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The company already provides tracking numbers, personal pickup options, and email notifications for online ordering, but that wasn't enough: No, now you'll be able to receive text messages on your phone go obsessively check the whereabouts of your new Apple item. Ah, but what if your soon-to-arrive package ? "I'm texting you from inside the box..."

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New York Senator Charles Schumer, often the , took a different tack in a Wednesday editorial piece published in the In it, he asks the DOJ to drop the ebooks collusion lawsuit against Apple and other publishers, lest Amazon wrest sole control of the marketplace and make it more difficult for budding authors to get published traditionally. "Of course," said Amazon Direct Publishing with a cackle, "There's always way..."

(TechCrunch)