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Amazon.com Signs Exclusive Deal With Stephen Covey
Those of you that have read the books “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People” and “Principle-Cantered Leadership” will recognize the name of a publisher who has signed an exclusive deal with Amazon.com. Stephen R. Covey has signed an exclusive deal with e-retailer Amazon.com. This may serve as a signal for what the future may hold for publishing books in the future. Traditional book publication companies may be overlooked altogether as more authors sign on board with e-retailers and e-book devices.
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Jeff Bezos: For Every 100 Physical Books Amazon.com Sells, The Kindle Sells 48 Copies
Jeff Bezos talked to The New York Times Magazine about the Barnes & Noble, Inc. (NYSE:BKS) Nook e-book reader. The Nook has the ability to lend an e-book with a friend only once.
“The current thing being talked about is extremely limited. You can lend to one friend. One time. You can’t pick two friends, not even serially, so once you’ve loaned one book to one friend, that’s it…It is ‘Sopie’s Choice,’” stated Amazon.com CEO Jeff Bezos.
In addition to criticizing the Nook, Bezos decided to throw in a state about the Kindle: “For every 100 copies of a physical book we sell, where we have the Kindle edition, we will sell 48 copies of the Kindle edition.”
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Want A Droid? It Now Sells For $120 On Dell.com.
The Verizon Droid has not been out for that long, but retailers want to capitalize on the hype around the new Google Android phone, designed by Motorola. Verizon is selling the phone for $200. Then Amazon.com decided to chop the price to $150. And now Dell.com decided to beat Amazon’s prices by offering it for $120.
Dell had a rough third quarter caused by a 54% net income drop so the company probably wants to attract more buyers to their website. Most likely Dell will be subsidizing the price drop out of their own pockets, but the commission from selling Verizon contracts might be worth the drop.
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Palm Pixi Reduced To $25 On Amazon.com
The newest Palm smartphone with 3G connection, QWERTY keyboard, social networking applications built-in, EV-DO connectivity, GPS through Sprint Navigation, Sprint TV, Amazon.com MP3 store, and 5 hours of talk time has been reduced to a mere $25 on Amazon.com with a 2 year contract of course. This is about $75 less than buying the phone from Sprint itself. This is the perfect deal for Palm fans that want to save a few bucks this holiday season.
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Amazon.com Introducing The Kindle To Canadians
Amazon.com is launching the Kindle in Canada soon. The Kindle was rolled out internationally last month but Canada was not on the list at the time. In Canada the Kindle will have access to over 300,000 books and several Canadian newspapers. Some of the Canadian newspapers that can be downloaded on the Kindle include the Globe & Mail and The National Post. The Kindle will be able to store about 1,500 books and is available online for $259. The reason for the delay is believed to be negotiations with telecommunication companies and Amazon.com.
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Amazon.com Settles With Justin Gawronski For $150,000
You may remember the story of Justin Gawronski. Gawronski filed a lawsuit against Amazon.com because the books 1984 and Animal Farm were deleted from his Kindle shortly after he purchased the books. Gawronski’s homework was also deleted from the Kindle.
Amazon.com settled with Gawronski and the law firm representing him by paying $150,000 to settle. After paying the cost of the lawyers, the rest of the money will be donated to charity. Gawronski will receive a $30 gift certificate too.
“Amazon has just proven that when I buy a book on the Kindle, I don’t really own it,” stated Gawronski, 17, in an interview with The L.A. Times. “I just feel that is wrong.”
The reason why 1984 and Animal Farm was deleted is because a company that did not own the rights to the books added them to the Kindle store. Amazon.com CEO Jeff Bezos stated the incident was “stupid, thoughtless, and painfully out of line with our principles.” Gawronski is a high school senior that lives and studies in south-eastern Michigan.
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Amazon.com Doesn’t Learn From WebVan, Launches Amazon Fresh
Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) claims that they have learned from their previous mistakes of selling fresh groceries online. However in the next 3 months, Amazon.com decided to launch a grocery business again but it will be limited to the Seattle area. The grocery service is called Amazon Fresh.
Amazon will be limiting the advertising for the service in order to keep the costs low. The company will also limit how fast they expand to other cities. Amazon Fresh launched as a test project a couple of years ago and currently operates in about 49 Seattle zip codes.
WebVan and PublixDirect shut down in 2001 and 2003 respectively. WebVan filed for bankruptcy and PublixDirect did not get much sales volume. “We have a lot of confidence in the long-term economics,” stated Amazon.com VP of Consumables Doug Herrington in an interview. “For a significant portion of the population, they’re going to find that the convenience, selection and pricing of online grocery shopping is going to be really compelling.” WebVan.com is currently owned by Amazon.com and it is used to sell food items too.
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Amazon.com Turns Down Google Offer To Sell Scanned E-Books
Google has made an offer to competitors in the form of copyright-right free books. Google is in the process of digitizing millions of books as part of the Google Book Search project. These books are generally out-of-copyright material and can be downloaded in PDF format. The books are scanned using optical character recognition technology such as the Elphel 323 camera which can scan 1,000 pages per hour.
This project has been the subject of controversy and currently there is a congressional hearing on Google Book Search. To mitigate criticism, Google announced that anyone, including competitors can resell the books Google has scanned. Amazon.com critcized Google for their role claiming that they cheated the system by scanning books without permission.
“For the out-of-print books being made available through the Google Books settlement, we will let any book retailer sell access to those books,” stated Google’s SVP of Corporate Development and Chief Legal Officer David Drummond at a hearing. “Google will host the digital books online, and retailers such as Amazon, Barnes & Noble or your local bookstore will be able to sell access to users on any internet-connected device they choose.”
However Amazon.com has not interest in participating because they believe Google cheated their way into the digitzation project by scanning books without permission. “The internet has never been about intermediation,” stated Amazon.com VP of Public Policy Paul Misener. “We are happy to work with rights holders without anyone else’s help.”
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Heartland Robotics Raises $7 Million From Bezos, Xconomy And Mass High Tech
Amazon.com founder and CEO Jeff Bezos, Xconomy, and Mass High Tech has invested $7 million into Heartland Robotics. Heartland is a robotics company that is currently in stealth-mode and is based in Cambridge, Mass.
Heartland describes themselves as “combining the power of computers — embodied in robots — and the extraordinary intelligence of the American workforce, to increase productivity and revitalize manufacturing.” The company will be unveiling their products in the next several months.
One of the reasons why Bezos himself may be interested in robotics is because of the way that Amazon.com utilizes robotics within their distribution and fulfillment centers. Zappos.com, a company that Amazon.com recently acquired has a massive distribution center in Louisville, Kentucky.
One of the co-founders in Heartland includes Rodney Brooks. Brooks is a professor in robotics at M.I.T. and also previously founded iRobot.
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