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Days after the New York Times sold the Boston Globe to investor John Henry, the Washington Post Co. sold its flagship paper to Amazon founder Jeff Bezos.

A brand new Amazon Kindle Single e-book featuring none other than the president.

Amazon is hiring 5,000 new full-time workers at its fulfillment centers.

Most businesses get hammered by the markets when they fail to meet profit expectations; not Amazon.

Amazon is rolling out a new online platform for fan fiction, that is, original stories that use famous characters from TV and movies.

Concerns over Orwellian surveillance and Big Brother provides a literary boost.

According to Reuters, Amazon is on the verge of bringing online grocery delivery to cities across the country.

Amazon is coming out with its own media box for TVs, according to Bloomberg Businessweek. The device would compete with Apple TV, Roku, and possibly cable and satellite companies.

iTunes still dominates the music download arena, but Amazon is coming on, and other competitors are in the wings.

Some Amazon critics say the company’s razor-thin quarterly profits -- if there are any at all -- are evidence that CEO Jeff Bezos is running the company like a “charity” for the benefit of customers at the expense of shareholders.