Back in May we wrote about how Newegg was joining Amazon in charging taxes in New York. Newegg really had no choice but to comply with a bill that was signed in the state called the "Amazon Tax Bill." Under that bill, certain out of state retailers are required to collect taxes for the state of New York if the state believes that the retailer

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. He also compared this to equal the number

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.

Zoomii is a site I recently stumbled upon that tries to give users a "real" bookstore experience by placing books on shelves to browse through. You use your mouse to "drag" yourself all over the bookstore, and you can zoom

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A nifty little program called Amazon Watcher can save you from those "if only I was a little faster" 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. When

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.

Some of you have probably heard about what's going

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. Under the new service,

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.

Being a recent college