Some digital music related stories, as we draw closer to our EconMusic conference in London on Sept 23rd: -- A bigger Zune: Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) is building a 120GB Zune,…

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What a buzz kill ... Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) spokesman Craig Berman tells the NYT: “Don’t believe everything you read. ... There’s a lot of rumor and speculation about the Kindle.…

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Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) is buying up another books-focused social network Shelfari, three weeks after it acquired AbeBooks, which holds a 40 percent stake in Shelfari’s main rival, LibraryThing. The Seattle-based…

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Citigroup’s Mark Mahaney has upped his original estimate of Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) Kindle sales, forecasting 380,000 units sold in 2008. That’s double the 190,000 he forecast earlier for Kindle’s debut…

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-- Joss Whedon’s ‘Sing-Along’ resurfaces on Hulu: Now you see it, now you don’t, now you see it again. Sci-fi director and writer Joss Whedon’s web series, Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along…

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Amazon.com (NSDQ: AMZN) has bought Canada-based online used books site AbeBooks. No financial terms were disclosed in the announcement. Interestingly, AbeBooks will continue to function as a stand-alone operation. Amazon…

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In a move to rival eBay’s (NSDQ: EBAY) PayPal and Google’s (NSDQ: GOOG) Google Checkout, Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) launched on Tuesday two online payment services, Checkout and Simple Pay. The…

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Finally, a competitive move from Sony (NYSE: SNE) worth writing about, though it has its own caveats: it is opening up Sony Reader, its e-book reading device which is a…

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Online at least, the consumer is still strong, as retailing giant Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) reported Q2 revenue of $4.06 billion, up 41 percent from last year and above the $3.94…

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TiVo (NSDQ: TIVO) is expanding its relationship with Amazon on a promise to deliver what marketers have long hoped for: allowing TV viewers to make purchases of products displayed within…

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Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) launched its Amazon VOD streaming service in limited beta earlier today, and we wrote about some of the details last night. I spoke briefly to Bill Carr,…

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Updated: The service has launched now..the page is here. Amazon.com (NSDQ: AMZN) is launching its new streaming online movie and video service tomorrow...the new service is called, surprise surprise, Amazon…

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A reminder of the many items on Amazon’s (NSDQ: AMZN) plate… The retailer is acquiring Fabric.com, expanding into an area where its currently pretty limited. Through the acquisition, Amazon will…

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Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) CEO Jeff Bezos has been famously tight lipped on anything to do with data on the Kindle. Just about the only hard stat ever given out is…

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Roughly 500 independent films with limited distribution are now available through Reframe, a new service from the Tribeca Film Festival that went live overnight. It’s yet another effort to use…

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Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) has taken an unspecified equity stake in user-gen shopping channel The Talk Market. Amazon is also handling the site’s payment system. Talk Market sellers upload presentations, and…

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The internet is buckling a little bit, but at least it’s Friday… Not only is Amazon.com (NSDQ: AMZN) down—going to it just gets you “Http/1.1 Service Unavailable”—but so is the…

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Just before D6, Rafat and I—both Kindle users—were talking about books on our respective reading lists and how many of them, particularly new non-fiction, couldn’t be downloaded to the device. …

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The book publishing industry is not sure what to make of the Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) Kindle wireless reader. The device’s creator, Amazon.com CEO Jeff Bezos, addressed the industry in front…

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Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) is on the verge of launching an a-la-carte pay-per-view video streaming service, Jeff Bezos told attendees at D6. The service is meant for a subset of people…

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Sir Howard Stringer is doing a star turn as chief salesman for Sony (NYSE: SNE). One of his top messages: Playstation 3, which was “sort of on life support before”…

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Walt Mossberg and Jeff Bezos are talking Kindle. No details on actual unit sales or downloads but Bezos does toss a news bone—the Kindle is now responsible for 6 percent…

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Besides the Jeff Bezos sighting at D6 this evening, some more news from Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN), a slightly surprising one considering the sellout status of Kindle: the company is dropping…

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As Borders finally takes control of its online store from Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN), the books retailer has a lot of uncertainties ahead of it. AP provides an overview of Borders’…

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Animoto, a site that lets users edit musical slideshows, has taken an unspecified investment from Amazon.com (NSDQ: AMZN). The NYC-based company lets users upload their photos and choose a song—the…

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