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Amazon.com Android Developers Can Now Sell In-App Purchases That Are Over $20
Amazon.com has loosened the restrictions on developers by allowing them to charge higher prices for in-app purchases. The reason why Amazon made the change is because they have strengthened parental controls.
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Questions About Who Is The “Little Guy” In The E-Book Market
The New York Time’s David Carr just wrote a lengthy article about how Apple is the “little guy” when it comes to e-books. Amazon.com is the Goliath that is getting help from the U.S. Justice Department by filing a lawsuit against Apple and the book publishers. Amazon.com had a 90% market share on e-books not too long ago.
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Theresa Ragan Sells 250,000 Books Through The Kindle
There is a huge debate right now about e-books. Apple and the five publishers are being accused of colluding over e-book prices. The U.S. Justice Department is suing Apple and two other publishers for that reason and it turns out that Amazon.com may benefit from it. Amazon.com felt like Apple and the publishers were trying to eliminate competition among e-book sellers. Amazon is known for charging lower prices for some of the top-selling e-books.
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By Coincidence, The Law Firm Suing Apple Has The Same Address As Amazon In Seattle
Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro, the Seattle based law firm that was the first to file a lawsuit against Apple for alleged e-book price-fixing back in August 2011, has the same address in Seattle as Amazon.com. Since mid-2010, Hagens Berman has been based at 1918 Eighth Avenue, which is a 36-story skyscraper in downtown Seattle. In March 2011, Amazon.com started leasing an office there as well.
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Amazon Announces CloudSearch
Amazon.com has announced a new service called Amazon CloudSearch, a web service that brings Amazon.com’s search technology to developers. Amazon CloudSearch has a fully-featured search engine that can be managed and scaled with full-text search and user-defined rank functions. Amazon CloudSearch scales as your data and traffic grows, making it a great choice for applications that are small and large.
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Why The Justice Department May Lose Against Apple In Court
Apple will most likely win the e-book lawsuit that the U.S. Justice Department filed against them according to several legal experts interviewed by CNET. Apple is a small player when it comes to the e-book market because Amazon.com owns about 90% of it.
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Amazon Extends Trade-In Program To Include CDs
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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Amazon Announces Appstore In-App Purchasing API
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.com UK Generated £7 Billion In Sales, But Did Not Pay Corporation Tax
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 Testing In-App Purchases
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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