Kindle Fires to Ship One Day Early

Amazon.com today announced it is shipping Kindle Fire, already the bestselling item on Amazon.com, one day early. Kindle Fire offers more than 18 million movies, TV shows, songs, books, magazines, apps and games, as well as free storage of Amazon digital content in the Amazon Cloud, Whispersync for books and movies, a 14.6 ounce design that's easy to hold with one hand, a vibrant color touch screen, a powerful dual-core processor and Amazon Silk – Amazon's new revolutionary web browser that accelerates the power of the mobile device by using the computing speed and power of the Amazon Web Services cloud – all for only $199. To learn more about Kindle Fire, visit www.amazon.com/kindlefire.

“We’re thrilled to be able to ship Kindle Fire to our customers earlier than we expected. Kindle Fire quickly became the bestselling item across all of Amazon.com, and based on customer response we’re building millions more than we’d planned,” said Dave Limp, Vice President, Amazon Kindle. “Customers are excited about Kindle Fire because it is a premium product at the non-premium price of only $199.”

Kindle Fire offers customers a fully-integrated service with instant access to over 18 million movies, TV shows, magazines, newspapers, books, songs, apps and games, including:

    Over 100,000 movies and TV shows from Amazon Instant Video
    Over 17,000,000 songs from Amazon MP3
    Millions of books
    Over 400 full-color magazines and newspapers
    100 exclusive graphic novels from DC Comics, including Watchmen, the bestselling graphic novel of all time
    Several thousand apps and games, including Netflix, Pandora, Hulu Plus, Rhapsody, and games from Electronic Arts, Zynga and Rovio

A free month of Amazon Prime, which offers two-day shipping and access to nearly 13,000 movies and TV shows available to stream at no additional cost and exclusive access to over 5,000 popular books from the Kindle Owner’s Lending Library to read on any Kindle device at no additional cost and with no due dates.

Kindle Fire orders are fulfilled on a first-come first-served basis. Customers can purchase now at www.amazon.com/kindlefire.

Kindle Fire Falls Short of iPad2 in Price and Features

Amazon announced a new tablet today that will utilize Amazon.com and it's products to the fullest.

It will be called the Kindle Fire.

The Fire will have a 7-inch display and sell for $199 on Amazon.com. Compared with the $499 price for Apple’s cheapest iPad. The device, a souped-up version of the latest Kindle, will run on a version of Google Inc.’s Android software, the Seattle-based company said.

There is camera or a microphone. The device will connect to the internet through Wi-Fi, and there is no 3G access. It comes with a 30-day free trial of Amazon Prime, the company’s $79-a-year membership service that includes streaming video and free two-day shipping.

To date, Apple has controlled the tablet market with its iPad.  This $199 price along with Amazon's reputation and one-stop shopping makes this a very compelling product for the masses.