Royal Mail loses Amazon contract
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Royal Mail loses "critical" Â£8m contract to collect second class mail from online retailer Amazon.
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Amazon.com Inc.  on Wednesday posted a quarterly profit that missed Wall Street estimates and it unveiled a costly new shipping program that heightened concern about falling margins, sending its shares tumbling 14 percent.
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Amazon has 10 days to start charging for the delivery of books, which should allow the company to maintain the offer through the end-of-year gift-giving season.
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Alexa.com can't keep itself up Alexa.com, the page ranking service owned by Amazon, has suffered a week of intermittent downtime.â¦
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Amazonâs S3 online storage service was down for several hours, taking start-ups and other customers out with it.
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By JESSICA MINTZ  SEATTLE - Amazon.com Inc. has taken more than a million pre-orders for the final "Harry Potter" book due out in July, but the world's largest Web retailer won't make a profit, Chief Executive Jeff Bezos told shareholders at the company's annual meeting Thursday.
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By JESSICA MINTZ SEATTLE - Amazon.com Inc. has taken more than a million pre-orders for the final &quot;Harry Potter&quot; book due out in July, but the world's largest Web retailer won't make a profit, Chief Executive Jeff Bezos told shareholders at the company's annual meeting Thursday.
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Royal Mail workers in Liverpool have ended their wildcat strike - held over a dispute over shift patterns.
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It's the end of an era Amazon.com has now secured the right to sell DRM-free music from all four major labels, snagging Sony BMG.â¦
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An aide to Britain's royal family has lost his job after attempting to sell one of Queen Elizabeth II's traditional Christmas puddings on Internet auction site eBay.
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Recent technical glitches have stopped some holiday shoppers from completing purchases at Amazon.com Inc. (AMZN.O: Quote, Profile, Research) , but the Web retailer&#39;s
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As strike action is threatened, the Royal Mail reiterated that it cannot afford to improve its 2.5% pay offer.
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Amazon.com may not offer free delivery on books in France, the high court in Versailles has ruled.The action, brought in January 2004 by the French Booksellers&#39; Union (Syndicat de la librairie fran&#231;aise), accused Amazon of offering illegal discounts on books -- and even of selling some books below cost.The court gave Amazon 10 days to start charging for the delivery of books, which should at least allow the company to maintain the offer through the end-of-year gift-giving season. After that, it must pay a fine of &#8364;1,000 ($1,470) per day that it continues to offer free delivery. It must also pay &#8364;100,000 in compensation to the booksellers&#39; union.Retail prices, particularly of books, are tightly regulated in France.Using &quot;loss leaders,&quot; or selling products below cost to attract customers, is illegal. Other restrictions apply to books -- retailers must not offer discounts of more than 5 percent on the publisher&#39;s recommended price. Many independent booksellers choose to offer this discount in the form of a loyalty bonus based on previous purchases. Larger booksellers simply slash the sticker price of books.But the free delivery offered by Amazon exceeded the legal limit in the case of cheaper books, the union charged.The union said it was pleased with the court&#39;s ruling, which would help protect vulnerable small bookshops from predatory pricing practices.Amazon.com did not immediately respond to a request for comment.Earlier this year, the union won a similar legal victory against Alapage.com, an online bookseller with operations in France, Spain, and the United Kingdom. The appeals court ruled that Alapage must pay a fine of &#8364;50,000 for illegal pricing practices including the offer of free delivery.It&#39;s not been a good month for U.S. e-commerce sites doing business in France: Last week,&#160;the French auction regulator sued eBay France for breaching rules on the conduct of auctions. The regulator said that eBay&#39;s failure to comply exposed consumers to the risk of fraud. In its defense, eBay France maintained that it is not an auctioneer and that it has &quot;invented another way of buying and selling&quot; not covered by the rules.
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Yesterday a funny thing happened with a package on its way from Amazon to me. Today they found it and it went on the truck "out for delivery." I waited and waited, but alas, it never arrived.  And the other package took a similar trip. Dallas to Rockford to Oakland to San Pablo to Lost by Carrier. Oy oy oy.   0 for 2, Amazon. :-(
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Business & money: Deal forced to be scrapped as the fallout from the sub-prime markets continues to spread
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Amazonâs S3 online storage service was down for several hours, taking startups and other customers out with it.
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Online retailer Amazon says a free postage offer for US customers is costing it $600m a year in lost revenue.