November 29, 2016

A worker at Amazon’s headquarters in Seattle, Washington, has attempted to kill himself by leaping four stories from one of the complex’s buildings, Spencer Soper has reported for Bloomberg. He has reportedly… Read more »

Amazon

Returning an ebook after reading: is Amazon's return policy damaging to authors and publishers? — Nikki Griffiths
Dave Eggers’ new hardcover will be available in indie bookstores only — Bryn Goldstein
"BoxedOut" campaign to warn customers of costs of shopping on Amazon this season — Ryan Harrington
California and Washington enter Amazon investigation — Andy Dion

The first Barnes & Noble of the Future opens in Eastchester, NY

Chad Felix

Between losing its new CEO, Ron Boire, after less than a year of employment (and subsequently paying him $4.8 million in severance) and posting a six-point loss for the first… Read more »

Are we all going to be a bunch of potty mouths now?

Taylor Sperry

While people across cultures and languages tend to exhibit a “positive linguistic bias”—a preference for positive words like “awesome,” “pretty,” “grace”—a recent study suggests that this bias fluctuates according to… Read more »

Liberal media to Máximo Lider: We still just really don’t like you

Ian Dreiblatt

Fidel Castro did one more seemingly impossible thing this weekend: he died. And he died as he’d lived: while polarizing public discourse, and annoying the living shit out of many, in… Read more »

Melville House Books

Amazon employee attempts suicide at the company’s headquarters

Melville House