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  • Amazon ventures into fan fiction promotion Amazon ventures into fan fiction promotion

    WASHINGTON - Amazon, the largest online retailer of books, movies, music and games, Friday offered its Kindle e-book platform to fan fiction authors to sell some of their work. Fan fiction is literature inspired by popular books, shows, movies, comics, music, and games. Publication outside of blogs and online fanzines is often difficult because of copyright issues. Amazon Publishing has ...

  • Clothes shopping from home with theDRESSroom.com

    Since shopping is practically a sport in the Middle East, did they find it challenging to be up against the biggest and the best? Was it difficult to carve a niche for an online boutique when customers have the world's biggest mall right at their ...

  • Foreign-owned spaza shops looted

    File image - Dozens of spaza shop owners from Pakistan, Somalia and Ethiopia were attacked, their stock looted and doors ripped down in Gauteng. Photographer: David ...

  • More Internet retailers add twists to define social commerce

    As social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter grow worldwide, more Internet retailers are beefing up their efforts to add social twists to their business, trying to define the idea of "social commerce" and capitalize the opportunity.On Wednesday, online auction giant eBay revealed some of the social features it is planning to launch later this year, while Copious, a San ...

  • MasterCard and Visa battle it out with retailers in world war fees

    Julia Roberts as Erin Brockovich her battle looks like peanuts compared to the action by American retailers on credit card fees. Photograph: Sportsphoto/Allstar/Cinetext ...


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Troy

Troy

Wolfgang Petersen's Troy is a serious, big-budget take on the ancient Greek myth spun in Homer's The Iliad, but there's really only one thing we can say about it for sure: Everyone looks really good. While the unstated purpose of the film is to humanize the ... ...

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  • State proposes to make big $ off pot shops

    Pot proprietors seeking to open a medical marijuana shop will have to pony up at least $83,000 in fees, according to new rules proposed by state health officials.The Department of Public Health expects to collect more than $3.9 million from pot shops and patients in the first year and is looking to create a Medical Marijuana Trust Fund to keep the revenue, acting Commissioner Cheryl Bartlett ...

  • Deerfield discusses a new kind of tax for retail property owners

    While retail property owners are desperate to fill vacancies, and are likely to ink leases with tenants who produce little or no sales tax revenue, Deerfield officials are looking for new ways to make up those lost tax dollars.Look no further than the former Borders bookstore, said Deerfield Village Manager Kent Street. After it closed, the sales tax-lucrative location eventually became a ...

  • Retailers unhappy with credit card fees settlement

    Wal-Mart, Lowe's, Starbucks among those who will opt out of settlement, might file own lawsuits NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- A multibillion-dollar settlement over credit card swipe fees is facing growing opposition from some of the nation's largest retailers.A number of merchants are opposing the deal, saying the nation's credit card companies would still have unlimited power to increase ...

  • Two arrested in Westfield shooting

    Police learned that two suspects entered an apartment and woke a male resident at gunpoint. The resident was not injured. The suspects fled the scene, fired several shots back at the apartment and sped off in a vehicle. Friday, police arrested 20-year-old Adrian Michael Luley and 21-year-old Kathryn A. Hunter. Luley has been preliminarily charged with burglary, a Class B felony, robbery while ...

  • Target other retailers sue credit card firms

    NEW YORK - Target Corp., Macy's Inc. and 15 other retailers sued Visa Inc. and MasterCard Inc. over credit card and debit card fees after dropping out of a multibillion-dollar settlement of a similar case. The biggest U.S. payment card firms illegally restrained competition for interchange fees by setting default rates and imposing almost identical rules for accepting cards, the retailers ...

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