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Updating Kindles-sold estimates: 1.072 million

Based on Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos' comments on the third quarter results for the company, Kindle sales are accelerating. Bezos is quoted: “Kindle has become the #1 bestselling item by both unit sales and dollars â€" not just in our electronics store but across all product categories on Amazon.com. It’s...

Tags: Jeff Bezos, Electronics, Amazon.com Inc., Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Sales, Mitch Ratcliffe

Blog posts 2009-10-23

Jeff Bezos offers apology for Orwellian mistake

Jeff Bezos offers apology for Orwellian mistakePerfect! The reason I will NEVER buy, use, or recommend a Kindle......or its equivalent, in easy-to-swallow, poison-pill form.Thanks so much for this story.Huh?Why wrong?If you as the end consumer, buy stolen goods, you don't get to keep them!So I'm guessing you are protesting the...

Tags: E-books, Viruses and worms, Jeff Bezos, Orwellian, Amazon.com Inc., refund

Discussion threads 2009-07-27

Jeff Bezos offers apology for Orwellian mistake

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos has offered up an apology for using the Kindle's remote wipe feature to delete illegal copies of 1984 and Animal Farm mistakenly sold to customers. by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Tags: Jeff Bezos, Apology, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Blog posts 2009-07-27

E-reader devices: The fun is just starting

The interest in e-readers, or e-books as they are called now, has reached a fever pitch. Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos fields nothing but Kindle questions at the company's  shareholder meeting. Prime View picks up E Ink, the company that supplies the screen to Amazon's Kindle, for $215 million. And companies...

Tags: Jeff Bezos, Amazon.com Inc., Amazon Kindle, Sarah Rotman Epps, E-books, Personal Technology, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-06-02

Jeff Bezos, meet Tony Hsieh. Zappos Moving into Electronics. And More.

As I said this morning, you should rule the world!!! How about starting by giving seminars? You could start with Wall St., then banks, how about the auto industry, then there's the airlines. I could go on, but it would just be easier if you ruled the world!!! Janet A....

Tags: Jeff Bezos, Electronics, Amazon.com Inc., Site, Zappos, Zeta, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld

Blog posts 2009-05-15

Gallery: Kindle DX

Amazon chief Jeff Bezos says his company's new Kindle DX will save paper, help students get better grades, reduce "evil" ink cartridges, and boost newspapers. by Andy Smith

Tags: Jeff Bezos, KIndle DX, Bezos, Amazon, Andy Smith

Image galleries 2009-05-06

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos reveals the Amazon Kindle DX

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos in action as he reveals the Amazon Kindle DX e-reader live in New York. by Andrew Nusca

Tags: Jeff Bezos, Amazon.com Inc., Amazon Kindle, product photos, Amazon, Kindle, e-reader, Andrew Nusca

Image galleries 2009-05-06

Kindle Economics 2: Why Amazon should not be Apple, and Jeff Bezos is not Steve Jobs

Kindle Economics 2: Why Amazon should not be Apple, and Jeff Bezos is not Steve JobsI might actually get oneThe Kindle could be a lot more, but for an avid reader, it is a nice tool. And it's not just books. I'm a fan of the NY Times...

Tags: E-books, Kindle Economics 2, Kindle 1.0, Jeff Bezos, Amazon.com Inc., Steve Jobs, Apple Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-02-09

Kindle Economics 2: Why Amazon should not be Apple, and Jeff Bezos is not Steve Jobs

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos presents the Kindle 2 to a packed auditorium. What sort of product rollout does this remind you of? So the Kindle 2 has now made its debut, with everything you'd expect of a gee-whiz product launch -- a packed auditorium filled with media types, a...

Tags: Steve Jobs, Jeff Bezos, Apple Inc., Amazon.com Inc., Amazon Kindle, E-books, 3G, Wireless LANs, Sales Strategy, Storage, Wi-Fi, Wireless And Mobility, Personal Technology, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Sales, Hardware, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2009-02-09

Jeff Bezos introduces the Kindle 2

Amazon.com introduces the Kindle 2 at a New York press conference featuring a special reading by author Stephen King.

Tags: Stephen King, Jeff Bezos, News

Videos 2009-02-09

No e-commerce worries here? Amazon doubles earnings

Updated: Amazon's second quarter earnings doubled from a year ago as sales jumped 41 percent and executives said that the e-tailer may be benefiting from a slowing economy courtesy of its free shipping deals. On Wednesday, the company reported net income of $158 million, or 37 cents a share,...

Tags: Jeff Bezos, Quarter, Amazon.com Inc., Earnings, E-business, Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Operational Accounting, Sales, Finance, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-07-23

Amazon's Jeff Bezos invests in Twitter

Everybody's favorite micro-blogging service, Twitter, has confirmed its much rumored third round of funding, which includes two new investors: Spark Capital and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos' Bezos Expeditions. by Steve O'Hear

Tags: Jeff Bezos, Amazon.com Inc., Twitter, Strategy, Recruitment & Selection, Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Steve O'Hear

Blog posts 2008-06-24

Amazon preps pay-per-view movie service

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos says that the company will launch a pay-per-view movie service shortly. According to reports out of D6--Barron's Eric Savitz has the most complete account along with Silicon Alley Insider--Bezos said he's serious about music and video downloads. He should be considering the distribution...

Tags: Movie, Jeff Bezos, Amazon.com Inc., Web Site Development, Web Technology, Digital Video, Internet, Personal Technology, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-05-28

Amazon's Bezos: Our Kindle supply issues almost fixed

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos apologized for the company's inability to make enough Kindles to meet demand, but noted that the e-tailer should have a sufficient inventory "within the next few weeks." While some have surmised that Amazon's pent up demand was a PR stunt it's pretty clear...

Tags: Jeff Bezos, Amazon.com Inc., Public Relations, E-business/E-Commerce, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Internet, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-03-20

Amazon's Kindle: Can it make its technology invisible?

Amazon on Monday officially rolled out its Kindle e-book, which downloads books, blogs, magazines and newspapers via a wireless connection. The Kindle view our Kindle unboxing gallery, which looks a lot less clunky in person than via pictures, features 90,000 books via the Kindle Store. New releases...

Tags: Jeff Bezos, Amazon.com Inc., Technology, Kindle, Kindle Store, Cellular Phones, Digital Rights Management (DRM), Wi-Fi, Wireless, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Security, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2007-11-19

Amazon mum on EC2, S3 spending

While Amazon delivered a blow-out quarter it remains quiet about detailing how much it is spending on the fast-growing EC2 and S3 Web services. On the first quarter earnings conference call, Bear Stearns analyst Robert Peck tried to pin down Amazon AMZN executives on...

Tags: Utility computing, Amazon, Web Technology, General, Enterprise 2.0

Blog posts 2007-04-25

Xactly closes new round, Bezos buys Expensewatch

Some interesting SaaS funding news: sales incentive management vendor Xactly just closed a $15 million funding round, while Amazon.com founder and CEO Jeff Bezos has become the new owner of expense and spend management vendor Expensewatch.com. by Phil Wainewright

Tags: Private Equity, Jeff Bezos, Xactly, Investment, Financial Services, Finance, Phil Wainewright

Blog posts 2007-04-24

Web 2.0: Is O'Reilly's vision a keeper? Amazon vs. Alexaholic

Web 2.0: Is O'Reilly's vision a keeper? Amazon vs. AlexaholicWeb 2.0 Principles and Best Practices is not a book ?Tim O'Reilly has helped publish many a tech how-to manual. But, has he really written the definitive book on Web 2.0?they released a book for business leaders in Nov 2006 –...

Tags: vision, connotation, O'Reilly, Web 2.0, Tim, Jeff Bezos, Amazon.com Inc., Web

Discussion threads 2007-04-23

Web 2.0: Is O'Reilly's vision a keeper? Amazon vs. Alexaholic

Tim O’Reilly graciously bestowed a “Blogger’s Code of Conduct” upon the blogosphere earlier this month. In 2004, he christened “Web 2.0” for the world. Tim O’Reilly has helped publish many a tech how-to manual. But, has he really written the definitive book on Web 2.0? O’Reilly Media touts...

Tags: ecommerce, Business Models, Web 2.0

Blog posts 2007-04-23

Amazon sues Alexaholic...everyone loses!

Imagine this scenario...Youre CEO of a $16 billion company and youve just given a warm and fuzzy sales pitch to thousands of up and coming Web 2.0 developers, trying to convince them to use your new web services. The presentation goes swimmingly well and you sit down for a congenial...

Tags: News, Amazon, Alexa, Web 2.0

Blog posts 2007-04-18