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Amazon kills fast-shipping offer for niche paperbacks

By Steve Weber | Published: June 30, 2009

Amazon today dropped its decade-long practice of offering overnight shipping on most niche paperbacks. In a new warning displayed on its Web site, the online bookseller is warning shoppers that most of these titles will take an extra day or two of “processing” time. The warning applies to the vast majority of paperbacks manufactured via [...]

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Are Amazon's book recommendations getting spammy?

By Steve Weber | Published: July 30, 2007

I’m a big fan of Amazon’s book recommendations. For years, I’ve relied on them because they’re the collective judgment of people like me — people who have bought similar books. So when Amazon asks me to consider a new book, I listen. In fact, I buy most of my new books this way. And believe [...]

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Instant books and online sales

By Steve Weber | Published: March 1, 2007

A specialty book publisher and Barnes & Noble are hoping to cash in on the white-hot popularity of Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama. The publisher, Black Dog & Leventhal, printed 100,000 copies of the so-called “instant book” and Barnes & Noble is producing a hardcover edition and giving it prime real estate at the front [...]

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