Lady Gaga Sells Record breaking 1M Digital Copies of Her Album, Largely Supported by Amazon’s Price Cuts

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Lady Gaga has sold record breaking number of copies of its new album, “Born This Way.” Her album sold an ineffable 1.1 million copies, setting up another new record last week. This time it was a digital sales record, and was somewhat supported by Amazon.com. It was declared by Billboard on Tuesday that "Born This Way" made its debut in the charts straight at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 album chart, which consequently led it to be the 17th album to be able to sell a complete one million copies in its first week. These statistics were provided by SoundScan, which is keeping sales records since 1991.

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The symbol of pop dance, Lady Gaga, has become the fifth female who sold more than a million copies of her album since the record-keeping of SoundScan. The debut album of Lady Gaga, which was also a No. 1 album on the charts, also holds the record of selling most copies in a debut by any artist, beating the March 2005 release of 50 Cent's "The Massacre," which sold 1.14 million. The previous album to sell a million copies was Taylor Swift's "Speak Now," released in November last year. Amazon is believed to have a helping hand in Lady Gaga’s record breaking sales, as it attempted to gain more customers by pricing the album at a retail of only 99 cents on last Tuesday and Thursday. This offer helped towering the sales "Born This Way" as it made extraordinary digital sales of around 662,000 copies. The figure was three folds than the estimated sales predicted by the Universal Music Group. Amazon alone was able to sell a total of 440,000 copies.

Amazon Declares Their Website Was Down Due To an Inside Problem and Not Any Hackers Attack At All

The Internet retailer recently becoming the daily controversial headline, Amazon, has completely and utterly denied any rumors claiming that so-called pro-WikiLeaks hackers or their sympathizers were the ones had had pulled the stunt of failing the websites in several European countries in revenge of their recent controversies regarding WikiLeaks.

Operation Payback Again Fails another Massive Attack on Amazon and Paypal in Wikileaks Revenge

The momentarily created group of several anonymous online hackers started the ‘take down’ of several websites in so-called "revenge" for abruptly cutting of their businesses with WikiLeaks. This Friday saw another of a vicious attempt made in this regard which was, up till now, the most daring attack– and yet it failed. Amazon, unanimously known as the world's best and largest online retailer, was the focal point and high priority target for these hacktivist groups, these efforts organized by a group who calls itself ‘Anonymous,’ which is also strongly believed to be behind this week's several attacks on other noticeable websites as well, which also include serious financial websites such as PayPal and MasterCard.

Human Rights Head at United Nations Shows Her 'Concern' On the Pressure Put On Wikileaks

The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights has expressed her concerns over the reports presented on the matter of government’s pressure on Internet service providers and several other companies to cutting their affiliations and denying any business with the website; WikiLeaks. Evening of this Friday, International Human Rights Day, she explain that difficult questions have been raised in regard of balance of freedom of information; where ‘the right of people to know,’ and ‘the need to protect national security,’ are among key concerns of the matter at hand.

Amazon Retailers Targeted By a Fraud of Fake Receipt Program

Random Amazon retailers are becoming a target by fraudsters and hackers, who have now created a specially personalized program which will successfully generate very look-alike fake receipts for even orders that do not exist at all; this astonishing news was reported by the researchers of GFI Software. Christopher Boyd, their senior threat researcher posted an elaboration at the GFI's blog, he stated that this program has been designed to give birth to a customized HTML file that will be very similar and practically a copy of an actual Amazon.com receipts.

Kindle Threatened by iPad Stealing All Market Share for E-Book Readers

Different analytical assessments have indicated that newly released Apple’s iPad is slowly over taking entire market share of Amazon’s Kindle. This Tuesday, an analyst announced that the Amazon e-reader has a “rapidly diminishing lead” over the Apple tablet. The market share of iPad’s e-reader has increased twice as much as in August, while on the contrary, Kindle’s 62 percent of the market share has now been beaten down to 47 percent over the same time period till November.

Google Finally Launching Its Online Bookstore Soon Which Will No Longer Be Named Google Editions

Google is now in attempt to launch its already overdue online bookstore in this December after all, however, It is now claimed that it will no more be called Google Editions, as reported by the Wall Street Journal in their Nov. 30th Edition. Everyone is waiting for an online bookstore of such a giant company as ‘Google,’ and such service is obviously be competing with similar services rivals such as Amazon’s Kindle, Apple’s iBook and Barnes & Noble. However, while announcing, the spokesperson refused to comment about the new title for this service and what exactly will be the launch details. Alough, Scott Dougall, the Google Product Management Director, as informed Journal that the the e-book service is expected to launch in the U.S. by the end of the year and maybe earlier next week it continues internationally.

Amazon.com Allows E-Book Gifting Service for This Holiday Season

This year Amazon.com is giving the offer to all its customers at kindle store to be able to give e-books as gifts to others, this is intended to increase holiday sales of the season. The function of such tool for sending these digital books as gifts was added and made public this Friday.

Method to send E-Book as gifts is extremely uncomplicated, user just has to simple click the button with the title of "Give as a Gift", once selected the book to be gifted, and then specify the recipients' e-mail address. Immediately Amazon will notify the recipient via an e-mail about the gift, and information of the send, with the link for the downloading.

The E-Book gifting procedure is irrelevant of whether or not the recipient has Kindle, Amazon.com's popular E-Reader, as the gifted e-books can be viewed at any device regardless of anything, until only the Kindle application installed on that particular device. And luckily Kindle app is now widely available for various device, included the mostly used Apple iPad, iPod Touch and iPhone as well. While making the announcement, VIP of Amazon Kindle, Russ Grandinetti stated:"We're making this functionality available in time for the holidays to offer an easy, stress-free holiday shopping option for anyone -- not just Kindle owners.”

Amazon.com Announces Newspaper Publishing For Kindle

On Monday, Amazon.com announced that starting December 1, it will give newspapers a 70 percent of the revenue if the digital versions of published newspaper editions were sold in Kindle Store, presenting a great chance for the newspaper publishers to earn more profits in the digital world. According to a New York Times report, last year Amazon was only giving newspaper and magazine companies about 30 percent cut of the revenue.

Amazoon.com, the online retail giant is also providing publishers with a brand new tool called Kindle Publishing for Periodicals. The program is specifically designed to speed up the process of producing a version of the newspaper, for the many platforms, where Kindle software will be downloadable.