Tag Archive: Amazon
Shopping List — January 8, 2019
Jan. 8, ‘19: Recent Amazon purchases: Zoe extra virgin olive oil, Flow lemon and ginger alkaline water, Ursa Major face wipes (great for travel!) and “You and I Eat the Same” from René Redzepi’s MAD.
“For thousands of qualifying books, your past, present, and future print-edition purchases will soon allow you to buy the Kindle edition for $2.99, $1.99, $0.99, or free.”
Sep. 3, ‘13: — Amazon’s Kindle MatchBook program — coming in October — sounds like the “AutoRip for Books” I’d hoped for. Let’s hope the book publishers don’t screw up a good thing.
Amazon’s $35 External DVD Drive Will Make You Feel Young Again
Feb. 13, ‘13: The optical drive in my iMac is getting moody, and there have been a few times when I wished I’d had an external disc drive around to use with my MacBook Air. So I added the $35 AmazonBasics DVD drive … Continue reading →
How About An Amazon AutoRip For Books?
Jan. 10, ‘13: Amazon is showing off a new feature today called AutoRip, which gives you a free MP3 copy of some CDs you buy (or have bought since 1998). This is nice enough, but what I really want is a books version … Continue reading →
Now Imagine If Amazon Had Bought Palm And WebOS
Sep. 14, ‘12: Tuesday night, while everyone was gearing up for Wednesday’s iPhone 5 event, the reviews for Amazon’s new Kindle Fire HD tablets went online. The consensus seems to be: Amazon’s hardware is solid, its media ecosystem is vast, its prices are … Continue reading →
The difference between Apple and Amazon in one chart
Sep. 10, ‘12: One of the most dramatic-yet-simple charts I’ve ever made or seen. Long-term questions: Will Amazon ever become more profitable? How and when? Will Amazon’s pricing strategy force Apple to lower its prices on some models, and potentially its profit margins? … Continue reading →
What does the new Kindle Fire say about Amazon’s future smartphone?
Sep. 7, ‘12: The most intriguing idea I had, in addition to stuff like ad-supported subsidies, etc.: Could Amazon try to act as a middleman between its users and carriers, offering much cheaper 4G service? That’s what it’s doing with the Kindle Fire’s … Continue reading →
Amazon’s Amazing Kindle Growth Chart, 2012 Edition
Sep. 7, ‘12: Last September at Amazon’s Kindle launch event in New York, Jeff Bezos showed this amazing chart of Kindle e-book sales just edging past Amazon’s physical book sales. What a difference a year makes. Here’s a screenshot from today’s Amazon Kindle … Continue reading →
Amazon’s New Kindles
Sep. 6, ‘12: The one I’m most interested in is actually the Kindle Paperwhite. I’ve never actually bought a Kindle before — I’ve tested a bunch, but never felt I needed to own one — but I think the new light-up display could … Continue reading →
Amazon ‘made an offer’ for Roku earlier this year
Sep. 6, ‘12: So says Peter Kafka, who supposes that Amazon might show off an Apple TV/Roku-like living-room box of its own at Thursday’s press event in Santa Monica. That makes some sense to me, too, even if it’s a less-ambitious start, such … Continue reading →