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...Amazon.com CEO Jeff Bezos who preached the gospel of getting big at all costs in order to dominate an online sector. And he may emerge as the biggest beneficiary, even though Amazon, which attracts more than 17 million customers a month, has yet to earn a penny of profit (one reason its shares closed at $67.56 last week, down from their peak of $113 in December...
...those eyeballs, however, have enabled Bezos to turn Amazon into an online bazaar full of links to myriad other e-tailers, who each pay a fee to be listed. "If you really want to be the place where people can find anything," Bezos says, "you have to partner with other companies." Meanwhile, he fondly compares the profusion of e-tailers today with the explosion of new life in the Cambrian era--a period, he says, that witnessed "the greatest rate of speciation ever seen but also the greatest rate of extinction...
Deforestation has a similarly broad range of impact. One thing trees do is lock up a lot of carbon in their woody tissues, thereby preventing it from escaping into the atmosphere. Trees are also important recyclers of moisture to the atmosphere. In some parts of the Amazon basin, deforestation has reached the point where it is altering precipitation patterns. This is because so much of the moisture entrained by clouds comes from the canopy of the forest below; as large tracts of trees disappear, so do portions of the aqueous reservoir that feeds the local rainmaking machine...
...novel to publishers and show them I had a following," she said. But after promoting her virtual book on woman-friendly websites and selling 150 downloadable copies at $9.95 each, she hocked the jewelry she got from her ex-husband to print 3,000 paperback copies. The Amazon reader reviews were so positive that she soon got a contract from Pocket Books, which made her the first online author to get a book deal. Lip Service has now sold more than 40,000 copies. And she has a contract with Pocket Books for her next novel, In Fidelity...
...species, Van Roosmalen has the right to choose their scientific name. Instead he may auction off this privilege to the highest bidder and use the proceeds to protect the species in their original Brazilian habitat. Fame means less to him than saving a pure, emerald swath of the Amazon. Otherwise, he warns, "the rain forest will be destroyed before we even know what plants and animals are out there...