New: Give mp3 gifts - Amazon Italy launches - Price Check for iPhone

NOW THERE'S MP3 GIFTING TOO

Amazon has just announced instant mp3 gifts, and as with kindle book gifts, the recipient can always exchange MP3 gifts for an Amazon.com gift card.  All songs and albums sold by Amazon MP3 can be given as gifts, and of course we can personalize them with special messages.  Your recipient will get an Amazon email letting them know theres's an mp3 or mp3 album waiting for them.

AMAZON ITALY LAUNCHED TODAY
Amazon announced the launch of their Amazon online store in Italy.

This is of course an Italian-language website offering customers the usual large selection of books, DVDs, video games, music and consumer electronics at Amazon's everyday lower prices.  Amazon says that Amazon.it is launching with more categories than with any other Amazon web site's initial launch, the selection including computers, software, small home appliances, watches and toys.  Included is Amazon Prime, the membership program with unlimited free guaranteed 2-3-day delivery at an annual fee of 9.99 Euros.  Prime members also get guaranteed one day Express shipping for 3.98 Euros per item if the shipping address qualifies for one day shipping .

Per the press release, the store will offer international bestsellers to hard-to-find Italian-language items.  For example, customers can find over 2 million Italian- and foreign language-books in stock, over 450,000 CDs and over 120,000 DVDs and a large selection in video games, music, consumer electronics, as well as software, small home appliances, watches and toys -- with selection growing every day.
  To celebrate the launch of www.amazon.it, Amazon is offering a special 30 percent discount on most of its books and more throughout the rest of their store.

I have great memories of a 3-week visit to Italy in 2006.


AMAZON'S NEW PRICE CHECK FOR
And now, for Apple users, Amazon is working overtime.  The latest is their Price Check for iPhone

iPhone users can use the new feature "instantly compare prices with Amazon.com and its merchants while on-the-go -- search Amazon products quickly using barcode, picture, voice, and text search.  All prices are in US Dollars. Compatible with iPhone 3Gs and iPhone 4 devices with auto-focus cameras and iOS 4 or greater.  This should be a quite a boon for Amazon, I mean, the customer :-) This will show product descriptions and customer reviews and also uses Prime if you have that.  Click on the linked landing page and that'll take you to the iTunes page for more info.

Here's Amazon's Mobile for Iphone, Ipad, and iPod Touch support page in case it's needed.


Kindle 3's   (UK: Kindle 3's),   DX Graphite

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Check often: Temporarily-free late-listed non-classics or recently published ones
  Guide to finding Free Kindle books and Sources.  Top 100 free bestsellers.
UK-Only: recently published non-classics, bestsellers, or highest-rated ones
    Also, UK customers should see the UK store's Top 100 free bestsellers.