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On Cyber Monday, Amazon Sold 158 Items Per Second

This is why I am so down on Barnes and Noble (NYSE: BKS). I was at a Barnes and Noble over the weekend with a friend in suburban NJ. We got into an argument over the business strengths of Barnes and Noble. He thinks they have great stores and loves going there. I think they have great stores and I love going there too. The difference is all I bought was coffee.

I am too addicted to the One-click of Amazon and I don’t want to carry a book around the rest of the day. Plus, now I don’t even want books cluttering my office or home—that’s why I buy mostly Kindle eBooks.

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Amazon Loses E-Book Deal

by The Wall Street Journal
A month after jolting the book industry with a deal to give Amazon.com Inc. exclusive digital access to some of the country’s best-known literary works, literary agent Andrew Wylie is largely abandoning the agreement.

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