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Amazon's Digital Day is Like Cyber Monday But For Downloads (cnet.com)

Posted by msmash on from the digital-downloads dept.

Amazon is hoping to replicate the success of its online-only sales. It has announced a "Digital Day" sale on December 30, where it will offer discounts of up to 50 percent on apps, ebooks, games, movies, and music. From a report on CNET: Now, the Seattle-based online retailer giant is hoping to do the same with Digital Day. Movies like "Bolt," "The Lego Movie" and "Storks" are up to 50 percent off. So are games like Titanfall 2 and Rocket League. There will also be deals on Amazon's music streaming service and kids book app Amazon Rapids.

20 comments

  1. These all sound like walled garden items by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

    Media that will lock me into using Anazon products.

    Pass!!

    1. Re:These all sound like walled garden items by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I only buy Amazon stuff when I don't care what the long term viability is. Meaning, after reading it once, I don't really care what happens.

      But I ask myself, what happens if Amazon goes out of business? Or if Bezos is no longer CEO?

      The new owners may decide that I have to pay a fee for storing my books in "the cloud". Or I may be charged a rental fee or some such nonsense.

      You don't know what new management may want to do.

    2. Re:These all sound like walled garden items by known_coward_69 · · Score: 1

      i can read my kindle ebooks on every device i own. i used to buy music and it was all vanilla MP3's

      what walls?

    3. Re:These all sound like walled garden items by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      How is..an opinion informative? Walled Garden? See..official digital downloads are what you do to just make it easy, or to alleviate some guilt because there are no walls. There is no game on Steam that can not be had by hopping over the fence. Who cares if the company dies..you will die for sure, along with your digital existence. Live it up.

    4. Re:These all sound like walled garden items by MrL0G1C · · Score: 1

      Movies DRM'd? Need internet connection to watch?

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    5. Re:These all sound like walled garden items by rossdee · · Score: 1

      Amazon music store sells .MP# files
      you can play them on just about any digital music player, or burn them to CD from your PC

      I read amazon eBooks on my phone, as well as the Kindle

    6. Re:These all sound like walled garden items by Dutch+Gun · · Score: 1

      Yes, an internet connection is required to stream movies over the internet.

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    7. Re:These all sound like walled garden items by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      How is..an opinion informative?

      It's simple; moderator points are given out randomly and sometimes they wind up in the hands of idiots who don't understand that "informative" doesn't mean "I agree with this opinion."

  2. Re:Thanks, Obama! by aliquis · · Score: 0

    The society of the white man:
    So hated yet so attractive.

  3. Nice advertisement by gti_guy · · Score: 3

    Did you get paid for posting this?

    1. Re:Nice advertisement by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      What do you mean? He works for Amazon (or an ad agency hired by Amazon (or a group of online posters who hire themselves out to ad agencies, one of which was hired by Amazon)).

    2. Re:Nice advertisement by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

      Funny thing is, Amazon is trying to make so many of these "shopping days" that they ALL are starting to lose their meaning. I feel like they have had 5+ special sales days in the last 6 months. Where I was once curious if there were good deals, now I just ignore them. Presumably they are trying to emulate "cyber Monday" or "singles day" but they seem to not understand those were "organic" and had some underlying reason to exist. Those days existed for a reason beyond just "buying things on a specific day because Amazon wants more sales".

      TLDR: Amazon thinks they can create more shopping holidays by buying advertising but are too stupid to realize it is diminishing the entire idea of a shopping holiday such that people participate less, not more.

    3. Re:Nice advertisement by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      > "too stupid" ...or smart enough to make folks tired of ALL the 'special' shopping days like Black Friday.

      Diminish the idea that deals can only be had one or 2 days, and all the other retailers will suffer far more than Amazon.

  4. I hear there is another sale by gearloos · · Score: 1

    I hear there is another sale at Target. Why not post a story about that? Geeze

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  5. Re: Thanks, Obama! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

    I hate Trump and Love Obama and I'm not even black or and American.

    So frigging what... does it really matter?

  6. Pffff by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    The Pirate Bay has had sales on December 30 since they began. Everything's 50% off this time. And also 90% off.

  7. So like a Steam sale but shorter and not as cheap? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    n/t

  8. "Sale" is a misnomer by hackel · · Score: 1

    All of these items are inflected with DRM which makes "sale" entirely inaccurate. You are basically licensing the content until the content provider sees fit to stop doing so, something they can do at any time, for any reason. Don't buy into this nonsense. Insist on only DRM-free ebooks, movies, music, and apps!