Category: Amazon

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  • Ad Blocking and the Future of the Web

    Ad Blocking and the Future of the Web

    By including ad blocking in iOS9, Apple isn’t trying to take down your site or mine—just like the drone program doesn’t deliberately target civilians and children. Apple is trying to hurt arch-rival Google while providing…

  • My other iPad is a Kindle

    My other iPad is a Kindle

    The new Kindle has a lot going for it. It’s inexpensive compared to a full-featured tablet computer like the iPad; you can slip it in your back pocket, where it’s more comfortable than an old-style…

  • An e-mail from Chip Kidd

    An e-mail from Chip Kidd

    I’ll never forget the day Chip Kidd sent me an e-mail. Chip Kidd, author of The Cheese Monkeys, the book that does for design school what Nathaniel West’s Day of the Locust did for Hollywood.…

  • Amazonked! (or, the 2nd Edition Dilemma)

    Amazonked! (or, the 2nd Edition Dilemma)

    The “second edition problem” at Amazon.com, and what Amazon should do about it.