Amazon.com is planning to take on Apple’s iTunes Store with a new video-on-demand service, the company has revealed.
Amazon.com CEO Jeff Bezos, speaking at the All Things D Conference, described the service as a “new version of video on demand” that will begin showing videos instantly on personal computers. Videos will be sold on an a [...]

Amazon has quietly dropped the price of its Kindle book reader, the device it recently said was selling better than it expected.
The Kindle electronic book reader had been $399; now it lists for $359.
We’ve been skeptical about the Kindle’s prospects since it was introduced. While it’s a big name book reader, it has clunky hardware [...]

Citi analyst Mark Mahaney says the Amazon Kindle could be an iPod-like hit within two years, contributing 3% (750 millsion) to Amazon’s revenue.
Here are Mahaney’s reasons:

The Kindle doesn’t suck. Mahaney likes the Kinde’s automatic downloading feature and slightly lower-price books ($9.99 vs. $18 for the physical books).
The current Kindle is a 1.0 product and future [...]

During Amazon’s Q4 2007 earnings call on January 30th, CEO Jeff Bezos had some interesting remarks about sales of the company’s Kindle portable book reader:
Kindle is, in terms of demand, outpacing our expectations, which is certainly something that we are very grateful for.
It’s also on the manufacturing side causing us to scramble. We’re working very [...]

Independent reviews are starting to come in on the Amazon Kindle, and it looks like the ebook reader is going to be this year’s Zunetanic, an over-hyped iPod-wannabee.
While mainstream fluffer reviews, like Steven Levy’s Newsweek article on the new gadget, make the Kindle out to be the iPod of ebook readers, you can’t sneak a [...]

Wonder why the Amazon Kindle is getting so much attention from top bloggers today?
A lot of people are scratching their heads on this, wondering why so many a-list blogs are jazzed about an expensive, ugly device that lets you buy expensive DRM’d content.
A device that’s kind of like a first-generation Zune for ebooks.
“Thanks Amazon for [...]

Ever wonder why a small handful of mainstream publications get early access to the latest gear from Apple and other tech companies?
If so, look no further than Steven Levy’s fluffer-style Newsweek piece on the Kindle, Amazon’s take on the eBook reader. Levy writes:
“The Kindle represents a milestone in a time of transition, when a challenged [...]

Amazon is expected to unleash its Kindle ebook reader next week.
The portable reader is expected to features a 6-inch 800 x 600 pixel display, 256MB internal storage, a mini USB port, 3.5mm headphone jack and an SD slot. The Kindle also is equipped with a Wi-Fi connection that can be used to connect to Amazon [...]

Amazon today launched a public beta of Amazon MP3, a new digital music download store that features DRM-free MP3s. The new store promises music downloads that work with any portable media player, at prices cheaper than iTunes.
While Amazon is offering millions of songs, at prices lower than Apple’s iTunes Store, it faces an uphill battle.
Five [...]

Amazon.com today announced it will launch a digital music store later this year offering millions of songs in the DRM-free MP3 format from more than 12,000 record labels, including EMI. Every song and album in the Amazon.com digital music store will be available exclusively in the MP3 format without digital rights management (DRM) software.
Amazon’s announcement [...]