Tag: Amazon

Amazon Looks For New Filmmakers With Launch Of Amazon Studios
Amazon.com has launched Amazon Studios, a new online business that allows filmmakers and screenwriters to submit full-length movies and scripts to get their movie made and make...
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Amazon Offers Higher Kindle Royalties For Publishers
Amazon has introduced a new revenue sharing model for magazine and newspaper publishers who sell content in the Kindle Store. For each magazine or newspaper sold, publishers wil...
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Amazon To Purchase Diapers.com For $545 Million
Amazon.com said today it has reached an agreement to acquire Quidsi, which operates Diapers.com and Soap.com. Under the terms of the deal, which was approved by Q...
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Send Amazon Gift Cards To Your Facebook Friends
Amazon.com has introduced a new way for sending its gift cards to people on Facebook. People can now connect to their Facebook account on Amazon and create a pers...
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Amazon Partners With MasterCard On Free Shipping
Amazon.com has released its annual 2010 Holiday Toy List, which features this year's most popular toys, video games, sporting goods, electronics, music, movies and books for kid...
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Amazon Readies Kindle App For Windows Phone 7
Amazon.com said today it will launch a Kindle app for Windows Phone 7 sometime later this year.  The Kindle app for Windows Phone 7 includes new features, s...
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Amazon Launches Windowshop App For iPad
Amazon.com has introduced a free app for iPad called Amazon Windowshop, which the company describes as a complete “rewrite” of its website for iPad. A...
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Amazon Says New Kindle Sales Better Than Last Year
Amazon.com today said its latest Kindle eReader is the bestselling product on its U.S. and U.K. Websites. Without giving specific numbers, Amazon said sales of i...
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Iffy Forecast Overshadows Positive Earnings For Amazon
This afternoon, Amazon delivered its third quarter earnings report, and just about everything pertaining to the period ending September 30th was positive.  Unfortunately fo...
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Influential VC Firm Creates $250M Social Fund
Entrepreneurs who are interested in creating social apps and services may be in luck.  This afternoon at Facebook's Palo Alto headquarters, venture capital firm Kleiner Per...
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Verizon Adds Kindle App To Android
Verizon Wireless said today it will begin pre-loading Amazon's Kindle app on some of its Android phones. Verizon will pre-load the Kindle app on the new Samsung...
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Amazon Readies Single-Serving Kindle Books
Amazon announced today that it will launch Kindle Singles, a new kind of Kindle book format that are twice the length of a New Yorker feature or the length of a few chapters of...
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Amazon Purchases Spanish Online Retailer
Amazon.com said today it has reached an agreement to purchase Spanish Internet retailer BuyVip.com for $96.5 million....
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Amazon Introduces New Royalty Option For UK Kindle Authors
Amazon said today its 70 percent royalty option for its Kindle Digital Text Platform (DTP) is now available in the UK. Amazon began offering the same 70 percent r...
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New Tablet from RIM, Amazon Making a Tablet Too?
Amazon may have launched a new web version of its Kindle software, but rumor has i...
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