Archive for the 'Amazon.com' Category

Steve Weber got me thinking about this and I believe he’s right.
If you’re into publishing these days, the ONE thing that will make or break your book sales will be the amateur reviews at sites like Amazon.com
The publisher is in the business of having a “stable” of well known reviewers who are popular authors themselves [...]

It’s turning “Black” for online shoppers even before “Cyber Monday”. Crowds can even affect online shopping.  
Shoppers at Amazon.com yesterday and Wal-Mart.com today faced problems because of massive traffic surges.
Also: a new consumer warning out says that if you want to buy a “gift card” you should get one from a store that keeps gift cards behind the counter…at [...]

Amazon.com’s Mechanical Turk program pays people to work at a computer doing things that people do better than computers. One job involved taking images of storefronts and matching them up to businesses listed in a database.
The original “Mechanical Turk” as a sideshow machine that it’s inventor claimed could play chess against a live opponent. The [...]

According to Business Week, here’s Jeff Bezos’ plan:

Bezos wants Amazon to run your business, at least the messy technical and logistical parts of it, using those same technologies and operations that power his $10 billion online store. In the process, Bezos aims to transform Amazon into a kind of 21st century digital utility. It’s as [...]