CEO Letter
blogs.zappos.com 7/22/2009 — The following email was sent to our employees today: Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2009 From: Tony Hsieh (CEO - Zappos.com) To: All Zappos Employees Subject: Zappos and Amazon Please set aside 20 minutes to carefully read this entire email. (My apologies for the ...

Amazon to Launch Kindle for Textbooks
online.wsj.com 5/5/2009 — GEOFFREY A. FOWLER and BEN WORTHEN Amazon.com Inc. on Wednesday plans to unveil a new version of its Kindle e-book reader with a larger screen and other features designed to appeal to periodical and academic textbook publishers, according to people ...

Amazon opts out of Phorm system
guardian.co.uk 4/15/2009 — Amazon opt-out delivers blow to Phorm's controversial targeted online advertising technology Amazon has opted out of Phorm's controversial targeted-advertising technology, delivering a blow to the UK-listed company, which is already the subject of a European Commission legal action against the UK government . Phorm, which has yet to launch its service in the UK, gives website owners the opportunity to opt out of its technology, which lets internet service providers track where their customers ...

Amazon Charts Course Toward E-Book Advertising
adage.com 7/20/2009 — SAN FRANCISCO (AdAge.com) -- Books are among the last bastions of ad-free content. But they won't be so forever if Amazon has its way.

Amazon Says 'I Do' to Zappos. Now What?
adage.com 7/26/2009 — NEW YORK (AdAge.com) -- Certainly, Zappos and Amazon have plenty in common. But there are distinct differences too, when it comes to the best way to interact with customers and social media.

Malcolm Gladwell: Is free the future?
newyorker.com 6/30/2009 — At a hearing on Capitol Hill in May, James Moroney, the publisher of the Dallas Morning News, told Congress about negotiations he’d just had with the online retailer Amazon. The idea was to license his newspaper’s content to the Kindle, ...

Amazon opts out of Phorm's targeted internet advertising system after privacy fears
guardian.co.uk 4/15/2009 — Amazon has opted out of Phorm's controversial targeted advertising technology, delivering a serious blow to the UK-listed company which has already prompted a European commission legal action against the British government. Phorm's technology, which is yet to be launched in the UK, allows ISPs to track their customers' activity on the internet in order to target adverts on pages they subsequently visit. Amazon's absence from Phorm's Webwise system deprives the company of the second most visited ...

Amazon gears up to make money from Twitter
brandrepublic.com 27 days ago — LONDON - Amazon has integrated Twitter with its affiliate programme in a bid to increase sales.

Amazon to Buy Zappos
adweek.com 7/22/2009 — Amazon has agreed to purchase Zappos in an approximately $850 million deal. Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh is shown.

Amazon plots ad serving on Kindle
brandrepublic.com 7/7/2009 — LONDON - Amazon is considering selling advertising on its Kindle digital book reader in a move designed to increase revenues from the service.

Simon & Schuster to Sell Digital Books on Scribd.com — NYT > Media & Advertising
The publisher said it would make about 5,000 titles available for purchase as the book industry sought alternatives to Amazon’s Kindle store.

Kindle Joins a Literary Ritual: Authors Can Autograph It — NYT > Media & Advertising
At a recent reading in Manhattan by David Sedaris, a reader presented his electronic-book device for the author to sign.

Search Site Rolls Twitter, Amazon, Yahoo, eBay, MSN Into One Eye-Popping Result — MediaPost | Online Media Daily
The visual search site Spezify.com launched Monday, though co-creators Felix Ekenstam and Per Persson describe it as a tool, rather than search engine because the site doesn't index results, but rather taps into information and feeds that have been ...