Gee. Who is surprised at this. The closure includes some of their book stores ( Read more... )

the "logic" would drive me (more) insane bigly.

I ordered some stuff from Amazon. Here's the latest shipping update.

Shipped with UPS ( Read more... )

RadioShack is not just on Death's door, they're opening it and stepping in briskly. The New York Stock Exchange has delisted them, their stock was trading at 24 CENTS per share the other day, and they can't some up with $50,000,000 to stave off the inevitable ( Read more... )

It may already have been resolved: the article said that you couldn't pre-order the Lego movie, yet I just looked at Amazon and it looks like you can ( Read more... )

I first came across this a couple of days ago while browsing my Twitter feed, a rare event. Fred Hicks of Evil Hat Games was writing a lot about it. Nasty stuff, makes me glad that we buy from Barnes & Noble and another chain when we can.

"Amazon, under fire in much of the literary community for energetically discouraging customers from buying ( Read more... )

They don't allow discounters like Amazon to cut the price of books more than 5%, plus the Paris government buys buildings in high-rent districts to give book stores affordable rents. France is in the process of passing a law that prohibits the 5% discount and adding free shipping on top of it ( Read more... )

About bloody time. I hope Barnes & Noble follows suite. I prefer, for a variety of reasons, B&N ebooks and their Nook over Amazon's format and the Kindles. My problem is that I have an old Nook tablet, theoretically I can root it and it will run a version of Android, but I don't know if it'll be a late enough version to access Google's Play ( Read more... )

"In response to DC Entertainment's agreement to exclusively offer digital versions of certain titles in Amazon Kindle format, Nook maker Barnes & Noble has begun pulling DC Entertainment's graphic novels off its shelves. Confirming the decision, B&N said in a statement, 'To sell and promote the physical book in our store showrooms, and not have the ( Read more... )

Amazon requires that your phone be set to allow apps from untrusted sources, which can open your phone to exploits. Google's app store does more inspecting, but is still not invulnerable. Amazon won't consciously allow compromised apps through, but you never know. And Amazon doesn't have a remote kill switch to remove installed apps that are ( Read more... )