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The social website Goodreads, where readers share reviews and book picks, got picked up by online retail giant Amazon on Thursday. The price hasn't been disclosed. Goodreads has about 16 million members.

Amazon Prime Day is underway this week, and it's actually four days long. This year, it offers a gut check on the state of selling — and shopping — as President Trump's tariffs loom.

The company's sales went through the roof between April and June, hitting close to $89 billion — a 40% increase from a year earlier. Amazon added 175,000 new hires to help keep up with the demand.

NPR's John Nielsen reports the Brazilian highways cutting through the Amazon rainforest no longer stop at the Peruvian border.

Are you ready to bring an eavesdropping device that's connected to the cloud into the privacy of your abode? Amazon thinks so, as it introduces Echo, a speaker that takes your questions and commands.

NPR's Richard Harris reports that archaeologists have discovered the remains of a previously unknown society that apparently thrived in caves in the Amazon about 11,000 years ago. Researchers unearthed artifacts of the culture in a cave in what is now Brazil. The discovery raises new questions about how the Americas were peopled.

Jennifer Niessen from member station KPLU in Seattle reports on a financial analyst from First Boston who posed as a temp to infiltrate on-line retailer Amazon.com. He succeeded in learning about the company's financial health, but his plan raises questions about professional ethics.

NPR's Wendy Kaufman reports that online retailer Amazon.com's decision to lay off about 15 percent of its staff may be an indicator that the company's last practice of putting growth before profit is coming to an end.

Defense Department officials say that No Easy Day, former Navy SEAL Matt Bissonnette's book about the secret mission to kill Osama bin Laden, includes classified information that may harm U.S. military operations. The book is currently the bestseller on Amazon.