Amazon Pushes Textbooks Amazon Connect, the e-tailer’s fake “blogs,” struck me as a non-story (or at least a missed/late opportunity), but another new initiative not fed to the media is potentially much more significant: The company has launched a “new and used textbooks store.” Amazon Hershey Settles Hershey settled their lawsuit against and Simon & […]
Archives for December 2005
Lunch Weekly for Monday, December 26
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Lunch for Thursday, December 22
Updates on the Waterstone’s/Ottakar Deal The heads of a number of UK houses held meetings recently with top management at HMV and Ottakar’s to underscore — in case their feelings were not already known — “in the strongest possible terms that the proposed merger of Waterstone’s and Ottakar’s was ‘against the wishes of the industry,'” […]
Lunch for Wednesday, December 21
Schedules You would think that waves of the autoreplies from all those people who started their two-week vacations last Friday would have been a hint, but it still feels as if the holiday has snuck up on us. With the added help of the transit strike there’s considerably less news day. If there’s not enough […]
Lunch for Tuesday, December 20
NYT Staffer Says Book’s Timing Drove Bush Spy Story An unidentified NYT journalist tells the LA Times that the imminent publication of James Risen’s embargoed book by the Free Press is what compelled the paper of record to finally run with their story on President Bush authorizing eavesdropping on US citiznes. “When they realized that […]
Lunch for Monday, December 19
State of Spying Revelations If you’re a Democrat, you’re wondering why the NY Times agreed to wait a year to let James Risen report on President Bush’s post-9/11 secret order to allow eavesdropping on American citizens without court approval. If you’re a Republican, you’re wondering why the newspaper ran the story the day the Patriot […]