Amazon Profit Plunges Again in 4Q -- Stock Takes a Hit

January 31, 2012 By Todd Cunningham 1 week ago

The after-hours share losses erase recent Kindle-fueled increase in market value. Revenue rises 34% to $17.4 billion

  

Barnes & Noble May Spin Off Nook Business, Shares Plummet

January 5, 2012 By Lucas Shaw 5 weeks ago

The company forecasts higher losses for the year

  

Amazon Prepping Smartphone to Rival iPhone, Android?

November 17, 2011 By Lucas Shaw 12 weeks ago

Two Citigroup analysts predict Amazon will unveil a smartphone next year

  

'Steve Jobs' Tops Every E-Book Chart It Can Find

October 25, 2011 By Lucas Shaw 15 weeks ago

Walter Isaacson's biography is already a hit online

  

Amazon Unveils Kindle Fire Tablet, Touch-Screen Kindles

September 28, 2011 By Lucas Shaw 19 weeks ago

iPad competitor tablet will cost $199, ship Nov. 15

  

Amazon's Tablet Launch: Can the Kindle Fire Burn Apple and Netflix?

September 27, 2011 By Lucas Shaw 19 weeks ago

Amazon is expected to unveil its latest entry into the tablet market Wednesday in New York

  

FCC's Genachowski: Broadband Development Good for U.S. Job Growth

September 27, 2011 By Peter Voskamp 19 weeks ago

"The sweeping economic changes ushered in by Facebook, Twitter, clouds, tablets, app stores and the Kindle are as profound as the invention of Guttenberg printing press"

  

Amazon Q2 Earnings Decline Despite Kindle-Fueled Sales Surge (Updated)

July 26, 2011 By Lucas Shaw 28 weeks ago

Sales jumped 51 percent during the period in a turnaround from the first quarter

  

Forget Cellphone Cancer -- Kindles, Nooks Can Hurt Your Brain Power

June 10, 2011 By Dan Bloom 34 weeks ago

I believe, and science might one day prove, that reading on paper is superior, brain-wise, to reading in a pixelated (or E Ink) world

  

Apple's iPad Did Not Kill the Kindle -- It Only Made it Stronger

December 27, 2010 By Dylan Stableford 1 year ago

Third-generation e-reader now online retailer's best-selling product ever

  

Google Launches E-Book Store With 3 Million Titles

December 6, 2010 By Dylan Stableford 1 year ago

Search giant takes aim at Amazon, Apple, Barnes and Noble booksellers

  

Amazon to Launch Story-Length 'Kindle Singles'

October 12, 2010 By Dylan Stableford 1 year ago

Company calls for e-books that are "twice the length of a New Yorker feature"

  

We're in the Grips of a Media Pricing Frenzy

August 1, 2010 By Johnnie L. Roberts 1 year ago

From movie tickets to Kindle books to the New York Times, consumers are facing creeping prices at every turn

  

Price War: Amazon Introduces $139 Wi-Fi Kindle

July 29, 2010 By Dylan Stableford 1 year ago

Bezos: Kindle book sales will surpass paperback sales "in next 9-12 months"

  

Stieg Larsson First to Pass 1 Million Books Sold on Kindle

July 27, 2010 By Dylan Stableford 1 year ago

Author reaches Amazon e-reader milestone

  

Wall St. Unhappy With Amazon's Q2 Profits; Shares Dip

July 22, 2010 By Brent Lang 1 year ago

E-commerce giant's profits up 45 percent, but higher costs cut into margins

  

Amazon: Kindle Books Outsell Hardcovers

July 19, 2010 By Lisa Horowitz 1 year ago

But the iPad presents a strong challenge to proprietary readers

  

Kindle Allows Publishers to Decide E-Book Prices

April 1, 2010 By Newsfactor 1 year ago

E-reader will stop discounting books from Simon & Schuster and HarperCollins

  

Amazon Slow to Restore Macmillan Titles

February 3, 2010 By Dylan Stableford 2 years ago

Meanwhile, Murdoch joins chorus crying foul over bookseller's $9.99 e-book prices

  

What It Will Take for Paid Content to Work

November 23, 2009 By Dylan Stableford 2 years ago

With the news business on the cusp of change or collapse, TheWrap visits the stations of the cross on the path to PAID.

  

Amazon Unveils a Kindle for PCs

October 23, 2009 By the Los Angeles Times 2 years ago

The free software application is expected to be released in November.

  

Much-Anticipated 'Kindle Killer'? It's Coming ... In January

October 19, 2009 By Dylan Stableford 2 years ago

Plastic Logic will unveil e-ink rival to Amazon, Sony devices at CES.

  

Google Editions Embraces Universal E-book Format

October 16, 2009 By PC World 2 years ago

Unlike Amazon, Barnes & Noble, store will not be device-specific.

  

New Kindle Will Download Books Abroad

October 7, 2009 By the New York Times 2 years ago

Will use the wireless networks of AT&T and its international roaming partners, instead of Sprint.

  

Dan Brown's 'Symbol' Igniting Kindle Sales

September 16, 2009 By Anonymous 2 years ago

'Da Vinci' author's latest tops Amazon sales charts.

  

Sony Unveils 7-Inch Wireless Reader With Touch Screen

August 25, 2009 By Anonymous 2 years ago

Wireless electronic book reader with 7-inch touch screen is 17% larger than Amazon's device.

  

Sony Introduces $200 Pocket e-Reader

August 5, 2009 By Lew Harris 2 years ago

Also offers new Touch edition, lowers book prices.

  

Kindle Reader Sues Amazon

August 1, 2009 By Lew Harris 2 years ago

When "1984" was deleted, all the high-schooler's notes became useless.

  

The Case of the Disappearing Kindle Book

July 17, 2009 By Lew Harris 2 years ago

A book bought and paid for was suddenly gone from Amazon's e-reader.

  

Amazon Wants to Put Ads in Books

July 7, 2009 By PaidContent 2 years ago

Files patents for ads in e-books and on-demand books as well as a Kindle social network.

  

Why Screenwriter John August Loves Kindle, Twitter

June 4, 2009 By Maria Russo 2 years ago
  

It's the Next Gen Kindle

May 20, 2009 By Atom 2 years ago

First there was the Kindle, then the Kindle DX for newspapers, now there's ...