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Amazon To Cock-Block Local Businesses This Holiday Seasonnew

Internet instant gratification behemoth Amazon is telling hopeful consumers to go into local retailers and photograph inventory prices in exchange for a paltry 5 percent discount (up to $5) on Amazon-equivalent products.

Nashville Scene | Jonathan Meador | 12-07-2011 | Business & Labor

Tags: Buy Local, WTF, #Occupy, Amazon.com

Amazon's Gambitnew

The online giant is hoping that its offer to create 7,000 jobs in California will convince legislators to delay the state's new sales tax law until 2014.

East Bay Express | Robert Gammon | 09-07-2011 | Business & Labor

Tags: Sales Tax, Amazon.com

Wal-Mart Lowers the Guillotine on Authors and Independent Bookstoresnew

The devaluation of work is a brutal injustice to the Kingsolvers and the Grishams and the Pattersons (though, for the record, the latter two aren't exactly wading in the same talent pool as Kingsolver). Even -- and I cannot believe I am going to say this -- even Dan Brown and his formulaic prose deserve better than $8.99 on new releases.

San Diego CityBeat | Aaryn Belfer | 10-28-2009 | Books

Tags: discount retailers, Wal-Mart, Target, authors, bookstores, Amazon.com

The Case Against Google Booksnew

How three California librarians led the revolt against the company's plans to archive all earthly knowledge.

East Bay Express | Chris Thompson | 10-14-2009 | Books

Tags: John McWhorter, Pamela Samuelson, Internet, Google, UC Berkeley, George Lakoff, Amazon.com

Bookstores Fight Back With Instant Paperbacksnew

Battered booksellers have a secret weapon that they hope will continue to lure customers into their stores. Would you believe it's a machine that can print up a fresh new paperback copy from a menu of 3.6 million books?

Boston Phoenix | Ethan Gilsdorf | 09-24-2009 | Books

Tags: Espresso Book Machine, Harvard Book Store, independent book stores, On Demand Books, Harvard University, Amazon.com