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“Dancing With the Stars” finalist Bristol Palin will release a memoir this summer, Political Wire reports. (more)

The world’s biggest online retailer is now competing more directly with the nation’s biggest DVD rental service. (more)

Amazon.com is starting a new chapter as an online grocer. (more)

The debut of the iPad a year ago was speculated to be the death knell for e-readers like the Kindle. But a new study by JP Morgan reports that the iPad is not actually a Kindle killer. (more)

Move over Harry Potter, the Kindle is even hotter than you. (more)

1.) Establishment Republicans conflicted over whose back to pat for busted omnibus bill — Majority Leader Harry Reid folded during last night’s high-stakes po(r)ker game. Now Beltway types are racing to cement a narrative for exactly what made the GOP so bold. “The defeat of a pork-laden $1.1 trillion ‘omnibus’ spending bill in the Senate Thursday night was the first serious indication after the Nov. 2 election that the Tea Party movement has staying power and will be a force into 2011,” writes The Daily Caller’s Jon Ward. “Some Republicans on Capitol Hill said Thursday night that GOP leadership played a pivotal role as well. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell was said to have pressured key GOP lawmakers to stand firm against the legislation, though some in leadership said the conference was fairly united against it from the beginning.” Less, uh, established folks, like Sen. Tom Coburn’s beard, were more willing to give all credit to the Tea Party: “It was 100 percent grassroots…The American people took it down,” said Coburn spokesman John Hart. Also, bitter Democrats, one of whom dejectedly chalked up the broke-down omnibus to Congressional Republicans being “a wholly owned subsidiary of the Tea Party.” (more)

The website-attacking group “Anonymous” tried and failed to take down Amazon.com on Thursday. The group’s vengeance horde quickly found out something techies have known for years: Amazon, which has built one of the world’s most invincible websites, is almost impossible to crash. (more)

NEW YORK (AP) — Excerpts of diplomatic cables contained in WikiLeaks are available on Amazon’s U.K. website. It’s a twist following the company’s refusal to host the WikiLeaks’ website. (more)

As Santa loads his sleigh with Black Friday and Cyber Monday loot, it’s likely weighed down with copies of Barack Obama’s latest literary effort: “Of Thee I Sing: A Letter to My Daughters.” Thousands of children will awaken to find the children’s book beside the Christmas tree … or menorah … or Kwanzaa candles … or winter solstice log. (more)

NEW YORK (AP) — Amazon.com Inc. is selling a self-published guide that offers advice to pedophiles, and that has generated outrage on the Internet and threats to boycott the retailer. (more)

A partnership backed by Facebook, Amazon.com, Comcast and other major technology firms on Thursday established a $250 million fund to invest in startups that hope to capitalize on the growing reach of social networking. (more)

Several dozen U.S. retailers are banding together to take on Amazon.com Inc. by striking at one of online shoppers’ biggest concerns: shipping costs. (more)

I marked April 3, 2010, as the day I was finally able to catch the first idiot walking around with a device that seemed, on the surface, to be everything you’ve ever wanted but was nothing you actually needed. It was like seeing Brainy Smurf with an iPod Touch, reading the New York Times. Back then, I didn’t grasp the point of the iPad’s entry into the gadget world. Fast forward four months. I caved last week and ordered one. It’s on its way from its birthplace in China right now. (more)

Amazon is hoping to convince even casual readers that they need a digital reading device. By firing another shot in an e-reader price war leading up to the year-end holiday shopping season, the e-commerce giant turned consumer electronics manufacturer is also signaling it intends to do battle with Apple and its iPad as well as the other makers of e-readers like Sony and Barnes & Noble. (more)

Wasting little time in responding to Barnes & Noble”s new lower prices for its Nook e-readers, Amazon today slashed the cost of its Kindle device to $189, the company announced. The new price is $70 off the Kindle’s previous $259 list, and $10 less than a comparably equipped Nook. (more)

SAN FRANCISCO — The Justice Department is examining Apple’s tactics in the market for digital music, and its staff members have talked to major music labels and Internet music companies, according to several people briefed on the conversations. (more)