Amazon won't profit from "Harry Potter"
189896
Amazon.com Inc. has taken more than a million pre-orders for the final "Harry Potter" book due out in July, but the world's largest Web retailer won't make a profit, Chief Executive Jeff Bezos told shareholders at the company's annual meeting Thursday.
447386
Amazon.com Inc  on Wednesday issued quarterly earnings and full-year sales forecasts ahead of Wall Street targets, but profit margins declined in what one analyst called a disappointment.
553880
Amazon.com in a strongly worded rebuttal has countersued IBM, charging that it has illegally used Amazon.com technology in its WebSphere application server.
562993
Amazon has something that it wants to show you.
713780
Online retailer Amazon.com on  Tuesday reported operating profit margins that concerned some  analysts despite a sharp rise in quarterly earnings, and its  shares fell 9 percent.
340478
Stocks to watch on Tuesday:    AMAZON.COM INC. :
42331
Affiliates get physical More than happy to let the people of New York avoid paying vast amounts of internet sales tax, Amazon.com has spoken out against a new net tax plan from Governor Eliot Spitzer.â¦
45086
Online retailer Amazon.com  posted a sharp rise in third-quarter net profit on Tuesday, helped by robust domestic and international sales and the latest Harry Potter book.
40502
Amazon.com has reported fourth quarter sales of $3.99 billion, up significantly on the $2.98 billion it achieved a year previously. Although revenue growth continues to be fast despite Amazon's large size and relative maturity, profits are a different story.
225575
Amazon.com may not offer free delivery on books in France, the high court in Versailles has ruled.
371882
Fastest growing market Online bookseller Amazon is increasing investment in its Chinese business - where sales are growing faster than anywhere else.â¦
61394
Amazon.com may not offer free delivery on books in France, the high court in Versailles has ruled.The action, brought in January 2004 by the French Booksellers&#39; Union (Syndicat de la librairie fran&#231;aise), accused Amazon of offering illegal discounts on books -- and even of selling some books below cost.The court gave Amazon 10 days to start charging for the delivery of books, which should at least allow the company to maintain the offer through the end-of-year gift-giving season. After that, it must pay a fine of &#8364;1,000 ($1,470) per day that it continues to offer free delivery. It must also pay &#8364;100,000 in compensation to the booksellers&#39; union.Retail prices, particularly of books, are tightly regulated in France.Using &quot;loss leaders,&quot; or selling products below cost to attract customers, is illegal. Other restrictions apply to books -- retailers must not offer discounts of more than 5 percent on the publisher&#39;s recommended price. Many independent booksellers choose to offer this discount in the form of a loyalty bonus based on previous purchases. Larger booksellers simply slash the sticker price of books.But the free delivery offered by Amazon exceeded the legal limit in the case of cheaper books, the union charged.The union said it was pleased with the court&#39;s ruling, which would help protect vulnerable small bookshops from predatory pricing practices.Amazon.com did not immediately respond to a request for comment.Earlier this year, the union won a similar legal victory against Alapage.com, an online bookseller with operations in France, Spain, and the United Kingdom. The appeals court ruled that Alapage must pay a fine of &#8364;50,000 for illegal pricing practices including the offer of free delivery.It&#39;s not been a good month for U.S. e-commerce sites doing business in France: Last week,&#160;the French auction regulator sued eBay France for breaching rules on the conduct of auctions. The regulator said that eBay&#39;s failure to comply exposed consumers to the risk of fraud. In its defense, eBay France maintained that it is not an auctioneer and that it has &quot;invented another way of buying and selling&quot; not covered by the rules.
212149
Online retailer Amazon reported that its profits plummeted in the year-end quarter of 2006 despite record holiday-season sales.
624343
Arts & entertainment: Â· Attack on Bloomsbury for 'profiteering' withdrawnÂ· Stores will sell book as loss leader in price war
654438
Amazon.com Inc posted a decline in profit margins on Wednesday as the impact of its discounting overshadowed quarterly earnings and a sales forecast that topped Wall Street targets.
556119
In a strongly worded rebuttal, Amazon.com on Thursday countersued IBM. The companies have charged each other with patent infringement.
32155
Amazon.com Inc. denies it violated IBM Corp. patents in building its massive retail Web site, and alleges instead that IBM infringed on Amazon's technology to beef up its own offerings.