... Magazine, collars Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos for a mini-interview in this morning's edition. ... ;Sophie’s Choice'," replies Bezos. "Very nicely done." Touché!Solomon ... sounds like a lot.""Does it?" Bezos replies. "You’re an author, what does your royalty check ... 35 percent?" Touché encore! Bezos reveals how he reads a Kindle in the bathtub, and why it's ...

... 60 seconds.” I think this last statement outlines Bezos’ ambitions about the business. If it can pull it off, Amazon is ... wild gambles on big markets of the future. As Bezos once said: “People overemphasize their failures when trying something new. Actually failure ... company has made some tremendous progress on the Kindle since Bezos spoke to Charlie Rose about it back in March. ...

Meow! Amazon's Jeff Bezos is on the warpath against Barnes & Noble's Nook, specifically ... Times. Ah, but to lend once is better than never, right Jeff? As the BusinessInsider speculates, this could be Bezos positioning for multiple Kindle lending options in ... suggested Sophie's Choice as a comparison, and then Bezos ran with it. Also of note, Bezos claimed that 48 Kindle versions ...

... : BKS)—and, it turns out, a chance for Jeff Bezos to critique the upstart. After telling an interviewer for the NYT magazine ... company policy of “not talking about other companies,” Bezos walked right into a critique of Nook’s lending feature ... stick to physical only but it suggests to me that the risks are getting higher. Bezos also admits that Amazon uses print sales to gauge ...

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Jeff Bezos talked to The New York Times Magazine about the Barnes & Noble, Inc. (NYSE:BKS) Nook e-book reader. The Nook has ... …It is ‘Sopie’s Choice,’” stated Amazon.com CEO Jeff Bezos. In addition to criticizing the Nook, Bezos decided to throw in a state about the Kindle: “For every 100 copies of a physical book we sell, where we have the Kindle edition, ...

Jeff Bezos: Well, I had what I considered to be an idyllic childhood. I mean, I had two parents who loved me incredibly. I also had a tremendous amount of contact with my grandparents -- my mom's parents. In fact, I spent all my summers on my grandfather's ranch not far from where we're sitting right now, not far from San Antonio. And, I spent three months every year from the age ...

Picture from 2006 tests of a DC-X like rocket Jeff Bezos, CEO of Amazon.com, has a rocket company called Blue Origin The website for Blue Origin indicates plans for unmanned flights in 2011 and manned flights in 2012. Flight testing of prototype New Shepard vehicles began in 2006. Blue Origin expects the first opportunities for experiments requiring an accompanying researcher astronaut to be ...

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Barnes & Noble's Nook lets users lend e-books between fellow Nook users, unlike the Kindle. Sounds like a pretty cool feature to us. To Jeff Bezos, Amazon's CEO, it's small potatoes. Speaking with Deborah Solomon at the New York Times Magazine, he says, Read the rest of this story » See Also: Amazon In Talks To Buy Vente-Privee For $3 Billion* (AMZN)CHART OF THE DAY: Amazon ...

Deborah Solomon / New York Times: Book Learning — Questions for Jeffrey P. Bezos  —  The Kindle, an electronic reader brought out by Amazon two years ago, has become your company's best-selling product and a great success story.  But several rival e-readers are coming out in time for Christmas.  What do you think of the Nook, for instance, from Barnes & Noble?

Questions for Jeff Bezos. A rather useless and boring “interview,” save the following two excerpts. What do you say to Kindle users who like to read in the bathtub? I’ll tell you what I do. I take a one-gallon Ziploc bag, and I put my Kindle in my one-gallon Ziploc bag, and it works beautifully. Of all the books that Amazon sells, what percentage are digital books? For every 100 ...

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Princeton alumnus Jeff Bezos, the founder and chief executive officer of Amazon.com, has been selected as the speaker for this year's Baccalaureate ceremony. The interfaith worship service that is one of Princeton's oldest traditions is scheduled for 2 p.m. Sunday, May 30, in the University Chapel.