That’s my prediction. What’s yours? Every single week there are more unsubstantiated Amazon tablet rumors, so why not add some good old-fashioned speculation to the mix?

If Amazon is indeed going to release an Android tablet in the next month or so, I believe that it will most certainly undercut the price of the Nook Color, which currently sits at a competitive $249 new and $199 refurbished. Amazon always likes pricing their Kindles just below B&N’s prices on the Nook, and I think Amazon’s first tablet will be somewhat akin to a beefed-up Nook Color.

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The marketing department at Amazon is really good. Every single day I find myself checking Amazon’s website to see what the free Android App of the day is.

Today the free app is ezPDF Reader, the first ereading-based app Amazon has given away. It normally costs $0.99 and has 4.1 stars over 17 reviews.

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Today Amazon officially pulled the veil off of their new Appstore for Android. Check it out; it’s pretty sweet. And if you hurry you can get a free download of Angry Birds Rio.

In fact, Amazon says they are going to offer one paid app for free each day.

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A couple of Amazon exclusives came to light yesterday. First, Amazon announced that they’ve added seven of Albert Einstein’s books to the Kindle Store, which happened to be on his 132nd birthday.

Secondly, Amazon’s Appstore for Android is getting set to launch most likely this week or next. Amazon nabbed a new version of Angry Birds called Rio to launch exclusively in their Appstore, though it will likely move to the Android Market eventually.

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Amazon, a company that was founded on selling books, is now selling more Kindle Books than paperback books, according to Amazon’s fourth quarter sales announcement, which indicated Amazon’s sales increased 36% to $12.95 billion in Q4.

Throughout all of last year Amazon sold 115 Kindle ebooks for every 100 paperbacks sold, and three times as many Kindle books as hardcovers—considering paperback sales continued to grow and free Kindle ebooks were omitted that’s even more impressive.

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So you’ve gotten a new ereader for Christmas and now need to start adding some ebooks to its virtual shelves. Here’s a list to get you started on some free ebooks and ebook deals from Amazon, Borders, B&N, and Kobo.

Note that Kindle ebooks work on Kindle devices and software only. The same goes for B&N’s ebooks in regards to the Nook and Nook software. However, Nook devices are compatible with ebooks from Borders and Kobo since they use Adobe DRM. And ebooks from Borders and Kobo work with any device/software that supports Adobe EPUB and PDF.

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Amazon has just released two new Kindle ads in time for the holiday season. Instead of pointing out flaws in the iPad or doing some meandering music video like past Kindle ad campaigns, these two commercials are more straight-forward and family-oriented.

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It looks like Amazon is going to be adding a couple of new features to the Kindle and Kindle apps over the coming weeks.

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Amazon announced today a new section will soon be added to the Kindle Store for “Kindle Singles”.

No, it’s not a dating website for single Kindle owners looking for romance. Kindle Singles are ebooks ranging in length from 10,000 to 30,000 words, or about 30 to 90 pages.

Works of these lengths are generally considered novellas and novelettes, and are generally harder to get published because they are too long for magazines and too short to be a novel, so they usually end up in some sort of collection or compilation. Most short stories are under 10,000 words and a novel is typically 50,000 words at the very minimum. So this should open up more possibilities for writers getting novellas published.

From the press release:

Today, Amazon is announcing that it will launch “Kindle Singles”–Kindle books that are twice the length of a New Yorker feature or as much as a few chapters of a typical book. Kindle Singles will have their own section in the Kindle Store and be priced much less than a typical book. Today’s announcement is a call to serious writers, thinkers, scientists, business leaders, historians, politicians and publishers to join Amazon in making such works available to readers around the world.

To be considered for Kindle Singles, interested parties should contact digital-publications@amazon.com.

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So I just ordered a new Kindle WiFi earlier this morning and I noticed that while Amazon doesn’t mention it on the Kindle product page, you can actually get $30 off the Kindle WiFi and new Kindle 3G by signing up for and using an Amazon credit card to make the purchase if you don’t already have an Amazon card, making the WiFi model just $109 and the 3G equipped model $159.

After you sign up for and get approved for the Amazon rewards card (it took me less than 5 minutes from start to finish), Amazon will deduct $30 off your first purchase (this offer applies to other products as well). So the order will show the regular price for the unit once confirmed, then the discount will appear as a credit on your credit card statement.

The good thing about the credit card is that you don’t have to continue using it, just order the Kindle with it and you don’t have to use it ever again and there’s no annual fee. Just be sure to pay the card off in full because the interest rate is its biggest fault in my opinion. The best rate you can currently get is over 13%, much higher if you have bad credit.

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