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It turns out that Amazon was the recent auction winner of J.K. Rowling's The Tale of Beedle the Bard, paying around $4 million for one of seven copies. They've been posting summaries and images of the rare book on amazon.com. (via agblog) (1) #
12/15/2007

I was going to post about the description of the new Pynchon novel that was posted on Amazon, but held off when it was taken down mysteriously. Slate is on the case. Update: According to Slate, the new Pynchon novel is titled Against the Day. (0) #
7/19/2006

Amazon Mechanical Turk will pay you to do repetetive tasks that provide data for artificial intelligence projects. Data is in high demand in the AI community -- usually undergraduates are recruited to do these menial tasks 10 hours a week for a little more than minimum wage. Now you can be like a resume-packing undergrad, except here you'll get paid much less since the job market will be so crowded. (0) #
11/7/2005

Amazon announced two new programs today: Amazon Pages, which allows you to buy any page or chapter of a book, and Amazon Upgrade, which allows you to upgrade a purchase to include an online version of the book. Prices TBA. The announcement was clearly timed to coincide with Google blowing the doors open on Google Print today. (0) #
11/3/2005

One star amazon.com reviews of several books that were listed among the Top 100 Novels in Time magazine. E.g., The Great Gatsby: “It grieves me deeply that we Americans should take as our classic a book that is no more than a lengthy description of the doings of fops.” (10) #
10/24/2005