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Amazon Invests In Foodista

May 7, 2009

Foodista.com, the online cooking encyclopedia everyone can edit, announced today that it has completed a Series A financing led by Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN). The amount of Amazon’s investment and the terms were not disclosed, but it’s rumored to be at or around $600K. “In less than a year, Foodista has created an exciting new [...]

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Kindle DX For Newspapers and Textbooks Announced

May 6, 2009

Amazon’s new Kindle DX boasts a newspaper/textbook friendly screen is 2.5x bigger than the standard Kindle. Partnerships range from the New York Times to Arizona State Univesity. Stats inlcude:
• 9.7-inch E-Ink screen (1200 x 824 with 16 shades of grey)
• 1/3 of an inch thick (10.4″ x 7.2″ x 0.38″)
• 4GB Storage for 3,500 books (a [...]

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Amazon To Release Large Screen Newspaper And Texbook Kindle

May 4, 2009

Amazon is holding yet another press conference regarding the next generation of the Kindle. The last time Amazon held a press conference in New York City was in February, when it introduced the Kindle 2.0. Now the company has scheduled another one for Wednesday morning at Pace University in Manhattan.
It’s almost a guarantee the event [...]

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Amazon Buys Stanza, Popular eReader App For iPhone

April 27, 2009

Once touted as the company taking on Amazon’s Kindle by developing an eReader app for the iPhone (Stanza), Lexcycle has now been acquired by well, Amazon. Stanza allows users to browse a library of around 100,000 books and periodicals for the iPhone, many of them in the ePub format — a widely accepted standard for [...]

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Variable Song Pricing Comes To Amazon. Still Cheaper Than iTunes

April 8, 2009

Yep. That just happened. The labels are getting what they want all across the board now with variable song pricing showing up on Amazon, Walmart, Rhapsody, etc. This comes a day after Apple made their big push to move 90% of songs in the top 100 to $1.29. Notice the top screenshot however, which contains [...]

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