Susan Boyle, who became famous overnight after her appearance on Britain's Got Talent, has broken the record for CD pre-orders on Amazon. The album will see its release on Monday in the UK and is entitled "I Dreamed a Dream."

This week Amazon introduced a new feature called "Share on Twitter," enabling Amazon's affiliates to place hidden advertisement while chatting on Twitter.

Several retailers have been engaging in a price war on best selling books in an attempt to boost sales for the upcoming holiday season. Amazon and Wal-mart are the most prominent names in the battle for customers and once again Amazon has upped the ante.

Barnes & Noble has just released details about its addition to the growing digital reader market. Their e-reader, named Nook, is designed to compete directly with the Amazon Kindle and Sony Reader. It is set to debut in late November.

On Thursday, Amazon.com said it will be launching same-day delivery service in seven U.S. cities this upcoming holiday season.

Amazon plans to sell its wireless electronic reader, the Kindle, in more than 100 countries outside the United States. The new markets include China, Japan and most of Europe, the company announced Tuesday. Canada was not included.

From books to CDs and DVDs, Amazon.com has come a long way. The Web's largest retailer now wants to cross even more boundaries, as it pushes its way beyond books toward the ultimate goal of becoming an Internet-based supermarket.

Google’s major competitors have foreshadowed an antitrust class action against Google Books settlement with the Authors Guild and the Association of American Publishers. The settlement cleared the way for Google to digitize millions of books.

Armed bandits boarded the luxury Amazon River cruiser, Aqua, last Sunday near the Peruvian town of Nauta robbing passengers of money and valuables.

In a move upsetting customers and leaving individuals to question "big brother"-like ethics, Amazon remotely removed two books off users' Kindle ebook readers without consent. The copies had been added by a company that did not have distribution rights.

In a flurry of online take-overs, Yahoo has announced it's acquired photo sharing service Xoopit, whilst Amazon has announced it's overtaken online apparel and footwear company Zappos.

Rumors have it that Amazon could possibly buy Netflix, the leading online DVD rental company. These rumors have been floating around the internet for quite some time.

The Brazilian rainforest has ceded one of its secrets to the modern world; a new sub-species of monkey heretofore never seen. The monkey boasts a super long tail and it weighs barely a pound.

An error by the Web giant Amazon saw the price of album downloads being cut drastically to just 29 pence each. The mistake occurred yesterday.

Nine people are being held in custody after allegedly earning £200,000 ($320,000) by buying their own records from iTunes and Amazon with stolen and cloned credit cards.

Tensions in Peru's Amazon came to the boiling point Friday over government development plans for a region of the Amazon jungle. 30 people were reported killed, mainly indigenous people who live in the region.

Google has announced plans to move into the e-book market, placing it against the likes of Amazon and the barage of other e-book sellers.

Hit by floods, the most severe in decades, 376000 people are left homeless and many killed. It is time we realize what is happening to the planet because of us and what we can do to prevent it.

The largest bookstore in the U.S. has posted a $2.7 million first quarter loss.Though it has surpassed market expectations, the recession and fierce competition from rivals like Amazon has taken its toll on the company.

At least 31 people are dead and 500,000 homeless in floods that have hit Brazil. The floods are due to months of rain from the Amazon jungle to the Atlantic coast.