Amazon Christmas day e-book sales beat print sales
In a statement released on Saturday by the internet retail giant, amazon.com, the company saw the sales of electronic books rising much sharper than the hard-copy books this Christmas.
As published in the statement released, Amazon said, “On Christmas Day, for the first time ever, customers purchased more Kindle books than physical books.”
The statement also revealed that the company’s own e-book reader, the Kindle, “has become the most gifted item in Amazon’s history.”
The Amazon e-books can also be read on Apple iPnone and iPod Touch devices. It’s Kindle online store boasts a library of 390,000 digitized books.
According to estimates in October, Kindle has a nearly 60 per cent share of the US market followed by Sony Reader with 35 per cent.
Another close competitor is Nook, a new device by the US bookstore giant Barnes & Noble.
Amazon hopes to simplify Web shopping
Soon you’ll not have to go through the tedious process of typing in your name, address and credit card number when you buy things online next! Thanks to amazon.com!
Amazon.com is simplifying online purchase process by letting you shop online with short phrase codes and identification numbers! This new service from Amazon.com, called the Amazon PayPhrase was unveiled on Thursday.
This new system from the online shopping giant gives the option to store your credit card number and shipping address with Amazon. Further you can select a phrase to represent your stored information plus an ID number! Then you can enter that phrase and PIN instead of giving a credit card and address to buy things on Amazon. Some of the other online shopping websites will also accept this PayPhrase system.
Amazon says that approach is designed to simplify the online shopping process. Its simpler and more flexible as it allows the customers to set up multiple phrases and ID numbers to one credit card!
The transactions are processed by Amazon, which earns a commission each time someone uses PayPhrase on a third-party website.
Google puts songs a click away in search
Here’s something new from Google, this time for all you music lovers out there!
A new music feature rolled out by Google Inc. on Wednesday will now offer the U.S. searchers music, full length song, on just one click!
This new feature from the Mountain view, California based company brings up to four top songs from the search results. Once you selected a song, it’ll be played on pop-up music players from MySpace or Lala. The search results are also accompanied by album art and links to music sites Pandora, imeem and Rhapsody. Internet users can search by artist name, album or song title and can even access a song by typing in part of its lyrics.
R.J. Pittman, Google’s director of product management says, “Within that mission of trying to make music search easier is to keep it simple, exercising great restraint in the design of this is what’s going to maximize its adoption.”
This will next also give you an option to buy song downloads from Amazon.com Inc. or Apple Inc.’s iTunes.
Amazon to release free Kindle software for PC
Amazon.com Inc. is all set to woo more people to buy electronic books compatible with the company’s electronic book reader Kindle by offering free software for the users to read them on the computers!
On Thursday, the Seattle-based online retail giant, Amazon.com Inc., said that the company will release an application called “Kindle for PC” in November later this year. This new application will allow the users to buy, download and read Kindle books on a Windows-based PC, regardless of whether you own a Kindle or not!
Now isn’t that convenient?! Also, if you already own a Kindle, you can see any notes or highlights made on the e-reader.
This new product will also track your reading. It’ll keep a track of where you end in a book so that if you stop reading on your PC, you can pick up your Kindle and start from where you left!
Running this new application on Microsoft Corp.’s new Windows 7 operating system would be all the more fun as it would allow you to zoom in on book pages by pinching your fingers. What’s more, in the future, you will also be able to turn pages by swiping a finger across the screen.
The company already offers a similar application for Apple Inc.’s iPhone and iPod Touch that lets users read Kindle books whether or not they own the device.
YouTube May Start Offering Online Pay Movies
Popular video-sharing site YouTube is reportedly talking to major Hollywood studios on a deal to stream rented movies which if successful will mark its first move beyond the world of advertising and amateur videos.
Google-owned YouTube was sounding out studios like Warner Bros, Lions Gate and Sony according to reports first published on the online edition of Wall Street Journal. Even though the talks over streaming movies on the video-sharing site are incomplete, sources indicate that YouTube was considering charging a fee for videos as against merely depending on advertisements to fund the movies. However YouTube was likely to settle for this plan only if the videos were available to it at the same time that the DVDs were released in the market.
If successful the deal will place YouTube in direct competition with other online movie rental sites like Netflix, Apple’s iTunes Store and Amazon.com. however YouTube scores over these sites in its massive traffic since it constituted the chief draw among all other Google sites which together attracted nearly 121 million viewers in July this year, according to data provided by comScore.
YouTube till now has been mainly streaming snippets of the latest movies provided by studios or contributed by viewers. If reached, the deal will mark its first foray into the world of professionally produced videos.
Wal-Mart Online Store to Sell Products from Other Vendors
In a new business move, Wal-Mart Stores Inc will now allow outside retailers to sell around one million items from its online store, Walmart.com. The step is being seen as an attempt by the retail giant to tap into the vast reserve of online consumers across the world.
Some of the retailers that Wal-Mart has roped in to sell goods through its online store are CSN Stores, eBags and Pro Team. According to Wal-Mart the main reasons for selecting these retail companies are because they have large product assortments and proven track record of customer service.
Wal-Mart is the largest retailer in the world and its online store sell products across a vast range of categories like home, toys, baby, apparel as well as sports goods and related memorabilia. Market experts believe that the move will allow Wal-Mart explore newer areas of growth since its real stores have pretty much saturated the American market. Moreover its web portal will enable Wal-Mart to reach online consumers in places from Europe and South Korea where it does not have a real presence.
The decision to include other retailers in its online store will allow Wal-Mart to catch up with major e-commerce portals like Amazon.com and Apple.
Sony e-book reader to get 500,000 books from Google
Google Inc. will be making around 50,000 unprotected by copyright books, available for free on Sony Corp’s electronic book-reading device. this would be the first time that the search engine giant, Google, has made a gigantic collection of scanned public-domain books available to an e-book device.
This will make the Sony Reader as the device with the largest available library, at about 600,000 books, even more than Amazon.com Inc.’s Kindle.
All of the scanned books were published before 1923. the books include the impressive works of Charles Dickens’ including, “A Tale of Two Cities”; nonfiction classics like Herodotus’ “The Histories.”
The free downloads of the Portable Document Format (PDF) formats of the books are already available. However these do not work on any e-reading devices. Google will be providing the EPUB (electronic publication) format of the books to the Sony Reader. This format allows the lines to flow differently to fit a smaller screen.
Jennie Johnson, Google’s spokeswoman said, “Really our vision is: any book, anywhere, any time and on any device,” she said. “We want to partner with anybody who shares our vision of making them more accessible.”
Amazon.com launches video game trade-in store
This one is a piece of good news for all you avid gamers out there. Amazon on Thursday launched its very own online videogame trade-in store thereby granting credit in return at the online retail giant to customers who send in used games.
According to company’s statement on its official blog, “Amazon Video Games Trade-In is a new service that enables you to trade in your games for an Amazon.com Gift Card.”
The customers can now use a prepaid shipping label to send a used videogame to Amazon and receive credit in return which can be used by them for any purchase of items on Amazon.com.
The terms and conditions require you to be 18 plus in age, you should have shipped your products only from the United States and also have a P.O. box located in the United States.
Seattle based company’s this move is seen as likely challenge to US videogame retail store GameStop.com. GameStop.com currently has 6,100 stores in the United States and 17 in other countries. The company offers a well-paid game trade-in service.
Amazon modifies Kindle 2 ‘text-to-speech’ feature
Amazon.com is now developing features to let copyright holders opt out of having their books read aloud on the company’s new Kindle 2 book reader.
The U.S. Authors Guild had earlier alerted the members that Kindle’s new text-to-speech feature could pose a “significant challenge” to the publishing industry. It also hinted at possible legal action stating that they were studying the issue closely.
In an online statement posted on Friday by Amazon, the company asserted, “Kindle 2’s experimental text-to-speech feature is legal: no copy is made, no derivative work is created, and no performance is being given. Nevertheless, we strongly believe many rightsholders will be more comfortable with the text-to-speech feature if they are in the driver’s seat.”
Amazon also said that it has started in making the necessary technical modifications needed to allow these settings as per the user’s requirements.
“With this new level of control, publishers and authors will be able to decide for themselves whether it is in their commercial interests to leave text-to-speech enabled. We believe many will decide that it is,” said the company in the written statement.
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