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The online retail giant functions like two stocks: One is speculative and volatile, with unusually high valuations -- and high demands for returns. The other is for long-term investors, who get rewarded for buying and holding with capital gains and consistent growth.

Borders says it will postpone January payments to many vendors to conserve cash, though the move may do no more than delay a prepackaged bankruptcy or breakup of the company.

We've become used to the inexorable progress of prices, until we've come to expect that the price of things will only go one way -- up. So why should it be any different in 2011, as the market waits fearfully for the first signs of inflation? It's comforting, then, to run across a list of items...

If you own a Kindle and are looking to gain some literary karma and free books, the Kindle Lending Club is the place to start. The new site, which launched in public beta on Friday, allows a Kindle e-book to be loaned once for up to two weeks -- a service that Amazon.com just started offering in...

If you're among the millions of people who got an e-reader for Christmas and are reading more books than ever before, you'll soon notice on your credit card statement that those $9.99 books add up fast. But other than reading free public domain classics, how can e-book readers save money without...

Get free Kindle books on Amazon's site for the top 100 paid and free Kindle books. Note, stick to the right column only if you want freebies. The left column is for top paid Kindle books, though it is clever of Amazon to put them on the same page to entice you to spend. Free titles...

As electronic media accounts for a larger and larger portion of the book business, consumers are benefiting from lower prices for books, and manufacturers are enjoying massive sales. But how is the e-book revolution affecting authors? It's opening new opportunities -- but no guarantees.

In these precious few holiday shopping days left, e-readers make for an easy gift for a wide range of family and friends. So, DailyFinance has assembled a guide to the major e-readers and what each one is best suited for as well as what issues you should consider before buying.

Google opened its long-anticipated Internet book store Monday, putting itself in direct competition with Amazon.com. Buyers can read its 3 million e-Books on any Web device or reader -- except on Amazon's Kindle.

As the market for electronic book readers has grown, Apple's iPad has been pulling e-reader market share away from Amazon.com's Kindle, according to a new report from ChangeWave Research. The Kindle's market share has slipped to 47% from 62% in three months.