Wray, Richard. “’Our belief is that there will be lots of winners’”. Guardian Unlimited, 24 Oct. 2005.
Amazon
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Family and Intimate relationships | Eva Figes | |
| Literary responses | Bryony Lavery | Reviewers were delighted. Derren Gilhooley
in the Mail on Sunday called it the year's furthest-off-the-wall biography.Jane Fox
in The Financial Times called it hilarious, affectionate, vastly entertaining and a must-read for any self-respecting queer... |
| Literary responses | Dervla Murphy | Catherine Bond
in the Times Literary Supplement took exception to DM
's views on aid projects as fostering destructive materialism: she accused Murphy of arrogantly denying Africans the right to pursue the same advantages enjoyed... |
| Material Conditions of Writing | Deborah Levy | This was Levy's first book to face the difficult environment for literary novels produced by the rise of Amazon
and the end of regulation for book prices. Less commercial, more cerebral fiction was no longer... |
Timeline
July 1995: Jeff Bezos launched in Seattle, Washington,...
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July 1995
Jeff Bezos
launched in Seattle, Washington, an online bookselling company named Amazon
. It did only moderately well in 1996, but took off the following year.
Early 2004: The Richard and Judy Book Club was launched...
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Early 2004
The Richard and Judy Book Club
was launched in Britain as a weekly television programme on Channel 4
, taking as its model the bookclub
of Oprah Winfrey
in the USA.
Jeffries, Stuart. “The booksellers”. Guardian Unlimited, 26 Feb. 2004.
H. S.,. “A Week in Books”. The Guardian, 14 June 2008, p. Review 5.
Review 5
August 2005: Google's plans for massive digitization of...
Writing climate item
August 2005
Google
's plans for massive digitization of printed books for reading online were temporarily halted by threats of litigation in the USA.
“Front Line: Google”. The Author, Vol.
cxvi
, No. 4, 1 Dec.–28 Feb. 2005, pp. 142-3. 142-3
November 2007: The latest advance in electronic books or...
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November 2007
The latest advance in electronic books or e-books, Kindle, was launched by Jeff Bezos
, CEO of the web bookseller Amazon
, competing with the Sony
Reader, and featuring wireless connectivity.
McCrum, Robert. “A Thriller in 10 Chapters”. The Guardian, 25 May 2008, pp. Review 6 - 8.
8
10 December 2007: In the Christmas rush twelve years after...
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10 December 2007
In the Christmas rush twelve years after the online bookseller Amazon
was founded, it sold on this single day almost five and a half million items.
McCrum, Robert. “A Thriller in 10 Chapters”. The Guardian, 25 May 2008, pp. Review 6 - 8.
6
Early November 2012: A merger was proposed between the publishers...
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Early November 2012
A merger was proposed between the publishers Penguin
and Random House
, that would create a mega-company with worldwide revenues of 4.1 billion dollars US.
Sabbagh, Dan. “Amazon fears underlie books merger”. Guardian Weekly, 2 Nov. 2012, p. 17.
Late 2015: The online marketing company Amazon opened...
Building item
Late 2015
The online marketing company Amazon
opened its first IRL [in real life] bookshop. Amazon Books
, in Seattle, planned to stock the 6,000 most popular titles on Amazon and to sell them at the...
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