If you do a lot of shopping on Amazon.com, you’ve no doubt come across the site’s $79 per year “Prime” membership option.
The basic idea is that for $79, you get free two-day shipping on just about everything sold directly by Amazon—not its third-party sellers, mind you—or $4-per-item overnight shipping.
The company has now …
Redbox isn’t just content with fighting with Netflix over DVD rentals – now it wants to have it out with digital distribution, as well. The company announced yesterday that it will launch a monthly subscription-based service that will allow users to watch Video-on-Demand movies on multiple devices as well as granting them disc access …
Whatever its size, the cross-section of Amazon diehards and Windows Phone 7 owners can now officially be placated with Amazon’s Windows Phone 7 app.
The app takes advantage of Windows Phone 7′s swipe-friendly interface to provide easy access to a specific product’s details, customer reviews and related items without having to load up …
With Amazon severing ties with affiliate sellers in Texas, Hawaii, North Carolina, Rhode Island and other states due to issues over online sales tax (including last week closing a distribution center in Irving, TX, following a dispute over $269 million in taxes), Barnes and Noble is apparently seeing a business opportunity in the making. …
Amazon is giving their Kindle a makeover with a little something old and lot of somethings new.
First, the throwback. The most buzz-worthy change coming in the latest update is the addition of “real” page numbers, a quiet homage to the e-reader’s predecessor. By popular demand, the 3.1 version software will display the page …
This seems a little too good to be true but rumor has it that Amazon may be getting into the unlimited video streaming game a la Netflix.
That in and of itself isn’t all that unbelievable, but there seems to be some indication that the unlimited streaming deal may be tied into Amazon’s expedited shipping program, called Amazon Prime …
Internet retail giant Amazon.com released its Q4 2010 earnings yesterday, highlighted by “two big milestones” according to company founder Jeff Bezos.
Amazon reported Q4 as the first quarter that it cleared $10 billion in sales—it almost hit $13 billion, actually, with the final tally settling in at $12.95 billion. The company also …
Do you:
- Still like the feeling of grainy paper brushing against your finger tips?
- Miss the days when you could dog ear a page instead of a device annoying automatically starting up where you left off?
- Actually like books taking up space in your house or apartment?
If you said yes to any of these questions – and own a …
Soon you’ll have three free options to ship your Amazon products: Amazon Prime, Amazon Super Shipper Saving and Amazon Tote. According to the Financial Times, Amazon hopes to take their Amazon Tote program across country to help deliver your items.
Unlike Amazon Prime – which requires a yearly fee – and Super Shipper Saving – where …
It was the offer that confused the internet: Buy $20 worth of Amazon value for $10. Daily Deal site LivingSocial brought the internet to its knees yesterday by offering “a once-in-a-lifetime deal”: a $20 gift card to Amazon.com for just $10. 1.3 million of the cards were sold by the end of the day, although it’s uncertain how many of …
Amazon is fighting back against the growing dominance of Netflix by purchasing British movie rental company Lovefilm. Amazon has owned a significant stake in the company since 2008, when Lovefilm bought Amazon’s DVD service, but today’s news brings the company entirely under Amazon control.
Lovefilm, which offers DVD rental through …
Windows Phone 7 owners finally have access to Amazon’s popular Kindle e-book reading app. It’s a free download from the Zune Marketplace.
The app features Amazon’s Whispersync technology to synchronize the page of the book you’re reading with other Kindle apps, the Kindle desktop software and the Kindle hardware reader if you have …
