide
You may recall a recent post on Jonathan Franzen, one of America's most important essayists and novelists, who thinks Amazon is ruining the world. The much-acclaimed author of Freedom and The Corrections is most alarmed by e-books like Amazon's Kindle, which he says are creating a world where ... More >>
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