Amazon MP3 Announces "Daily Deals" and "Friday Five," Offering Customers Deep Discounts on Select MP3 Albums.Amazon MP3 offers Coldplay's new album, "Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends," for $8.99, and their catalog catalog, descriptive list, on cards or in a book, of the contents of a library. Assurbanipal's library at Nineveh was cataloged on shelves of slate. The first known subject catalog was compiled by Callimachus at the Alexandrian Library in the 3d cent. B.C. hits "X&Y," "A Rush of Blood to the Head" and "Parachutes" as this week's Daily Deals for $1.99 each SEATTLE -- Amazon.com (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on : AMZN AMZN Amazon.com (NASDAQ symbol) ) announced "Daily Deals" and "Friday Five," a pair of ongoing promotions that offer customers deep discounts on select newly released and catalog albums from bestselling artists on Amazon MP3, Amazon.com's digital music download A music download refers to the transferring of a music file from an Internet-facing computer or website to a user's local computer. This term encompasses both legal downloads and downloads of copyright material without permission or payment if required. store with more than 5.4 million DRM-free MP3 tracks. "Daily Deals" is updated daily and offers a popular album at a significantly discounted price; "Friday Five" offers five great albums for $5 every Friday and through the weekend. Customers can check out these deals, along with new collections of free songs every week, at www.amazon.com/mp3deals. In celebration of Coldplay's new album, "Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends," available on Amazon MP3 for just $8.99, this week's "Daily Deals" will be their preceding albums. "X&Y" will be available today for $1.99, "A Rush of Blood to the Head" will be available on Wednesday for $1.99, "Parachutes" will be available on Thursday for $1.99 and "Brothers and Sisters" will be offered on Friday for 99 cents. Past Daily Deals have included Madonna's "Hard Candy" at $3.99, Led Zeppelin's "Mothership" at $4.99 and Weezer's "Pinkerton" at $1.99. This week's "Friday Five" albums will be the Rolling Stone's "Let It Bleed Printing at the very edge of the paper. Many laser printers, including all LaserJets up to the 11x17" 4V, cannot print to the very edge, leaving a border of approximately 1/4". In commercial printing, bleeding is generally more expensive, because wider paper is often used, which is later ," Frank Sinatra's "The Essential Frank Sinatra," Robert Plant & Alison Krauss' "Raising Sand," Linkin Park's "Minutes to Midnight" and Andrea Bocelli's "Vivere - The Best Of," for $5 each. Past "Friday Five" albums have included Jack Johnson's "Sleep Through the Static," Queen's "Greatest Hits" and Gnarls Barkley's "The Odd Couple." Customers interested in Amazon MP3's Daily Deal and Friday Five can visit the site daily or can get news of the deals through Amazon MP3 pages on Facebook, MySpace and Twitter A Web site and service that lets users send short text messages from their cellphones to a group of friends. Launched in 2006, Twitter (www.twitter.com) was designed for people to broadcast their current activities and thoughts. . "Amazon is constantly looking for Looking for In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. ways to lower our prices for customers," said Pete Baltaxe, director, Amazon MP3. "Promotions like the Daily Deal and Friday Five are a great way to introduce customers to the everyday low prices, ease of use and instant gratification GRATIFICATION. A reward given voluntarily for some service or benefit rendered, without being requested so to do, either expressly or by implication. of purchasing digital music from Amazon MP3. For a few dollars and with a couple clicks, customers can have a new album on their iPod, Zune or iPhone for their summer soundtrack." Launched in September 2007, Amazon MP3 offers a massive selection of DRM-free MP3 music downloads with more than 5.4 million songs from over 100,000 record labels. Every song and album in the Amazon.com digital music store is available exclusively in the MP3 format without digital rights management (DRM (1) (Digital Radio Mondiale) A digital audio broadcasting (DAB) system for AM radio in Europe. See HD Radio. (2) (Digital Rights M ) software, enabling customers to play their music on virtually any personal digital music capable device, including PCs, Macs([R]), iPods([R]), iPhones([R]), Zunes[TM], Zens[TM], and to burn songs to CDs for these customers' personal use. Amazon MP3's 100 bestselling songs are 89 cents, unless marked otherwise, with over 1 million songs available at 89 cents. Amazon MP3's 100 bestselling albums are $8.99 or less, unless marked otherwise. Most albums are priced from $5.99 to $9.99, with more than 80 percent of Amazon MP3's album catalog priced at $8.99 or below. Songs and albums on Amazon MP3 are generally sold by Amazon Digital Services Inc. 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 health and personal care, jewelry jewelry, personal adornments worn for ornament or utility, to show rank or wealth, or to follow superstitious custom or fashion. The most universal forms of jewelry are the necklace, bracelet, ring, pin, and earring. and watches, gourmet food, sports and outdoors, apparel and accessories, books, music, DVDs, electronics and office, toys and baby, and home and garden. 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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 Form 10-K A report required by the SEC from exchange-listed companies that provides for annual disclosure of certain financial information. Form 10-K See 10-K. for the year ended December 31, 2007, and subsequent filings. For more information: Amazon.com Media Hotline: 206-266-7180 or online at http://www.amazon.com/pr. |
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