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Amazon.com apologises for ‘embarrassing book cataloguing error’

Amazon.comLondon, April 14: Amazon. com has apologised for an error due to which the sales ranking were removed from tens of thousands of books, and it became difficult to search for tomes.

Making a statement on Sunday, the online retailer said that a "glitch" had caused the problem, and promised that the numbers would be restored.

However, sales numbers were still missing until Monday afternoon.

Hit by the error were recent works like Chelsea Handler''s My Horizontal Life, as well as classics like Gore Vidal''s The City And The Pillar and James Baldwin''s Giovanni''s Room.

IBM and Amazon to provide pay-as-you-go access to development and production versions

IBM and Amazon to provide pay-as-you-go access to development and production versions The development and production versions of IBM Information Management database servers, IBM Lotus content management, and IBM WebSphere portal and middleware products would now be getting pay-as-you-go access by IBM and Amazon.

Amazon releases new e-book reader as Google eyes market

Amazon releases new e-book reader as Google eyes marketSan Francisco  - Amazon released a new version Monday of its highly successful electronic book reader Kindle, just days after Google said it would make available large parts of its vast catalogue of scanned books to smartphone users.

The new 359-dollar Amazon device will hold up to 1,500 books, boasts 25 per cent better battery life than its predecessor and includes a "talk to me" feature that reads books aloud.

Amazon Offers Online Game Downloads

Amazon Offers Online Game DownloadsOnline retail giant Amazon has launched a new online game store featuring more than 600 titles on Tuesday.

The largest online sellers of digital music and books said that the first batch of video games has specifically designed to attract casual gamers only.

The casual games available at company’s new Game Downloads Store at amazon.com/gamedownloads were priced below 10 dollars.

Freeloaders Enjoying Loading Free Movies From Amazon’s site; Affected With Abode’s System Software Fault

Due to some adverse fault in the security of the Adobe Systems software, the Freeloaders Enjoying Loading Free Movies From Amazon’s site; Affected With Abode’s System Software Faultfreeloaders are enjoying their time by downloading free movies from the Amazon’s video streaming service. The flaw has given freedom to anyone to record and copy direct from Amazon’s video feed.