Amazon.com has introduced two new online payment services that other retailers can use on their Web sites.The new payment services, Checkout By Amazon and Amazon Simple Pay offer businesses another payment option besides PayPal and Google Checkout.
Amazon To Absorb Holiday Shipping Costs
Online retailers cannot risk raising shipping prices. The sluggish economy combined with high fuel prices are hurting Americans financially but Amazon.com and other online retailers are unlikely to increase shipping costs out of fear of losing customers.Contracts with shippers may protect Amazon and some others as companies look for ways to cut costs. Companies such as Amazon and Overstock depend on low or free shipping to attract business.
Amazon Launches New Online Video Store
Online retailing giant Amazon.com is launching a new online service that will feature TV shows and movies called Amazon Video on Demand.Initially Amazon Video on Demand will only be available to a limited number of invited customers starting today and becoming more widely accessible to other users later in the summer.
Amazon’s Bezos Throws Some Money At Twitter
Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos has thrown a little love (and presumably a lot of money) at Twitter. Twitter creator Biz Stone made the announcement via his blog that Bezos Expeditions, Bezos’s investment firm, joined Spark Capital’s Bijan Sabet on the Twitter investment team.
Amazon Reduces Price On Kindle
Amazon has reduced the price of its Kindle electronic book reader by 10 percent and it is now available to customers for $359 down from $399.
Amazon And New York’s Battle On Sales Tax
For years I have been paying sales tax (VAT) on purchases I make online through services such as Clickbank. It is inconvenient but it is much easier for Clickbank to work this way then to have to monitor the location of a seller and buyer. The general rule in the US, as far as I can determine is that if you have a business presence in a state, you have to pay tax there. This applies if you own your own servers in the sate, or if you have employees.
Grand Theft Auto And Amazon’s “Discover And Download”
Starting today, players of Gran
Amazon Opens Storefront On Your Mobile
The TextBuyIt service opened by Amazon brings a rapid find and buy experience to text-capable mobile devices, but it helps to know exactly what you want first.
Amazon Preparing To Sell Wine
I know beer; I can talk about Scottish and Belgian ales, Russian stouts, or whatever else you like. But, to report on a drink about which I know nothing: Amazon seems ready to start selling wine.
Spitzer, Amazon.com At Odds Over Sales Tax
New York Governor Eliot Spitzer wants all online retailers to collect tax on New York sales, even if the retailer is not based in the state.