Extra Days - Extra Deals - Extra Savings!

SEATTLE, Nov 25, 2008 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- With three days left before traditional Black Friday sales begin, Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) today announced the Amazon.com Black Friday Deals page is live now and offering customers huge savings on thousands of products, as well as the opportunity to enter for a chance to win a $10,000 Amazon.com Shopping Spree in the Black Friday Sweepstakes (1). The Black Friday page (www.amazon.com/blackfriday) is the central point where customers can find Amazon.com's Black Friday deals offered now through December 1 - or "Cyber Monday." On Black Friday itself, customers will find hourly Lightning Deals from 12:01 a.m. to 11 p.m. PST along with fantastic offers available all day long.

Below is a sneak peek of some of the Black Friday deals in progress now and coming soon to the Amazon.com Black Friday Deals page:

Deals in Progress Today:

-- Diamond stud earrings - $59.99 (list price $199.99)

-- Leatherman Micra Multitool - $12.99 (list price $29)

-- Tommy Hilfiger men's green bezel watch - $49.99 (list price $105)

-- "19" by Adele - audio CD - $8.99 (list price $15.98)

-- Black & Decker 8-Inch auto wrench - $25.49 (list price $51.19)

-- Columbia fleece throw - $9.99 (list price $20)

Deals Coming Soon:

-- Sony VAIO laptop (4 GB RAM, 250 GB Hard Drive, Blu-ray Drive, Vista Premium) - $799.99 (list price $1,199)

-- Boston Acoustic theater speaker package - $199 (list price $499)

-- Logitech Harmony 880 Universal Remote - $79.99 (list price $150)

-- 42-inch Panasonic 720p Plasma HDTV - $699 (list price $999)

-- 42-inch Samsung 720p Plasma HDTV - $699 (list price $999)

-- TomTom ONE 125 3.5-inch portable GPS - $99.99 (list price $179.95)

-- KitchenAid heavy-duty 5-quart 10-speed stand mixer - $169.99 (list price $349.99)

-- Amazon MP3s - 50 albums on sale - $5 each (list prices vary)

To celebrate Black Friday online, Amazon Video On Demand will offer $0.99 rentals on "Indiana Jones and the Crystal Skull," "The Incredible Hulk," and "Get Smart," normally priced at $3.99. This special offer is available for three days (11/28 - 11/30) and allows customers to shop and watch online instantly on their PC or Mac, or download the video and watch it later (2).

This holiday, customers shopping offline can text "COMPARE" to AMAZON (262966) with the product name and Amazon will reply with a text message listing the Amazon price. Customers can then reply-to-buy with the text command "BUY" or follow the link in the text message to the Amazon mobile Web site to view the product detail page and shop for other products and deals directly from their mobile phone (3).

Also launching on Black Friday is the Holi-DAILY Idea page (www.amazon.com/holidaily) offering a new, fun idea every day until Christmas to help customers find everything they need to get through the holidays - from great gifts to survival strategies.

-- The Black Friday Sweepstakes closes at 11:59 p.m. PST, Nov. 30, 2008. Some restrictions apply. Visit https://sweepstakes.amazon.com/blackfriday2008 for full details.

-- Some restrictions apply. Visit www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=200238930 for full details.

-- Some restrictions apply. Visit www.amazon.com/gp/anywhere/sms for full details.

Please note that product prices and availability of products and deals are subject to change. Prices and availability were accurate at the time this release was sent; however, they may differ from those you see when you visit Amazon.com.

About Amazon.com

Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN), a Fortune 500 company based in Seattle, opened on the World Wide Web in July 1995 and today offers Earth's Biggest Selection. Amazon.com, Inc. seeks to be Earth's most customer-centric company, where customers can find and discover anything they might want to buy online, and endeavors to offer its customers the lowest possible prices. Amazon.com and other sellers offer millions of unique new, refurbished and used items in categories such as books, movies, music & games, digital downloads, electronics & computers, home & garden, toys, kids & baby, grocery, apparel, shoes & jewelry, health & beauty, sports & outdoors, and tools, auto & industrial.

Amazon Web Services provides Amazon's developer customers with access to in-the-cloud infrastructure services based on Amazon's own back-end technology platform, which developers can use to enable virtually any type of business. Examples of the services offered by Amazon Web Services are Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), Amazon SimpleDB, Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS), Amazon Flexible Payments Service (Amazon FPS), and Amazon Mechanical Turk.

Amazon and its affiliates operate websites, including www.amazon.com, www.amazon.co.uk, www.amazon.de, www.amazon.co.jp, www.amazon.fr, www.amazon.ca, and the Joyo Amazon websites at www.joyo.cn and www.amazon.cn.

As used herein, "Amazon.com," "we," "our" and similar terms include Amazon.com, Inc., and its subsidiaries, unless the context indicates otherwise.

Forward-Looking Statements

This announcement contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933 and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. Actual results may differ significantly from management's expectations. These forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties that include, among others, risks related to competition, management of growth, new products, services and technologies, potential fluctuations in operating results, international expansion, outcomes of legal proceedings and claims, fulfillment center optimization, seasonality, commercial agreements, acquisitions and strategic transactions, foreign exchange rates, system interruption, significant amount of indebtedness, inventory, government regulation and taxation, payments and fraud. More information about factors that potentially could affect Amazon.com's financial results is included in Amazon.com's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including its Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2007, and subsequent filings.

SOURCE: Amazon.com, Inc.

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