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Amazon has announced that their Trade-In Program will now be extended to music CDs. Amazon.com customers will be able to send their old CDs to Amazon in exchange for Gift Cards. The Amazon.com Trade-In Program is a service where customers can send in items to a third-party merchant in exchange for Amazon gift cards.
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Earlier we reported that Amazon was testing in-app purchases, but now they have made it official for developers that want to integrate in-app purchases into applications through the Amazon Appstore In-App Purchasing API. The service will allow Android and Kindle Fire users to set up expansion packs, virtual gaming currency, and subscriptions within individual applications. Disney and Conde Nast are already active in the In-App Purchasing API since they were invited earlier, but now the service is available for everybody. Check out the demo below:
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Amazon UK has generated £3.3 billion in the country last year, but did not pay any profits from that income. Currently they are under investigation by the tax authorities in the U.K. Regulatory filings by Amazon.com with the S.E.C. are showing the tax inquiry in the U.K. operations, which sells about one in four books sold in Britain. The filing focuses on the time that Amazon.com transferred the British business to a company in Luxembourg.
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Amazon.com is testing out a new service for allowing tablet users to make in-app purchases. This type of purchase is already popular on Google Android and Apple iOS. Amazon.com’s service would be applicable to individual items within apps and subscriptions. Skimble Inc., the developer of physical fitness apps are a part of Amazon.com’s in-app purchase pilot. The in-app purchase market is hot right now and is expected to generate $5.6 billion in 2015 revenues, which is up from $970 million in the last year.
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