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Amazon Unlimited Photo Storage Service only $11.99 per Year – Free with Prime

In the race for online services to become all things to all people, Amazon is offering an adjunct to its cloud storage: unlimited storage of pictures for only $11.99 per year, and if you have Amazon Prime, it’s completely free.

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Hire a Goat on Amazon!

Amazon has just rolled out their “Hire a Goat Grazer” service, through their Amazon Home Services (which used to be called Amazon Local), through which you can hire a herd of goats, along with a goatherd, to graze and forage your yard or land. No, it’s not an April Fools’ joke.

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Amazon’s New Dash Button – Push to Buy Button is not an April Fool’s Joke

Someone at Amazon marketing is brilliant – launch a new product so novel, on March 31st – that you’ll get extra media attention with the “Is it an April Fool’s joke?” coverage. But the Amazon Dash button is no April Fool’s joke. And ultimately it’s all about the Internet of Things.

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How to Preschedule a Gift Delivery with Amazon

Say you’re on Amazon, and you happen across a perfect gift for someone, and you want to order it for their birthday, anniversary, or other gift-giving occasion – but the occasion is months in the future. How do you schedule an Amazon order for delivery in the future? Here’s how.

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Amazon Echo Explained – and How to Sign Up for Amazon Echo

Amazon just launched its new Echo service, and Echo speaker device (you need both in order to have the Amazon Echo experience). Amazon Echo is best described as “Siri for your home”. In a case of life imitating art, Echo is essentially a virtual assistant (named Alexa), much like Scarlett Johansson’s character in the movie “Her”, always waiting to hear the “wake word” (more on that in a moment).

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Send Donation Items to Your Favorite Humane Society with a Click!

Want to make a difference in the lives of familyless cats, dogs, or other animals this holiday season (or any other time)? Over 600 animal shelters have a humane society donation list on Amazon! Just select an item or items from your favourite humane society donation gift wishlist. Making humane society donations has never been easier or more fun (if you find this sort of thing fun, which we do!)

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How to Cancel the Kindle Unlimited Service on Amazon

So let’s say that you tried the new Kindle Unlimited service, and now you want to cancel it. Just how do you unsubscribe and cancel Kindle Unlimited on Amazon? If you search Amazon, they provide this spectacularly unhelpful guidance: “You may cancel your subscription at any time by visiting your account and adjusting your settings.”

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Amazon Introduces Kindle Unlimited All-You-Can Read Service

If you are a voracious reader, then Amazon’s new Kindle Unlimited service may be for you. For just $9.99 a month, you can belly up to the Kindle Unlimited ‘all you can read’ buffet. But, just like an all you can eat buffet doesn’t have every food in the restaurant, Kindle Unlimited does not feature all of the Kindle books that are available.

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Amazon 3D Smartphone to Be Announced June 18

A new device is coming to Amazon on June 18th, and while Amazon is playing coy about it to build buzz, most in the know say that it will be the long-awaited Amazon Smartphone. Indeed, Amazon’s own buzz builder teases the edge of a device that looks decidedly smartphonish. And it won’t be just any smartphone, but an Amazon 3D smartphone.

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Amazon’s Hachette Job on Book Publishers

Amazon is putting the squeeze on publishers like Hachette Publishing, who won’t bend to their will, and customers are caught in the middle. If you want to buy books by Nichola Sparks, Malcolm Gladwell, James Patterson, J.K. Rowling, and any other author published by Hachette’s various labels, including Little, Brown and Company, Hyperion, and Grand Central Publishing, you may want to consider going to your neighborhood bookstore, and not Amazon.

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Amazon Lawsuit Settlement Credit Refund Shows Up in Ebook Purchasers’ Accounts

Two years ago, almost to the day, the government filed an antitrust price-fixing lawsuit against Apple, Hatchette, Harper Collins, Simon & Schuster, Macmillan, and Penguin, for price-fixing higher rates on ebooks in an effort to put the squeeze on Amazon and their Kindle.

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Amazon Kindle Kiosk Coming to Airports and Malls

Now here’s an idea that makes perfect sense: a vending machine that sells Amazon Kindles – called the “Kindle Kiosk”. The Kindle Kiosk is slated to be installed in select airports and malls around the country, but have only just now been spotted in the wild at an airport, and we are building a list of airports that have the Kindle Kiosk.

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Amazon Prime Air: the Amazon Drone Delivery Service

It’s a bird – it’s a plane – it’s Amazon Prime Air, the new Amazon drone delivery service that Amazon is touting as being a reality. Supposedly the PrimeAir Amazon drones will deliver an order with 30 minutes of it being placed. We checked the calendar – nope, it’s not April 1st. So we looked into the Amazon Prime Air drone delivery service.

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Amazon Partners with Post Office for Sunday Package Delivery

The United States Post Office (USPS) is partnering with Amazon to have packages delivered to Amazon customers on Sundays. And this is not just for Amazon Prime customers, despite earlier reports. Now you can have your Amazon packages delivered on Sunday by the post office, right to your door!

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Amazon Mayday Button and Privacy Concerns Debut with Newest Kindle

Amazon just announced its newest Kindle Fire, the Kindle Fire HDX tablet, which is 7-inches of awesome. However, it’s not different enough from the previous generation of Kindle Fire to warrant covering it – except for this one new feature: the Mayday Button. “What is the Kindle Mayday Button?”, you may ask? It is a controversial new feature that allows you to connect directly to an “Amazon expert” for tech support, 24/7/365.