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Now Amazon Is Planning to Make Original TV Content

Rumors have been floating around for the past couple of months that Amazon was looking to produce sitcoms and children’s television. Now All Things D is confirming it: Amazon is looking to pay $10,000 to option scripts and $55,000 if a show is greenlit. Furthermore, shows are expected to “look and feel like ‘real’ TV…

Commerce Adrian Covert

Why Is Target Kicking Amazon Kindles Out of Its Stores?

According to an internal memo leaked to the Verge, Target will be removing Amazon hardware from its stores in May and June, citing a “conflict of interest.” At first glance, the instinct might be to start in on Ooooh, Target ereader or Oooh, Target TABLET. But the reality’s probably not that fun. It’s more likely…

Tech News Kyle Wagner

This $140 Kindle Fire Is the Best Tablet Deal You’ll See for a Long Time

The Kindle Fire is a spectacular tablet—arguably the best (for the money) Android slate out there. And today you can cop one for $140 instead of $200. Today’s Amazon Gold Box Sale™™™ is a refurbished Kindle Fire. Ew, refurbished? No! It doesn’t matter! It’ll look the exact same, and it comes with the exact same…

Commerce Sam Biddle

The Most Alarming Amazon Reviews Ever

And no, that’s not an exaggeration. The reviews for Veet for Men Hair Removal Gel, over at Amazon UK are both alarming and sort of encouragingly insane. They leave you with a sense that the spirit of heedless exploration and devil-may-care experimentation that built our industrial society remains fully intact, because there are still people…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

A Map of Where You Have to (Or Will Soon Have to) Pay Taxes on Amazon

Not paying taxes on stuff from Amazon is one of those little (slightly unpatriotic but whatever) joys that make life worth lifeing. Right now, there are just five states that tax the online retailer, but more are eyeing the chance. Here’s a map, made by Reuters with data from the University of Tennessee, of where…

Commerce Kyle Wagner

The Case Against DRM on eBooks

Not only is Charlie Stross a published sci-fi author, but he is also an advocate for DRM-free eBooks. As such, he’s put together a thoughtful argument as to why DRM-free eBooks will be good for the publishing world… After I recommended that the major publishers drop mandatory DRM from their ebook products, I realized that…

Commerce Charlie Stross

The Most Highlighted Book Passage of All Time on the Kindle Is Like So Deep Man

“Because sometimes things happen to people and they’re not equipped to deal with them.” Whoa. So deeeeeeeeeep. That line, from The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, is the most highlighted passage of all time on the Kindle. What’s crazy is that the fauxdeep line is nearly two times as popular as the second most highlighted passage,…

Commerce Casey Chan

Could book publishing suffer the same fate as the comic book industry?

As Amazon.com’s dominance grows, we’re only just starting to see the shape of how different the publishing industry is going to look in another five or ten years. And web developer Baldur Bjarnason has a scary thought: if the e-book revolution and the rise of Amazon succeed in chipping away at the web of bookstores…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Amazon Is Overrun With a Plague of Bestseller Knockoffs

If you search for popular books on Amazon, it turns out you’ll turn up intentionally misleading knockoffs. Publishers obviously aren’t happy about about it, but some of these titles are hilarious. I Am The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, anybody? Seriously, who falls for that? Apparently, a lot of people. Fortune found a slew of…

Commerce Mario Aguilar

Amazon Prime’s Streaming Title Count Might Be off by an Order of Magnitude

Amazon claims to be supplying “more than 17,000 movies and television shows” through Prime Instant Video and in some ways it’s true—like if you consider each episode in a TV series an individual title. Amazon confirmed to Fast Company that the “17,000 titles count is inclusive of both TV episodes and movies.” The problem lies…

Commerce Andrew Tarantola

Apple Claims It Broke “Amazon’s Monopolistic Grip” on Publishing

Apple’s delivered its response to antitrust charges leveled by the DoJ earlier in the week. Apparently the Feds have it all backwards, Apple is the hero here, not the villain. https://gizmodo.com/the-us-department-of-justice-files-antitrust-lawsuit-ag-5901002 Per an official statement from Apple spokesman Tom Neumayr delivered to AllThingsD The DOJ’s accusation of collusion against Apple is simply not true. The…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola

1,000-year-old farming secrets could save the Amazon rainforest

The Amazon covers over 2.5 million square miles. But that number is shrinking all the time, and the widespread deforestation could doom our hopes for averting catastrophic global climate change. That’s why some ancient farming secrets could make a huge difference. Top image: CIFOR on Flickr. It’s probably not even worth trying to comprehend the…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins

Enso Pearl: The Only Timer Actually Worth Buying

A smartphone makes a lot of little gadgets obsolete. However, even if you’re attached at the thumbs to your iPhone, you might still find yourself coveting the Enso Pearl, the mother of all timers. Capable of timing 30 different activities concurrently, it’ll cost you a hundred bucks on Amazon. But that’s worth it, especially if…

Commerce Leslie Horn

Amazon Prime Streaming Movie Service Now Available for PS3

Amazon just enabled Prime streaming on PS3, bringing together the best Netflix alternative with the best Xbox alternative. If you’re a Prime subscriber and want to get the all-you-can-watch service working, fire up your Playstation, download the app from the TV/Video services category, and then you can watch as much Arrested Development as you want.…

Commerce Kif Leswing

The Nimble Empire: In Defense of Cable

One of the most fascinating stories of the last year has been the evolution of Amazon Prime. In exchange for a recurring fee, you get access to a huge, varied media library: movies, TV shows and books. And yeah, some of that content isn’t all that great, and even more isn’t stuff I would choose,…

Commerce Tim Carmody - Wired

Google Might Be Getting into the Tablet Business Later This Year

Normally an unmitigated disaster on the scale of the Nexus One would normally give a company pause, but not Google. The search giant is jumping back into competition with Apple and Amazon with potential plans to hock Android tablets on its website. https://gizmodo.com/the-nexus-one-is-a-total-sales-flop-5494406 According to unnamed WSJ sources within Google, the company is currently constructing…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola

Non-iPad Speaker Dock Says the Kindle Fire’s Finally Arrived

It’s a rarer occurrence that spotting bigfoot riding the Loch Ness monster, but Grace Digital Audio has just announced a speaker dock designed specifically for the Kindle Fire. You read that right, the FireDock won’t even acknowledge the iPad’s existence. Instead of the Apple dock connector included on 99.99 percent of the speaker docks available…

Commerce Andrew Liszewski

You Can Buy a Kindle Fire for $140 Today (!)

The Kindle Fire is arguably the best Android tablet you can get—and at 200 bucks, already a killer deal. Now you can buy a (refurbished) Fire for 140. If you want an Android tablet, you should probably do this. https://gizmodo.com/kindle-fire-review-the-ipad-finally-has-serious-compet-5858779 Amazon says the refurbished units are “tested [and] certified to look and work like new.”…

Commerce Sam Biddle

Jeff Bezos has located Apollo 11’s long-lost engines at the bottom of the ocean

After being lost for more than 40 years, the rockets responsible for launching the first humans to the Moon have been discovered. By Jeff Bezos. Yes, that Jeff Bezos. The founder of Amazon just announced on his blog that, with the help of some “undersea pros,” he’s managed to locate the long-lost rocket engines from…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

Kindle Fire’s Software Update Enables…

Amazon’s pushing out a software update that has a few nice-sounding features like Book Extras, a reading view for Amazon Silk, movie rentals, and personal document storage on Amazon’s cloud servers. Parts of the list sort of read like an assortment of half-measures. Digital copies of textbooks laid out for print instead of Apple’s new…

Commerce Kyle Wagner

Now Amazon Is Planning to Make Original TV Content

Why Is Target Kicking Amazon Kindles Out of Its Stores?

This $140 Kindle Fire Is the Best Tablet Deal You’ll See for a Long Time

The Most Alarming Amazon Reviews Ever

A Map of Where You Have to (Or Will Soon Have to) Pay Taxes on Amazon

The Case Against DRM on eBooks

The Most Highlighted Book Passage of All Time on the Kindle Is Like So Deep Man

Could book publishing suffer the same fate as the comic book industry?

Amazon Is Overrun With a Plague of Bestseller Knockoffs

Amazon Prime’s Streaming Title Count Might Be off by an Order of Magnitude

Apple Claims It Broke “Amazon’s Monopolistic Grip” on Publishing

1,000-year-old farming secrets could save the Amazon rainforest

Enso Pearl: The Only Timer Actually Worth Buying

Amazon Prime Streaming Movie Service Now Available for PS3

The Nimble Empire: In Defense of Cable

Google Might Be Getting into the Tablet Business Later This Year

Non-iPad Speaker Dock Says the Kindle Fire’s Finally Arrived

You Can Buy a Kindle Fire for $140 Today (!)

Jeff Bezos has located Apollo 11’s long-lost engines at the bottom of the ocean

Kindle Fire’s Software Update Enables…

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