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Amazon.com Buys Fabric.com Makes Play For Clothing Market30th June 2008 9:39 am Amazon.com Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) has recentyly announced the acquisition of Fabric.com, a leading online fabric store that offers custom measured and cut fabrics, as well as patterns, sewing tools and accessories.
This acquisition will enable Fabric.com to further expand its selection of fabrics and accessories while enabling Amazon.com to offer its customers a wider variety of products in the sewing, craft and hobby segment. Fabric.com has built an impressive business by providing great products and excellent service for sewing and crafting enthusiasts, said Chris Nielsen, vice president of the Amazon.com Home & Garden store. Over the years, we’ve seen a growing interest in this segment from our customers. Our acquisition of Fabric.com will allow us to offer a greater variety of fabrics and accessories to crafting customers. Launched in 1999 by Stephen Friedman, Fabric.com has developed a significant and loyal customer base of sewing enthusiasts, and today offers a comprehensive line of fabrics in all three major fabric categories, including apparel, quilting and home decor. The acquisition will allow us to more effectively build our business around the customer, offering great value and a unique shopping experience within the sewing community, said Stephen Friedman, CEO and founder of Fabric.com.We now have the opportunity to significantly expand our breadth of inventory, as well as benefit from the technology, fulfillment and customer service expertise of Amazon.com. Fabric.com will continue to function as a stand-alone operation based in Marietta, Georgia. Would you like to know more about online advertising? If so, contact Hit Search, SEMPO accredited Search Engine Optimisation and Pay Per Click specialists, on 0845 643 9289. Remember, its a big world out there, make sure you become visible. CreateSpace and HBO video team up16th June 2008 5:25 pm Amazon.com CreateSpace, part of the Amazon.com (NASDAQ:AMZN), and HBO Video today announced an agreement to provide consumers with a selection of HBO and Cinemax award-winning and critically acclaimed documentaries through the CreateSpace DVD on Demand service, which allows for the manufacture and shipping of packaged DVDs as soon as customers place their orders. These documentaries will be available on Amazon.com and HBO.com.
“HBO has an amazing selection of unique and award-winning programming,” said Peter Faricy, vice president of movies and music at Amazon.com. “This will further broaden the extensive television DVD selection that Amazon.com customers have to choose from today and enable customers to find, buy and collect an even greater selection of HBO titles.” “We’re excited to help make more HBO titles available to a broader audience on both HBO.com and Amazon.com,” said Dana LoPiccolo-Giles, co-founder and managing director of CreateSpace. “With Disc on Demand, customers can now order a copy of these titles and receive their DVDs in just a few days.” HBO and Cinemax “DVD on Demand” documentary titles will be encrypted with the Content Scramble System (CSS) copy protection. These DVDs will be the first major content label titles to be manufactured on demand with this protection. “The CreateSpace DVD on Demand program will allow HBO to bring a selection of our highly acclaimed documentary programming to consumers in a very cost-efficient and timely manner,” added Henry McGee, president of HBO Video. “When I Knew,” a deeply personal film about when individuals knew they were gay, will be the first HBO/Cinemax documentary title to be released via CreateSpace DVD on Demand. It will be available on June 26, 2008 after its June 25 premiere on Cinemax. The documentary “Hard Times at Douglass High: A No Child Left Behind Report Card,” which examines the impact of the No Child Left Behind Act on a storied inner-city institution, will be available on July 8, 2008, following its June 23 premiere on HBO. Both titles can be pre-ordered right now on Amazon.com and HBO.com for $24.98 each. Additional HBO and Cinemax titles will be made available on DVD on Demand via both websites throughout the year. To browse Amazon’s selection of HBO Video titles and to pre-order a copy of “When I Knew” or “Hard Times at Douglass High: A No Child Left Behind Report Card,” visit www.amazon.com/HBO. For further information on the documentaries or to pre-order copies via HBO, visit www.HBO.com. To find out more about CreateSpace and DVD on Demand, visit www.createspace.com. Would you like to know more about online advertising? If so, contact Hit Search, SEMPO accredited Search Engine Optimisation and Pay Per Click specialists, on 0845 643 9289. Remember, its a big world out there, make sure you become visible. Amazon.com invests in user-generated shopping channel9th June 2008 7:13 pm Amazon.com The Talk Market, a user-generated TV Shopping Channel, announced today that it has received an equity investment from Amazon.com (Nasdaq: AMZN).
“The Talk Market is a user-generated TV shopping platform that allows businesses to create broadcast-quality product presentations and gives consumers an entertaining shopping experience,” said Jeff Blackburn, Senior Vice President Business Development, Amazon.com. “We’re excited by the early progress and pleased to support their efforts.” The Talk Market’s patent-pending user-generated TV shopping channel platform enhances sellers’ video presentations with dynamic graphic overlays, custom motion graphics and soundtracks. Integrated payment processing is provided by Amazon Web Services Flexible Payment Service (Amazon FPS). Using Amazon FPS, merchants at the Talk Market get free Amazon Payments Business accounts to process credit cards and tens of millions of Amazon customers can purchase anything on The Talk Market with the credit cards they have on file with Amazon. “Both Amazon.com and The Talk Market prioritize giving customers a great shopping experience,” said Matt Singer, CEO of The Talk Market, “and we are excited to have Amazon’s support as we give many businesses their first opportunity to share their stories with personal, TV Shopping presentations, while giving consumers the opportunity to completely customize what TV shopping presentations they watch and when they watch them.” Would you like to know more about online advertising? If so, contact Hit Search, SEMPO accredited Search Engine Optimisation and Pay Per Click specialists, on 0845 643 9289. Remember, its a big world out there, make sure you become visible. 5,000 additional books available on Amazon Kindle5th June 2008 1:01 pm Amazon.com Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN) and Simon & Schuster, Inc. today announced that Simon & Schuster will make 5,000 additional titles available for Amazon Kindle in 2008. When added to books already available on Kindle, including thousands of new releases and bestsellers, these Simon Schuster titles represent the vast majority of sales from the publisher’s catalog.
Committed to delivering content to readers in digital formats, Simon & Schuster’s latest eBook initiative will more than double the number of Simon & Schuster titles available on Kindle today. Kindle customers will be able to discover, buy and read popular books such as Stephen R. Covey’s “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People.” “At Simon & Schuster, we are excited by how many Kindle books we’re selling and the feedback from readers who want to read our titles on their Kindles. We have also learned that readers aren’t just looking for new or bestselling books, but also books that are older or hard to find,” said Carolyn Reidy, President and CEO, Simon & Schuster, Inc. “These are the books that have proven themselves to be of enduring interest, and we want readers to be able to find them anytime, anywhere. We are pleased to take another big step toward that goal by making this great percentage of our active backlist available on Kindle by the end of 2008.” “Kindle is re-igniting a love of reading — after purchasing a Kindle, customers purchase, on average, just as many physical books, and their total book purchases on Amazon increase by 2.6x. Kindle books are also becoming a meaningful portion of Amazon’s overall book sales much sooner than we anticipated — of the 125,000 books available both as a physical book and on Kindle, Kindle books already account for over 6 percent of units sold,” said Jeff Bezos, Amazon.com Founder and CEO. “This commitment from Simon & Schuster moves us closer to our vision for Kindle, which is to make any book, ever printed, in any language available in less than 60 seconds.” The initiative represents Simon & Schuster’s most concentrated effort to date to provide quality content for the growing community of eBook readers who now want a broader and deeper assortment of titles to become available in eBook. The selection of titles for the initiative was based on statistical analysis of physical books that have been very popular backlist titles among Amazon.com customers over the past 12 months. Launched on November 19, 2007, Amazon Kindle is Amazon’s revolutionary portable reader that wirelessly downloads books, blogs, magazines, newspapers and personal documents to a crisp, high-resolution electronic paper display that looks and reads like real paper, even in bright sunlight. More than 125,000 books are now available in the Kindle Store, including New York Times Best Sellers and New Releases, which are $9.99, unless marked otherwise. Kindle is available today for $359 at http://amazon.com/kindle. Would you like to know more about online advertising? If so, contact Hit Search, SEMPO accredited Search Engine Optimisation and Pay Per Click specialists, on 0845 643 9289. Remember, its a big world out there, make sure you become visible. Online retailer Amazon to expand American operation20th May 2008 8:40 am Amazon.com Global online retailer Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) announced today it will open a new fulfillment center here, creating more than 1,100 jobs in the next three years.
Amazon will locate its latest fulfillment center, which will be operated by Amazon.com DEDC LLC, in Hazleton, PA, 30 miles southwest of Wilkes-Barre. The Hazleton facility will be more than 600,000 square feet and will allow Amazon to serve its customers in the Northeast more efficiently. The company also plans to hire up to 800 temporary associates during peak seasons to meet demands for its products. “Not only will this project result in well over a thousand new jobs for hard-working Pennsylvanians, but those jobs will provide ancillary benefits for the entire region,” said Pennsylvania Governor Edward G. Rendell. “The Hazleton facility will play an important role in allowing us to serve our customers in the Northeast more quickly and efficiently and we’re excited to be opening our fifth facility in Pennsylvania,” said Mike McKenna, vice president of North American fulfillment for Amazon. Amazon, which has approximately 17,000 employees worldwide, is hiring managers and hourly associates ahead of the facility’s opening in July 2008. Interested candidates can visit www.amazon.com/careers for more information. Would you like to know more about online advertising? If so, contact Hit Search, SEMPO accredited Search Engine Optimisation and Pay Per Click specialists, on 0845 643 9289. Remember, its a big world out there, make sure you become visible. Amazon.com online Diamond sales up 100%10th May 2008 11:33 am Amazon.com Amazon.com, Inc. (Nasdaq:AMZN) today announced that retail diamond sales by Amazon.com LLC increased more than 100 percent in the first quarter of 2008 which shows that the online sales are holding out well.
Each quarter, an increasing number of Amazon.com’s tens of millions of customers are shoppin the Amazon.com Jewelry store (www.amazon.com/jewelry) and Watches store (www.amazon.com/watches), especially for important gift-giving occasions such as Mother’s Day and graduation. “We are very pleased that more and more of our customers are discovering the huge selection and convenience of Amazon.com’s Jewelry and Watches store,” said Peter Lai, Director, Amazon.com Jewelry & Watches store. “In addition to everyday items like books, electronics, shoes and beauty products, our customers are increasingly purchasing luxury goods, like diamonds, on Amazon.com as well.” Everything from pendants to stud earrings (in all sizes) to diamond chronograph watches were extremely popular with Amazon customers in the first quarter. Among the top-selling styles were a 14k white gold journey curve pendant, an assortment of princess-cut diamond solitaire rings and 1-carat round-cut diamond stud earrings. Black diamond pendants and diamond-accented watches also did very well. “Goes to show that online sales in certain sectors have done far better than expect given the current talk of recession on the market - Andrew Redfern” Would you like to know more about online advertising? If so, contact Hit Search, SEMPO accredited Search Engine Optimisation and Pay Per Click specialists, on 0845 643 9289. Remember, its a big world out there, make sure you become visible. Subscribe To Our RSS Feed! 
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