Amazon launches AutoRip for vinyl music purchases

Amazon has already offered AutoRip service for CDs for a few years, so that if you buy a physical CD from Amazon, you get a digital copy for free. Now they’ve launched the service for vinyl, so if you’re a fan of vinyl (and you should be), whenever you buy a record from Amazon, you get the same album digitally burned out for your listening pleasure.
A Story of God and All of Us: A Novel Based on the Epic TV Miniseries “The Bible” has great Amazon reviews

‘A Story of God and All of Us’ is a book based on a TV show based on the Bible. So it’s basically just a very condensed version of the Bible. This fact didn’t get past Amazon reviewers, who gave the book some great reviews.
Amazon Studios is making the Zombieland TV series a reality

There’s been talk for a little while about a Zombieland TV series, but it wasn’t anything but talk. Now it looks like Amazon, yes the website, has announced it will be producing Zombieland via Amazon Studios.
Deal of the Day: A whole crapload of $2.99 albums on Amazon

Yesterday, Amazon put up a huge list of albums that have all been marked down to just $2.99. You won’t find any Bieber or Lady Gaga in the list, but there are plenty of albums to fill up your collection, whether you need more jazz or blues or country or classical.
Target says they will price-match Amazon year round

Who says brick and mortar stores are at a competitive disadvantage against Amazon? Not if you’re Target and you’ve got the giant brass cojones to do something as crazy as saying that you’re going to price-match Amazon 365 days a year.
Inside the Amazon warehouses, this is what Christmas looks like
(Full set:http://imgur.com/a/q1WIO)
Amazon will let users disable ads on the new line of Kindle Fires after all

The reason that Amazon can afford to drop the price of the Kindle Fire to $149 and introduce the larger Kindle Fire HD for $199, far cheaper than an iPad and cheaper than almost every other Android tablet is that every model is ad subsidized. When this was announced, Amazon also said there would be no way to turn ads off. Well that didn’t sit well with pretty much everybody.
Amazon unveils new larger HD Kindles, drops the price on the original

Ever since Amazon Kindle was first debuted and set the tablet world on fire with its $199 price, it’s pushed other tablet makers, even Apple, to meet the demand for slightly smaller and lower priced devices (the iPad mini is coming out in October). Today, Amazon held a conference to introduce several new Kindle models, with larger HD screens and better hardware.
Free evening movie: Forks Over Knives

I know you guys love your Taco Thursdays, but you’ve gotta see this documentary about the Western way of eating and the clear correlation to a number of our top health issues. Backed by mountains of data, it really opened my eyes! Free on Amazon Prime Instant!
Bic introduces a line of pens just for ladies, the internet has a field day

Hey ladies… aren’t you tired of trying to write with pens made FOR MEN? Have you always wanted to write something down, only to be constantly frustrated because the pen won’t fit in your soft, dainty hands? Bic has introduced a line of pens “For Her”, so finally after all this time, women can write their thoughts down on paper. Truly a milestone.
2012 Amazon election heat map based on book purchases

For this year’s American presidential election, Amazon did something interesting, but making a heat map showing which slant of political books people across the country are reading.
Amazon introduces Glacier, a low cost data archive

Amazon already has its own paid data storage, but today they announced Amazon Glacier, a super super cheap storage and archiving service. At $0.01 per gig per month, it’s quite a bargain, but the trade-off it it’s slow. Like a glacier, it’s slow, but it’s meant for data that you want to archive and backup, not stuff that needs to be accessed often.
Amazon is now going full swing into the game development business

Like a number of other big tech companies these days, Amazon is putting its finger in a lot of pies. Their latest venture would hopefully give a boost to Amazon’s App Store as well as Amazon’s tablets, featuring interactive and video game content published directly through the company’s new Amazon Game Studios.
Welcome to the bizarro world of cheap ebook erotica on Amazon (Possibly NSFW)

You know damn well by now that the internet is, and pretty much always has been chock full of bizarre erotica. And ebooks I suppose, are part of the internet and in the world of ebooks, just like the internet, there’s a whole lot of cheap, sleazy, poorly written erotica. That you can get for 99 cents straight to your Kindle.
Deal of the Day: Amazon’s big sale on handheld consoles and games

If you’re hitting the road this summer, whether it be in a car, on a boat, a train or a plane, Amazon’s giving you good deals on handheld games right now. Handheld game consoles and games are on sale, so stock up before you leave for a trip.

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