Will the new international fund save the Amazon?

Ever since Amazon launched the Kindle last November, we've been wondering about just how successful it's been. The electronic book initially sold out and supplies have been tight. The Kindle is such a small part of Amazon's overallFiled under: Handhelds. Amazon's been pretty cagey with Kindle sales numbers, except to say that it sold out the first batch in 5.5 hours and that more are finally arriving. Still, you can't keep a secret forever, and TechCrunch saysInteresting news from Brazil President Lula has launched yesterday an international fund to fight deforestation of the Amazon and support conservation and sustainable development. The fund will seek donations worldwide with the goal of240000. I thought this sentence was intriguing:. And if a new Kindle comes out targeted at the textbook/school market, sales could ramp up higher. I still recall Yana having to lug all those heavy textbooks around.Java Runtime Environment: Amazon EC2 client command line tools require Java 5 or later. Get either the JDK (Java Development Kit) or JRE (Java Runtime Environment) from http://java.sun.com. Please, be sure to set the JAVA_HOMEIt'll be interesting to see what kind of presence they give Abe on the Amazon site because the two sites are direct competitors for the business of used book dealers and buyers — the obvious thing to do would be to transport all ofI have not upgraded my trial of Amazon Prime to a fully paid-up subscription. I am not to be seduced by no postal charges or the instant gratification of the buy-with-1-click button. Why not? Because a one month trial has taught me what1, 2008–Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN), today announced that, subject to closing conditions, it has reached an agreement to acquire AbeBooks. AbeBooks is an online marketplace for books, with over 110 million primarily used,The interesting part that was new - new to me, at least - was that LibraryThing's listing for my books linked to an Amazon page for that same book, and (again new to me) the Amazon site auto-recognizes my Blackberry phone and formatsGet the bestselling Canon PowerShot A590 IS 8MP Image Stabilized Digital Camera for $180 - $33 instant savings = $147 shipped at Amazon. The A590 IS features 8 megapixel still image capture, 4x optical zoom, VGA movie recording with