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

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

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 ...

Experian Hitwise just released its Cyber Monday stats, with Amazon reportedly topping the list as the most visited retail website yesterday, seeing a 44% increase in visits compared to 2008. Amazon received 15.53% of the visits among the top 500 online retail sites.

Hitwise reports that among the top 500 retail websites, the percentage of U.S.

For now, it’s a battle of discounts, but Wal-Mart’s long-term goal appears to be stopping Amazon from taking away its business.

Online retailer Amazon.com has just announced a new checkout system called "PayPhrase" which speeds up the process of making online purchases by allowing shoppers to enter a unique phrase and 4-digit PIN number to complete their transaction. Both the phrase and PIN are created in advance and are linked to a shipping address and preferred method of payment.

Amazon lowered its prices on hot upcoming book releases to $9, once again matching Walmart.com in an escalating price war.

Amazon.com stripped hundreds of LGBT books of their sales ranks.

Amazon.com is shutting distribution centers in three states, and will lay off or transfer to other nearby facilities about 210 employees.

Unless Amazon embraces open standards, the Kindle's lead will become a very short story.