Word: amazon
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...cardboard-box sales, it is a very fast-growing fraction and likely a big part of cardboard's future. The reason is plain: 10 copies of a best seller can be shipped from a publisher to a bookstore in a single box. But 10 individuals buying the book from Amazon require 10 cardboard boxes. Online purchases by U.S. consumers surged 48% last year, to $76 billion...
...come from an “A” in a Mansfield class, or from an Isis punch, or even from an invite to Jeopardy (my apologies to Naam). It comes from a bottle. Do yourself a favor: run to CVS, pick up a bottle of Herbal Essences Amazon Gold, and let the sound of success ring...
...legal downloading options. Iconic acts like the Rolling Stones and the Eagles have begun allowing their songs to be sold online. With the digital-music industry expected to grow in revenues from $77 million this year to $1.5 billion in 2008, according to Jupiter Research, marquee players, including Microsoft, Amazon and Yahoo, are revving up to rush the stage...
Companies from Amazon to Microsoft are mulling plans to enter the business. The reason: Jupiter Research estimates that revenue from online music will zoom from $80 million this year to $1.5 billion in 2008. That's just a sliver of today's $12 billion CD market, but it's a real business...
...went off to have dinner at the Ivy with Channel 4 star Graham Norton; I got in a taxi, exhilarated but slightly glum, and went home. A copy of We Love the City by Hefner- a London-based trio somewhere between folk and punk - had just arrived from Amazon. I hit the play button and heard the first line of the first song: "This is London/ Not Antarctica/ So why don't the tubes run all night?/ You are my girlfriend/ Not Molly Ringwald/ So why won't you stay here tonight?" After my freak-out subsided, I realized...