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The world's book trade meets in Frankfurt next week on the brink of a long-feared transformation of the industry for which few are well prepared.

The world's book trade meets in Frankfurt next week on the brink of a long-feared transformation of the industry for which few are well prepared.

A group of Republicans and Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives called on the Federal Communications Commission to investigate Google Inc's ability to block calls to rural telephone exchanges.

Microsoft has no plans to develop a digital book reader to compete with the fast-growing popularity of Amazon's Kindle or a device that rival Apple is reportedly developing.

The chief executives of Amazon.com Inc, FPL Group, Eastman Kodak and Kraft Foods are among business leaders attending a lunch meeting with President Barack Obama on Thursday, the White House said.

Amazon.com Inc is introducing Kindle, its wireless electronic reader, for over 100 countries, including China and most of Europe, intensifying a battle for the burgeoning digital book market.

Amazon.com Inc is introducing Kindle, its wireless electronic reader, in over 100 countries, including China and most of Europe, intensifying a battle for the burgeoning digital book market.

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Amazon.com Inc has settled for $150,000 a lawsuit brought by a high school student and another consumer who claimed the online retailer illegally deleted from their Kindle devices digital copies of George Orwell's 1984.

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Amazon.com Inc said it would replace copies of digital books that it purposefully deleted from its customers' electronic readers this summer, as the online retailer sought to make amends for the controversial incident.

Amazon.com Inc joined the opposition to Google Inc's plan to digitize millions of books, saying that the proposed deal would fundamentally change copyright law and violate antitrust law.

Amazon, Microsoft and Yahoo have joined an alliance in a bid to fight Google over the search giant's plans to commercialize a huge digital library of books.

Ahead of the new Playstation 3 release , Amazon has warned of shortages of the new slim PlayStation 3 when the system launches next month.

News Corp, which is trying to stem newspaper revenue declines, could charge for access to its news websites by the middle of next year, and might break off its relationship with Amazon.com Inc's Kindle e-reader if it cannot get better terms.

Sony Corp will begin selling this month the cheapest digital book reader for the United States, heating up the competition with Amazon.com Inc in the small but fast-growing market for electronic readers

Sony Corp will begin selling this month the cheapest digital book reader for the United States, heating up the competition with Amazon.com Inc in the small but fast-growing market for electronic readers.

Sony Corp will begin selling this month the cheapest digital book reader for the United States, taking rival Amazon.com Inc head-on in the small but fast-growing market for electronic readers.

Amazon.com ate my homework.That's a legitimate excuse for one high-school student whose notes for a homework assignment vanished when the online retailer remotely deleted digital copies of George Orwell's 1984, off consumers' Kindle devices.

Amazon faces a lawsuit filed by a high school student after his homework was remotely deleted on its kindle2 E-book without his consent according to the AFP reports Friday.

Sony Corp said on Wednesday it has made available over 1 million public domain books on its electronic readers via Google Inc's Books project, which digitizes classic titles not protected by copyright.

Stocks fell on Friday, pressured by disappointing quarterly results in the tech sector and weak consumer sentiment data.

Amazon's chief executive officer Jeff Bezos posted an apology message to customers over last week's remote-deletion of illegally sold books.

Stock index futures pointed to a mixed open on Friday as disappointing results from Microsoft Corp and Amazon.com Inc curbed sentiment a day after a rally took the Dow industrials above the key 9,000 mark.

Stock index futures rose slightly on Friday despite disappointing results from Microsoft Corp and Amazon.com Inc , a day after a rally took the Dow industrials above 9,000.

Amazon.com Inc reported on Thursday that net profit fell 10 percent to $142 million in the second quarter, or 32 cents per diluted share, compared with a net income of $158 million, or 37 cents per share in the second quarter of 2008.

Amazon.com Inc posted a 10 percent decline in second-quarter earnings and gave a modest third-quarter outlook on Thursday, taking the shine off the world's largest online retailer and sending its shares down nearly 7 percent.

Amazon.com Inc posted a quarterly net profit on Thursday that fell by 10 percent as foreign currency fluctuations and a legal settlement hit earnings at the world's largest online retailer, sending shares down more than 5 percent.

Amazon.com will pay about $928 million for booming online shoe retailer Zappos.com, expanding aggressively into the apparel arena with a well-known name after trying unsuccessfully to go it alone.