Back in May we wrote about how Newegg was joining Amazon in charging taxes in New York.

It looks as though Amazon's Kindle is going to turn out to be more of a success and a moneymaker than many people ever expected. It will be if what CitiGroup analyst Mark Mahaney says is correct. He says that in 2008, Amazon will sell about 380,000 units which is about double of what he originally said would sell.

If you shop Amazon.com frequently for books for whatever reason, maybe because they are more affordable than your local bookstore, but you miss the experience of actually looking at books on the shelf, checkout Zoomii.

A nifty little program called Amazon Watcher can save you from those "" moments. What it can do is watch any item on Amazon, and then notify you when the price has dropped or when an item becomes available.

Amazon's DRM-free music service is really appealing these days. When it launched last September it got rave reviews because of the ease of use and the attractive prices, not to mention that whole DRM-free aspect. It was appealing when it launched and it's getting even more appealing these days because of the situation we're seeing with Yahoo right now.

Yesterday was a big day for Amazon as they began rolling out to beta testers Amazon Video on Demand, a video streaming service. This is the successor to Amazon Unbox, a video on demand service launched by Amazon in 2006. Unbox hasn't become the hit they suspected, partially because of the hassles involved with downloading the movies before being able to watch them.

In the fall of 2008 Princeton will join the ranks of Yale, Oxford, and UC Berkeley by offering some textbooks on Amazon's Kindle e-reader. The Kindle sells for $359 by Amazon, and uses Sprint's high-speed EVDO data network to let customers download new books on-the-go. The device has actually been more popular than I anticipated, and it's now catching the attention of universities.

Rumor has it that Amazon is planning to launch some type of e-commerce business to allow payments and money transfers which will compete with PayPal. Some of you probably know that Amazon already has their Amazon Payments service that allows you to send and receive money, and shop with your mobile phone, but it's limited to Amazon and "their partners."

The Al l Things D conference is going on right now and one of the most interesting things to come from it was when Walt Mossburg was interviewing Jeff Bezos, founder, president, and chief executive offer of Amazon.com. Bezos announced that within the next couple of weeks, Amazon will be launching a streaming movie service that users will pay for.

Back in mid-April, we wrote about a new Bill that was signed in New York called the "Amazon Tax Bill." It forces retailers to charge sales tax to customers who live in the state of New York which then provides the state with an extra $50 million in revenue. We mentioned at the time that if ever there was a way to kill online retailers, this could be it.