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California's pending legislation to collect sales tax from Amazon.com has prompted the online retailer to threaten cutting loose its affiliates. Now several retailers -- Barnes & Noble, Sears and Walmart -- are trying to get Amazon affiliates to jump ship and replace that revenue with links to...

In another sign that dead tree media is, well, dying, Amazon.com, the largest book retailer, announced that for the first time, sales of ebooks exceeded the number of hardcovers sold. Amazon sold 143 ebooks for every 100 hardcovers sold during the second quarter of this year. The Kindle Store...

A new microchip that combines an applications processor and display controller could soon drop the price of e-readers by $30, according to reports. Freescale Semiconductor, which supplies chips to both Amazon.com's Kindle and the Sony eReader, says it supplies 90% of the market, and some analysts...

Amazon.com's surrender to Macmillan to raise prices on some of the publisher's e-books by as much as $5 should help authors out in the long run, but it isn't welcome news for readers. Amazon's $9.99 price for new releases and best sellers is already too high for many of its users, who say that...

Amazon.com released a statement Monday saying that November was so far the "best sales month ever" for its portable electronic reader, Kindle. Does that mean that Amazon actually released sales numbers? Well, no. Despite phrases in a press release like "flying off the shelves" and "#1 bestselling...

Walmart fired a deafening shot at Amazon.com Thursday, announcing plans to sell 10 hot new books for just $10 at its Web site, Walmart.com. Yep, that's right, hardcover books from bestselling authors like Dean Koontz and James Patterson for just $10. And here's the fun part: When Amazon said it...

I've been intrigued by Amazon's Kindle, the electronic book reader, since its introduction last year. However, like many of you, I've wondered if the technology offered enough to offset the convenience and tactile pleasure of a print book, and whether Amazon could offer enough value to justify the...