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Amazon.com seems to be all over the news in 2009. In January we learned that the company posted a profit in the final quarter of last year, despite the severe economic downturn.  Then in February, Amazon released the second-generation of its heralded e-reading device, Kindle, whose text-to-speech feature prompted a swift and bitter response from [...]

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Over on Publishing Frontier, Joseph J. Esposito offers a provocative reflection on the past, present, and future of Amazon.com in a post entitled, “Decline and Fall.”  Despite the profit woes and nagging doubts that beset the online retailer early on, the company appears to be at the top of its game today.  It recently beat [...]

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