Jeff Bezos profile in U.S. News and World Report.

Quoted: Cultures, for better or worse, are very stable. When new people come into the company, some may self-select out of it. Others opt in. Over time, you build up this momentum around a culture that is self-perpetuating.

A nice historical retelling of the Amazon and Ebay stores and their relative successes and failures.

Boy Genius gets some snapshots of the purported Kindle 2.

Amazon Wish List plugin.

Wired put together a Wish List of features for Kindle 2.0. Most aren't surprising but I absolutely love the idea of content subscription for books.

Quoted:The rumblings in the ground are pointing to an imminent Kindle 2.0, a successor to Amazon's loved but flawed e-book reader. The Kindle has effectively dropped

No new Kindle this year. Bummer. I was looking forward to seeing what was next...

Quoted: Bits is a blog about technology, innovation and society from The New York Times.

It's great to see Neil debuting his new service. I worked in his group at Amazon and got choked up saying goodbye to him when I went to work for Faves.

Quoted: The Paul Allen-backed start-up evri began as Hypertext Solutions. Led by Neil Roseman, the former vice president of technology at Amazon, evri's business is semantic search, its MO "search less, and understand more."

Apparently Jeff announced that Amazon will be launching Pay-Per-View streaming service next week. I wonder what that entails and if it will work as well as my Tivo 3/Unbox connection right now? Will I also be able to access music subscriptions?

Ouch. Silicon Alley Insider (via Clusterstock) doesn't seem to believe Borders is better off "going it alone" and running their own website.

Quoted: Borders hopes that taking its site in-house will compensate for its sputtering bricks-and-mortar store business. Unfortunately, it's more likely Borders will now be able to fail at two businesses instead of one.