We posted yesterday about Amazon’s Weekly Digital Deals vote, and here are the winners for this weekend. Last Thursday these products went head to head against other digital videos, ebooks, MP3 albums and videogame downloads, and the one in each category that received the most customer votes was declared the winner, and will now be offered at the low … Read more
A new month means a new list of 100 Kindle books, each priced at $3.99 or less! If you’re pining away for the HBO series Boardwalk Empire, you might want to take a look at Boardwalk of Dreams. From Amazon: In this wide-ranging book, Bryant Simon does far more than tell a nostalgic tale of Atlantic … Read more
Remember how Amazon had that big holiday promotion, where customers would vote on which sale item they wanted from among a group of deeply-discounted items in various categories? And whichever item won the most votes in each category would be offered at the low, sale price? Well now they’re doing it every week for digital … Read more
If you haven’t been reading magazines on your Fire, you’ve been missing out! And now, Amazon is offering a free, trial issue of 15 different magazines exclusively to Fire owners as an incentive to give this content type a try. The list includes OK, The Atlantic, Martha Stewart Living, Taste of Home, Family Handyman, Whole Living, Men’s … 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
If you’re a fan of shorter-length fiction and nonfiction, Audible’s new Sound Bytes program was made for you. Audible describes the program: Sometimes, in your day-to-day, a quick listen is all you need. Maybe you need a story to keep you company on a short commute, or maybe you’re a completionist who won’t be happy … Read more
Did you know Amazon offers a catalog of short fiction, essays, journalistic reporting and more? That catalog is called Amazon Singles. From Amazon: Compelling Ideas Expressed at Their Natural Length Kindle Singles is here to offer a vast spectrum of reporting, essays, memoirs, narratives, and short stories presented to educate, entertain, excite, and inform. Our … Read more
Users of the Audible app need to link their Audible and Amazon accounts to keep using the app on their Kindle Fire devices. There’s nothing fishy about this, you don’t need to be concerned about Audible having your Amazon account information because Audible is actually owned by Amazon. From the announcement email sent out by … Read more