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Top Amazon Reviewers Are Rolling In Free Swag

7:50AM Adrian Chen | What do you think of when you hear the phrase “top Amazon reviewers”. Probably some lady crouched over a rickety Gateway brushing cat hair off her screen. But Amazon’s citizen critics are courted by companies like their mainstream counterparts. More »

Amazon Lost $US3m Selling Lady Gaga’s New CD

6:18AM Brian Moylan | Selling Lady Gaga’s new album Born This Way for 99 US cents not only crashed Amazon’s servers, but also cost them about $US3 million. Was it worth it? More »

Lady Gaga’s ‘Little Monsters’ Are Pissed At Amazon

3:11PM Fast Company | Behold, the power of Lady Gaga. The pop superstar’s new album, “Born This Way,” managed to crash Amazon.com’s servers soon after the retailer offered it on sale for only 99 cents. Consumers, initially wowed by the discount, quickly became peeved by the dragging download speeds, and took to the album review section to complain not of Gaga’s music but of their ridiculous experience using Amazon—one fan I know said it took upwards of six hours to download the CD. More »

Anonymous Attacks ABC News, Threatens Amazon.com

2:15AM John Cook | The Anonymous online movement that has risen up to defend Wikileaks is so outraged about censorship that they hacked into ABC News’s web site and spiked a story about Sarah Palin. Makes sense, no? More »

Amazon.com Evicts Wikileaks. Who’s Next?

9:09AM Ryan Tate | Under pressure from Sen. Joe Lieberman, Amazon.com kicked its customer WikiLeaks off its servers. But why stop there? There’s all kinds of controversial customers the cowardly but remarkably convenient e-tailer can flee from. More »

Amazon.com Goes To Hollywood

3:39PM Business Insider | Amazon is launching Amazon Studios, a website that they are hoping will turn into a viable production label for producing feature films. Whose movies are they going to make? Yours! Well, maybe. More »

Amazon Reportedly Leaks Franzen Book Online

11:37PM Hamilton Nolan | Freedom, the most groundbreaking book about white people since Jonathan Franzen’s last book, isn’t released until August 31. But Amazon.com reportedly put the whole thing online yesterday by accident. Anybody grab a copy? It’s only newsworthy three more days. Updated. More »

Hardcover Books Will Now Be Forgotten, Thanks To Your Kindle

7:37AM Brian Moylan | Amazon.com reports that, for the past three months, sales of ebooks for their Kindle device have outpaced sales of hardcover books. They sold 143 Kindle downloads for every 100 hardcover. Yeah, but can you use a Kindle as a doorstop?

James Cameron Is Actually Avatar‘s Jake Sully

3:22AM Maureen OConnor | Dispatched to the Amazon by Hollywood to woo natives and steal their charming stories, James Cameron is torn between following his orders and protecting the rustic simplicity he loves, because it reminds him of a big-budget CGI blockbuster about aliens. More »