Amazon Prime is disruptive technology for retail stores

Disruptive technology is an innovation that helps create a new market and value network, and eventually goes on to disrupt an existing market and value network (over a few years or decades), displacing an earlier technology

Jason Calcanis on The Cult of Amazon Prime, where $79 a year gets you free 2-day shipping (and [...]

Amazon killed the Kindle star

Amazon is watching your Kindle

Amazon just mass deleted ebooks on Kindles that customers had bought and paid for. Yes, they got a refund, but that’s not really the point is it? Why even bother to buy ebooks from them if they might get zapped from afar without warning.

To make matters worse for [...]

Amazon CEO to work for a week in warehouse

Jeff Bezos, CEO of Amazon, is working for a week in their distribution center in Kentucky. No photo ops or interviews. He wants to see what being an employee is like.

He apparently wants to see what it’s like to be a rank-and-file Amazon employee. More CEOs should try that once in a while.

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Amazon now has 2.9 million DRM-free MP3s

Warner Music Group just signed on. DRM is dead, and so is the CD.

Amazon also has variable pricing whereas iTunes doesn’t. Thus iTunes now has no choice. They must go to DRM-free and variable pricing.