SEATTLE, Jan 21, 2010 (BUSINESS WIRE) — (NASDAQ: AMZN)–For the past two years, Amazon has welcomed authors and publishers to directly upload and sell content in the Kindle Store through the self-service Kindle publishing platform. Today, Amazon announced that it is inviting software developers to build and upload active content that will be available in the Kindle Store later this year. The new Kindle Development Kit gives developers access to programming interfaces, tools and documentation to build active content for Kindle–the #1 bestselling, most wished for, and most gifted …

Until today, DTP was only available to authors and publishers based in the United States.

Beginning today, Amazon.com customers and the public can visit Amazon’s homepage to find a box where they can easily make a contribution to Mercy Corps.

New Kindle DX with Global Wireless enables customers to wirelessly download and read in over 100 countries -Available for pre-order now for $489 and ships Jan. 19

On Christmas Day, for the first time ever, customers purchased more Kindle Books than physical books

With just two clicks Google Blogger users can now add revenue-generating Amazon product links to their blogs

Now customers can take advantage of low-cost, low-latency streaming media distribution with no contract negotiations or up-front investments

This is the final week for customers to enter the sweepstakes and they can do so by visiting Amazon.com and creating, adding an item to, or sharing an Amazon.com Wish List.

Secure Online Screeners’ convenient and economical process replaces the traditional method of mailing a hard-copy DVD screener to film festivals.

Kindle now lasts up to seven days on a single charge with wireless on, up from four days, and sisplays native PDFs in their original form