Amazon's Kindle reader has the ability to do text-to-speech, meaning that it can read books outloud to you. Perfect for those who are sight-impaired or blind, right? Well, it would be, except accessing the text-to-speech function requires navigating menus that only a sighted-person can easily navigate. That is not only the finding of schools participating in an Amazon Kindle trial program, but the complaint of a lawsuit which has now been filed against at least one of the schools participating in the trial.
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Articles on AmazonAmazon's Kindle reader has the ability to do text-to-speech, meaning that it can read books outloud to you. Perfect for those who are sight-impaired or blind, right? Well, it would be, except accessing the text-to-speech function requires navigating menus that only a sighted-person can easily navigate. That is not only the finding of schools participating in an Amazon Kindle trial program, but the complaint of a lawsuit which has now been filed against at least one of the schools participating in the trial. Amazon has closed a chapter of its history that Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos has called "stupid, thoughtless, and painfully out of line with our principles." Bezos was, of course, referring to Amazon's removing, without warning, copies of Orwell's 1984 and Animal Farm from the Kindles of nearly 2000 customers. Almost a year ago, Amazon introduce its frustration free packaging. Now Amazon wants you to let them know how they're doing, with the Amazon Packaging Feedback program, through which you can let Amazon know whether your order arrived in packaging that was too big, too small, or just right. In a scene that seems straight out of, well, 1984, Amazon reached out across its WhisperNet network and removed all copies of Animal Farm and 1984 itself from every Kindle and Kindle 2 which had purchased and downloaded the books from Amazon. So high school student Justin Gawronski has sued them, claiming in his lawsuit that the loss of his copy of 1984 has cost him far more than the cost of the book, and includes the loss of all of the notes he'd taken and attached to the book on his Kindle, and the value of the effort in creating them. It was a seemingly watershed moment in iTunes history. Earlier this year, Apple finally broke down and did away with their previously iron-clad pricing structure of .99 for any song in the iTunes catalog. Instead, they introduced their "iTunes Variable Pricing", meaning that you might pay any of .66, .99, or $1.29 for a tune. But what makes this really interesting is that, in addition, now the entirety of Apple's iTunes music catalog has lost the Apple-proprietary digital rights management (DRM) and is DRM-free, which is the + in "iTunes Plus". For at least a few people - and for at least a few moments - Amazon seems to be down today, as people are finding that they are unable to connect to Amazon. Efforts to reach the site have been met by moments of hanging while browsers were "connecting to Amazon," followed by error messages. It seems like only yesterday we were reporting that, due to California's legislature (among others) being poised to pass a tax on affiliate programs (which some were also calling an "advertising tax") such as those run by Amazon and Overstock, these and other companies were resorting to dumping the affiliates in those states and that, in fact, Overstock had just dumped all of their California affiliates for that very reason. In fact, it was yesterday. And in response, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger vetoed the tax increase which the California legislators had passed, including the problematic affiliate tax provision. With ever more states either passing or contemplating passing an Internet affiliate program sales tax, the two edges of that particular sword are being felt from coast-to-coast, as associates are being slashed from the lucrative affiliate programs of some of the largest Internet companies. Following in New York's footsteps, North Carolina is set to enact a similar Amazon Affiliate Tax, by which we mean that sales generated by someone in North Carolina via an affiliate program will be taxed (New York enacted an affiliate sales tax last year, over which New York was promptly sued). Amazon has rolled out a new service that lets you read your books online as soon as you purchase them. Not only does Amazon's new service let you read newly purchased books online, but you can also highlight, tag, and bookmark pages - and you can even print pages, and copy and paste text from the pages of your new book! All before you ever receive the actual hardcopy of the book - in fact, you can start reading it online instantly, as soon as you purchase it, using the Amazon Online Reader (which is really just an interface for your web browser). The Espresso Book Machine ("EBM") is a new variation of "print on demand" - an Internet-connected book vending machine which, by tapping into a vast online book catalog, can print - on the spot - your choice of a mind-boggling selection of two million titles, including currently in-copyright titles as well as those in the public domain, and out of print books! The Expresso Book Vending Machine is available from On Demand Books (ODB), and below we include a list of current Espresso Book Machine locations, so that you can see it in action. Last week dozens of thousands of books quietly disappeared from Amazon's listings and ranking system. What they all had in common was that they had either gay or 'adult' themes. A New York court has upheld New York's affiliate sales tax law, dubbed "The Amazon Tax", which requires that sales tax be collected for all sales originating in New York pursuant to a commission agreement (such as an affiliate program), regardless of the fact that the merchant is not actually in New York - such as Amazon. Amazon Remembers is a new iPhone application that lets you send a picture of anything to Amazon, and if it is at all available for sale within Amazon's huge network of products, they will send you a link to purchase it within 24 hours. Why bother combing through countless Black Friday adds and braving the madding throngs at the stores when you can take advantage of numerous Black Friday sales from the comfort of your computer? These Black Friday deals - the day after Thanksgiving sales - are available at all of your favourite Internet stores. Our Black Friday list includes several top online retailers. Here is Black Friday info for Black Friday at Wal mart, Black Friday at Amazon, and Best Buy Black Friday sales, to name just a few of the Black Friday specials available at the day after Thanksgiving sale at your favourite Internet stores. While we often tout Amazon on these pages, today we'd like to direct your attention to a fabulous - but little known - Internet-based service provided by another bookstore: Barnes & Noble. Amazon wants to brighten your holiday season by introducing "Frustration Free Packaging" to help reduce wrap rage - that frustration that consumers feel when trying to get at toys, electronics, and other products that are more secured in their plastic and wire confines than the gold at Ft. Knox. Frustration free packages will feature frustration free packing that is more consumer friendly, with more plain cardboard and fewer twist ties and plastic packages on which to cut yourself. Guess what! The Internet Patrol is now available on the Amazon Kindle ebook reader! How cool is that?! Of course, you probably know that there are Kindle books (a Kindle book is a book which has been made available on the Kindle reader in ebook format), but did you know that there were Kindle blogs and other publications? Ok, this is totally cool! Right now you can get a FREE trial of Amazon prime! And it isn't just some chintzy "try it with one order" or "try it for a week"! This offer gives you a full month of free Amazon prime membership! This means that you can have a free membership to Amazon prime shipping items for free to your heart's content for a full month, even if you have no intention of becoming a paid member of Amazon prime! Did you know that you can get free Kindle books for your Amazon Kindle reader? This is in addition to the Kindle books, newspapers and magazines that you can download to your Kindle from Amazon. (If you don't already have an Amazon Kindle reader you can order an Amazon Kindle reader here). Amazon has just launched a new Amazon payments checkout program called Checkout by Amazon. A direct competitor to Paypal and Google Checkout, Checkout by Amazon is Amazon's latest attempt to position itself as oh-so-much-more than just a place for you to buy books, and just about everything else. But Checkout by Amazon offers something else that nobody else has - the famous Amazon 1-Click payment button! Word has leaked out about Amazon Video on Demand - which allows you to stream videos from Amazon rather than having to download videos from Amazon - and which will replace Amazon Unbox. In fact the streaming is the main difference - Amazon Unbox allowed you to download television shows and movies from Amazon. With Amazon Video on Demand - because it's streaming - you can start watching the television show or movie instantly, because you don't have to wait for anything to download. If you are striving for green living, Amazon Green is ready to help you go green! Amazon Green  is the new green living section on Amazon devoted to ways to go green - where they have collected more than 1000 green products, recommended and voted on by customers just like you. Whether it's green computing, green paper products, green gifts, or green baby diapers, Amazon Green has got it for you.
Ever wonder what percentage of the Post Office's revenue comes from Amazon or eBay shipping? We wondered, and here is what we found out. What we discovered was fascinating, and makes one wonder just why postage rates continue to go up, up, up. Amazon recently announced the latest in a series of offerings for mobile customers - the Amazon TextBuyIt service - giving you the ability to find an item, compare its price, and if you choose, to purchase it; all from whatever location you happen to be when the urge strikes. The Amazon TextBuyIt service (get it? Amazon Text Buy It) works with almost all mobile devices, and you can shop Amazon using either text messaging or the browser on your mobile phone. As promised, the state of New York has been sued over its new "affiliate tax", by which it is looking to boost state revenues by collecting as much as 50 million dollars in sales tax from companies that have affiliates in New York who are earning affiliate income in New York. That means that if your company has a super affiliate guru in New York - someone who can really make money with your affiliate program - you are going to get hit with a super affilliate tax on all the sales that they generate for you. If you want to put a Kindle into the hands of a child - and want to figure out how to disable the Kindle network - to turn off the WhisperNet so that a child can't turn it on, you've come to the right place. The Amazon Kindle book reader has until now been in very short supply, with a constant refrain of "has my Kindle shipped?" from thousands of purchasers. But now if you've been hankering after a Kindle Amazon has great news for you. The Kindle reader is in short supply no more - it's in stock, and you can expect Kindle delivery within normal delivery time, says Amazon. Now, we all know the importance of feedback. Giving feedback is what allows businesses to even better serve their customers. And we're all familiar with feedback forms on all sorts of sites, the quintessential example being the feedback form for eBay feedback. There are all types of feedback - positive feedback, negative feedback, and even constructive feedback which may be neither. But demanded feedback? Giving and receiving feedback should be a voluntary act. Demanding that I leave feedback for a transaction with you may lead to destructive feedback, or maybe I should learn how to give scholarly constructive feedback that feels positive when it isn't! I mean, why provide feedback at all if it's going to be so strained? Why do you feel entitled to - indeed - how dare you demand feedback from me? [And check out how eBay is forcing sellers to leave buyers only positive eBay feedback - no more eBay negative feedback for buyers with the new eBay seller feedback rule!] Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service) is Amazon's online storage service. Costing mere pennies per gig, many are turning to Amazon's S3 service for their image and video hosting needs. It's easy to sign up for Amazon's S3 service, and also easy to set up. In fact, the hardest thing about using S3 to host your videos and images is figuring out how to link to your video and image files hosted on Amazon S3! So, we are going to tell you how to host videos on Amazon S3 right now! And we answer the question "what URL do I use to link to my video or image on Amazon S3?" There's been a lot on the net lately about the new Amazon Kindle wireless reading device, including our own review of the Kindle reader. The Kindle ebook reader is Amazon’s entry in the wireless ebook reader market. But how to use the Kindle reader? With the Kindle Amazon has bundled an always-available-from-anywhere free Kindle network, instant download of 90,000 boooks for only $9.99 each, newspaper subscriptions, magazine subscriptions, and the ability to read more than 300 popular blogs, all from anywhere, without needing to use wifi! But what happens after you purchase a Kindle? What do you need to do to begin using it? Here's the answer. The Amazon Kindle wireless reading device is Amazon's entry in the wireless ebook reader market. Other ebook readers include the Sony ebook reader, and various software readers such as Microsoft reader. With Kindle Amazon hopes to be a contender, with its combination of the Kindle ebook reader, always-available-from-anywhere free Kindle network, and instant download of thousands of books from the Kindle Amazon ebook catalogue, along with newspapers, magazine, and blogs. Dubbed the Amazon Mechanical Turk, Amazon's new question and answer service is a question and answer machine (well, mechanism, at least) that allows you to get answers to questions - any questions! Much like the service for questions and answers Yahoo once offered, or google answers, Amazon's answer service is for general knowledge questions and answers - the kind that a computer can't just answer. That's because there are humans behind it - humans who will answer questions to just about anything. And if you'd like to apply to get paid to answer questions, then you can get paid to answer questions too! Note that while the Yahoo answer service is still available, Google answers has gone away. The National Archives and Records Administration has partnered with Amazon to make available to the public thousands of historic films, newsreels, documentaries and more from the National Archives collection, including "documentaries, newsreels, instructional films, combat footage, research and development films, and many other formats that provide an unequalled visual history of the United States." What's better than absolutely free cell phones? How about this? Amazon will pay you to get the very same fabulous cell phone that we ourselves use! Now that is truly one of the best cell phone deals ever! Occasionally we run across great deals out there on the Internet, and this is one great deal on Amazon Prime. In fact, I'd say that of all the Amazon Prime deals I've seen, it's the best deal I've ever seen on Amazon Prime. Amazon's new video download service, Amazon Unbox, opened for business this month. With some amount of fanfare, Amazon Unbox invites you to make a big deal of the Amazon Unbox experience. But they fail to tell you that their Amazon Unbox video player is hijacking your Internet connection. Believe it or not, Amazon has filed for, and been granted a patent for, basic math. Yep, that's right. Of the 1+1=2 variety. Patented by Amazon Patent Number 7,085,677. Ok, sure, it sounds a bit more complicated and sophisticated when they ... If you think that Hummers are something, wait until you see the Badonkadonk Land Cruiser Tank, available from - I kid you not - Amazon. If you've ever considered getting a Roomba, now's the time, and have I got a hot Internet deal for you! Customers will soon be able to access books on Amazon on a pay-per-page basis, as well as have digital access to the entire contents of books which they have already purchased. Random House is going to a pay per page model as well. Online discount shopping for health and beauty products with Drugstore.com is no longer possible through Amazon. Amazon announced today that they are discontinuing their relationship with the health and beauty online discount shopping site. |
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