Amazon and Samsung Tag Team

Amazon and Samsung have teamed up to offer a great service for Samsung device owners: a free Kindle ebook each month. Samsung Book Deals lets Samsung phone or tablet owners choose from a selection of four ebooks each month, for the Kindle for Samsung app. The move is a win/win for both companies: Samsung is distancing itself from Google Play apps with its own Kindle for Samsung app, and Amazon is increasing its range by providing its content through Samsung devices and its full roster of tablets. 

Other interesting services: Whispersync, which allows the reader to quickly synchronize the last page read across multiple devices, and Time to Read, which estimates how quickly the user can finish a chapter or book. Time to Read is really intriguing to me; this is technology that could be applied to educational publishing to help students.