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Dying Borders Tells Amazon to Go to Hell In Most Passive Aggressive Way Possible

What do you do when your business model and way of life has been obliterated by the internet? Put up a bitchy sign, of course! I will say—it’s a clever little middle finger of a flyer. [via Consumerist]

Commerce Sam Biddle

Amazon is Now Trying to Get Licensing Deals With Record Labels

From thinking they don’t need licensing deals, to “aggressively courting” the big record labels, Amazon’s change of heart on the Cloud Player storing/streaming issue will likely cost them dear. After all, it’s not like the labels will be responding nicely to their calls, after effectively setting up a streaming service to rival their own (in…

Commerce Kat Hannaford

Could Amazon’s Cloud Player Be Illegal?

Amazon may argue that functionally, their Cloud Drive service is the same as storing media on an external hard drive, but question marks hover over their Cloud Player, which streams those tracks from the cloud. In the eyes of Sony Music—and possibly more record labels—this Cloud Player requires Amazon to sign extra licensing deals, and…

Commerce Kat Hannaford

Amazon’s Tablet Won’t Be Called “Scratchpad”

We’ve already decided an Amazon tablet would be a Very Good Thing if the price is right and it looks, feels and works amazingly well. But you can’t fixate on a hypothetical gadget unless you have a name, right? Unfortunately it looks like “Scratchpad” is not it—so it’s back to the drawing board for now.…

Commerce Kat Hannaford

What Is Amazon Cloud Drive?

Amazon’s taken a leap into the cloud, and they’re taking your music with them. But what exactly is Amazon Cloud Drive? And more importantly: how do you use it? It’s a cloud-based storage service… You get 5GB of cloud storage, free, that’s yours to do with as you please. For some perspective, that’s about 1,000…

Commerce Brian Barrett

Amazon Cloud Player Goes Live, Will Let You Upload and Stream Your Music for Free

As we’ve speculated it might, Amazon has announced its own cloud-based media streaming service. It’s called the Amazon Cloud Player and you can start using it right now. https://gizmodo.com/what-the-amazon-kindle-tablet-might-be-like-5785099 It looks like you’ll start out with 5 GB of free Cloud Drive storage, but be offered the chance to upgrade to 20 GB with an…

Commerce Rosa Golijan

Kindle NY Times Subscribers Get NYTimes.com For Free

If you subscribe to the NY Times on your Kindle for $20/month, first of all stop that! Must be a terribly frustrating experience. But also good news: your e-ink subscription has granted you entry past the homepage paywall, and you can surf the Grey Lady at will. Which basically just means that Kindle pricing and…

Commerce Brian Barrett

Amazon Preparing Cloud-Based Back-Up Service to Match Apple’s Rumored Service?

How’s this for a double-whammy: Apple, and now Amazon, are both said to be working on “digital locker” services, which would store users’ downloads music and movies in the cloud. This would back-up their purchases in case of loss, but also allow them to re-download them to other devices. https://gizmodo.com/mobileme-cost-to-decrease-to-just-20-5786266 As Amazon sells all sorts…

Commerce Kat Hannaford

Download Audiobooks To Your Kindle Over Wi-Fi

Kindle now supports downloading audiobooks—Wi-Fi only, as well as traditional USB syncs—straight to the device. Even though e-ink readability is Kindle’s main sell, people still use it for audiobooks during the times when they don’t like to visually ingest words. Imagine how hardcore you look if you were jogging with a Kindle. [Kindle]

Commerce Jason Chen

Kindle Ebook Sharing Site Lendle is Back

After Amazon pretty much shut Lendle down two days ago, they’re back—all Amazon requested was for the site to disable the Book Sync tool which syncs books to the user’s Lendle account. Get back to lending and borrowing those ebooks, cheapskates. [Lendle via Daring Fireball] https://gizmodo.com/amazon-takes-away-kindle-api-for-book-sharing-site-lend-5784210

Commerce Kat Hannaford

Amazon Takes Away Kindle API for Book Sharing Site Lendle

eBook sharing site Lendle has lost access to Amazon’s eBook APIs, effectively shutting them down. Lendle took advantage of the Kindle book lending feature, connecting random users who wanted to swap books digitally. Lendle was a bit bummed out, to say the least: Amazon has revoked Lendle’s API access. This is why the site is…

Commerce Adrian Covert

US Military Bans YouTube, Amazon and 11 Other Websites to Free Up Bandwidth for Japan Crisis

Employees of the US military are without YouTube, eBay, Amazon, MTV, ESPN and eight other websites, with the Pentagon explaining that “this action is in no way a reflection on any specific site or the content of any specific site…[it is] in response to the needs of the military in a time of extreme demand…

Commerce Kat Hannaford

Buy a Playstation 3, Get $50 From Amazon

If you buy a Playstation 3 between now and Saturday (March 12), Amazon will give you a $50 gift certificate, which you’ll probably put to use on a new game. [Amazon]

Commerce Adrian Covert

Andy Rooney hates electronic books. The sky is blue. Tonight’s forecast is darkness and other really obvious, unsurprising things.

Andy Rooney just concluded tonight’s 60 Minutes (which featured an amazing segment on polar bears and spy cameras) with a segment of his own on digital books and devices like Kindle. Any guesses as to what he thinks about books that aren’t printed on paper? Update: Video is available at Gawker.tv. Watch watch! [Andy Rooney]

Commerce Jack Loftus

This 26-Year Old Makes Millions Writing Kindle-Only Books

Amanda Hocking doesn’t have a deal with a major book publisher. Just as well. Because the 26-year old author is making millions self-publishing through Kindle, selling 100,000 copies of her books each month and keeping 70% of the proceeds. How? Volume. Hocking sells her work for three bucks a pop. That means lower revenue, sure,…

Commerce Brian Barrett

Cop a Kindle at AT&T Stores Starting March 6th

Is your computer too distant or nonexistent for you to navigate over to Amazon.com? Fret not—you can still buy a Kindle if there’s an AT&T store nearby. Starting March 6th, for $190—same price as online. [AT&T via Bloomberg]

Commerce Sam Biddle

What Is Amazon Instant Video?

Amazon’s long-rumored video streaming service has finally arrived. But what is it, exactly? https://gizmodo.com/amazon-wants-to-fight-netflix-with-unlimited-streaming-5626823 It’s a streaming video service… You know the drill by now, right? You see something you want to watch, you click on it, it streams directly to your PC or set-top box or TV. Amazon’s got over 5,000 (commercial-free) movies and…

Commerce Brian Barrett

Amazon Streaming Movie Service Now Available for Prime Subscribers

How much would you pay annually for “free” streaming of over 5,000 movies and TV shows? $79? If that sounds like a fair price to you for all-you-can-eat viewing, Amazon Prime’s streaming service can be used from today. https://gizmodo.com/another-clue-suggests-amazon-primes-movie-streaming-ser-5749653 Alternatively, you can buy or rent titles if you don’t want to fork out for an…

Commerce Kat Hannaford

Kindle Software Update Adds Real Page Numbers

The upcoming update for last year’s Kindle will add real page numbers, plus public notes and newspaper/magazine layout tweaks. Real page numbers means you can actually share where you’re at in a book (also good for class assignments). [Kindle]

Commerce Jason Chen

Another Clue Suggests Amazon Prime’s Movie-Streaming Service Is On Its Way

After talk of a movie-streaming service from Amazon has been going on for years, the Financial Times has today reported that yes, they are about to launch a Netflix-defying service. Supposedly Amazon Prime members will be able to access it (just another brilliant reason to sign up to Prime membership, in my opinion), though it’s…

Commerce Kat Hannaford

Dying Borders Tells Amazon to Go to Hell In Most Passive Aggressive Way Possible

Amazon is Now Trying to Get Licensing Deals With Record Labels

Could Amazon’s Cloud Player Be Illegal?

Amazon’s Tablet Won’t Be Called “Scratchpad”

What Is Amazon Cloud Drive?

Amazon Cloud Player Goes Live, Will Let You Upload and Stream Your Music for Free

Kindle NY Times Subscribers Get NYTimes.com For Free

Amazon Preparing Cloud-Based Back-Up Service to Match Apple’s Rumored Service?

Download Audiobooks To Your Kindle Over Wi-Fi

Kindle Ebook Sharing Site Lendle is Back

Amazon Takes Away Kindle API for Book Sharing Site Lendle

US Military Bans YouTube, Amazon and 11 Other Websites to Free Up Bandwidth for Japan Crisis

Buy a Playstation 3, Get $50 From Amazon

Andy Rooney hates electronic books. The sky is blue. Tonight’s forecast is darkness and other really obvious, unsurprising things.

This 26-Year Old Makes Millions Writing Kindle-Only Books

Cop a Kindle at AT&T Stores Starting March 6th

What Is Amazon Instant Video?

Amazon Streaming Movie Service Now Available for Prime Subscribers

Kindle Software Update Adds Real Page Numbers

Another Clue Suggests Amazon Prime’s Movie-Streaming Service Is On Its Way

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