Quoted: At the Super Bowl next month, the music industry will be switching teams — from Apple to Amazon.com.

A detailed review of the new Amazon MP3 store from one of my favorite bloggers.

OK. Now this is cruel and hilarious.

Quoted: Amazon 1-Click Bankrupts Area Parkinson's Sufferer.

Quoted: Amazon.com is expanding a program to allow independent sellers — even vendors who sell through eBay — to use its shipping services.

Ahem. Booyaahhh! Consensus estimates were at 15 cents/share and amazon came in with 25 cents/share and all major numbers moving the right way,

Quoted: Amazon.com 1Q Profit More Than Doubles. - SEATTLE (AP) -- Web retailer Amazon.com Inc. said Tuesday its first-quarter profit more than doubled, sending shares up more than 12 percent in after-hours trading.

The actual article in the "London Times Online." Google is certainly not dodging the question or trying to keep this secret. I still really want to get a Sony Reader.

If only I could navigate my own book library with an ereader and add my titles to carry around digitally, I"d be psyched. You hear that Amazon? You can start by just making available all of those books I've already bought from you...

Quoted: GOOGLE and some of the world’s top publishers are working on plans that they hope could do for books what Apple’s iPod has done for music.The internet search giant is working on a system that would allow readers to download entire books

A bus driver working part-time in the Amazon FC over the holiday season won $100k in a promotion by the temp hiring agency.

Quoted: Lackey first won $2,000 in a random drawing, from among nearly 1,000 entries. This qualified him for a chance at an even bigger win. Company officials laid 100 envelopes before Lackey, only one of which would earn him the grand prize of $100,000.

Amazon.com has launched their new Question Service called Askville. It's supposed to compete with Yahoo Answers with some noted differences:

- Answers are not public until 5 have been received and the best among them has been chosen.

This should yield higher quality interactions than on Yahoo Answers, which I have used several times and found to be a bit young, hasty, snarky and not terribly helpful. It will be interesting to see if they get enough traffic to actually make this work. My concern is that there will be a lot of questions with not so many answers...

Quoted: Amazon has launched an invite-only beta test of Askville, a free question and answer service similar to Yahoo Answers. They're ...