Hooray.
This is exciting not just because DRM blows, but because having more than one major DRM-free vendor in the market will serve as a market counterweight to iTunes’ "OK, we’ll take off the DRM, but charge you 30% more" calculus.
A lot of my opposition to DRM stems from not from some high-minded principle, but the [...]
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Amazon Will Enter the DRM-Free Music Market
May 16th, 2007 · No Comments · Amazon, Music
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Sold on eBay, Shipped by Amazon.com
April 27th, 2007 · No Comments · Amazon, The NY Times Valiantly Attempts To Report on Technology
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"Fulfillment by Amazon, in development for the last three years, is one of the oldest efforts in the company’s stable of Web services. Unlike S3 and other recent initiatives, Fulfillment by Amazon involves the movement of physical goods instead of digital information."
I am sure that the Times’ writer is [...]
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Both Sales and Earnings Rise Sharply at Amazon
April 25th, 2007 · No Comments · Amazon, Collaboration, Content, Community
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One initiative that has not yet yielded measurable results is Amazon Web Services, in which the company rents out parts of its infrastructure, like its storage computers, to smaller companies that do not want to develop skills that Amazon has honed over the years. Mr. Bezos said [...]
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Amazon Unbox: Day 2
March 14th, 2007 · 4 Comments · Amazon, TV, Tivo
We’ve watched our second free Unbox movie on Tivo and I have to say I’m warming up to it. I still don’t think it’s a better value than Netflix (we’re particularly missing DVD special features, which we enjoy mightily and Unbox doesn’t provide). But when I am sitting at my desk at 2pm and I [...]
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Amazon Unbox for Tivo
March 8th, 2007 · 2 Comments · Amazon, Tivo
I tried the new video-on-demand service Amazon Unbox for Tivo yesterday, mainly because of the $15 free credit. Linking the Tivo to my Amazon account was easy as was the download. Amazon’s web site has a long way to go to beat Netflix in terms of discoverability of titles, though. They should really create a [...]
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Evangelist Jobs at Amazon
January 27th, 2006 · 1 Comment · Amazon, Jobs, Web/Tech
Looks like Jeff’s looking to add a couple of evangelists to his team at Amazon. Could be a pretty cool gig if you’re in Seattle.
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