Since the summer, many publishers have reported lower orders from Amazon compared to a year ago, and the release of the e-commerce giant’s third-quarter results gave no indication that things will markedly improve in the final period. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2022-10-27 04:00:00 UTC ]
E-commerce giant wants to give advertisers familiar ratings but hints it will also leverage purchase data. Continue reading >> [ Source: Advertising Age | 2022-08-16 12:15:00 UTC ]
Amazon is taking a bigger piece of ad sales on Fire TV, its connected TV devices, by requiring TV networks and digital publishers to hand over 30 percent of their commercial space for it to sell, according to new terms from the e-commerce giant.Until last month, Amazon let the publishers sell... Continue reading >> [ Source: Advertising Age | 2018-11-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
Apple is ready to take on Amazon.com in the digital book market again, years after regulators forced the iPhone maker to back down from an earlier effort to challenge the e-commerce giant's lead. Apple is working on a redesigned version of its iBooks ebook reading application for iPhones and... Continue reading >> [ Source: Baltimore Sun | 2018-01-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
Amazon had $5bn (£3.8bn) wiped off its stock market valuation after the US president Donald Trump hit out at the e-commerce giant for doing “great damage to tax paying retailers” in a tweet. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-08-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
Amazon's second Massachusetts bricks and mortar opened yesterday, becoming the e-commerce giant's sixth physical bookstore in the U.S. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2017-04-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
Amazon, best known for demolishing the bookstore industry by selling books online, celebrated the opening of its first physical bookstore in the state. The Amazon Books at the Legacy Place shopping center in Dedham is the e-commerce giant's fourth physical store. The other three are in... Continue reading >> [ Source: Silicon Valley Business Journal | 2017-03-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
Amazon Books, the e-commerce giant’s seemingly incongruous bricks-and-mortar venture, is now open in San Diego. The store marks the company’s second foray into offline retail. The 3,500-square-foot shop at a mall in the University City neighborhood premiered with little fanfare Sept. 7 and is... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2016-09-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Advertising Standards Authority has rapped Amazon for misleading delivery charges to customers and ordered the e-commerce giant to clarify them. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-08-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
Debut psychological thriller Behind Closed Doors by BA Paris (Mira) is Amazon Kindle's number-one selling ebook this year to date, according to its summer 2016 report disclosing the latest retail trends for the e-commerce giant. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-07-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
Amazon’s China country manager Doug Gurr will move to the UK to replace Christopher North at the helm of the e-commerce giant this May. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-04-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
Twenty years after Amazon.com famously upended the brick-and-mortar book business, the e-commerce giant is going to open a physical bookstore of its own. Continue reading >> [ Source: Stuff | 2015-11-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
Amazon could be on the cusp of launching a grocery delivery operation in the UK after leasing a warehouse from Tesco, it has been reported. Retail Week reported the e-commerce giant has agreed a 10-year lease with Tesco for a warehouse in Surrey, which is currently being revamped by Clegg Food... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-08-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
Amazon and Boots have struck up a partnership for the cosmetics chain to sell one of the e-commerce giant's e-reading devices and its Fire tablets. Customers are being offered a £5 Amazon gift card as an incentive to buy a Kindle Paperwhite device or Fire tablet from Boots, as part of an Amazon... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-08-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
So much for writing short.Last month, Amazon took a page out of Spotify's playbook, electing to start paying its self-published authors by the page rather than per download. The new model was put into action Wednesday—and it looks like the e-commerce giant may now pay writers no more than $0.006... Continue reading >> [ Source: Fast Company | 2015-07-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
Amazon's UK website sales rose by 14% to £5.3bn last year, but the company also paid less in corporation tax and received more handouts in government grants. According to accounts filed in the US, net sales for the UK website were £5.3bn ($8.3bn) to the year ending December 2014, up from... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-06-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
Amazon has begun fining publishers for late deliveries of books to its warehouses. Meanwhile, some payments to publishers have been delayed by what the company referred to as a “technical error”. The e-commerce giant has written to suppliers warning that if they do not hit delivery targets,... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-05-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
Amazon started mending its tattered relationship with the big five publishers last year, signing deals with Macmillan, Simon & Schuster and even Hachette. Now it's HarperCollins' turn to make peace with the e-commerce giant, according to The Wall Str... Continue reading >> [ Source: Engadget | 2015-04-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
An increase in Prime membership subscriptions helped Amazon to a fourth quarter profit. The e-commerce giant has been under pressure from investors to return a good result after reporting a loss for the previous two quarters of its financial year, but shares recovered yesterday (29th January)... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-01-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
The publisher is reportedly in talks with the e-commerce giant, sparking speculation as to what the negotiations are about. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2014-07-18 00:00:00 UTC ]