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March 2008
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Amazon.com puts the screws to small publishers [Death Of Print]
From Valleywag | March 28, 2008Remember how print-on-demand technologies were going to liberate anyone to publish books? Still true, as long as you don't want to sell your... more
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The Race For The Silver
From Coolfer | March 27, 2008A good post over at Alley Insider pointed me to a USA Today article about the battle for bragging rights as runner-up to iTunes in digital... more
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Exclusive: Corgan Speaks Out On Pumpkins Suit
From Billboard News - Daily | March 26, 2008Smashing Pumpkins frontman Billy Corgan has spoken exclusively to Billboard about the lawsuit the band filed this week against Virgin Records... more
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Smashing Pumpkins Sue Virgin Over Promo
From Billboard News - Daily | March 25, 2008The Smashing Pumpkins are suing Virgin Records, saying the record label has illegally used their name and music in promotional deals with... more
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Make money faster! eBay may dump ValueClick for its own affiliate...
From Valleywag | March 17, 2008Under new CEO John Donahoe, eBay is moving to take its affiliate marketing in-house, a tipster tells us. The auction giant could dump ValueClick... more
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Blu-ray Getting Stronger
From The Hot Blog | March 15, 2008I was on Amazon.com, where they are pushing both hi-def and regular DVDs heavily these days, and noticed that No Country For Old Men was on... more
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Monday Business Links: Japan ISPs to Police Traffic
From Coolfer | March 15, 2008• Four Japanese ISPs have agreed to temporarily disconnect from their networks file sharers who fail to react to notifications and stop... more
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How Much Profit Does iTunes Make On Music?
From Coolfer | March 14, 2008Billboard's Ed Christman got out his calculator and tried to figure out just how much money Apple makes from iTunes. A 30% margin and music... more
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Jeff Bezos more interested in BlackBerry than Zappos.com [Caption...
From Valleywag | March 8, 2008Amazon.com founder and CEO Jeff Bezos didn't seem too attentive in the "Top Ten Lessons Learned in E-Commerce" panel earlier today at the... more
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Hey Amazon: Cast Iron Frying Pans And Glass Don't Mix [Stupid Shipping...
From Consumerist | March 5, 2008Reader TJ questions the mind that packed a cast iron frying pan and a glass coffee pot in the same box, without adequate padding: I'm sure... more
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Nine Inch Nails offer free tracks on BitTorrent, double album for...
From Valleywag | March 4, 2008Nine Inch Nails frontman Trent Reznor has made the first section of a four-part album available as a BitTorrent download. The rest of the... more
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Futurist: ‘1-Click’ Government
From Top Stories from CQ | March 2, 2008When deciding how to present massive amounts of information online, the first question should be: What would Jeff Bezos do? The Amazon.com... more
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