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If you haven’t noticed, Nintendo and Amazon don’t play well together. When Nintendo’s newest console, the Wii U, could first be pre-ordered last fall, stores like GameStop and Best Buy jumped at the opportunity to make a quick buck from gamers eager for the first new console in years. But Amazon didn’t, and to this Continue Reading →

Amazon has launched a new store catering to mature adults and seniors, the company announced on Monday. But while “Amazon Seniors” would have a nice ring to it, Amazon went with a more polite, if wordy, branding: “50+ Active and Healthy Living Store.” As the name implies, the new store will be focused on a Continue Reading →

Amazon shopaholic beware – Amazon is planning to use artificial gravity to help you shop … and you may be drawn to it.  Amazon just received a patent for “gravity-based link assist technology.” That means that when you’re trying to click on something on Amazon’s site, your cursor will be drawn to links and buttons Continue Reading →

Comparing books to ebooks is like comparing mechanical watches to digital watches, or manual cars to automatic cars. No one doubts the convenience, reach, and flexibility of the ebook format, but it will never convincingly replicate the experience of a paper book—nor does it need to. Ebooks are a fundamentally new medium, stuck in an Continue Reading →

Look out, Amazon Prime: Google is coming for you. Google recently announced a program it’s working on called Google Shopping Express, with the main selling point being same-day delivery. That means you could order a new frying pan from Walmart.com on your lunch hour and have it delivered in time to use it for dinner Continue Reading →

For about as long as we can remember, each new CD we’ve purchased has made a trip to our computer for a good, old fashioned ripping, first thing out of the plastic. So the concept of offering up free MP3s with the purchase of a compact disc always felt a bit superfluous (particularly in these Continue Reading →

One would have assumed that Amazon, the Web services cloud giant, would already have had file syncing available for its personal cloud storage service, Cloud Drive. Turns out that the digital lockers didn’t have that capability until recently. The Verge reported today that the company has quietly rolled out the new feature to Cloud Drive Continue Reading →

Amazon has announced that it is acquiring social book recommendation site Goodreads, an obvious move that should offer strong synergy with its ecommerce business. “Amazon and Goodreads share a passion for reinventing reading,” Russ Grandinetti, Amazon Vice President, Kindle Content, said in a statement. “Goodreads has helped change how we discover and discuss books and, Continue Reading →

Amazon just announced that it is adding its X-Ray feature to TV shows. The feature already worked with movies thanks to data from IMDb, but the company will now use this very same data for other video content. The entire Kindle Fire family will receive the feature and the Amazon Instant Video app on Wii Continue Reading →

Almost two months after Amazon revealed a new ‘Coins’ virtual currency for Kindle Fire app purchases, Barnes & Noble has now announced that Nook-users will soon be able to make in-app purchases too. The media giant has partnered with Fortumo for this roll-out, which means that developers will now be able to monetize premium content Continue Reading →