Goodreads is a social network that revolves around book reviews and recommendations. Founded in 2007, Goodreads has 16 million members, 30,000 book clubs and over 23 million book reviews. And Goodreads recently announced that they are being acquired by Amazon. …[Continue]
How to Sync an Audiobook with a Kindle eBook
For many years now, I’ve been an Audible member, listening to audiobooks in my car. I’m also a dedicated Kindle reader, reading (mostly) on my Android. So I was pretty excited to test out the new Amazon feature that automatically …[Continue]
Amazon Announces Kindle Fire Subscription for Kids
I am over-the-moon excited by Amazon’s new Kindle Fire content subscription service for kids 3 to 8. FreeTime Unlimited offers a nearly unlimited supply of apps, videos and ebooks for a low monthly fee of just $2.99 for Prime members. …[Continue]
How to Share Your Amazon Prime Account
Amazon Prime is an annual membership that provides free two-day shipping on qualifying Amazon purchases for you and four “household members.” What this membership-sharing means is that you can provide Amazon Prime shipping benefits to your parents, siblings and friends. …[Continue]
Where to Find Free Kindle Apps for Your Device
Kindle books are growing in popularity every day, and with the regular promotional sales, are often an excellent bargain when compared to paper-based books. For example, I recently picked up “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close” by Jonathan Safran Foer for …[Continue]
Amazon Releases Price Check App
Amazon.com released their Price Check app for Android and iPhone last week. Using either a scanned bar code, a snapped photo, typed input or voice command, the app will display product prices from Amazon.com (including all its online merchants.) In …[Continue]
Learning to Sell on Amazon
In addition to being a great site for shopping, Amazon.com is also excellent way to sell stuff. To begin, look for the “Sell on Amazon” link near the bottom of most pages (below the “Make Money With Us” headline.) If …[Continue]
Amazon Prime Offers Free Streaming
Amazon Prime members got a nice bonus this week when Amazon announced free, unlimited video streaming for all Prime members without any additional fees. The Amazon streaming library currently consists of about 5000 movies and television episodes. In addition to …[Continue]