"I Dreamed a Dream" is Britain's Got Talent contestant Susan Boyle's first album and it has now become the most pre-ordered CD in the world history of online retailer, Amazon. The worldwide success of the album, released on November 23, adds to the world wide success of Susan Boyle who became an instant Internet star for her performance of I Dreamed a Dream from Les Misérables.
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Amazon is keeping shoppers on their toes with their "Lightening Deals" on their Gold Box Deals page online. Today is "tech deal" day on Amazon.com. Rumors of low priced laptops, discounted TVs and Blue-Ray disc players are spreading around the Internet but you have to act fast. These deals last all of about a minute when they are announced every two hours.
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Keep your eye out for great deals on Amazon.com. Never mind Black Friday deals, Amazon is offering amazing Gold Box deals online every few hours. A $30 deal on a Sony DVD player sold out in less than a minute this morning. Rumor has it that a laptop for less than $300 will be coming up today. Lightening deals are posted every two hours.
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New Internet marketing features keep rolling out, and in the last few days there have been announcements from Twitter, Google and Amazon each announcing a major new feature (Google’s is in beta).
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If you don't have an Amazon Kindle you will soon be able to read electronic books on your computer. Amazon announced Thursday the release date of "Kindle for PC." It will release "Kindle for PC" in November. It will let people buy, download and read Kindle books on the computer. Amazon will provide a software application,available next month as a free download, that can convert Kindle books to PC-readable ones.
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Traditional and online media are immersed in discussions of what Wal-Mart’s $8.99 price for 10 upcoming hardcover books means for the future of book publishers and book stores. But what many appear to be overlooking is how this is a very astute marketing strategy on the part of Wal-Mart.
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Bookseller Barnes & Noble are going to be adding their name to the list of e-book readers. The new e-reader may be out as soon as November and will feature a six-inch screen from digital-paper maker E-Ink Corporation. Barnes & Noble's new e-book reader will add some pre-holiday competition for the Amazon Kindle and Sony eBook reader.
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When you expect to hear bad news from a country known for Yahoo-Yahoo Internet scams, but what you see is a new groundbreaking book of awesome revelations, what would you say? Good news from Nigeria?
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The results of a new study suggest that past climate changes and sea level fluctuations may have promoted the formation of new species in the Amazon region of South America.
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Ice age climate change and ancient flooding—but not barriers created by rivers—may have promoted the evolution of new insect species in the Amazon region of South America, a new study suggests.
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Nutrients from the Amazon River's outflow spread well beyond the continental shelf and drive carbon cycling in the tropical ocean, say scientists who conducted a multi-year study. They will publish their results this week online in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).
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