Jeff Bezos

"I make $1.45 a week and I love it" "I make $1.45 a week and I love it"
On Amazon Mechanical Turk, thousands of people are happily being paid pennies to do mind-numbing work. Is it a boon for the bored or a virtual sweatshop?
Blue Glow
Salon's TV picks for Tuesday, Dec. 12, 2000
Who ya gonna call? Patent busters! Who ya gonna call? Patent busters!
BountyQuest CEO Charles Cella explains why his Web site is offering cash to patent destroyers.
Apple's "1-click" deal leaves a sour taste
Since when does a computer maker need to license technology from a retailer like Amazon?
Amazon Agonistes
With its stock down 66 percent, is Amazon.com still worth the trouble?
Blue Glow
Salon's TV picks for
Weekend, Feb. 25-27, 2000
Amazon to world: We control how many times you must click!
With a decision to patent the obvious, Amazon sparks the ire of a free-software advocate -- and a boycott of its site.
Gown gobbling in Gotham
Consuming fashion in the Big Apple; Bezos luvs Bill; Paul Newman: Unhandsome me! Plus: Claudia Schiffer's new bedmate!
Battle of the Amazons
Why are Jeff Bezos' lawyers asking sexual-orientation questions about the ladies who run a bookstore in Minneapolis?
The nearly nekkid netrepreneur
Pasty, shameless CEO strips for commerce; discovering the king's banana; "Look out! He's got a fish!" Plus: Dual-noggined porker returns home craving alcohol.

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