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A couple of weeks ago, Techdirt wrote about a store that was trying to charge customers $5 for " just looking ", because it fel...

As we've noted before, Amazon is beginning to wield  considerable power  over the entire publishing chain. The past teaches us that a...

In the online world, it's hard to remember a time before Amazon. Today, it dominates the ecommerce space, and is rapidly becoming eq...

Techdirt has been warning people for several years that they don't really own the ebooks they have on their Amazon Kindles. The most...

The launch of Amazon's Kindle Fire at a price well below expectations has naturally focused people's attention on the e-book sid...

It's nearly summertime. How do I know? Not, of course, by looking at the iffy British weather outside, but because Google's Summer o...

I wrote about the open source OpenStack back in October, based largely on wandering around the main OpenStack site. But there's no subst...

Here's a particularly stupid move by Amazon: Microsoft Corp. today announced that it has signed a patent cross-license agreement with A...

I like Amazon's services. Indeed, judging by the amount I spend with the company, I'm probably a suitable case for treatment for Am...

Here's some interesting news about Barnes & Noble's e-reader: The reader, named the “Nook,” looks a lot like Amazon’s white pla...

It's extraordinary how much that formerly-drab old subject of copyright is in the news these days. There's the Amazon Kindle story...

As you've probably seen, there is concern over Amazon's plans to pull the text-to-voice capability of the Kindle e-book reader, beca...

I've often written about DRM, and how it is antithetical to free software. But here's an interview with Amazon's CTO, which pr...

Amazon.co.uk has finally opened its DRM-free Mp3 store . Prices aren't that wonderful (yet), but the convenience is dangerously appeali...

One of the anomalies of the currently-fashionable cloud computing is that people tend not to talk about the underlying operating system – pr...

I am a great believer in trees and the commons they form; it seems to me that going beyond preserving them to extend their coverage across t...

Don't you just love the smell of spontaneously-combusting DRM in the morning....?

I'm not a Kindle user. In part, because it's not available in the UK, but also because it seems too closed in terms of its overall ...

Here's a piece about cloud computing that ask a pertinent question: Why isn't the world's biggest and most powerful software co...

I'm a big fan of Amazon - actually, make that a big addict. But when it starts throwing its weight around, I can't help thinking it...