Disturbing but not surprising that this goes on. I wonder if it's possible to pay more in Prime fees to guarantee better working conditions?

Crazy what emergence you get from multiple automatic algorithms interacting.

Interesting, but not sure if it's replicable. Other people have said free promotions are bad.

A much more intelligent analysis of the tablet market.

I think there's a lot wrong in this, especially the part about a cheap iPad cannibalizing the iPhone (???), but overall it's clear that the Kindle Fire and the Nook are going to be the most successful non-iPad tablets.

Whence the page turn buttons?

Oh Internet.

I think it's good for authors in the long term, but with some short-term upheaval.

No surprise that Cambridge wins.

I wonder what kind of liability Amazon has for having rented EC2 nodes to the hackers that performed the PSN attack?

Algorithmic pricing strikes again.

Cloud Player is a preemptive move against Apple?

I think it makes very clear that, like the record industry 10 years ago, the publishing industry is running scared, and is going to lurch about looking for a solution where content is available everywhere and priced well below where it was priced when instantiated in a physical medium.

Clay Shirky goes over his personal experience getting whipped into a frenzy of moral outrage over the #amazonfail (the apparent delisting of many books as "adult" because they had GLBT themes), and how in general we need to think before we tweet/blag/post.

Amazon is powerful enough to make deals with some manufacturers to get a version of their products not wastefully packaged for retail store shelves. Nifty!