Such patents already exist. In March,for example, after re-examination, Amazon.com received a patent for its one-click ordering process.

VOA: special.2010.07.16

This month,Amazon lowered the price of its Kindle reader by sixty dollars to just under three hundred dollars.

VOA: special.2009.07.24

They include Amazon.com Chief Executive Jeff Bezos, computer game programmer John Carmack and rocketeer Jeff Greason.

VOA: special.2009.12.18

The device can download books wirelessly from a store on Amazon's Web site.

VOA: special.2009.07.24

They are from Suriname, in the Amazon Basin tropical forest.

VOA: special.2009.04.27

Amazon showed versions of its popular Kindle eBook reader.

VOA: special.2010.01.26

An example is the Amazon Kindle.

VOA: special.2010.01.08

than formerly was recorded." Silicon Valley attorney Gary Reback represents the Open Book Alliance,whose members include Microsoft and Amazon.com.

VOA: standard.2009.12.31

There are around a half-million cases a year, mostly in the Amazon basin, a region heavily affected by deforestation.

VOA: standard.2010.06.17

And now a new study from the Amazon links deforestation with an increase in malaria.

VOA: standard.2010.06.17

The indigenous tribes of the Amazon Basin have been protecting that land for free.

VOA: standard.2009.12.17

One of the world's largest forests, the Brazilian Amazon, could be worth a lot of extra money under a proposed deal that pays forest landowners to preserve trees.

VOA: standard.2009.12.17

How Brazilians finally decide on the most economically and environmentally sensible use of the Amazon forest will have a lot to do with agreements that emerge from the climate negotiations in Copenhagen.

VOA: standard.2009.12.17

says Indigenous peoples living in the Amazon Basin would make effective use of the funding that forest credits could generate, "It brings resources in the hands of those who have been the stewards of this land for generations,"

VOA: standard.2009.12.17

But the evening really kicks into high gear after the scientist's presentation ends, when the audience gets to start the conversation: "Is it still a question as to whether there is a lot more plant diversity in the Andes versus the Amazon?"

VOA: standard.2010.05.04