Hard though it may be to believe, the Discovery Channel has been informing and scaring its viewers with its annual Shark Week programming for over 20 years, and now you can bring those denizens of the deep right to your Fire. Better still, if you’re a Prime member you can watch all 14 episodes in the … Read more
If you love casual word games, today’s Amazon Free App of the Day, Scramble Touch, is a good one to try. From Amazon: Calling All Word Warriors Are you a self-appointed Scrabble master? Do you lie awake all night obsessing over Boggle? Are you just an unrepentant word game junkie? If so, you need Scramble … Read more
As promised, we provide this update on the U.S. Justice Department’s price fixing and collusion case against Apple and the Agency 5, as we originally reported in this earlier post. On The Mail, Rob Waugh reports: Justice Department could halt price deal which prevented Amazon discounting Deal between Apple and five publishers Ebook prices risen up … Read more
Puzzle fans: the very popular (currently ranked #168 in paid apps) and highly-rated (average of 4.5/5 stars across 185 reviews) Spectrum Puzzles series is worth a look. From Amazon: Admit it, you’re a puzzle freak. You like nothing better than to take a jumble of small images–or odd-shaped cardboard pieces, if you’re really old school–and produce … Read more
April is National Poetry Month, and it’s a great time to appreciate the greats, from the timeless classics of the distant past to more recent works. Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass can be had for free in a Kindle edition, and this volume belongs in every well-stocked Kindle library. If you know e. e. cummings … Read more
Each month Amazon features free MP3 singles from new artists, along with write-ups from Amazon’s Music Editors: Each month, we’ll shine the spotlight on new artists we think you’ll love and give you a free track from each. If you like what you hear, you can pick up each artist’s latest release next month for a … Read more
If you have business contacts, friends or family in different time zones the PolyClock World Clock app can make keeping track of what time it is where all those people are, and whether or not it’s still light outside for them, easy and even a little fun. This handy app normally sells for $2.99, but today you … Read more
We’re adding a new, weekly feature here on Fire on KND: Bargain Alerts on products of interest to Fire owners. Amazon puts hundreds of items on sale at deep discounts every week, but it can be a bother to page through sale listings of everything from jewelry to baby toys looking for the items you … Read more