Borrow books: Amazon testing Kindle rental service Speed readers rejoice: Amazon seems to be testing out a new rental service for books. The Seattle retail giant already… Read More
Need a good read? Amazon unveils top 10 best-selling books of 2012 Here’s what we learned from Amazon’s top-10 best-selling books of 2012: People love bad boy romance novels and independent publishers… Read More
VC Brad Feld: Startup hubs need to be led by entrepreneurs Politicians, investors and professors are extremely important elements of a thriving startup ecosystem. But, at the end of the day,… Read More
History: Did Amazon try to buy Netflix for $12M in 1999? Just imagine what could have been? A new book to be released this week by Reuters reporter Gina Keating suggests… Read More
This is the best book Bill Gates read this summer Bill Gates likes to read and share his book recommendations with the rest of us, and this week he revealed… Read More
Katniss vs. Harry: Hunger Games outsells Harry Potter on Amazon It’s happened. Something has outsold the Harry Potter series on Amazon. And that something is Suzanne Collins’ Hunger Games series.… Read More
Voracious reader Bill Gates shares his favorite books of the summer Want to get inside the mind of one of the world’s richest men? Just take a look at his bookshelf.… Read More
Amazon.com buys rights to 3,000 romance, mystery and western book titles Amazon.com continues to gobble up book titles, this time sealing deal for some 3,000 backlist titles from Avalon Books in… Read More
Consumer suit vs. Apple and book publishers gets the go-ahead It’s game on for a class-action lawsuit against Apple and several major publishers accused of colluding to illegally fix prices… Read More
The nation’s most well-read cities, as ranked by Amazon.com Residents of Boulder, Colo., were singled out a year ago by Amazon.com for ordering more cooking, food and wine books… Read More
Q&A: Microsoft lessons from Employees 154160 and 191855 Recently we received a news release about a new book called Stack Rank This! Memoirs of a Microsoft Couple. Apart from… Read More
Kindle Fire software update allows readers to share favorite passages Amazon has begun pushing out a new update specifically for Kindle Fire owners that adds the ability to share favorite… Read More
DOJ takes aim at Apple and publishers over e-book pricing Perhaps this is a sign of just how badly Apple wants to compete with Amazon.com in the electronic book business.… Read More
Science fiction writers irked with Amazon.com, redirect links to other booksellers Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos traces his love of books back to some of the classics of science fiction. But now… Read More
College bookstores settle dispute over how textbooks are touted on Amazon The National Association of College Stores — a trade association that represents more than 3,100 college bookstores — was none… Read More
Book excerpt: Making the Jump into Small Business Ownership Editor’s note: Seattle area entrepreneurs David Nilssen and Jeff Levy provide practical advice and tips for those considering starting a new business… Read More
Geek Humor: Stephen Colbert calls Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos a vindictive man Comedian Stephen Colbert returned to the airwaves Monday night, and he didn’t waste any time taking a few cracks at… Read More
Adam Lashinsky: ‘There’s nothing shiny or happy … inside the doors of Apple’ Fortune senior editor Adam Lashinsky stopped by the offices of Zillow earlier this month as he touted his new book:… Read More
Amazon: Burning the book business or making it better? Bloomberg Businessweek’s cover story this week drills into Amazon’s effort to upend the book industry by moving into the publishing… Read More
Seattle librarian Nancy Pearl to publish out-of-print books with help from Amazon.com Nancy Pearl is perhaps the only celebrity librarian that we know of, regularly appearing on National Public Radio and immortalized… Read More
As Amazon accelerates into book publishing, rival Barnes & Noble plans exit This certainly is interesting timing. As Amazon.com accelerates its push into the book publishing business, Barnes & Noble appears to… Read More
Amazon.com buys rights to 450 children’s book titles Amazon.com announced today that it is buying 450 titles from Marshall Cavendish Children’s Books, expanding its footprint in the book… Read More
Big publisher restores Kindle public library books, for now Book publisher Penguin Group has made electronic versions of its books available again for lending on Amazon’s Kindle via public… Read More
Startup Spotlight: BookieJar looks to connect readers and authors BookieJar wants to connect readers to the authors they love, helping readers discover new titles and allowing authors to more easily… Read More
Amazon adds Deepak Chopra memoir to publishing lineup Amazon.com has added another big name, spiritual doctor Deepak Chopra, in its effort to expand beyond the business of selling books… Read More
Steve Jobs biography quickly rises to #1 spot on Amazon.com Walter Isaacson’s new biography of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs has already hit the number one position on Amazon.com, just hours… Read More
Amazon exclusive with DC Comics angers booksellers, comic book fans At an industry event Tuesday afternoon, a group of Seattle techies chatted privately with me about Amazon.com’s new-found power in… Read More
Amazon goes sci-fi with latest book publishing arm, 47North Amazon.com this morning moved further into the world of book publishing, beyond its traditional sales and distribution business, with the… Read More
A hunger for the best sci-fi books sparks geek’s latest quest Adam Doppelt is a developer, tinkerer and accomplished entrepreneur. And he’s also a science fiction geek. Those passions all collided… Read More
Rouxbe Cooking School partners with Ex-Microsoftie After losing her job at Microsoft, Kathleen Flinn went on to become a best-selling author with her book The Sharper Your… Read More
