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Amazon Just Added Penn State To Campuses Invaded
12Jan By superadminNo Comments
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Amazon Just Added Penn State To Campuses Invaded

Amazon is having a big impact on college campuses. On Tuesday, Amazon announced a partnership with the University of Pennsylvania, in which a new central clearing facility on the campus will be opened. The partnership is being called Amazon@Penn. Students at the college will be able to go to the facility to pick up and return their orders from Amazon. Many have described it as one giant Amazon locker for college students. Representatives from the University of Pennsylvania have stated that more than half of the packages that arrive at the college mailrooms are sent from Amazon. The online retailer has already established similar locations at the University of Massachusetts and the University of Cincinnati. In the near future, the company will also open locations at the University of ...
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Amazon Is Cutting Out The Middleman With Secret Air Cargo Operation
21Dec By superadminNo Comments
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Amazon Is Cutting Out The Middleman With Secret Air Cargo Operation

Online retailer Amazon has long been working on taking shipping into its own hands so that the company can end its dependence on third party shipping companies such as UPS. The latest rumored shipping venture by Amazon is believed to be an air cargo program that has been operating in Wilmington, OH on a trial basis. The venture is being called Aerosmith. The Aerosmith program has been shipping goods for an unnamed vendor, who many suspect is Amazon. The operation works out of the Wilmington Airpark, which is a non-passenger airport facility that includes capabilities for sorting goods and packing cargo. The airport features two runways that can support Boeing 747 airplanes, and it also includes eight industrial facilities and more than 100,000 square feet of office space. Earlier this ye...
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Amazon Pulls Hoverboards After Safety Concerns Become Public
15Dec By superadminNo Comments
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Amazon Pulls Hoverboards After Safety Concerns Become Public

Online retail giant Amazon has started removing some of the “hoverboards” from its website, citing fears about fires resulting from exploding batteries. The hoverboards do not actually hover, but rather they roll around on the ground on wheels to offer the user the simulation of hovering. Many models of hoverboards that were once available on Amazon have since disappeared. Amazon offered a message stating that they are not recommending any hoverboards until they are shown to be safe. It should be noted that not all models of hoverboards have been removed from Amazon. Hoverboard retailer Swagway has said that Amazon is requiring manufacturers to provide documents that prove that that their devices are compliant with safety standards. Amazon is paying particular attention to the batteries ...
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Senate Passes Bill That Makes Internet Tax Exemptions Permanent
14Dec By superadminNo Comments
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Senate Passes Bill That Makes Internet Tax Exemptions Permanent

A bill has been approved by the United States House of Representatives that will permanently prevent states from collecting tax dollars on sales that are made over the internet. The bill, which is called HR 644, is a trade policy that has been amended to feature a permanent renewal of the Internet Tax Freedom Act. The bill is part of the Trade Facilitation and Enforcement Act of 2015, and it was approved by the House with a vote of 256 to 158. By passing the bill, the House has also granted the renewal of the act that forbids both state and local governments from taxing the access to the internet. The Internet Tax Freedom Act was originally put into place in 1998, and it has been renewed several times since then. The act includes some controversial elements, most notably the limit on the...
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Amazon Close To Drone Package Delivery — As Long As The Yard Is Big Enough
30Nov By superadminNo Comments
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Amazon Close To Drone Package Delivery — As Long As The Yard Is Big Enough

If you want to be among the first Amazon customers to have their purchases delivered by a drone, you’ll have to have a lawn big enough to act as a drone landing strip. A new promotional video released by the online retail giant gave a bit of insight to the much anticipated arrival. Although not saying when drone deliveries will begin, video narrator Jeremy Clarkson, former star of  Top Gear, says it will be in “the not too distant future.” Amazon has been developing a drone delivery service for two years, with the prototype drone having nine propellers and the ability to sense and avoid nearby objects as it flies. It will pick out exactly where to land thanks to a plastic mat landing strip placed down by drone deliverable customers, which indicates they have a lawn with enough space...
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Amazon’s Jeff Bezos Beats Elon Musk With Breakthrough Upright Rocket Landing
24Nov By superadminNo Comments
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Amazon’s Jeff Bezos Beats Elon Musk With Breakthrough Upright Rocket Landing

Not only is Amazon founder Jeff Bezos' online retail company's pre-Black Friday sales sky rocketing, his actual rocket ship has also achieved a major breakthrough by traveling into outer space and then re-entering earth, landing upright and intact. The achievement means that the cost of space travel just got cheaper. In the past, rockets were disposed of after launching craft into space but this breakthrough means that the rocket is reusable. Bezos started his space company, Blue Origin, with the aim of using his New Shepard rocket for space tourism. "Now safely tucked away at our launch site in West Texas is the rarest of beasts -- a used rocket," Bezos says. "Full reuse is a game changer, and we can't wait to fuel up and fly again." Bezos likens not being able to reuse rockets to air...
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Amazon’s Clever Plan To Make Black Friday Last All Week
24Nov By superadminNo Comments
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Amazon’s Clever Plan To Make Black Friday Last All Week

For online retail giant Amazon and its customers, Black Friday started two weeks ago. Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving, is noted as the first “official” day of Christmas shopping in the U.S. Customers of both traditional stone and mortar retailers, as well as online stores like Amazon, are lured by special offers and sales. Two weeks ago Amazon launched its Black Friday online store for window shopping purposes, and last week opened the store for actual buying, a whole week before Black Friday . To keep interested customers tuned in, the company has been adding new Black Friday deals every five minutes since then.  In 2014, it offered three “Black Friday deals of the day”, starting at midnight on Thanksgiving, as well as three more on Black Friday. This year it’s offerin...
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Watch Out For That Unlocked Tablet On Amazon – It Could Have Malware
13Nov By superadminNo Comments
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Watch Out For That Unlocked Tablet On Amazon – It Could Have Malware

Many Android devices that are being sold on Amazon are reportedly preloaded with annoying advertising malware and hacked operating systems. Such claims have already been made by several users and security experts. Blackbox tablets from various brands are being cheaply sold on the online retail website. Many of these Android devices cost as little as $100. These units are often said to be arriving with malware that has been preloaded. Tens of thousands of devices that have been preloaded with Cloudsota malware are believed to be in circulation. Meanwhile, people are complaining for other reasons, saying that the products are cheap and manufactured poorly. According to Chinese security firm Cheetah Mobile, a total of more than 17,000 of such devices had their antivirus software installed. ...
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Facebook, McDonald’s And Amazon Among Companies Scrutinized For Tax Evasion
10Nov By superadminNo Comments
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Facebook, McDonald’s And Amazon Among Companies Scrutinized For Tax Evasion

Facebook, McDonald's and Amazon are among 11 companies that will soon be questioned by European Union lawmakers for its low-tax deals. The internet retail giant is currently awaiting a decision on its fiscal agreement with Luxembourg from antitrust regulators. The hearing with the EU will take place next week on Monday November 16th, and the companies are voluntarily participating in the questioning. Another company set to be questioned by the EU is Barclays. The companies will be questioned by the European Parliament’s special tax committee over their taxation practices. The companies had declined to attend previous voluntary meetings. Last month, Fiat and Starbucks were both ordered by the EU to repay tens of millions of euros in back taxes. These orders represented the initial decisio...
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Google, Amazon And Facebook Control A Staggering 70% Of All Profit Made Online
8Nov By superadminNo Comments
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Google, Amazon And Facebook Control A Staggering 70% Of All Profit Made Online

Despite the Internet being hailed as the great equalizer of all things a study of the U.S. online market shows that just five companies are controlling the majority share of all online monetary transactions. The Russell 3000 Index, which measures the performance of the largest 3,000 U.S. companies, shows Internet giants Alphabet, Amazon and Facebook have 70% of the industry's total market value of $1.5 trillion, and that Internet profit is even more concentrated than revenue is. Google subsidiary Alphabet has taken in $16.4 billion in net profit over the last year, accounting for two-thirds of the aggregate net income collected by all Internet companies. Facebook is trailing Alphabet, claiming 11 percent of the industry's total net income. In comparison, Amazon, which many associate as...
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Physical Amazon Bookshop To Open Its Doors In Seattle This November
3Nov By superadminNo Comments
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Physical Amazon Bookshop To Open Its Doors In Seattle This November

Online retail giant Amazon is opening a brick and mortar bookshop in Seattle, calling it a "physical extension" of its business. While the move will most probably be welcomed by consumers, rival bookseller Waterstones is not impressed and says it hopes the venture "falls flat on its face". The Amazon store will stock Amazon.coms most popular books, priced the same as the website offerings. Blurring the line between online and offline even further, customers will also be able to tryout Amazon's devices, including the Fire TV and Kindle. Jennifer Cast, Amazon Books vice-president, says the online giant will open its "real, wooden doors" on November 3 at the Seattle University Village. "Amazon Books is a physical extension of Amazon.com. We've applied 20 years of online bookselling experie...
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Google Hopes To Deliver Packages Using Drones Starting In 2017
2Nov By superadminNo Comments
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Google Hopes To Deliver Packages Using Drones Starting In 2017

On Monday, a Google executive announced that the company expects to begin delivering packages to consumers by drones sometime in 2017. David Vos, the project lead for Google’s Project Wing told members of the public that, “Our goal is to have commercial business up and running in 2017.” Vos’ statements come after Google recently received clearance from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to begin testing its drones in the United States. Last year, Google announced its plans to get in the drone delivery game and joined the likes of Amazon in the quest to make such drones a reality. According to documents filed with the FAA, Google has been cleared to test two separate drones in the U.S. The first model, with the codename M2 was approved in early October and the B3 soon followed. G...
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Wal-Mart Takes Another Swing At Competitor Amazon With New Delivery Drones
27Oct By superadminNo Comments
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Wal-Mart Takes Another Swing At Competitor Amazon With New Delivery Drones

Wal-Mart is joining Google and Amazon in the effort to make delivery-drones a reality. On Monday, the world’s largest retailer applied to United States regulators for permission to test its drones, which it hopes to use to deliver merchandise to customer’s homes. It also requested permission to test the drones for curbside pickups and for checking the inventories of warehouses. The move by Wal-Mart signals that it plans to compete head on with Amazon in using drones to process and deliver orders placed online. Wal-Mart has been testing its drones inside for several months. It now seeks to take the tests outside. The company is using drones manufactured by the Chinese company, SZ DJI Technology Co Ltd. Wal-Mart wishes to have its drones take inventories of certain trailers that are locat...
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Amazon Suing 1,000 Users Who Posted Fake Product Reviews To Bump Sales
19Oct By superadminNo Comments
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Amazon Suing 1,000 Users Who Posted Fake Product Reviews To Bump Sales

Amazon is stepping up its efforts to stop people from posting phony product reviews on its website. More than 1,000 people are being sued by the online store for allegedly misleading honest customers by posting fake product reviews in order to get people to buy certain products. The lawsuit is taking place in a Seattle court. According to the lawsuit, users on Fiverr.com are hiring people to post the reviews. On Fiverr, users can hire other people to do various odd-jobs for as little as $5. Since Amazon does not know the names of the people involved, the defendants are all listed as “John Doe” in the lawsuit. This is not the first time that this has happened. In April, Amazon sued several other websites for selling fake reviews that were posted on Amazon. According to Amazon, most ...
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Walmart To Make Its Online Platform Code Public To Increase Competition For Amazon
16Oct By superadminNo Comments
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Walmart To Make Its Online Platform Code Public To Increase Competition For Amazon

Walmart is making its online shopping platform computing code open to everyone, in the hopes that more companies will develop their own e-commerce platforms instead of forcing companies to essentially rely on Amazon, which has become a serious threat to the massive retail store. Walmart has been performing dreadfully in the market since the company announced that growth for the company would be slow over the next few years. Walmart CFO Charles Holley blamed this on rising wages and the increased cost of employee training. Shares for Walmart fell by 10% this week. Meanwhile, Amazon is performing exceptionally well, as its shares have increased by more than 75% this year. Amazon now has a larger market value than Walmart, as the online retailer has a market value of $254.8 billion compared...
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Google Works With NASA and FAA To Bring Delivery Drones Testing To The United States
14Oct By superadminNo Comments
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Google Works With NASA and FAA To Bring Delivery Drones Testing To The United States

Last year, Google announced its plans to get in the drone delivery game and joined the likes of Amazon in the quest to make such drones a reality. Google has been testing its Project Wing in Australia for the past year and is now ready to bring testing to the United States. According to documents filed with the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), Google has been cleared to test two separate drones in the U.S. The first model, with the codename M2 was approved in early October and the B3 soon followed. Google’s version of the delivery drone - at least the original model - looked like a tiny airplane and launched into the air facing upwards, like a space shuttle. It makes its deliveries by lowering a package attached to a long string. Due to its collaboration with NASA, Google wa...
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Retail Giant Amazon Is Launching A Huge New Restaurant Delivery Service
8Sep By superadminNo Comments
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Retail Giant Amazon Is Launching A Huge New Restaurant Delivery Service

Never content with its already dominant position in the ecommerce industry, Amazon is getting in the game of fresh food delivery. Services like Amazon Fresh and Amazon Restaurants are being introduced in markets around the country. While it is not exactly clear yet as to what the Amazon Restaurants service will ultimately look like, the company is actively hiring for “City Managers” to “drive the sales and marketing efforts for Amazon Restaurants as we expand into new regions.” Presently, Amazon has launched Amazon Fresh in a few of America’s largest cities. The service allows users to order their groceries online and drivers partnered with Amazon Fresh will deliver the groceries straight to your door. While local, independent companies have provided this service for years, especially i...
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This Week’s Launch Of Apple TV Will Show A Strategy Shift From Streaming Into Gaming
7Sep By superadminNo Comments
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This Week’s Launch Of Apple TV Will Show A Strategy Shift From Streaming Into Gaming

It seems it isn't just tech heavyweights like Google and Amazon that are making big pushes into the lucrative world of online gaming. According to reports over the weekend smartphone giant Apple will make gaming a key piece of its new and improved Apple TV product, which it is expected to unveil on Wednesday. Sources briefed on Apple's plans revealed that the new product is expected to be priced at around $150 and will contain a better graphics processor, a new remote control that doubles as a controller and an app store specifically for purchasing games. While the general consensus of Wall Street analysts is that Apple would have considerable difficulty in luring users from high end gaming consoles like the Xbox and Playstation it appears Apple understands this and will go after casual ...
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Amazon Boss Denies New York Times Report On Toxic Work Culture
17Aug By superadminNo Comments
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Amazon Boss Denies New York Times Report On Toxic Work Culture

Amazon boss Jeff Bezos has come out swinging in response to allegations in a New York Times article last weekend that claimed the "company is conducting an experiment in how far it can push white-collar workers to get them to achieve its ever-expanding ambitions" Bezos said the "shockingly callous management practices" described in the article did not "ring true" with the company he knows and heads, and he wasted no time in shooting off a memo to all employees encouraging them to whistle blow on any kind of management behaviour outlined in the article, to either himself or to Amazon's human resources department. He wrote "The NYT article prominently features anecdotes describing shockingly callous management practices, including people being treated without empathy while enduring family ...
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Pay TV Service HBO Courts Children With Sesame Street Deal
14Aug By superadminNo Comments
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Pay TV Service HBO Courts Children With Sesame Street Deal

Sesame Street a long time stable of the free Public Broadcasting Service (PBS), will now be screened on premium cable network HBO, part of a push by the network to expand its audience. The network has announced a five-year deal with the nonprofit educational group behind “Sesame Street” to carry new seasons of the long running, popular children’s show which means the next five seasons of “Sesame Street” will be shown exclusively on HBO and its streaming services HBO Now and HBO Go. In a statement HBO said the partnership would allow Sesame Workshop to produce twice as much new content as previous seasons. The shows would be released for free to PBS stations nine months later. Sesame Workshop would also produce a “Muppet” spinoff series and develop a new original educational series f...
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Alibaba Hires Ex-Goldman Banker To Wage Global War On Amazon
5Aug By superadminNo Comments
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Alibaba Hires Ex-Goldman Banker To Wage Global War On Amazon

Chinese ecommerce giant Alibaba has hired ex-Goldman Sachs vice-chairman Michael Evans as its new president, charging him with leading its global strategy. Evans is a board member of the company and has known Alibaba founder Jack Ma for over a decade. Looking to cater to Chinese consumers’ growing demand for imported goods, Evan’s will be in charge of building partnerships with brands and retailers from Europe, Asia, and the Americas. Alibaba’s end goal is to become the world’s first truly global e-commerce company. Towards that end they will need to enable consumers to buy from foreign companies with less delay and cost than has been possible in the past. Currently, it can take two weeks for products to travel from a U.S. distributor to China. Evan’s new role of luring the business ...
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Amazon Shows Its Dead Serious About TV After Luring Hit Show Top Gear Away From Netflix
30Jul By superadminNo Comments
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Amazon Shows Its Dead Serious About TV After Luring Hit Show Top Gear Away From Netflix

In a major coup for Amazon, it has finalized a three-year deal with the stars and producer of the BBC hit, Top Gear. Amazon Prime Video beat out other suitors, including ITV, Hulu and Netflix, despite bookmakers’ predictions that Netflix had the edge. In fact, Netflix was a 6-4 favorite over Amazon or Hulu. Speculation had been mounting over the team's next move, and the deal with Amazon comes as a surprise to many media analysts, who had considered the streaming service an outside contender for Jeremy Clarkson’s signature. It is not yet apparent as to why Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May chose Amazon over its competitors, but one can speculate that Amazon made a deal the trio could not refuse. Top Gear, one of the BBC’s most watched shows, aired on the British channel for 21 seaso...
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Amazon Reveals Comprehensive Plan For Prime Air Delivery Drones
29Jul By superadminNo Comments
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Amazon Reveals Comprehensive Plan For Prime Air Delivery Drones

In the latest development in Amazon’s plans to deliver packages by unmanned drones, it has announced a comprehensive proposal for turning its lofty dreams into reality. Amazon Prime Air unveiled its plan on Tuesday at a NASA convention in California, and central to its proposal is the creation of a 200 foot slice of air, located between 200 feet and 400 feet from the ground, that would only be used by drones equipped with the technology that will allow them to fly safely and autonomously. A further 100 feet of airspace, between 400 feet and 500 feet, would be a no-fly zone. If Amazon’s proposed plans are accepted by the Federal Aviation Administration (“FAA”), the American public could see tens of thousands of drones whizzing by in the air within the next several years. Specifically, Am...
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Walmart Launches Massive One Day Sale To Compete With Amazon’s Prime Day
13Jul By superadminNo Comments
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Walmart Launches Massive One Day Sale To Compete With Amazon’s Prime Day

Not one to be left out of the spotlight, retail giant Walmart announced that it will launch a rival sale to Amazon Inc.’s Prime Day that will be held on the same date and include more than 2,000 online discounts. Amazon recently announced Prime Day in celebration of its 20th anniversary, which is scheduled for July 15th. Prime Day, available to Amazon customers who are members of Amazon Prime, will include thousands of sales beginning at 12:00 a.m., with new ones available as often as every 10 minutes. This sales event is being touted as big enough to rival Black Friday. Walmart’s lower prices on categories such as electronics, home, toys and baby will last 90 days. Additionally, starting today, Walmart is also reducing the minimum order for free shipping from $50 to $35 for a peri...
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Retail Giant Amazon Celebrating Birthday With Sale “Bigger Than Black Friday”
6Jul By superadminNo Comments
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Retail Giant Amazon Celebrating Birthday With Sale “Bigger Than Black Friday”

If you thought Black Friday was huge you haven't seen anything yet says Amazon. With Black Friday, the day where Internet shoppers go berserk chasing bargains on offer on-line, still more than four months away, Amazon has announced another blockbuster sales day -"Prime Day" - which will take place on July 15, the day the company celebrates 20 years of being in business. In an announcement today the company said "Step aside Black Friday, meet Prime Day," The announcement said Prime Day which will be open for Amazon members only, will be "filled with more deals than Black Friday." The announcement said Prime members "will find deals starting at midnight, with new deals starting as often as every ten minutes" . As a lead up, Amazon would offer free 30-day Prime memberships which are nor...
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Amazon To Pay Authors Based On How Many Pages You Read
22Jun By superadminNo Comments
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Amazon To Pay Authors Based On How Many Pages You Read

If the fabulously wealthy Taylor Swift thinks music royalties are too low you can imagine what authors will think of a new idea from eBook giant Amazon, which announced Monday a new pricing plan that will see its Kindle Unlimited and Kindle Owners' Lending Library authors paid based on the number of pages users read. Amazon is looking to compensate writers for their work on longer titles while at the same time encourage quality material. In order to avoid cheating, by say wider margins or larger font sizes, Amazon will use a normalized page count that compensates for how much content is actually in a book, so that the rate will be the same no matter the layout. This may change the format of what you read, as images will count as content, so there may be novels with a few extra illustrati...
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Amazon Uses ‘We’re From The Internet So Laws Don’t Apply’ Strategy To Avoid Drone Regulation
17Jun By superadminNo Comments
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Amazon Uses ‘We’re From The Internet So Laws Don’t Apply’ Strategy To Avoid Drone Regulation

As time has passed since the founding of America the federal government increasingly regulates nearly all activity within the nation. While originally states were able to decide what is best for them, based on what local residents wanted, its now the feds calling the shots. Or make that corporations. Federal regulation makes it easy for corporations to get laws changed to their advantage. Lobby one group in D.C., get the entire country on board. The latest shining example of this comes courtesy of internet retailer Amazon, which warned a House oversight committee that states and cities "must not be allowed" to regulate unmanned aircraft that get the Federal Aviation Administration's approval. If Amazon wants to fly a drone in your backyard and the FAA gives it permission to fly a drone...
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