Bored Christians petition wrong company to cancel Good Omens adaptation
Amazon Prime’s release of the show adaptation of “Good Omens,” one of Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman’s well-known collaborations, has been receiving pretty good reviews but there’s one group who… Read more »
Amazon is raising the price of Prime membership
Amazon Chief Financial Officer Brian T. Olsavsky announced last week that the cost of an annual Amazon Prime membership is going up forty percent, following a fifteen percent increase in the… Read more »
Into the Bezosphere: The Washington Post will syndicate Amazon Charts
Last Thursday, the Washington Post announced that its new weekly bestsellers list would be calculated with some unconventional data. The calculations will include information from Amazon’s reading subscription services, including Prime Reading and Kindle Unlimited. The Post has also… Read more »
Amazon has had a very busy couple of days
What matches the dictionary’s definition of a monopoly to a T, isn’t particularly profitable, makes your kids grow up rude, and can’t seem to stop making news? Yeah, you guessed… Read more »
Say it ain’t so: Amazon comes to Brooklyn
Thrilling news, Brooklynites: Amazon is planning to open its first distribution center in the borough. The Real Deal’s Ariel Stulberg reported late last week that the online retail behemoth signed a seven-year… Read more »
Get your nappies faster: Amazon UK launches one-hour delivery in London
Amazon UK has launched a one-hour delivery service in London. Using the Prime Now service, Amazon Prime members will now be able to order an item from the website and… Read more »
If you want to build a robot fleet, the FAA has some polite suggestions
The FAA has a lot on their plate. Every day they coordinate an impossible worldwide ballet of airborne hurtling rocket machines that are filled with precious cargo, like packages or… Read more »
What will be sold at Amazon’s New York non-store?
Last week, we brought news of a major leap into the future from those brave, bold innovators at Amazon: the creation of New York’s first-ever pop-up shop/storage facility/product takeout space/kitchenware… Read more »
Is Amazon encouraging third-party sellers to mislead customers?
A lawsuit filed against Amazon in February alleges that the company encourages third-party vendors to charge more for products that are eligible for free shipping in order to recoup shipping… Read more »
Why has Amazon’s growth slowed in the UK?
According to accounts filed by Amazon in the US, Amazon UK’s sales growth slowed in 2013. Although UK sales grew by 12.6% to £4.5bn last year, this marked a major… Read more »