Amazon Fires Up Digital Engines

Over the last 14 years, Amazon.com has mastered the art of getting physical copies of books, music and movies to customers through the mail, a new ZDNet article reports—but now the company is trying to go digital:

“The overall market for entertainment and information is inexorably going digital. One day, most music, movies, and perhaps even printed words will be sent as bits over the Internet instead of in bulky boxes. More than half of the company’s $15 billion in sales last year came from CDs, DVDs, and books, shipped from Amazon’s 30 cavernous distribution centers around the world.”

That

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