Tag Archives : Amazon.com

Amazon has announced on Thursday that they are acquiring Goodreads,which bills itself as “the world’s largest site for readers and book recommendations.” Goodreads.com was founded in 2007 and since then has built a reported  user base of 16 million members, who have added 525 million books and 23 million reviews. “Goodreads has helped change how we discover and discuss books and, with [...]

AmazonLocal has been launched in the UK, starting with London with the aim to eventually expand across the UK, it joins the likes of Groupon, Living Social and KGB Deals. So far the service has been US-only. Bargain hunters can also personalise the deals they are targeted with by using a deal preferences section, which allows them to rate how much they would prefer to be offered entertainment and travel, [...]

Kindle Books Amazon.com has launched a free Kindle e-book reader app for Android which will be available via the Android Market. Amazon already offers versions of Kindle for the iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch, Mac, PC and BlackBerry. It make it seem clear that the real goal for Amazon.com is selling e-books, not Kindle e-readers.  You can get any of the 620,000 books available on the Kindle in the Android [...]