Yesterday the New York Times reported: As soon as the Department of Justice announced Wednesday that it was suing five major publishers and Apple on price-fixing charges, and simultaneously settling with three of them, Amazon announced plans to push down prices on e-books. The price of some major titles could fall to $9.99 or less from … Read more
A Classical Encyclopedia is a great new A – Z catalog of classical music MP3 albums categorized by musical styles, general themes and composers, curated by X5 Music Group and released earlier this month. First in the series is A as in Adagio. Second is B as in Bach. Themed offerings in the series include Y … Read more
It’s Thursday, and that means it’s time to vote for this week’s Amazon Digital Deals. We introduced this new Amazon feature last week, and here’s how it works: Each week’s candidates are posted on Amazon for voting to open on Thursdays, and voting closes the following Wednesday at midnight (PST). The product that has received … Read more
Harry Potter Fans: Remember when the first four or so Harry Potter films were first released on DVD, before it was commonplace for movie distributors to offer a DVD + Digital Copy bundle? And remember how annoyed you were to find, a year or more after you’d purchased those initial-release DVDs, re-releases of the DVDs were being … Read more
Today only, you can rent J.J. Abrams’ (Alias, Lost, Alcatraz) rollicking sci-fi homage to Steven Spielberg, Super 8, for just 99 cents. From Amazon: In the summer of 1979, a group of friends in a small Ohio town witness a catastrophic train crash while making a super 8 movie and soon suspect that it was … Read more
Bloomberg News is reporting that when the U.S. Justice Department officially moved to file suit against Apple and the “Agency 5”, all but Apple and one of the publishers named in the suit negotiated a settlement. From Bloomberg: The U.S. sued Apple Inc. (AAPL), Hachette SA, HarperCollins, Macmillan, Penguin and Simon & Schuster in New … Read more
A new month means some new Kindle Singles, 99 cent shorts in fiction, nonfiction, journalism and memoir. Among the best-reviewed titles this month: An Unexpected Twist, by Andy Borowitz; rated an average of 4.5/5 stars across 141 reviews: Andy Borowitz almost died, but lived to tell this stranger-than-fiction tale. In his first-ever work of autobiography, … Read more
The wonderful medical drama, House, is now in its eighth, and final, season. Whether you’ve yet to enjoy this well-acted ensemble show or want to re-screen some favorite episodes, Amazon Instant Video can bring any or every episode to your Kindle Fire. Hugh Laurie stars as the brilliant, misanthropic, superior (and drug-addicted) Doctor Gregory House. As … Read more