State Democratic parties formed a cooperative to sell their voter data. Now they're looking for commercial customers.
Amazon already has its hand in the online clothing shopping game, with the flash sale site MyHabit.com and its shoe version Endless.com, but The New York Times's Stephanie Clifford tells us today that the "Walmart of online shopping" wants to go high end.
Today in books and publishing: Target is kicking Amazon out of their stores, the Fifty Shades of Grey parody book boomlet is here, and Steve Coll also has a big, important piece of non-fiction out this week that isn't about Lyndon Johnson
Jim Romenesko had the smart, if random, idea to ask the folks at Target headquarters what they think of Kristen Wiig's "Target Lady" character, the friendly but incompetent employee who has abandoned customers at her register for years on live television.
The lucky Americans who have jobs are working more hours for less money, which is keeping American productivity up but worker morale low, and over the last few months we've gotten a clearer picture of what that means for workers.
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