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Amazon.co.uk refuses to join UK charts
News Online sales are soon to begin contributing to UK music charts, but Amazon.co.uk will not be participating, the company said Thursday. We are selective with the information that we share with external audiences, and will not be providing data for...
[September 28, 2000, 15:00]
Amazon.co.uk stomps onto British gaming scene
News PC & Video Games and Software' is one more step towards achieving our goal of being the place where customers can find, discover and buy anything they want online," says managing director of Amazon.co.uk Steve Fraiser.
[July 18, 2000, 11:00]
Amazon.co.uk to take Xbox preorders
News Internet retailer Amazon.co.uk will be among a select group of British retailers taking preorders for Microsoft's Xbox, the market's newest computer game console, the company has said. In the US, Amazon had sold out of its allotment in five minutes...
[November 15, 2001, 15:43]
Amazon UK enjoys busiest day ever
News Amazon UK recorded its busiest ever day of trading last month in the run-up to Christmas 2004. Amazon UK's overall sales during the pre-Christmas period were also the highest since its launch in 1998, according to the company.
[January 4, 2005, 12:55]
Bookpages aims to be UK's Amazon.com
News UK Internet book seller Bookpages is aiming to become this country's answer to Amazon.com with a string of initiatives kicking off this week with a loyalty points scheme. Our objective is to be the equivalent of Amazon in the UK," Murdoch said.
[September 10, 1997, 8:00]
Amazon UK enjoys busiest day ever
Talkback Similarly, my items still hadn't been despatched after my expected delivery date. I emailed their customer services. My Items were found to have been "delayed" in the warehouse. In the end they were delivered in time for Christmas.
[January 5, 2005, 11:29]
Amazon UK enjoys busiest day ever
Talkback maybe that accounts for why none of the 5 orders I placed for xmas were despatched (let alone delivered) to the dates Amazon stated in the orders ! I cancelled one order and am still waiting for 2 others.
[January 5, 2005, 10:51]
Amazon UK enjoys busiest day ever
Talkback I wonder if Amazon would have been so busy if users understood how their account detials can be viewed by other users of the same machine - a serious breach of security for users placing orders in internet cafes.
[January 20, 2005, 15:00]
Amazon's Kindle lights no UK fires
Blog Comment Kindle isnt just an e-book reader. You can read Newspapaers (by subscription) and popular blogs everywhere as it doesnt need starbucks (wifi). I have a gorgeous N95 with data allowance yet I consider this to be a proper "reading" device.
[November 23, 2007, 15:53]
Amazon's Kindle lights no UK fires
Blog Comment An astonishing number of people seem to be only too happy to slag off Kindle when they don't have one or haven't bothered to spend even 15 minutes researching it. The idea of Kindle's wireless is that you don't have to "manage" it, and it just...
[November 22, 2007, 10:37]
Amazon's Kindle lights no UK fires
Blog Comment I've been reading books on my mobile phone for years. The narrow column is ideal for readability. Why else do newspapers and magazines use narrow columns? Because it's faster and easier to read than wide lines of text.
[January 12, 2008, 9:20]
Amazon's Kindle lights no UK fires
Blog Comment limey has the ipod mp3 argument the wrong way around - the small size of mobile phones make them more portable and convenient than something trying to pretend its 'really a real book'. Oh and mobile phones have built in 'wireless'.
[January 11, 2008, 21:32]
Amazon's Kindle lights no UK fires
Blog Comment I have to agree with you, some people in the blogosphere were speculating that it could do for e-books what the iPod did for music, but e-books are not as in demand as music for. In addition, these days; trains, cafe's and some public areas all...
[November 21, 2007, 22:49]
Amazon UK reports record Christmas
News Amazon.co.uk said on Wednesday it delivered up to 256 tonnes of goods on the busiest days of the Christmas period. With up to half a million items delivered worldwide every day through the peak period, Amazon is claiming a record-breaking Christmas...
[December 29, 2005, 12:40]
Amazon UK accused of treating staff harshly
News Allan Lyall, vice president of European operations for Amazon, responded to the report in a statement printed with the article: "Every single member of the Amazon.co.uk workforce.is currently working flat out to ensure that our millions of...
[December 16, 2008, 9:38]
Christmas spending flows to Amazon UK
News Internet retailing has taken another huge step forward this Christmas," said Brian McBride, managing director of Amazon.co.uk. Although impressive, Amazon.co.uk's performance was somewhat overshadowed by Amazon's US arm, which hit a high of four...
[December 28, 2006, 15:53]
Amazon could sell you a mota, guv
News Amazon has, however, also approached UK car retailers over auto sales, according to a report in e-commerce industry magazine Revolution. Amazon.com may be looking at selling cars. Amazon does not, however, own the domain name amazoncars.com.
[August 14, 2000, 14:42]
Amazon mis-priced iPaqs: No sale
News Amazon.co.uk has said it does not intend to fulfil the orders of customers who took advantage of a pricing mistake to buy iPaq handheld computers for less than £10 on Wednesday. As the Conditions of Use clearly state, there is no contract between...
[March 19, 2003, 11:54]
A Year Ago: Trimble swipe at Amazon backfires
News Amazon.co.uk has withdrawn the controversial US-published book The Committee by Sean McPhilemy, from sale on its UK Web site following the initiation of legal action by Northern Ireland's first Minister David Trimble who alleges the book contains...
[June 16, 2000, 8:33]
British Library lists rare books on Amazon
News The British Library has opened up its extensive bibliographic records to the Internet, adding millions of records to Amazon.co.uk's books listings. The library's bibliographic records -- information such as publisher, publication date, type of...
[November 24, 2003, 17:00]
