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SEATTLE, Sep 09, 2010 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Amazon Payments Inc., an Amazon.com company (NASDAQ:AMZN), today announced the next generation of Checkout by Amazon (CBA) that enables Amazon.com account holders to make purchases on a merchant's site using their Amazon.com account credentials without leaving the merchant's site. Consumers can now access their Amazon address book and payment methods directly on a merchant's site. This means fewer steps to checkout for tens of millions of Amazon.com account holders and reducing the potential for shopping cart abandonment for merchants. To get started with Checkout by Amazon, merchants can visit www.amazonpayments.com/cba. In the past when using alte...

Customers who sign up for the new Amazon Mom program receive three months of Amazon Prime's Unlimited FREE Two-Day Shipping on items ranging from baby bottles to video cameras and 30 percent off select diapers and wipes with Subscribe & Save SEATTLE, Sep 08, 2010 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) today announced the launch of Amazon Mom (www.amazon.com/mom)--a new, free membership program that offers exclusive promotions and discounts available only to parents and caregivers from the prenatal days through the toddler years. By signing up for Amazon Mom, members receive three months of unlimited FREE Two-Day Shipping with Amazon Prime on eligible items and the ability to ear...

New Kindles start shipping to customers today--two days ahead of previously announced release date SEATTLE, Aug 25, 2010 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- (NASDAQ: AMZN)--Amazon.com today announced that more new generation Kindles were ordered in the first four weeks of availability than in the same timeframe following any other Kindle launch, making the new Kindles the fastest-selling ever. In addition, in the four weeks since the introduction of the new Kindle and Kindle 3G, customers ordered more Kindles on Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk combined than any other product, continuing Kindle's over two-year run as the bestselling product across all the products sold on Amazon.com. The new Kindles started s...

AWS to award regional prizes and global winner chosen from start-ups with innovative businesses built in the cloud SEATTLE, Aug 18, 2010 (BUSINESS WIRE) --Amazon Web Services LLC (AWS), an Amazon.com company (NASDAQ:AMZN), today announced the call for entries to the fourth annual AWS Start-Up Challenge, a contest to recognize innovative start-ups that are built on the AWS cloud computing platform. For the first time, AWS will choose regional award winners in the Americas, Asia Pacific and Europe. Regional semi-finalists will receive $2,500US in AWS service credits. Global finalists will receive $10,000US in AWS service credits and a trip to Palo Alto, CA., USA for the final judging and awa...

"Six Fundamentals to Building a Lifelong Career" is Available Exclusively as an E-Book in the Kindle Store for Download in Under 60 Seconds SEATTLE, Aug 09, 2010 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Amazon.com (NASDAQ:AMZN) today announced that Monster.com has released the book "Six Fundamentals to Building a Lifelong Career" exclusively in the Kindle Store (www.amazon.com/kindlestore). The book, which is currently only available in digital format, will be exclusive to the Kindle Store for one year and priced at $7.99. Kindle lets you buy your books once and read them everywhere--on Kindle, Kindle DX, iPad, iPod touch, iPhone, Mac, PC, BlackBerry, and Android-based devices. Amazon's Whispersync technology...

Amazon invites customers to submit their own Kindle advertisement, with opportunity to win a $15,000 Amazon.com Gift Card as Grand Prize SEATTLE, Aug 03, 2010 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN) today announced the "Your Kindle Commercial Contest" and invited customers in the United States to compete in a contest to create the best 30-second or less Kindle advertisement for the chance to win $15,000 in Amazon.com Gift Cards. Kindle is the #1 bestselling item on Amazon.com for two years running. It's also the most-wished-for, most-gifted, and has the most 5-star reviews of any product on Amazon.com. For more information on the Your Kindle Commercial Contest, including the Officia...

Kindle's revolutionary wireless delivery and massive selection of content--now in a 21 percent smaller and 15 percent lighter design, with 50 percent better contrast, 20 percent faster page turns, up to one month of battery life, double the storage, and more--only $189, and still with free 3G wireless Amazon also introduces new Kindle family member: Kindle Wi-Fi--only $139 SEATTLE, Jul 28, 2010 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- (NASDAQ:AMZN)--Millions of people are already reading on Kindles and Kindle is the #1 bestselling item on Amazon.com for two years running. It's also the most-wished-for, most-gifted, and has the most 5-star reviews of any product on Amazon.com. Today, Amazon.com is exci...

Larsson is the first author to join the new "Kindle Million Club" SEATTLE, Jul 27, 2010 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Amazon.com, Inc., (NASDAQ: AMZN) today announced that Stieg Larsson, author of the internationally bestselling Millennium Trilogy, has become the first author to sell over 1 million Kindle books and is the first member of the new "Kindle Million Club." The "Kindle Million Club" recognizes authors whose entire body of work has sold over 1 million copies in the Kindle Store (http://www.amazon.com/kindlestore). Customers can buy the three books in Stieg Larsson's Millennium Trilogy from the Kindle Store, and read them everywhere--on their Kindle, Kindle DX, iPhone, iPod touch, BlackBerry...

SEATTLE, Jul 22, 2010 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) today announced financial results for its second quarter ended June 30, 2010. Operating cash flow was $2.56 billion for the trailing twelve months, compared with $1.88billion for the trailing twelve months ended June 30, 2009. Free cash flow increased 29% to $1.99 billion for the trailing twelve months, compared with $1.54 billion for the trailing twelve months ended June 30, 2009. Common shares outstanding plus shares underlying stock-based awards totaled 465 million on June 30, 2010, compared with 451 million a year ago. Net sales increased 41% to $6.57 billion in the second quarter, compared with $4.65 billion i...

Amazon's Kindle Store now exclusively offering 20 books from The Wylie Agency's new Odyssey Editions imprint SEATTLE, Jul 22, 2010 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) today announced that The Wylie Agency is publishing 20 books from some of literature's most influential authors through its new Odyssey Editions imprint (http://www.odysseyeditions.com) and making them available for sale exclusively in the Kindle Store (http://www.amazon.com/kindlestore). This is the first time any of the titles--which include Norman Mailer's "The Naked and the Dead," Philip Roth's "Portnoy's Complaint" and Ralph Ellison's "Invisible Man"--have been available electronically, and all of the bo...