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Amazon Tearing It Up With A Page From Ebay's Playbook

The web commerce pioneer is building market share internationally by selling other companies' stuff.

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Time to Stop Building and Start Earning

Wed, 05/19/2010 - 3:11pm — senh

As you could probably tell by my latest entries, I've been spending the last couple weeks finding different ways to monetize the site. Wopular has about 400k-500k unique visitors per month, according to Google Analytics. That's a decent amount of users. It's about time I stopped coding new features and started earning. There's a certain challenge with monetizing an aggregation site, but I'm not gonna talk in depth about it here. I'll save that for another article. Mainly, it's that the average user only views a couple pages, compare to several with the average content site.

Amazon Kindle To Get Facebook, Twitter

Amazon.com Inc.'s Kindle e-reader is getting access to Facebook and Twitter, along with several other enhancements, as part of a software update being sent wirelessly to the devices.

In a posting on Amazon's site, the company says the new software will let users share book passages on their Twitter and Facebook accounts. The update will also let people sort books and documents into collections and lock their Kindle with a password. There also will be larger font options and the ability to zoom in on PDF documents.

Kate Gosselin's Book Bombs

Kate Gosselin's latest book isn't exactly flying off the shelves. Since its April 13 release, "I Just Want You to Know: Letters to My Kids on Love, Faith, and Family" has sold just 10,084 copies, according to national book sales tracker Bookscan. The non-fiction title debuted at #11 on the New York Times' non fiction bestseller list, and at #103 on USA Today's bestsellers chart. By Thursday afternoon, its Amazon.com rank was #862.

Amazon moves into game download market

Downloading content is becoming increasingly big business for the online retailer, which already has download offerings for its Kindle eBook, MP3 music and movies.

Next threat to Amazon's $9.99 books? Rupert Murdoch

Enjoy $9.99 electronic books while you can -- for they soon may be a thing of the past. News Corp Chief Rupert Murdoch , who oversees a media empire than includes HarperCollins books, home to authors like Michael Crichton and Janet Evanovich , made clear on Tuesday his disple...

Amazon Unveils 70 Percent Kindle Royalty Plan

Amazon.com has unveiled a program that will give authors and publishers a larger share of revenue from each Kindle e-book they sell beginning on June 30, 2010. The 70-percent royalty option offers 70 percent of list price ...

E-reader boom kindles a variety of new options

When most people think of electronic book readers, Amazon's thin, white Kindle probably springs to mind. But that could be about to change....

Alexa Sparky: You Sneaky Little Bastard

Fri, 12/11/2009 - 11:52pm — senh

Recently I've updated the Alexa Sparky add-on for FireFox 3.0, which displays website traffic rankings on the status bar. It's a nice little plugin that not only lets you see how large other sites are, but it also helps improve your rankings a little bit. After updating the add-on, I started noticing some strange behavior while browsing the web.

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