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Cincinnati only Ohio city on Amazon’s 20 Best-Read Cities in America list

COLUMBUS, Ohio (CGE) – When Amazon.com compiled all of its book, magazine, and newspaper sales (in both print and Kindle format) since January 1st of this year for U.S cities with populations of more than 100,000 and ranked them according to their per-capita sales, Cincinnati made the grade of being included among the 20 Best-Read [...]

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A Digital Diet: Drop (Calls, Texting, Web) and Give Me 28 (Days of Peace)

It was time for something drastic: detox. Sieberg quit all his social networks – his “primary poisons” – and began his own version of the digital diet, which would serve as the basis for the book. The detox phase might be the scariest, he admits, but it’s also just a tiny part of the whole [...]

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How Amazon is Trying to Be the Center of the E-Commerce Universe

When Jeff Bezos founded Amazon.com in 1994, could he have imagined how the company’s gravitational pull would make it the center of the e-commerce universe? The company conquered the online sales of goods from CDs to groceries, is partnering with social media giant, Facebook, essentially created the e-book market and most recently has its sights [...]

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Birdbooker Report 171

Books to the ceiling, Books to the sky,My pile of books is a mile high.How I love them! How I need them!I’ll have a long beard by the time I read them. ~ Arnold Lobel 1933-1987 author of many popular children’s books. Compiled by Ian “Birdbooker” Paulsen, the Birdbooker Report is a long-running weekly report [...]

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Microsoft chases Amazon in taking SAP to the cloud

On May 18, both Microsoft and its cloud rival Amazon made dueling announcements involving SAP and their respective cloud strategies. The difference? Microsoft’s SAP announcement is full of “future plans,” while Amazon is offering certain SAP wares today via the Amazon Web Services platform. Amazon and SAP announced at the Sapphire conference that the pair [...]

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