We all know that college is expensive, and outside of convincing someone to marry you (which, according to our friends at Moneyland, can save you up to $80k in tuition costs), debt-ridden students need all the financial help they can get.
Today, Amazon announced a new textbook rental program that can help students save as much as 80% …
Dear Amazon,
Hi, it’s me, Doug Aamoth—Amazon Prime member, Subscribe and Save junkie, Cloud Player user, lover and friend. So this Android tablet of yours is looking more and more like a reality, which is cool. I think you have a lot of the right pieces in place to pull it off.
But as someone who’s spent thousands at your site …
So you’ve maybe heard about Amazon offering unlimited server-based music storage (call it “cloud” if you must—I prefer the apparently retro/old-school term “online”). Like me, maybe you have a massive music collection that you’ve shopped around the online scene without success because of service storage limits (take a bow mostly Google …
Amazon just upped the ante in the cloud music wars (oh yes, that’s a thing now) by announcing some enticing new offers and features for its Cloud Drive service.
Cloud Drive, you’ll remember, is Amazon’s version of iTunes. You pay your fee and get to keep all your music on Amazon’s servers. Listening to stuff is as easy as clicking a …
Just how environmentally-friendly is Amazon.com?
Sure, the company has a page dedicated to how it’s “constantly looking for ways to further reduce [its] environmental impact,” boasting that “online shopping is inherently more environmentally friendly than traditional retailing” and linking to a study to back that up.
It talks about …
Amazon wants you to buy something. But not necessarily from them.
Amazon has teamed with San Francisco company Triggit to resell ad inventory space targeted at specific user demographics in real time, using Triggit’s Digital Side Platform technology.
Here’s how AllThingsD describes what Amazon hopes to do:
“Amazon uses the
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What separates independent author John Locke from his esteemed contemporaries in the “Kindle Million Club” – the likes of which includes Stieg Larsson and Nora Roberts – is that he self-published his books through the Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP) platform with no backing from major publishers.
That means no mustache-twisting …
It’s sad, but it’s true: Spam is as spam does. It gets everywhere. It’s now found its way into Amazon’s Kindle e-book store.
One of the great things about the Kindle store is that anyone can sign up as an author, upload a manuscript, and “publish” it for instant sales to millions of Kindle owners, desperate to consume more e-ink …
Expect to see Amazon offering a Kindle for less than $100 by the end of the year. In a research note offered by Citigroup, analyst Mark Mahaney predicted that Amazon’s e-reader is so successful that the company will be able to lower the price by the end of the year.
Noting that “eBooks have clearly reached critical mass” for Amazon, …
Apple’s unrivaled ability to build pre-launch hype for a product seems to have carried over into an unlikely market: ol’ fashioned books. Like, those things you read.
Publishers Simon & Schuster announced that they’d be publishing the first exclusive biography on the company’s turtlenecked leader, iSteve: The Book of Jobs, two …
Earlier this week, it was Google that was launching a local daily deals program, and now Amazon is getting in on the discounted action with the announcement of AmazonLocal’s launch in Boise, Idaho.
Like Google Offers and other similar sites, AmazonLocal will offer discounts on local products, services and experiences through a daily …
After landing contracts with the big four record labels – Warner Music Group, EMI Music Group, Universal Music Group and Sony Music Entertainment – the LA Times is reporting that Apple is closing in on deals with music publishers, which should be announced at some point today.
In essence, Apple’s iCloud seems poised to overtake …
