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  • Amazon Fire Phone can actually shake up the smartphone industry

    Amazon Fire Phone can actually shake up the smartphone industry

    There are already plenty of smartphone options out there, and more than enough companies fighting with each other to make the next great smartphone. It is understandable that the response to news of Amazon jumping into the fray with a smartphone of its own design was met with cynicism. However, Amazon is arguably the only…

  • Amazon offering bundle of over 30 popular paid apps for free

    Amazon offering bundle of over 30 popular paid apps for free

    FREE. That is all. OK, it’s not really all–but need I say more? Amazon is offering 31 of the most popular paid apps for free for two days only–Friday June 27, and Saturday June 28. If you have a Kindle Fire–or any Android device for that matter–now is your chance to download $100 worth of…

  • Get a good deal on a great read with Amazon’s new Kindle Countdown Deals program

    Get a good deal on a great read with Amazon’s new Kindle Countdown Deals program

      If you are in the market for a bargain on a new book to consume your idle time, Amazon has a new service that might help you out. Amazon launched Kindle Countdown Deals today, which allows publishers to offer Kindle-exclusive titles with limited-time promotional pricing. With the Kindle Countdown Deals program, the publisher can choose to…

  • Amazon launches Kindle MatchBook

    Amazon launches Kindle MatchBook

      Once upon a time, books used to be physical objects. They were printed on pages made of paper, and bound, and each one took up space on a shelf somewhere, and carrying one or more books with you to school, or to the park, or on a vacation required some degree of manual effort.…