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It was just one more small step for TV Everywhere. HBO Go will now be available on yet another tablet, the Kindle Fire.
The Amazon Instant Video app is now available for the Xbox 360.
This fall, the tech market will witness a perfect storm as three major technologies and industry forces converge to deliver a whole host of new products for consumers.
Kindle Fire owners could soon be seeing something new when they turn their tablets on — ads.
E Ink — easy on the eyes, not so easy to read in the dark. That’s why Amazon is planning on releasing a new Kindle with front lighting, according to a “source” who talked to Reuters.
In an annual study tracking customer satisfaction ratings with the top 100 online retailers, perhaps the biggest takeaway is that Amazon is the world’s biggest e-retailer for a reason: It just plain makes customers happier than the competition.
If you’re one of the last few people on Earth who haven’t read the Harry Potter series, now you have no excuse. Today Amazon announced that it’s adding all seven of J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter books to the Kindle Owners’ Lending Library.
Not to be forgotten in the online storage wars, Amazon has released Windows and Mac desktop apps for its own Cloud Drive service.
Today only, Amazon is selling the refurbished Kindle Fire tablet for $139. That’s a good deal considering the new version costs $199 and refurbished units normally cost $169.
I’m not naive enough to believe that if given options, consumers would abandon Amazon and Apple en masse and rush to independent e-bookshops. But the publishing industry certainly isn’t making it any easier for smaller companies to compete.
What to do with your piles of old CDs? Trade them back to Amazon and buy new digital albums. Starting today, CDs are included in the company’s Trade-In Program.
