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
Ah, spring! That time of year when a music fan’s fancy turns to sunny day playlists. Amazon rolls out a new collection of 100 MP3 albums for $5 each at the start of each month, and April’s got a terrific mix of must-have greatest hits compilations, comedy, and essential music from a wide selection of … 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
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