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Amazon extends AutoRip perk to vinyl records
Amazon.com's AutoRip, which gives customers free digital copies of CDs they purchase, is now available for vinyl records -- including those purchased in the past. Starting Wednesday, when customers buy AutoRip-eligible vinyl records, MP3 versions of the...
Tags: Music, Bruno Mars, Services and Shopping, Sound Recordings, Entertainment
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Getting published is only half the battle
Dear sir or madam, will you read my book? It took me years to write. Will you take a look? So begins the Beatles' "Paperback Writer," a song whose lyrics take the form of a query letter by a fledgling author to a publisher. The subsequent verses nail...Tags: Google Inc., Amazon.com Inc., Festive Events, The New York Times, Book
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Amazon announces it will buy book-recommendations site Goodreads
Amazon.com Inc., which started as an online bookseller before becoming the e-commerce behemoth it is today, is buying book-recommendations site Goodreads. Amazon announced the deal Thursday. The purchase price was not disclosed. Goodreads, a San...
Tags: Amazon.com Inc., Otis Chandler, Jeff Bezos, Apple iPhone, Book
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Amazon to buy book-focused social network Goodreads
Amazon.com Inc., which got its start as an online bookseller, went on to create the Kindle e-reader and has gotten into book publishing, is now pushing into the social side of reading. The world's largest online retailer said Thursday that it had agreed...Tags: Services and Shopping, Jeff Bezos, Book, Books, Culture
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Amazon's purchase of Goodreads panned -- on Goodreads
Over at the social reading website Goodreads, people take pleasure in writing reviews. Usually, they write about the books they’re reading. But in the last 24 hours, many have taken to reviewing Goodreads itself, and its sale to the book behemoth...
Tags: Amazon.com Inc., Otis Chandler
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Amazon goes social, acquires Goodreads
Amazon announced Thursday that it is acquiring social reading website Goodreads. The deal, which will be finalized in a few weeks, is the most prominent acquisition of a major book-focused startup in recent years. On Thursday afternoon, Goodreads...
Tags: Amazon.com Inc., Science and Technology, Otis Chandler, Google+, Book
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Amazon creates 'Send to Kindle' button for quickly saving articles
Amazon.com has introduced a way for users to quickly save and send news articles as well as other items to their Kindle devices for later, off-line reading. "The Send to Kindle Button lets people easily send that content to their Kindle so they can it...
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Amazon's Jeff Bezos hails recovery of some Apollo F-1 engines
Jeff Bezos: founder and CEO of Amazon.com, and now, bona fide ocean explorer. A year after vowing to send a team into the ocean to find F-1 engines from the historic Apollo 11 moon launch, Bezos announced Wednesday that the team had recovered F-1 engine...
Tags: Satellite Technology, Science and Technology, Oceans, Jeff Bezos, Charles F. Bolden, Jr.
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Google launches Keep, a note-taking app for Android devices
Google has released Keep, a convenient note-taking app for Android smartphone and tablet users. The app, which is available now on Google Play, is designed to make it easy for users to take notes and sync them across their mobile devices and on the...
Tags: Google Play, Google Inc., Amazon.com Inc., Car Safety Tips and Advice, Apple iPhone
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Three independent bookstores sue Amazon, publishers
Three independent bookstores have filed a class action suit against Amazon and the six major publishers, accusing them of creating a monopoly in e-book sales. The complaint, filed in New York on Feb. 15, focuses on digital rights management, known as DRM....Tags: New York City, Services and Shopping, Mark Zuckerberg, Justice System, Media Industry
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Cake Makers David and Vivie Glass Roll Out A Cookbook, Memoir
The Hartford CourantOver three decades, Vivie Glass quietly created and developed the recipes that built a brand favored by confection connoisseurs around the country. Now the baking genius behind her husband David Glass' cake empire is telling the story how she and...Tags: South Windsor, Heart Problems, Stew Leonard's, Water, Butter
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Friends of the Libraries: Lessons from the Panama Canal
For some time after my husband read the book "The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal, 1870-1914", by David McCullough, and recommended it to me as a "very readable" book, I have had it in my pile of reading material. But the very size...Tags: Music, Science and Technology, Conservation, Panama, Libraries
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