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In this Dec. 1, 2008 file photo, an Amazon.com team member loads boxes of fulfilled orders into a truck at their Fernley, Nev., warehouse. (AP Photo/Scott Sady, file)

Amazon.com

In this Dec. 1, 2008 file photo, an Amazon.com team member loads boxes of fulfilled orders into a truck at their Fernley, Nev., warehouse. (AP Photo/Scott Sady, file)

Amazon.com extends Internet price war on books

Amazon.com to open fulfillment center in Goodyear

Thursday, June 19, 2008 3:35 pm

A subsidiary of Internet retailer Amazon.com Inc. plans to open an order fulfillment center in Goodyear, a move that's expected to create more than 600 full-time jobs and fill another 700 temporary positions during the holiday season.

Amazon.com tests fresh grocery delivery

Thursday, August 2, 2007 11:32 pm

SEATTLE - Has enough time passed since the sensational demise of Webvan.com and its Web-to-doorstep grocery delivery peers for another company to try again? Amazon.com sure hopes so.

Amazon.com launches TV, movie service

Thursday, September 7, 2006 3:46 pm

SEATTLE - Amazon.com launched a video download service Thursday, ending months of speculation that the Internet retailer would be getting into the online TV and movie business.

Amazon.com to sell individual book pages

Thursday, November 3, 2005 3:50 pm

NEW YORK - With its new Amazon Pages service, Amazon.com Inc. plans to let customers to buy portions of a book - even just one page - for online viewing. A second program, Amazon Upgrade, will offer full online access when a traditional text is purchased.

Amazon.com plans original series on Web

Thursday, January 19, 2006 5:00 am

SEATTLE - Amazon.com Inc. plans to broadcast on its Web site an original show hosted by Bill Maher and featuring performers and authors touting new releases - which, not coincidentally, will be for sale at the online retailer.

Amazon.com still sitting pretty

Monday, July 11, 2005 5:57 am

SEATTLE - Soon after Amazon.com debuted 10 years ago, Jeff Bezos and his handful of employees spent late summer nights packing books in a tiny warehouse, scrambling to ship a growing gush of orders.

Amazon.com extends Internet price war on books

Tuesday, November 3, 2009 11:32 am

The book price wars are no longer just for pre-orders. Amazon.com was offering hardcovers of John Grisham's "Ford County" and Barbara Kingsolver's "The Lacuna" for just $9 on Tuesday, the official release date for both books. Hardcovers generally have a list price of $24 or higher.

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TiVo, Amazon.com offer video downloads

Wednesday, February 7, 2007 5:21 am

SEATTLE - Amazon.com Inc. and TiVo Inc. have jumped into the digital download wars - with a twist. The new partners will beam movies and TV shows directly to their customers' living rooms.

Amazon.com unveils photo-mapping service

Tuesday, August 16, 2005 3:22 pm

PALO ALTO, Calif. - Hoping to become a more popular Internet destination, a small search engine owned by Web retailer Amazon.com Inc. is testing a mapping service that will display street-level photos of the city blocks surrounding a requested address.

08/26 - Amazon.com sues e-mail marketers

Tuesday, August 26, 2003 10:40 am

SEATTLE - Amazon.com Inc. has filed federal lawsuits against 11 e-mail marketers, contending they faked their e-mail addresses to appear as if the messages were sent by Amazon.com, the company said Tuesday.

Amazon.com says e-books outsold hardcover books over the last three months. Which do you prefer?

Wednesday, July 21, 2010 10:48 am

ASU to pilot Kindle's e-textbook program

Jeff Bezos, CEO of Amazon.com, introduces the Kindle DX at a news conference in New York. May 6, 2009.

E Readers

This undated photo provided by Amazon.com, shows the Amazon Kindle Touch 3G. Amazon still has a variety monochrome Kindles, including its first touchscreen model. The screen is more legible than color screens in bright daylight and uses very little power. (AP Photo/Amazon.com)

Ricardo Sandoval

FILE - In this Nov. 11, 2010 file photo, Ricardo Sandoval places packages in the right shipping boxes at an Amazon.com fulfillment center, in Phoenix. Amazon.com is going to open a third large distribution center in central Indiana this summer. The company plans the center to have several hundred workers, finding refuge from other states that have attempted to force the online retailer to collect sales taxes.(AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin, file)

AMAZON-TAXES

Gayle Shanks, co-owner of Changing Hands Bookstore in Tempe, said she's glad Arizona has reached an agreement for Amazon.com to collect state sales tax. She said not collecting state sales tax gives the online giant an unfair price advantage.

Amazon Sales Taxes

In this file photo made Monday, Nov. 16, 2009, packages move along a conveyor system to outgoing truck for final shipment inside the 800,000 sq. ft. Amazon.com warehouse, in Goodyear.

Amazon Sales Taxes

In this file photo made Monday, Nov. 16, 2009, packages move along a conveyor system to outgoing truck for final shipment inside the 800,000 sq. ft. Amazon.com warehouse, in Goodyear.

Amazon’s Orwellian move to delete e-books brings lawsuit

Friday, July 31, 2009 11:21 am

Nerdvana: A high school student has filed a lawsuit against Amazon.com for deleting an e-book he bought for the e-tailer’s Kindle device.

Amazon: 2008 holiday season was 'best ever’

ROLLING ALONG: An Amazon.com employee grabs boxes off a conveyor belt Dec. 1 to load onto a truck at the company’s Fernley, Nev., warehouse.

Monte Procopio does it his way on latest CD

Monte Procopio’s second CD of what he calls the “great American songbook,” “A Swingin’ Time,” has been riding high on the Amazon.com independent album charts, hovering in the Top 20 since its release late last year.