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Amazon.com Launches MP3 Store; UMG and EMI As Majors - 2 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Tue 25 Sep 2007 04:55 AM PST

As expected, Amazon.com (NSDQ: AMZN) has launched its online music store, called ”Amazon MP3”. It is a DRM-free, MP3 format store with over 2 million songs from more than 180,000…

Amazon’s Music Service Could Launch Tuesday; Bezos’ Approval Required - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Wed 12 Sep 2007 03:36 PM PST

So says a story on Billboard.biz: Amazon.com’s (NSDQ: AMZN) online DRM-free music service could launch as soon as Tuesday next week, depending on whether CEO Jeff Bezos gives final approval…

Self-Publisher iUniverse Bought By Rival AuthorHouse - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Thu 06 Sep 2007 12:45 PM PST

In the book online self-publishing world, some M&A: AuthorHouse, one of the largest in the sector, has bought rival iUniverse, a self-publisher based in Lincoln, Neb., for an undisclosed sum.…

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Amazon.com To Launch Wireless eBook Reader; Google To Start Charging For Digital Books Access - 6 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Wed 05 Sep 2007 09:47 PM PST

Two separate developments in the eBooks/digital books world, reported by NYT: -- Amazon.com (NSDQ: AMZN) is launching an eBook device called The Kindle, in October, and will be priced at…

Amazon.com’s Music Service Coming Next Month? - 3 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Fri 31 Aug 2007 10:22 AM PST

Is the world ready for it? Amazon.com’s (NSDQ: AMZN) ready to launch its world-changing music service next month, the 500th such service claiming to, well, change the world. Earlier reports…

Amazon Invests In Popularity-Priced Indie Music Retailer Amie Street - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Mon 06 Aug 2007 12:55 AM PST

Amazon (Nasdaq: AMZN) has led a first-round investment in Amie Street, an unusual digital music retailer for independent artists. Prices for tracks at Amie Street start free and rise in…

Earnings: Amazon Profits Soar; Revs Grow 35 Percent; Acquisitions - 0 Comments
Posted By David Kaplan - Tue 24 Jul 2007 01:11 PM PST

Thanks to lower prices that spurred greater sales, Amazon.com (Nasdaq: AMZN) Q2 profits ballooned 254.5 percent to $78 million from $22 million the year before. The company also posted healthy…

Netflix Shares Up On Amazon.com Buyout Possibility Rumor - 1 Comment
Posted By Rafat Ali - Wed 06 Jun 2007 11:02 AM PST

An interesting rumor, which makes logical sense if you think about it: Jackson Securities analyst Brian Bolan said in a note today that he has heard buyout speculation of Amazon.com…

Amazon Acquires Audiobook Indie Brilliance Audio - 1 Comment
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Wed 23 May 2007 06:48 AM PST

Amazon continues to expand its on-demand publishing strategy, this time acquiring Brilliance Audio for an as-yet-undisclosed sum. Brilliance, founded in 1984 and touted as the largest independent U.S. publisher of…

Amazon To Launch DRM-Less Digital Music Store; EMI First Major Tenant - 3 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Wed 16 May 2007 09:20 AM PST

It’s official ... Amazon has put together enough pieces to announce plans to launch a digital music store later this year. In its release this morning, the company says it…

Amazon.com Buys Digital Photography Review Site Dpreview - 2 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Mon 14 May 2007 09:39 AM PST

An interesting acquisition by Amazon.com: it acquired London-based digital camera review site Dpreview.com. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. The site, which I’ve used in the past before…

Earnings: Amazon 1Q Profit More Than Doubles - 2 Comments
Posted By David Kaplan - Tue 24 Apr 2007 01:39 PM PST

Amazon.com (Nasdaq:AMZN) reported that its 1Q net income leaped 115 percent to $111 million, while sales rose 32 percent to $3.02 billion versus $2.28 billion in 1Q06. Operating income increased…

Amazon Now ‘Talking To Majors’ On DRM-Free Music Store - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Mon 23 Apr 2007 07:47 AM PST

Sources in the London Times say Amazon has approached all the major labels “in the past fortnight” and stated its desire to launch an online music store by May. Times…

Amazon MP3 Store En Route; Universal To Expand Tests Of DRM-Free Music Files: Report - 1 Comment
Posted By David Kaplan - Mon 16 Apr 2007 05:34 AM PST

Amazon is aiming for launch of an MP3 download store in May, according to Billboard sources. Also, Universal Music Group is expected to expand its DRM-free tests because by selling…

Shelfari Receives $1 million From Amazon, Others - 0 Comments
Posted By David Kaplan - Mon 26 Feb 2007 08:10 AM PST

Book lovers’ social net Shelfari has raised a $1 million first round from Amazon.com and others, according to John Cook’s Venture Blog. The company is headed by Josh Hug, the…

Amazon.com’s Investment In Wikia: $10 Million; Developing Wiki-Based Search Engine - 1 Comment
Posted By Rafat Ali - Wed 03 Jan 2007 11:35 AM PST

We have mentioned this funding before, but the amount came out today through SEC filings, picked up by PEHub: Amazon was the sole investor in Wikia’s second round, and the…

Xbox’s Surprising News on Movie Downloads; Amazon.com’s Unsurprising One - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Thu 21 Dec 2006 08:22 PM PST

Someone’s finally realizing it makes more business sense for that broadband pipe to get the downloaded movies onto TV...it is that simple, it is that complex. The early proof? That…

More On Wikia’s Plans: Users Can Get 100 Percent Ad Revenue - 0 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Mon 11 Dec 2006 10:47 AM PST

Through a new service called OpenServing, Wikia will provide free bandwidth, computing power, storage and software for collaborative content—and those who have a Google ad code will get 100 percent…

Amazon Sole Investor In Round 2 Funding For Wikia; Wikia Acquires ArmchairGM - 0 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Wed 06 Dec 2006 11:01 AM PST

Amazon is the sole investor in Wikia’s second round; amount undisclosed. It’s a shift from the crowd that invested in the$4 million first round earlier this year from a group…

Amazon, HP Will Try Digital Publishing; Should Expand Titles Available In Long-Tail World - 0 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Mon 04 Dec 2006 01:04 PM PST

If you can print it they will buy or so goes the logic here ... A new deal between printer giant Hewlett-Packard and Amazon marks the latest attempt to make…

Microsoft Withdraws From Effort To Make AT&T-Bell South Merger Net Neutral - 0 Comments
Posted By Jonathan Berr - Tue 31 Oct 2006 07:24 AM PST

Microsoft, one of the founders of the It’s Our Net coalition, pulled its name from the group’s site after deciding not to weigh-in on AT&T’s pending $82 billion acquisition of…

Earnings: Amazon Wins New Friends - 0 Comments
Posted By Jonathan Berr - Tue 24 Oct 2006 01:38 PM PST

Amazon.com may have won new friends on Wall Street after posting a better-than-expected third quarter. The company expects to have record holiday sales. Net income was $19 million, or 5…

Amazon Unboxes Showtime Deal; Instant Media Gets 20th Century Fox Movies, TV - 0 Comments
Posted By Jimmy Guterman - Wed 18 Oct 2006 07:12 AM PST

Amazon has expanded the TV shows available via its Unbox service thanks to a distribution deal time with Showtime. Episodes of Weeds, The L Word, Sleeper Cell, Penn and Teller:…

Amazon’s A9 Drops Most of Its Ambitions; Obits Continue to Roll In - 0 Comments
Posted By Jimmy Guterman - Wed 04 Oct 2006 05:12 AM PST

Those trying to get that A9 Instant Reward link on Amazon working don’t have to worry about it anymore. That feature of the search engine is gone, as are the…

ETC @ MIT: Jeff Bezos On Clouds, Web Services, Anything But Unbox - 0 Comments
Posted By Jimmy Guterman - Wed 27 Sep 2006 05:12 AM PST

On the day that his company is releasing a patch to its Unbox movie-download service, Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos is in Cambridge talking not about his company’s ambitious…