there are great things that amazon customers by the they don't buy on amazon.irected anever amazon customer to another company's website? have, where people can shop and see that kind of selection. it makes a lot of sense, even in other rocks that are typical physical goods. this is the first case where we partnered with a great brand. the shopping experience, it looks fantastic. it's very complementary to their brand. and there you go to do your shopping on allsaints. >> there are a lot of people who would say that like all brands, they are part -- protective of their brand. but why wouldn't you team up with a company that has a huge customer base which is known for exceptional customer service, and have them send to customers to your own world, where we can nurture them. >> that last question is a good question. i could postulate an answer -- why wouldn't you? maybe you are concerned about amazon knowing what your customers are doing and building its own mousetrap to catch those mice. >> two things on that. knows is theon size of the transaction, they don't k

amazon and hachette have ended their standoff. exact terms were not disclosed, but they said it will allow the publisher to set prices with financial incentives for the french publisher to keep them low. amazon also promised to restore titles that they had been delaying. welcome gladwell's book is still temporarily out of stock. joining us from amazon web services conference in las vegas is cory johnson and by skype, the founder of the ideological company that has been involved with publishing were nearly 50 years. we don't know the details of the deal how but both sides say they are pleased. what is your take? >> my take is i think everybody is glad it is over and i think the other side of relief is from simon & schuster who did the deal with amazon in the last few weeks. simon & schuster made a deal where they can pull the prices and the nightmare for them would have then nobody else did and amazon would be cutting everyone else's prices and there's would remain high. i think simon & schuster is pleased that amazon seems to be m

--ning us from amazon web amazon web services conference in las vegas is cory johnson and by skype, the founder of the ideological company that has been involved with publishing were nearly 50 years. we don't know the details of the deal how but both sides say they are pleased. what is your take? i think everybody is glad it is over and i think the other side of relief is from simon & schuster who did the deal with amazon in the last few weeks. simon & schuster made a deal where they can pull the prices and the nightmare for them would have then nobody else did and amazon would be cutting everyone else's prices and there's would remain high. i think simon & schuster is beased that amazon seems to moving toward similar deals with all the publishers were publishers will be setting prices. theori, you are at conference right now. any indication why the breakthrough? >> the amazon web services business really stands separate from the book publishing business. but the publishing business runs on the very same server. this conference is focused on the technologies that make the internet in al

the culture of amazon is fascinating. you can see amazon going big into these things. go to these the division centers, fulfillment centers, it is anything but. the first time i visited any of these massive warehouses with row after row of stuff and people walking miles, tens of miles a day picking these things and putting them back in, it looks like backbreaking, exhausting work. it made me thank god i went to college. >> i don't think this brings those workers any closer to unionizing. what we have seen over the past 15 years os amazon paying any unionization effort tenaciously. hiring law firms, making his case very strenuously to workers. you have to figure how they are set up. they have 40,000 workers in the u.s. but they hire 80,000 temporary workers during the holidays. there is a vast reservoir of replacement people back and take your job if you talk to the teamsters. there was a group that tried to unionize earlier this year in delaware and they got crushed. the vote was 21-6. you are not on very stable ground. this will increase the education of workers right

amazon today. amazon and hachette have finally ended their dan. over e-book and physical book raises. exact terms were not disclosed but they did say that they would .llow hachette to set prices amazon also promised to restore hachette titles. it had been delaying certain titles. malcolm gladwell said that some of the titles are still out of talk -- stock. joining us from las vegas is cory johnson. pe, the founder and ceo of the ideological company. we do not know the details of the deal, but both sides say they are pleased. what is your take? everybody is glad it is over. the other side of relieved that is being breathed is being done by simon & schuster, who did not deal with amazon. simon and schuster made an agency deal where they control the prices. the nightmare for them would've been that nobody else did and that amazon was cutting their prices and there's would remain high. that & schuster is pleased amazon seems to be moving toward similar deals with all the publishers, where the publisher

first, amazon seems lost in the jungle. time to yell timber or is now a prime buying opportunity. >> don't miss a second of "mad money." follow @jimcramer on twitter. send jim an e-mail to madmoney@cnbc.com. or give us a call at 1-800-743-cnbc. miss something, head to madmoney.cnbc.com. >>> is the recent run in amazon over the last few weeks the real deal? tonight we're going off the charts to answer that question with the help of bob lang. he's a brilliant technician. he's the founder and senior strategist at explosi explosionoptions.net, as well as the star behind the street.com's stock news letter. this is a seasonally strong period for amazon as we head into the holidays. but thanks to new and newly invigorated competitors like walmart, target, alibaba, the company is under pressure from all sides. that said, amazon usually tends to deliver on the holidays, with terrific sales number, even as any notions of actual earnings may feel like a bit of a pipe dream with this country. so can the stock keep running? bob lang thi

what has happened in amazon is that amazon is taking over the entire world technology and technologyoffered as a service. people are turning to amazon more than anyone else to do it. it's under the hood and amazon doesn't tell us how big the businesses. it's such a secretive is that they don't break it out in their 10k. analysts on the street are guessing about the size. one fantastic analyst at some numbers to it saying that amazon probably has $3.4 billion in revenue for amazon web services last year, which is bigger than their five biggest competitors combined, including microsoft, google and others. it's an enormous business changing the way technology works. >> how are their customers different this year? where is the big change? all, there was this initial run of startup companies saying i can start a company and notimousine service have to build up a technical infrastructure. servers,ave to buy would have to have hundreds of -- you have people saw the ceo from coca-cola -- i don't have to have an i.t. department, i can move this to the amazon cloud and have the latest in techn

playing favorites the way amazon seems to be doing. >> are you cool with what amazon is doing? >> yes. i will take a double's advocate role pushing net neutrality of little further and point out that as you said net it trout applies only to the internet service provider, not to any of the other alleged gatekeepers. and thinking through when you mandate neutrality on one part of one level of this internet ecosystem. and the recent dispute between youto bent independent artists who are not getting free access on youtube unless they pay for exposition of videos, and amazon is another example. there are any number of aggregate ears out there who are as much gatekeepers, comcast is it cheaper for the internet for and author, amazon is as much of one for independent artists, youtube is as much of one as you and think of. that creates two important points that have to be considered here. on the one hand, it means that again i mentioned bobby's blog, if comcast wanted to stop it would be easy except that the blog is onwardpress and wordpress is -- what is his name? arrested development

peter, what's your view of amazon?guys on the desk are right in the midst of this debate that peter einhorn is short that name. >> well it is always, amazon is a super hard company to evaluate in general. and it's certainly has had a extraordinary history if you look bam. it ipos about half a billion dollars in 97. i think i went up to 118 in early 2000. down $4. and up to 300 or something today. sites been an extraordinary history. on the long-term i would not bet against bezos. he's one of the great entrepreneurs off our time. and i think great companies shouldn't be profitable right away. they should have ideas and ways to invest in the future. and amazon has lots of ideas on how to keep investing its money. i think it could be very cash flow positive but it chooses to instead in the future. and i think that is both a good thing for the world and a good thing for amazon as a business. >> so you are saying that you think wall street and investors are unfairly punishing jeff bezos and the company as it stands now for

netflix, amazon tv. how impressed have you been for some of these other outlets? >> if you are a writer, the more vendors that there are for content, the better. obviously, netflix is on fire with house of cards and orange is the new black. amazon has alpha house. nontraditional tv is great. >> are you a binge watcher? >> yes. not just of new stuff, i am a binge watcher of old stuff. i can spend the weekend watching the office. all nine seasons. i have done nothing but watch 200 episodes. >> isn't this the golden age of television? is content better than it's ever been before? >> i think content is better than it has ever been before. most television is very good but -- is not very good. but there is more on the high-end now. >> how much more competition is there for writers like you, show runners like you? >> i don't see it that way. if you have something good, it's going to be good. >> i have this vision of netflix and amazon throwing money at you. is that happening? >> i have never had any vision of amazon and netflix throwing money at me. >> does it change how

amazon has "alpha house." nontraditional tv is great. >> how about you? are you a binge watcher? >> yes. not just of new stuff, i am a binge watcher of old stuff. i can spend the weekend watching "the office." all nine seasons. by sunday night, i have done nothing but watch 200 episodes. >> is this the golden age of television? is content better than it's ever been before? >> i think content is better than it has ever been before. most television is not very good. but there is more on the high-end now. >> how much more competition is there for writers like you, show runners like you? >> i don't see it that way. if you have something good, it's going to be done. >> i have this vision of netflix and amazon throwing money at you. is that happening? >> i have never had any vision of amazon and netflix throwing money at me. >> does it change how much you are paid or how you are paid? >> sure. if you are in a position to make money for other people, if you have a track record, if you get in business with somebody very quickly trying to play in the big leagues like netflix and amazon, t

>> i think it dinged amazon. i think that amazon has always considered itself an author-friendly company, and i think it wounded them to see authors whose careers had it helped create and promote and provide for attacking them as being harmful to their writing years. and in my mind, the group dubbed authors writing group. >> brown: douglas preston lead the octoberors' group against amazon in the fight. but after the announcement he said he was glad about the agreement but, "if anyone thinks this is over they're deluding themselves." he said amazon covets market share the way napoleon coveted territory. that does not sound like he sees a happy conclusion here. >> i think one thing the dispute displayed prominently and how important and powerful amazon has become on the book publishing landscape. amazon has emerged as the premiere book retailer, and it gives them a lot of clout, and i think what doug is addressing is the fact amazon is going to continue to negotiate as hard as it can for as favorable terms as it ca

. >>> amazon and -- have met up. >> publisher and amazon striking a deal.tiyear deal for ebook and print sales in the u.s. great news for writers. will benefit matchette authors for years to come. hatchette will have the responsibility for settling prices and ebooks. will benefit from better terms when delivers lower prices for road readers. amazon and them will immediately --. we have to remember as these two have been in this standoff for months now. authors have come out criticizing amazon for punishing them as they have been trying to figure out a deal. >> anyone blinked? >> these two have been in a standoff. i would have to guess there has been compromise on both sides. there's been a war of words and accusing each other. and a lot of authors come out in criticism of amazon but at the same time they want to sell books on amazon because it is the biggest retailer of books. so there was probably pressure on both sides especially br before the holiday season. >> -- can you verify that is stuff already appearing you can preorder. >> immediately. as of righ

thing to yourtant is a story well told. >> would you write or produce for netflix or amazon? >> i would absolutely right for netflix or bloomberg. >> great. >> i think that bloomberg should have more scripted content. i would love to do a show for bloomberg. a series thatt is was critically acclaimed with a small audience. if amazon came to you and said we wanted to give you season three like we did with arrested development, would you do it? >> i would. name allhappened to the right elements. not soes i think about much the third season of sports night but doing sports night again. taking the exact same premise behind the scenes. >> have you pitched it? >> no, i just did. >> we will let the networks know. >> should traditional networks be worried? >> i think there are affective things on network tv, but i think that people just don't watch tv the same anymore. this generation just doesn't mean anything. i take anywhere from six to eight showers a day. i am not exaggerating. i'm not a german folk. it has nothing to do with germs. -- a germ oophobe. it has nothing to do with g

amazon is offering that.ll the compliant with pharmaceutical companies, the cvs's of the world. those kinds of production are happening here. what that means in the world of business is that if you are a company offering security, amazon says we have got that, you are out of business. it is a huge tumble in the i.t. industry happening because of the announcement here. >> you mentioned all these numbers thrown out about their revenue, anywhere from $3 billion to $9 billion. is this making money for amazon? >> we think it is making money. amazon, another fact a -- another fascinating factor, amazon runs this the way they do the rest of their $75 billion business. they want it to be big and fairly profitable. so the prices attract customers. we do not know if it is profitable. they do not break up the numbers in their 10k, and yet the whole world of technology is focused here,t is happening right right now, because it is changing all the world technology for tech companies and beyond. >> thank you so much. month

amazon is playing very coy. amazon has a lot of actual product out.not surprise me. >> they are also getting a head start on black friday. they are using snap chat to promote disappearing deals. i have noticed in my twitter feed when i am sitting there tweeting all i can do from stopping myself, jonathan whole big taking over the world. what do you think? >> i remember waiting in line at toys "r" us. it was a nightmare. amazon is revolutionizing the way we experience life and the holidays. how easy is it to shop around, to find what you are exactly looking for. melissa: i have tuesday, i think god every day for amazon. i used it all the time. it is fabulous. as if the snow is not causing enough problems. plus, your dream job is here. you thought flying remote control planes as a kid with never pay off. you can never have too much "money". ♪ (receptionist) gunderman group. gunderman group is growing. getting in a groove. growth is gratifying. goal is to grow. gotta get greater growth. i just talked to ups. they got expert advise, special discounts, new

. >> the amazon drone wars over before they even started?xpected faa regulations will make drones too expensive for small businesses and unusable. in particular they cite the requirement that operators have a pilot's license. >> to call this topic near and dear is unsds stating. >> for my son applying to school i had to list my hobbies for application. and i listed drone flying. drone flying is my number one hobby right now. with that said. >> this is video of you. >> this is personal drown flying. amateurs need on regulated. one lost control and crashed on a street a few feet from a daughter and a bicycle. faa needs to give more leniency. we need amazon to be able do this delivery and these different things. i don't think commercial is where the worry should be. i think amateurs are the worry. >> and that footeniage makes me little worried. don't you think there could be an industry that pops up where some pilots could be in huge demand on an hourly or contracted basis. why not? >> yes but. the play here is international markets. places lik

is amazon right?do they have a point that perhaps the way that world worked in the past was great at that moment, but we are in a digital marketplace, and things have changed? >> yeah. there's a lot that i don't like about the publish ors. i don't like that there are five big companies that dominate it. i don't like it that they've been show to adapt to the digital marketplace. and i'm sure as corporations they could behave in a much more profit-seeking sort of way. but what i do like about publishers is that they take a lot of intellectual risks, that they have very good with taste, that they're able to subsidize writers in doing projects that take long times to do and that they then in turn help promote works of fiction and nonfiction to -- >> and poetry, by the way, we should point out. right. >> and, you know, the more that we depend on one company and the more that publishing constricts, and what happens is that when you have one big company dominating the market, all the other publishers band to

hassles to end up -- to amazon, you end up being focused more.t kind of savings are we talking about? >> some of the services are two thirds last then running it ourselves. it is significant. the impact of money savings has been important. the ability -- when i started with 13 data centers, 13 data centers get in the way. >> 13 data centers running every possible kind of code imaginable. >> we did get that decommissioned. >> we cannot build b2b businesses or help aviation customers, media customers, retail customers, we cannot help them with their business and how they are being impacted. >> is reliability an issue? >> we run our environment in four regions around the world. we run 150,000 transactions per second at a global average of one millisecond in response time. >> does amazon allow you the capacity to scale up? >> absolutely. we can scale up in traffic. we have sunny days, cloudy days, and the stormy days. our traffic patterns due very. in the b2b space it is a bit more consistent. our forecasting models run pretty consistently. we are al

opening of amazon u.s., amazon brazil, amazon russia platforms to those individuals, another way they'rebe competitive eric wedge interesting. i know it is already wednesday and china. we spoke to betty liu earlier in the loop. i am going to buy myself laundry detergent in celebration. for joining much us. on retail, there are only 43 days left until christmas. continueguest says to -- to see continued strength. he covers the retail sector for managing markets. welcome. thank you so much. what you make of all the singles day stuff? is this something u.s. retailers are getting focused on? is i do not think so. it would not hurt to have an extra holiday to pump out traffic in shopping malls, but that being said, the timing on veterans day might not be the best for u.s. markets. >> it is not exactly a day to this on veterans day. retailers in the u.s. are focused on christmas, black friday and cyber monday. what segments, to do well? >> certainly, black friday and cyber monday, that has almost morphed into the entire month of september. -- i'm sorry, of november. we have seen promotions ear

i don't get the amazon thing. i don't -- i disagree with mark, i think they will find a way to spend more money. that's what they do. and think we're seeing prices come down. this valuation seems crazy. asset heavy model, amazon seems -- i don't get it. >> what i found most interesting about wlark said about to wit, heading into the first annual list meeting, remember, it's still up 40% some from that ipo price. so this has a $25 billion market cap. they're about to do $1.2 billion in sales. and when i think about to what facebook just said, they paid $22 billion for i think 500 a, 600 users. and when he's talking about monetization, here is it a company about to go to over 2 billion in sales next year. this is an interesting company to me with a $25 billion market cap. i don't think there is anything that they will say that is particularly positive at the meeting on wednesday, but if the stock flushes down for the mid-30s, i think it's a buy. >> be sure to catch the interview with jack ma tomorrow 10:00 a.m. on "

is its heart up's versus amazon, google, and facebook? >> companies transition from being underdogs to goliaths. where used to the trajectory of microsoft starts and it takes them 15 years to go from the upstart to the monolith. today i feel like it was a matter of years a couple of years facebook had gone from nowhere to being a dominant player. this kind of trajectory where people go from being at a perceived disadvantage to being suddenly settled with all of the attributes of the goliaths now has been sped up. >> amazon -- of the how are you feeling about the publishing war? >> it is -- breaks my heart a little. i had thought of amazon in partnership with writers and for a company to make a business point i turning its back on -- i have sold through amazon millions of books. i have contributed mightily to their bottom line. i would have thought they would see me as an asset. i and other writers have brought people to their website and -- in droves. it is a public -- puzzling strategy for business to turn on its assets and i would love

you see amazon dispute relevant here. you have a company with market power discriminating against specific content at down to the level of individual authors. they gave paul ryan a pass. commercial dispute but that they now have the power to to the typent harm of people you are talking about. there is no net neutrality that applies to amazon. is that the kind of thing you are worried about here? >> we need to be worrying about the new concentrations of power and if they are using their platforms in a neutral way or not. we can extend the logic that tim gave us talk about the net is a mutual platform. you talk about amazon's role here and that is worrisome. not saying we have to dissent the old publishing model and playingrything, but favorites in the way amazon seems to be doing is very troubling. >> jeffrey, are you cool with what amazon is doing? >> yeah, but i will take the devil after its role -- devil advocate role and point out that as you said, net neutrality applies only to the internet service provider and not to

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i had thought of amazon as in partnership with writers. and for a company to try to make a business point by turning its back on -- i have sold, through amazon, millions of books. i have contributed mightily to their bottom line. i would've thought they would see me as an asset. me and other writers have brought people to their site in droves. and now they have turned on us. it is, to say the least, a puzzling strategy for a business to turn on its assets. i would love to have a conversation with jeff bezos about the self-destructive nature of this particular strategy. >> amazon is arguing that books must be cheaper in this environment where there are so many media distractions. do you have any sympathy for their argument? >> complete sympathy for it. i just don't understand why, in order to get to that preferred outcome, they have chosen to screw over the people who bring revenue to their business and customers to their site. >> do you need a traditional publisher for your next book? is there another way? >> is this an industry that is go