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Amazon — Buy an app, get a free MP3

While it has not been largely publicized, Amazon has a deal going on right now for Android customers and music lovers. The online retail giant is offering a trade-off -- buy an app and get a free song. The deal is not exactly temporary either. It began back on February 13, 2013 and will run through December 31, 2013. Customers need

Amazon Introduces AutoRip

Amazon has introduced a brand new service called AutoRip. This is a very different way of looking at music storage. In short, it takes the CD that you purchased from Amazon and puts it into your Amazon Cloud Player. It also will make that album available on your PC or Mac, Kindle Fire, Android phone, iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad.

Amazon Prime Video announces move to stay ahead of stiffer competition

Amazon today announced a new partnership to bring even more content to its Prime video service. Prime is, of course, more than just video -- it is also free second-day shipping on all orders (which often arrive next day) and a lending library for Kindle customers, allowing for one free book per month. Now, in the face of growing competition

Amazon Kindle Fire HD 7” Inch Widescreen Tablet

Over the Christmas holiday my nephew showed up at my house with an Amazon Kindle Fire HD 7” Inch tablet. My Mom, who just turned 88, ended up playing with it and decided she wanted one. So, we stopped by Best Buy and picked one up. I spent some time adding free apps from the Amazon Android Market that I

Eason Fails to Sell eBooks via Billboard

...or "Why DRM is killing ebook sales outside of Amazon or Barnes & Noble". Being a international superstar and global jetsetter*, I had the pleasure of passing through Dublin's Connolly railway station today. In the atrium there was a billboard display of book covers complete with QR codes. "Totally cool," I thought. Scan the QR code, buy the ebook, download

Will You Be Getting an eBook Refund?

Those of you who have a Kindle might have a refund coming your way, eventually. This is a result of a recent antitrust lawsuit settlement between Amazon and the ebook publishers that were named in the lawsuit: Hachette, HarperCollins, Macmillan, Penguin, and Simon & Schuster, and their many subsidiaries. Amazon.com has started sending email to some of their customers to

Whispersync for Voice Saves Your Place

People who love to read will take the opportunity to squeeze in another chapter, or a few more pages, any chance they get. Today, many people are reading books on their Kindle, (or other tablet device). Or, they are listening to the audio version of a book that they got from Audible.com. Whispersync for Voice is something new that connects