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Amazon.com Announces Second Quarter Sales up 41% to $6.57 Billion

By Guest PostJuly 23, 20102 commentsTechnologyAmazon, amazon elastic compute cloud, amazon web services, aws, ec2, financial results, jeff bezos, kindle, kindle books, operating cash flow, second-quarter

SEATTLE, — Amazon.com, Inc. announced (July 22) financial results for its second quarter ended June 30, 2010.

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Iconic Books, Such as John Updike’s Pulitzer Prize-Winning Rabbit Series and Vladimir Nabokov’s “Lolita,” Now Available Electronically for the First Time Ever, Exclusively in the Kindle Store

By Guest PostJuly 22, 20101 commentCulture, TechnologyAmazon, andrew wylie, blackberry, invisible man, iPhone, kindle dx, kindle store, lolita, london, new york, norman mailer, odyssey editions, philip roth, portnoy complaint, rabbit run, ralph ellison, russ grandinetti, the naked and the dead, vladimir nabokov, wylie

*Amazon’s Kindle Store now exclusively offering 20 books from The Wylie Agency’s new Odyssey Editions imprint*

SEATTLE, Jul 22, 2010 – Amazon.com, Inc. today announced that The Wylie Agency is publishing 20 books from some of literature’s most influential authors through its new Odyssey Editions imprint (www.odysseyeditions.com) and making them available for sale exclusively in the Kindle Store (www.amazon.com/kindlestore).

This is the first time any of the titles–which include Norman Mailer’s “The Naked and the Dead,” Philip Roth’s “Portnoy’s Complaint” and Ralph Ellison’s “Invisible Man”–have been available electronically, and all of the books are exclusive to the Kindle Store for two years.

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Staggering tree loss from 2005 Amazon storm

By Guest PostJuly 16, 20102 commentsEnvironment, NatureAmazon, carbon cycling, central amazon, ecologist, geophysical research letters, inpa, jeffrey chambers, manaus region, NASA, negrón-juárez, new orleans, niro higuchi, rainforest, satellite images, tropical, tulane university

WASHINGTON — A single, huge, violent storm that swept across the whole Amazon forest in 2005 killed half a billion trees, a new study shows.

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Amazon Web Services Introduces Cluster Compute Instances

By Guest PostJuly 13, 20101 commentTechnologyadaptive computing, Amazon, amazon web services, cluster compute, cpu, ec2, high-performance computing, hpc, keith jackson, lawrence berkeley lab, linpack, matlab, michael jackson, nersc, peter de santis

*New Cluster Compute Instances provide scalable, elastic, cost-efficient AWS cloud resources for advanced HPC workloads*

SEATTLE, Jul 13, 2010 – Amazon Web Services LLC, an Amazon.com company, today announced Cluster Compute Instances for Amazon EC2, a new instance type specifically designed for high-performance computing (HPC) applications and other demanding network-bound applications.

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Amazon.com Books Editors Announce “Best Books of the Year… So Far”

By Guest PostJuly 7, 2010TechnologyAmazon, Baltimore, best books of the year, big love, brady udall, China, country driving: a journey through china from farm to f, daphne durham, just kids, justin Cronin, karl marlantes, kindle, lisa grunwald, matterhorn: a novel of the vietnam war, michael lewis, patti smith, peter hessler, rebecca skloot, stieg Larsson, Sweden, the big short: inside the doomsday machine, the girl who kicked the hornet's nest, the immortal life of henrietta lacks, the imperfectionists, the irresistible henry house, the lonely polygamist, the passage, tom ranchman, top 10 best books, Vietnam

SEATTLE, Jul 07 – Amazon.com today announced its picks for the annual Best Books of the Year… So Far list (www.amazon.com/bestbooks2010). This midyear retrospective highlights the best books that have been released in 2010 between January and June.

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Amazon Introduces New Kindle DX with 50 Percent Better Display Contrast and New Lower price of $379

By Guest PostJuly 1, 2010Technology3g wireless, Amazon, amazon kindle, android, blackberry, blogs, Facebook, ipad, iPhone, john grisham, kindle dx, mac, new york times, phone, portable reader, pride and prejudice, steve kessel, the adventures of sherlock holmes, treasure island, Twitter, whispersync

Amazon.com today introduced the new latest generation Kindle DX and new lower price of $379, down from $489, and still with free 3G wireless–no monthly bills or annual contracts.

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70 Percent Royalty Option for Kindle Digital Text Platform Now Available

By Guest PostJune 30, 2010TechnologyAmazon, android phones, blackberry, dtp, ipad, iPhone, ipod touch, kindle, kindle content, kindle digital text platform, kindle dx, mac, pc, russ grandinetti

*Starting today, authors and publishers can earn more royalties from every Kindle book sold*

Amazon.com today announced that the 70 percent royalty option that enables authors and publishers who use the Kindle Digital Text Platform (DTP) to earn a larger share of revenue from each Kindle book they sell is now available.

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Amazon, Rainforest and the miserable animals

By ShamsMarch 12, 2008Environmentagricolonization, Amazon, deforestation, rainforest

According to January 2008 Greenpeace report Amazon deforestation rate is high again although local officials claim the opposite. Greenpeace assumes that in 2007 from August – December, 7000 sq. km of the rainforest has been destroyed.

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