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Filings Watch: Pearson Bought Money-Media For $64M; Amazon.com’s Withoutabox Purchase: $19M? - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Sun 27 Apr 2008 10:58 AM PST

Some filings deep-dive this weekend: -- Pearson: According to its annual report, filed with SEC on Friday, Pearson (NYSE: PSO), the parent Financial Times and FT.com, acquired Money-Media, an online…

Earnings: Amazon Q1 Revs Up 37 Percent; Net Income Up 30 Percent; Stock Slips - 0 Comments
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Wed 23 Apr 2008 01:01 PM PST

Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) has reported Q1 revenue of $4.13 billion, a 37 percent increase from $3.02 billion. Net income was up 30 percent to $143 million ($.34 per share) from…

Amazon’s Digital Business: Spending Today For An Uncertain Future - 0 Comments
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Wed 23 Apr 2008 04:36 AM PST

Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) isn’t yet at the point where investors are demanding returns—or even hard data—on its digital initiatives. The company’s core e-commerce business has performed so well that it’s…

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HarperCollins To Establish Internet-Focused Unit; Wants To Offload Risk: Report - 0 Comments
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Thu 03 Apr 2008 06:54 PM PST

Publisher HarperCollins plans to launch an internet-focused unit that will eschew author advances, according to a somewhat odd WSJ report. Besides eliminating advances, the currently unnamed unit won’t accept returns…

Amazon Does Damage Control On Its Print-On-Demand Demands - 34 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Mon 31 Mar 2008 02:55 PM PST

Amazon.com (NSDQ: AMZN) is now doing some damage control over its plans to control its print-on-demand value chain, and has issued an open letter to the industry, posted here. It…

Amazon Tightens Noose on Print-On-Demand Publishers; Insists They Use Company’s Own Service - 2 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Thu 27 Mar 2008 11:24 PM PST

Amazon.com (NSDQ: AMZN), which has brushed with monopolistic tendencies before, is doing just that, this time in the print-on-demand business, where it is asking such publishers that they will have…

Amazon-Pepsi Music Giveaway Deal Raises Retailers Concerns; Amazon Logo Taken Off - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Sun 16 Mar 2008 09:26 PM PST

Surprised this didn’t come out before: Pepsi tied up with Amazon.com (NSDQ: AMZN) for SuperBowl earlier this year, to give away 1 billion free MP3 songs though Amazon’s digital music…

Bear Stearns Media Con: Martha, Murdoch & The Kindle - 0 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Mon 10 Mar 2008 09:09 AM PST

Martha Stewart, Rupert Murdoch and the Kindle from Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN). If you told me this morning I’d have been able to fit these three into the same post, I’d…

Audible Shareholder Opposes Amazon.com Sale Deal; “Unfair Price” - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Fri 07 Mar 2008 08:53 AM PST

We reported on some of these issues from Audible’s filing earlier this year, and now one of the shareholders of Audible (NSDQ: ADBL) has come out in the open about…

Amazon’s First Film Production Deal Going Ahead, Finally - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Fri 22 Feb 2008 04:40 PM PST

Amazon.com (NSDQ: AMZN) is doing what its Seattle mate Starbucks hasn’t yet been able to pull off successfully: producing and promoting a movie. It is producing a movie with 20th…

How Audible Sold Itself To Amazon; No Competing Bids; Price Came Down From Earlier Hopes - 4 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Tue 12 Feb 2008 03:36 PM PST

Audible (NSDQ: ADBL), the spoken word company which is in the process of being bought by Amazon.com (NSDQ: AMZN), has filed with SEC on a timeline of how the process…

Lovefilm Buying Two Of Amazon’s European DVD Rental Businesses - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Mon 04 Feb 2008 04:16 AM PST

Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) is selling its UK and German online DVD rental businesses to London-based Lovefilm for an undisclosed sum and making a cash investment that sees it become the…

Thus Ends Audible’s Tyranny Of Low Profile - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Thu 31 Jan 2008 10:14 AM PST

Thus ends the long story of Audible (NSDQ: ADBL). I have always had a particular affinity with Audible, ever since I started paidContent.org in 2002 and two years prior. It…

Amazon Buying Audible In Deal Worth $300 Million; Should Boost Kindle Content - 1 Comment
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Thu 31 Jan 2008 06:27 AM PST

Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) is pushing further into downloadable media: the company is acquiring spoken-word digital audio firm Audible (NSDQ: ADBL) for $300 million or $11.50/share, a premium of more than…

Earnings: Amazon Q4 Revs Up 42 Percent; Net Income More Than Doubles - 0 Comments
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Wed 30 Jan 2008 02:08 PM PST

In a good test of the health of the US consumer, Amazon.com (NSDQ: AMZN) reported Q407 revenue of $5.67 billion, up 42 percent year-on-year from $3.99 billion. Currency effects boosted…

Earnings This Week: Yahoo, Amazon, Google, NYT, Getty Images, Gannett - 0 Comments
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Tue 29 Jan 2008 08:24 AM PST

Earnings season picks up more steam with a much anticipated report from Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) this afternoon, and Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN), then Google (NSDQ: GOOG) on back-to-back days. Check back…

Amazon.com To Go International With Its MP3 Music Store; Sometime and Somewhere - 1 Comment
Posted By Rafat Ali - Sun 27 Jan 2008 01:23 AM PST

A slightly vaporware announcement from Amazon.com (NSDQ: AMZN), no doubt trying to piggyback the Midem music conference starting this weekend in Cannes (our UK editor Robert Andrews is on the…

Amazon’s IMDB Buys Indie Film Site Withoutabox - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Thu 17 Jan 2008 01:21 AM PST

The Internet Movie Database (IMDb), owned by Amazon.com (NSDQ: AMZN), has bought out the eight-year old indie movie distribution site Withoutabox. The financial details were not disclosed. The Los Angeles-based…

Amazon Vs Apple: The DRM’s Still On For iTunes Service - 1 Comment
Posted By Rafat Ali - Mon 14 Jan 2008 10:31 AM PST

An interesting story in NYT on Apple’s (NSDQ: AAPL) music service versus rest of the industry, and how the music labels have now pinned their hopes on Amazon.com (NSDQ: AMZN),…

Amazon Confirms Sony BMG To Sell MP3s; Amazon First To Get The Big Four - 0 Comments
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Thu 10 Jan 2008 02:12 PM PST

It’s official… Sony (NYSE: SNE) BMG will begin selling DRM-free tracks through *Amazon*’s music store by the end of the month, confirming reports that surfaced last week. In the announcement,…

Sony BMG Joining Amazon Music Store; Final Major To Try DRM-Free: Report - 2 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Fri 04 Jan 2008 09:02 AM PST

Sony (NYSE: SNE) BMG will join EMI, Vivendi’s (EPA: VIV) Universal Music Group and Warner Music Group (NYSE: WMG) in selling music through Amazon’s (NSDQ: AMZN) MP3 store, making it…

Warner Signs On With Amazon’s DRM-Free MP3 Download Store - 2 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Thu 27 Dec 2007 08:40 AM PST

Effective today, Warner Music Group (NYSE: WMG) follows Universal Music Group and EMI to the DRM-free Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) MP3 store. For Warner, it’s an admission that DRM-free music is…

Media Storage Provider Nirvanix Gets Backing From Intel - 0 Comments
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Wed 19 Dec 2007 02:39 PM PST

San Diego-based Nirvanix, a provider of hosted media storage, has taken an unspecified investment from Intel (NSDQ: INTC) Capital. The company previously announced a $12 million investment from Mission Ventures,…

Amazon Takes Stake in Payments Service Bill Me Later - 0 Comments
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Wed 12 Dec 2007 07:07 AM PST

Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) says it will take an unspecified stake in online payments service Bill Me Later, and that it will offer the company’s transaction system to its customers. The…

AOL Outsources Paid Video Downloads To Amazon Unbox - 2 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Fri 30 Nov 2007 04:42 PM PST

AOL (NYSE: TWX) continues to reinvent its approach to a variety of initiatives under way before Randy Falco replaced Jon Miller as chairman and CEO last year. The latest: swapping…