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Amazon.com diamond sales up more than 75% in third quarter

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amazon.pngAmazon.com announced that third-quarter 2007 diamond sales increased more than 75 percent year-over-year. Each quarter, an increasing number of Amazon.com’s millions of customers are shopping the Amazon.com Jewelry & Watches store.

Selection for Amazon.com’s diamond jewelry collection expanded with 2,269 new styles launching in the third quarter, including an extensive number of styles of the black diamond collection. Every piece of jewelry sold by Amazon.com is inspected by jewelry professionals to verify quality attributes and ensure an excellent product. Customers can read detailed product specifications about each of the piece’s components, including gemstones, settings and metal stamps. The store provides all of the tools and helpful information that Amazon.com customers know and love, such as Customer Reviews, Top Sellers lists, So You’d Like To guides and Listmania lists.

Originally posted on November 6, 2007 @ 3:59 pm

Amazon.com launches one-stop shopping destination for small and medium business owners

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amazon.pngAmazon.com, Inc., unveiled a new category store, the Amazon All Business Center, aimed at helping entrepreneurs find solutions to fit the needs of their small and medium businesses. The store serves as a one-stop shopping destination to help business owners start, manage and grow their business. In addition to providing customers with quick, easy access to small and medium business products in categories including software, computers, printers, books and office products, business owners will also have the opportunity to explore other services available to them such as Amazon Web Services, Fulfillment by Amazon and Amazon Corporate Accounts.

Customers will have access to additional resources and content to help start, manage and grow their businesses as the store continues to expand. The Amazon All Business Center is sponsored by Microsoft and Intuit.

Originally posted on October 22, 2007 @ 7:37 am

Amazon.com launches Amazon MP3 store with over 2 millon songs

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amazonmp3.jpgAmazon.com, Inc. today launched a public beta of “Amazon MP3,” a new digital music download store with a selection of a la carte DRM-free MP3 music downloads. Amazon MP3 has over 2 million songs from more than 180,000 artists represented by over 20,000 major and independent labels. Amazon MP3 complements Amazon.com’s existing selection of over 1 million CDs to now offer customers more selection of physical and digital music than any other retailer.

Every song and album on Amazon MP3 is available exclusively in the MP3 format without digital rights management (DRM) software. This means that Amazon MP3 customers are free to enjoy their music downloads using any hardware device, including PCs, Macs, iPods, Zunes, Zens, iPhones, RAZRs, and BlackBerrys; organize their music using any music management application such as iTunes or Windows Media Player; and burn songs to CDs.

Most songs are priced from 89 cents to 99 cents, with more than 1 million of the 2 million songs priced at 89 cents. The top 100 best-selling songs are 89 cents, unless marked otherwise. Most albums are priced from $5.99 to $9.99. The top 100 best-selling albums are $8.99 or less, unless marked otherwise. Every song on Amazon MP3 is encoded at 256 kilobits per second, which gives customers high audio quality at a manageable file size.

Originally posted on September 25, 2007 @ 1:00 pm

Amazon Widgets launched

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amazonwidgets.jpgAmazon.com launched “Amazon Widgets,” a series of small, visually dynamic and easily configurable widgets that feature products from Amazon on blogs, websites and social networking pages. In as little as one minute, users can populate a widget with their favorite Amazon products and their comments about those products, and select from a set of color and layout themes to match both their mood and website. With earth’s biggest selection of products, including the music users are listening to, movies they’re watching, clothes they’re wearing, and even the food they are eating, Amazon Widgets provide users unlimited options for voicing their tastes.

Amazon Widgets are free to use. Users have the option to make money with their Amazon Widgets by joining the Amazon Associates program and when a visitor to their site clicks through their Amazon Widget to the applicable Amazon website and makes a purchase, they may earn up to 10 percent in referral fees from Amazon.

Originally posted on September 17, 2007 @ 10:44 am