Harvey

KindleBoards, a popular Kindle forum, will be changing its name and domain at 9:30 p.m. PST today (March 7, 2013). The new site will be www.KBoards.com. Other than changing your bookmarks, nothing else should change, according to Harvey, the owner of the site. The site is expected to be down from 7 p.m. PST to [...]

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Amazon is a case of mysterious and magical realism. I find myself inside a coterie of near certifiable money managers and analysts who believe Amazon is a “creative destruction” operator, hell bent on transforming retailing and book publishing, and likely to emerge as the Wal-Mart of the Internet. The Amazon story is about scale and momentum in general merchandise sales, here and abroad. I don’t care how many Kindles they deliver or their burgeoning downloads in books, music, video games and streaming of films.