Amazon Also Announces New Kindle Content Available for Wireless
Download, Including Popular Books Such as Barbara Walter's "Audition"
and Scott McClellan's "What Happened," Periodicals Such as US News &
World Report, Shanghai Daily and the International Herald Tribune, and
Blogs Such as TV Guide Hotlist and PopMatters
SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 10, 2008--Wondering what Dad wants
for Father's Day this year? Chances are he has a Kindle in mind.
Amazon announced that as of today, Kindle is the top-selling product
among Amazon's vast selection of consumer electronics products and the
"Most Wished For" electronics item by Amazon customers
(http://www.amazon.com/gp/gift-central/gift-guides/most-wished-for/
172282/ce). (Due to its length, this URL may need to be copied/pasted
into your Internet browser's address field. Remove the extra space if
one exists.) Kindle is Amazon's portable reader that wirelessly
downloads books, blogs, magazines and newspapers to a crisp,
high-resolution electronic paper display that looks and reads like
real paper. Order a Kindle today at a new lower price of $359 and it
will ship with free two-day shipping, just in time for Father's Day.
For more information on Kindle or to order a Kindle, visit
http://amazon.com/kindle.
"It's no secret that a lot of us wait until the last minute to buy
a gift for Dad. With more than 125,000 books to choose from, in
addition to magazines, newspapers and blogs, Kindle is the perfect
gift for any dad who wants to have his books and newspapers with him
anywhere he goes," said Ian Freed, Vice President, Amazon Kindle.
Amazon has increased the number of book titles available on Kindle
from 90,000 to 125,000 since Kindle was introduced last November, with
more books being added every day. Popular new books include Barbara
Walter's "Audition," Scott McClellan's "What Happened" and John
Sanford's "Phantom Prey." Like all other Kindle books, they are
available for wireless download in less than 60 seconds. New York
Times Best Sellers and New Releases are $9.99 or less on Kindle,
unless marked otherwise.
Dozens of newspapers, magazines and blogs have also been added,
including US News & World Report, Shanghai Daily, The International
Herald Tribune, TV Guide Hotlist and PopMatters. Newspaper
subscriptions are auto-delivered wirelessly to Kindle overnight so the
latest edition is waiting for customers when they wake up. Blogs are
updated and downloaded wirelessly throughout the day so Kindle
customers can read blogs whenever and wherever they want.
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.
Amazon Kindle is sold through Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
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.
CONTACT:
Amazon.com
Media Hotline, 206-266-7180
SOURCE: Amazon.com, Inc.
