インターネット通販大手のアマゾンジャパンで、アメリカン・エキスプレス（アメックス）のクレジットカードを使って買い物をした複数の人に、代金の１００倍の請求が通知されていたことが７日、アメックスへの取材で分かった。
カード決済代行会社のシステム異常が原因とみられ、アメックスの広報担当者は「金額は既に修正しており、銀行口座から誤った額が引き落とされた人は確認されていない。心配な場合はカード裏面に記載した電話番号に問い合わせてほしい」と話している。
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Bài viết mang tựa đề “5 nỗi hối hận của người sắp qua đời,” cho thấy những điều người ta tiếc nuối khi biết mình sắp chết.Tác giả Bronnie Ware là một nhạc sĩ sáng tác, từng là y tá chuyên điều trị người sắp chết. Ðây là những bệnh nhân biết mình không qua được, không muốn chữa trị nữa mà về nhà chờ ngày ra đi vĩnh viễn.Trong những ngày đó, cô Ware tới chăm sóc họ, cho họ uống thuốc, và họ trò chuyện với cô.
Wednesday, March 23, 2011
22/03 Amazon mở kho ứng dụng Android
22/03/2011 10:33:47 PM
ICTnews – Tập đoàn bán lẻ trực tuyến Amazon hôm nay thông báo mở kho ứng dụng trực tuyến mới lấy tên Android Appstore, mô hình tương tự iTunes nhưng chỉ cung cấp các ứng dụng Android.
Appstore của Amazon đang cung cấp 3.800 ứng dụng Android cho máy tính bảng và điện thoại thông minh (smartphone). Kho ứng dụng này kết hợp các đặc trưng từ cả Apple và Google. Nó giống với kho ứng dụng của Google là chỉ cung cấp các ứng dụng Android nhưng cũng có điểm giống với kho của Apple là nó xem xét, thẩm định từng ứng dụng đưa lên.
Điểm ấn tượng ở kho ứng dụng của Amazon là tính năng “test drive” cho phép người dùng sử dụng thử mọi ứng dụng trước khi mua. Ngoài ra, mỗi ngày Amazon sẽ chọn ra một ứng dụng thu phí để cung cấp miễn phí cho người dùng nhằm thu hút người dùng thường xuyên ghé thăm kho ứng dụng này.
Khác với kho ứng dụng của Apple và Google, Amazon quyết định giá bán của các ứng dụng đưa lên Appstore chứ không phải là các nhà phát triển. Nhưng các nhà phát triển ứng dụng vẫn được hưởng 70% doanh thu bán ứng dụng tương tự như Apple. Các ứng dụng được Amazon lựa chọn cung cấp miễn phí vào một ngày nào đó thì nhà phát triển ứng dụng vẫn được hưởng 20% giá niêm yết trên mỗi ứng dụng người dùng tải về.
Sau khi công bố ra mắt Appstore, Amazon cũng thông báo hãng này đã dành được độc quyền phân phối phiên bản RIO của game “con chim giận dữ” (Angry Birds). Game này được bán với giá 99 cent nhưng nó sẽ được cung cấp miễn phí trong một thời gian nhất định trên Appstore.
Quốc Cường
Theo Huffpost
ICTnews – Tập đoàn bán lẻ trực tuyến Amazon hôm nay thông báo mở kho ứng dụng trực tuyến mới lấy tên Android Appstore, mô hình tương tự iTunes nhưng chỉ cung cấp các ứng dụng Android.
Appstore của Amazon đang cung cấp 3.800 ứng dụng Android cho máy tính bảng và điện thoại thông minh (smartphone). Kho ứng dụng này kết hợp các đặc trưng từ cả Apple và Google. Nó giống với kho ứng dụng của Google là chỉ cung cấp các ứng dụng Android nhưng cũng có điểm giống với kho của Apple là nó xem xét, thẩm định từng ứng dụng đưa lên.
Điểm ấn tượng ở kho ứng dụng của Amazon là tính năng “test drive” cho phép người dùng sử dụng thử mọi ứng dụng trước khi mua. Ngoài ra, mỗi ngày Amazon sẽ chọn ra một ứng dụng thu phí để cung cấp miễn phí cho người dùng nhằm thu hút người dùng thường xuyên ghé thăm kho ứng dụng này.
Khác với kho ứng dụng của Apple và Google, Amazon quyết định giá bán của các ứng dụng đưa lên Appstore chứ không phải là các nhà phát triển. Nhưng các nhà phát triển ứng dụng vẫn được hưởng 70% doanh thu bán ứng dụng tương tự như Apple. Các ứng dụng được Amazon lựa chọn cung cấp miễn phí vào một ngày nào đó thì nhà phát triển ứng dụng vẫn được hưởng 20% giá niêm yết trên mỗi ứng dụng người dùng tải về.
Sau khi công bố ra mắt Appstore, Amazon cũng thông báo hãng này đã dành được độc quyền phân phối phiên bản RIO của game “con chim giận dữ” (Angry Birds). Game này được bán với giá 99 cent nhưng nó sẽ được cung cấp miễn phí trong một thời gian nhất định trên Appstore.
Quốc Cường
Theo Huffpost
Wednesday, October 6, 2010
2 E-Books Cost More Than Amazon Hardcovers
October 4, 2010
By JULIE BOSMAN
Readers of e-books may not be able to turn paper pages, lend their copies to friends or file them away on living room bookshelves. But they do have the comfort of knowing that they paid less for them than for hardcovers.
Unless they bought “Fall of Giants” by Ken Follett, which was published by Dutton, an imprint of Penguin Group USA, last week. On Amazon.com, the price for the e-book was $19.99; the hardcover edition was $19.39.
Or “Don’t Blink,” by James Patterson and Howard Roughan, whose publisher, Little, Brown & Company, charged $14.99 for the e-book. Amazon priced the hardcover at $14.
Customers, unaccustomed to seeing a digital edition more expensive than the hardcover, howled at the price discrepancy, and promptly voiced their outrage with negative comments and one-star reviews on Amazon.
“Really, James Patterson?” wrote one reader from Elgin, Ill. “Why would it possibly cost more for a digital download than printed and bound ink on paper?”
Other customers directed their anger at the publishers. “They aren’t penguins,” a Web commenter from Paradise, Calif., wrote about Mr. Follett’s book. “They are pigs.”
Several major publishers said those two books were the first they knew of that cost more as e-books than in hardcover on Amazon.
The skirmish over prices is possible because of deals that publishers negotiated with Amazon this year that allowed the publishers to set their own prices on e-books, while Amazon continues to choose the discount from the list price on hardcovers.
That upended a previous understanding by Kindle customers, who were used to paying only $9.99 for an e-book.
“Amazon’s bait-and-switched us here,” said Janice Dinse, 63, a medical transcriptionist in Gastonia, N.C., who complained about the price on the novel by Mr. Patterson. “When I first got my Kindle, all the books were $9.99. I’m not going to pay for a book on my Kindle that’s more than $9.99. I just refuse to do it. I could buy the hardcover for that if I go to Sam’s or Wal-Mart.”
Amazon has tried to direct customer wrath over e-book prices at the publishers. After prices began to rise this year, routinely landing at $12.99 to $14.99, Amazon alerted readers by adding a line in italics below the Kindle price: “This price was set by the publisher.”
Publishers argue that Amazon charges too little for hardcovers and is intent on monopolizing the book market.
Even as hardcover and e-book prices inch closer together, it is rare that an e-book reaches the $19.99 mark. But “Fall of Giants” is a 1,008-page novel, and Mr. Follett is a best-selling author who commands handsome advances from his publisher.
Marilyn Ducksworth, a spokeswoman for Penguin, said only that sales had been strong since the Sept. 28 publication date.
“It’s a long and wonderful book, of which we have sold over 20,000 e-books in the last seven days,” Ms. Ducksworth said.
Sophie Cottrell, a spokeswoman for the Hachette Book Group, the parent of Little, Brown, which published “Don’t Blink” last week, pointed out that the e-book was steeply discounted from the suggested list price on the book. She said the e-book price would be $12.99 if the book made the New York Times best-seller list.
Russ Grandinetti, the vice president of Kindle content for Amazon, suggested that the publishers should lower their e-book prices in response to consumer complaints.
“Setting a price for a Kindle book that is higher than its print counterpart makes no sense,” Mr. Grandinetti said in a statement, although it was not clear who was the chicken and who the egg in this instance. “It’s bad for readers and authors, and is illogical given the cost savings of digital. We’ve seen publishers do this in a few cases, and we’ve been urging them to stop.”
But many readers seemed willing to pay nearly $20 for an e-book. On Monday evening, “Fall of Giants” remained at No. 7 on the Kindle best-seller list, which is updated hourly.
“What we are seeing is a sorting-out period as a new, very vibrant market for book content begins to develop with multiple platforms, multiple formats and multiple retailers,” said David Steinberger, the chief executive of the Perseus Books Group. “Ultimately as the competitive market develops and e-books go mainstream, pricing norms will develop. But that really hasn’t happened yet.”
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By JULIE BOSMAN
Readers of e-books may not be able to turn paper pages, lend their copies to friends or file them away on living room bookshelves. But they do have the comfort of knowing that they paid less for them than for hardcovers.
Unless they bought “Fall of Giants” by Ken Follett, which was published by Dutton, an imprint of Penguin Group USA, last week. On Amazon.com, the price for the e-book was $19.99; the hardcover edition was $19.39.
Or “Don’t Blink,” by James Patterson and Howard Roughan, whose publisher, Little, Brown & Company, charged $14.99 for the e-book. Amazon priced the hardcover at $14.
Customers, unaccustomed to seeing a digital edition more expensive than the hardcover, howled at the price discrepancy, and promptly voiced their outrage with negative comments and one-star reviews on Amazon.
“Really, James Patterson?” wrote one reader from Elgin, Ill. “Why would it possibly cost more for a digital download than printed and bound ink on paper?”
Other customers directed their anger at the publishers. “They aren’t penguins,” a Web commenter from Paradise, Calif., wrote about Mr. Follett’s book. “They are pigs.”
Several major publishers said those two books were the first they knew of that cost more as e-books than in hardcover on Amazon.
The skirmish over prices is possible because of deals that publishers negotiated with Amazon this year that allowed the publishers to set their own prices on e-books, while Amazon continues to choose the discount from the list price on hardcovers.
That upended a previous understanding by Kindle customers, who were used to paying only $9.99 for an e-book.
“Amazon’s bait-and-switched us here,” said Janice Dinse, 63, a medical transcriptionist in Gastonia, N.C., who complained about the price on the novel by Mr. Patterson. “When I first got my Kindle, all the books were $9.99. I’m not going to pay for a book on my Kindle that’s more than $9.99. I just refuse to do it. I could buy the hardcover for that if I go to Sam’s or Wal-Mart.”
Amazon has tried to direct customer wrath over e-book prices at the publishers. After prices began to rise this year, routinely landing at $12.99 to $14.99, Amazon alerted readers by adding a line in italics below the Kindle price: “This price was set by the publisher.”
Publishers argue that Amazon charges too little for hardcovers and is intent on monopolizing the book market.
Even as hardcover and e-book prices inch closer together, it is rare that an e-book reaches the $19.99 mark. But “Fall of Giants” is a 1,008-page novel, and Mr. Follett is a best-selling author who commands handsome advances from his publisher.
Marilyn Ducksworth, a spokeswoman for Penguin, said only that sales had been strong since the Sept. 28 publication date.
“It’s a long and wonderful book, of which we have sold over 20,000 e-books in the last seven days,” Ms. Ducksworth said.
Sophie Cottrell, a spokeswoman for the Hachette Book Group, the parent of Little, Brown, which published “Don’t Blink” last week, pointed out that the e-book was steeply discounted from the suggested list price on the book. She said the e-book price would be $12.99 if the book made the New York Times best-seller list.
Russ Grandinetti, the vice president of Kindle content for Amazon, suggested that the publishers should lower their e-book prices in response to consumer complaints.
“Setting a price for a Kindle book that is higher than its print counterpart makes no sense,” Mr. Grandinetti said in a statement, although it was not clear who was the chicken and who the egg in this instance. “It’s bad for readers and authors, and is illogical given the cost savings of digital. We’ve seen publishers do this in a few cases, and we’ve been urging them to stop.”
But many readers seemed willing to pay nearly $20 for an e-book. On Monday evening, “Fall of Giants” remained at No. 7 on the Kindle best-seller list, which is updated hourly.
“What we are seeing is a sorting-out period as a new, very vibrant market for book content begins to develop with multiple platforms, multiple formats and multiple retailers,” said David Steinberger, the chief executive of the Perseus Books Group. “Ultimately as the competitive market develops and e-books go mainstream, pricing norms will develop. But that really hasn’t happened yet.”
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