亚马逊现在删除的电子书,之前是有印刷版本的,但是在没有纸张的未来,当所有的书籍都存储在某个服务器上的时候, 一个法院可以有这个能力将书籍作者的劳动毁之殆尽.
Amazon deleted books that were already available in print, but in our paperless futureâ when all books exist as files on serversâ courts would have the power to make works vanish completely.
据美国出版商协会统计,仅仅一年之前精装书的销量还是电子书的三倍,但现在亚马逊售出的电子书拷贝要多于纸质书。
Just a year earlier hardbacks had been worth more than three times as much as e-books, according to the Association of American Publishers. Amazon now sells more copies of e-books than paper books.
现在亚马逊的宣传策略是为了激起人们对这些小零售店的同情。
Amazon's campaign strategy is now to evoke sympathy for these mom-and-pop stores.
亚马逊的设计师终于做了很久以来都应该做的事情:他们去除了许多空白的米色(现在是暗灰色)的塑料边框。
Amazon's designers did what they should have done a long time ago: they shaved away a lot of that empty beige (or now dark gray) plastic margin.
亚马逊雨林工厂使巴西成为世界上最大农产品出口国之一,而这片工厂现在也受到了威胁。
It also puts at risk the Amazon rain factory that enables Brazil to be one of the world's biggest agricultural exporters.
虽然亚马逊为了这部法律还在和纽约州打官司,但它现在在该州也只好依法纳税。
While Amazon is still fighting the New York tax law, the company has been collecting taxes in the state as per the legislation.
现在你不得不使用亚马逊的网站购买书籍,当然,这只能在美国使用。
For now, you have to use Amazon's website to buy books and that, of course, only works if you are in the U.S..
而且摄像头还有一个重要性体现在已经可以用一些第三方应用比如亚马逊的产品搜索,条形码搜索,地理位置信息服务等等。
Camera already is important on cell phones for using third-party services like Amazon product search, barcode search and location informational services.
但是,很快地人们的注意力就从热带雨林转向了其它方面:如气候变化和有机农业等等。到现在,亚马逊雨林的消失速度几乎又回到了上世纪八十年代。
But attention soon shifted away from the rainforest to issues like climate change and organic agriculture, and now the Amazon is disappearing at about the same rate it was in the 1980s.
现在亚马逊(Amazon)和苹果(Apple)已经成了竞争对手,谁会从竞争中胜出?
Now that Amazon and Apple are rivals, which one is likely to win?
亚马逊不但不包容alexaholic,反而多次图谋将其关闭,现在试图以侵犯商标行为夺取其域名。
Instead of embracing the service, Amazon has at times tried to shut it down, and is now trying to obtain the domain name under a trademark infringement action.
与1995年7月在网上卖书时一样,现在再提高销售量对亚马逊来说成本有些高。
Boosting sales has been costly for Amazon, which appeared on the Internet in July 1995 selling books.
苹果的通告出来一周前,在线零售公司亚马逊推出了自己的电影下载服务系统AmazonUnbox,现在也是褒贬不一。
Apple's announcement came a week after Amazon, a big online retailer, launched Amazon Unbox, its own film-download service, to mixed reviews.
如果iPad和其他平板电脑退出市场的话她的预测可能是对的,但是现在如亚马逊的Kindle电子阅读器价格不断下降,越来越多的消费者开始在手机上阅读。
She may well be right if the iPad and other tablet computers take off, the prices of dedicated e-readers such as Amazon's Kindle keep falling and more consumers start reading books on smart-phones.
如果是以前的话,我可能要走到厨房,把“洗发水”三个字写在购物单上,但是现在我只要登录亚马逊(Amazon)的应用,敲进“洗发水”三个字,就会出现一款我喜欢的洗发水。
Instead of putting it on the grocery list in the kitchen, I could just click on the Amazon app, type in "shampoo, " and one kind I like will come up.
现在越来越多的手机和嵌入式设备开始使用开源源代码的Linux操作系统,比如现在非常流行的电子设备,机顶盒TiVo和亚马逊公司的手持电子书设备Kindle。
The open source Linux operating system is arguably a major force in the mobile and embedded space and can be found on a growing number of popular devices ranging from the TiVo to Amazon's Kindle.
但不得不说,现在还没有能全部时间100%正常运行的事物,今年早些时候,被认为是黄金标准的‘亚马逊网络服务’也遇到了崩溃现象。
Amazon Web Services, generally considered the gold standard, had devastating downtime earlier this year then your apps go down.
现在从天上再回到地面上,你可知道圆周率控制着弯曲河流的轨迹? 不管是亚马逊河还是泰晤士河,都被π管得服服帖帖。
Back on Earth, pi controls the path of winding rivers from the Amazon to the Thames.
可惜的是,其中许多书现在都要13 美元了,本来亚马逊的畅销书定价是10 美元平价。
Sadly, lots of them are now $13, up from the flat $10 that Amazon used to charge for all best sellers.
出版商现在可以自己定价,并向亚马逊支付其销售额的30%。
Publishers now set their own prices and give about 30% of the sale to Amazon.
现在他又对亚马逊的云服务故技重施,这让消费者可以向亚马逊租赁数据存储空间和运算能力。
Now he's done the same with Amazon's cloud computing services, which let customers rent data storage and computing power from Amazon.
当然,亚马逊销售页面上有关我新书的的链接也会出现在我的博客里。
And, of course, there's a link to the Amazon sales page for my last book.
当这种想法出现在脑海中时,我们接下来就会想起《银河系漫游指南》借给了朋友,因此我们可能应该冲到亚马逊网上商城立刻买本新的。
As this thought comes into our head we then remember that our copy of the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy was lent to a friend so maybe we should shoot over to Amazon and buy a fresh copy.
我们过去经常听到有关亚马逊雨林遭到破坏的报导,现在却很少听闻。
The Amazon RiverWe used to hear so much about the destruction of the Amazon rainforest, but lately not a word.
正如Sheena Iyengar在她著作《艺术的选择》(The Art of Choosing)中指出的,1994年美国共有500 000种不同的消费品在出售,而现在单单亚马逊自己就有2400万种。
As Sheena Iyengar points out in her book the Art of Choosing, in 1994 there were 500, 000 different consumer goods for sale in the U.S. Now Amazon alone offers 24 million.
Reddit的Edberg说,公司现在还在和亚马逊一起坚持,但是”我们总是关注着,看是否有比亚马逊更好的产品“。
Reddit's Edberg said the company is sticking with Amazon for now, but "we always have our eyes open for something that's superior."
现在亚马逊俨然已成为最成功的网络零售商之一。
现在亚马逊俨然已成为最成功的网络零售商之一。
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