Quick summary of this week’s news around Amazon that are worth noting:

Amazon Earnings - Much has been covered already about Amazon’s very respective Q3 2008 earnings report, and I agree with Randy Smythe that the Q4 holiday season is going to be fine. Amazon’s sales jumped 30% compared to 2007, third-party units were 31% (unchanged), [...]

Not much news around Amazon this week asides from the blockbuster Q2 2008 financial results which I have already talked about. I also still plan on summarizing Day 3 of the Amazon Seller Conference that concluded this past Monday. Two interesting items though that are worth checking out:

Amazon UK Managing Director Brian McBride was interviewed [...]

Few noteworthy events / articles around Amazon from the last 2 weeks (yes — I am THAT behind).

Amazon announced the acquisition of Fabric.com, a “leading online fabric store that offers custom measured and cut fabrics, as well as patterns, sewing tools and accessories.” Amazon did not disclose how much it paid for the site or [...]

Amazon announced on Monday the launch of its latest mini site, Office Supplies, at www.amazon.com/officesupplies, “a single shopping destination that offers competitive prices on hundreds of thousands of products for the classroom, home office, small office, corporate office and everything in-between.”

I skipped a weekly update due to eBay Live! last week in Chicago, but there have been a few interesting tidbits around Amazon that are worth noting.

Amazon is rumored to take its Amazon Payment System where all checkout solutions have gone before: according to Cantor Fitzgerald analyst Derek Brown, Amazon is preparing to launch a [...]

Here’s what happened this past week that’s interesting and news worthy around Amazon:

Consider selling on Amazon your safest growth strategy. Sanford C. Bernstein analyst Jeffrey Lindsay published a report this past week that has both Google and Amazon dominating the internet and e-commerce for the foreseeable future.
There were few news sites and blogs that did [...]

Summary of noteworthy articles and events on Amazon for this past week:

New Amazon Seller Central Help — Amazon has significantly overhauled its seller help documentation. Not only are topics aligned with the order life cycle, but the topics themselves are more self-explanatory. Faster learning = faster selling = more revenue.
Amazon to launch streaming media — [...]