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In an open letter to Amazon customers on its website (partial image shown on the right), Amazon's CEO Jeff Bezos announced launch of Prime Music, referring toit as the "the newest benefit of Prime membership".  The Prime Music allows Prime members to not only "listen ad-free to over a million songs", it allows them  to download those songs to their smartphones and Kindle devices to listen to them offline as well. It's different from other internet radio providers such as Pandora.  The message from Jeff Bezos also emphasized, several times, how Prime Music comes with Prime Playlist removing " one more barrier — deciding what to listen to." Amazon recognizes the issue of over-choice, how selecting what songs to listen to from a million songs could be daunting, so it has arranged them into hundreds of Prime Playlists which are (supposedly) created by music experts have created for you.    The message goes on to mention the list of popular sin...

Amazon.com Inc., the global leader in e-commerce, reported in a press release that customers have been buying “well over” one million Kindle devices a week, for three consecutive weeks  now. The tally of more than a million devices is across all the products in the Kindle family,  including Kindle Fire, Kindle Touch, Kindle Wi-Fi, and Kindle 3G with Keyboard.  In Amazon’s press release, Dave Limp, an executive for the company, called Kindle Fire “the  most successful product” Amazon has ever launched and asserted that customers are buying the  product because of its simplicity. He also claimed that Kindle Fire makes it “easy [for users] to  do the things they love” such as watching TV reruns and movies, surfing the Internet, reading,  enjoying music, and playing games.  Even though Amazon did not disclose the actual sales numbers for each device within the Kindle  family, the press release was obviously aimed at promoting Kindle Fi...