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Two Competing Amazon Products Recently Released

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Tagged: Amazon, piracy
Filed under: Publishing News

File this one under: I Should Have Seen It Coming.

• Amazon released an iPhone application that uses pictures you to take of an object to scan and upload it to Amazon.  Once on the Amazon servers, underpaid workers will try to find products that match said object that is on sale at Amazon.com.

• Amazon Pirates released a firefox extension that adds a "download free" button to every digital item sold at Amazon.  

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Jane is a long time romance reader whose passion is, you guessed it, reading. She's currently loving contemporary authors like Sarah Mayberry and Kristan Higgins but her first love will always be the historical. Some of her old time favorites are Amanda Quick and Johanna Lindsey and some of the new favorites are Sherry Thomas, Joanna Bourne and Claudia Dain. Email this author | All posts by Jane

2 comments to “Two Competing Amazon Products Recently Released”

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   by Emmy December 4th, 2008 at 1:10 pm Ok, the Pirates of the Amazon thing is frickin hilarious. However, what keeled me ded were some of the comments. fuckin stupid especially with the amazing price cuts amazon gives its customers, don’t get me wrong i’m a huge bittorrent fan not to mention i pirate just about everything i possibly can, but stupid shit like this is what causes amazon to jack the prices right back up to retail… this is the one time i can honestly say, fuck you There’s so much irony in that statement, I can build a new house with it. Reply

2. 2	by theo December 4th, 2008 at 3:30 pm Emmy, I agree. I read that and ended up with Faygo Rock-n-Rye in my nose!! LOL!!! How dumb can someone be? Reply