How Many Millions Did Amazon Lose on 2 Days of ‘99 Cent’ Lady Gaga Sales?

Christmas came early for Lady Gaga fans this week, as Amazon sold downloads of the singer's brand-new LP, "Born This Way," for just 99 cents on Monday and Thursday of this week.

Amazon sold some 430,000 downloads of the album - nearly all of which were the 99-cent version (a more expensive deluxe version is also available).

Here's the math: For every unit it sells at 99 cents, Amazon will lose about $7.40, according to Billboard's calculation. At $7.40 per unit and 430,000 units (10,000 shaved off total digital sales to account for some sales of the deluxe edition), the Gaga-related loss comes to $3.18 million.

Amazon launches Mac Download Store

Amazon ‘s Mac Download Store is competing directing with Apple’s Mac Store, Amazon says its store has 250 of the biggest software and game titles available for Mac. In fact, they have some titles that Apple’s store doesn’t.

For instance, one of the bigger titles on the Mac, Microsoft Office is available from Amazon, but not from Apple.It also features games from Feral Interactive, Electronic Arts and Aspyr, utilities like Roxio Toast and other titles.

Trade In All Your Old Gadgets For Cash At Amazon

Hot on the heels of T-Mobile's new trade-in program, Amazon just announced that it's expanding its trade-in business to include electronics like tablets, phones, cameras, MP3 players, and more.

All you need to do is head to Amazon's trade-in website and pick the item you'd like to trade in. You can trade in video games, textbooks, DVDs, and now electronics as well.Once you decide what you want to trade in, print the shipping label Amazon provides you (shipping is free), and stick it on a box.


Once Amazon receives your old gear, you'll see store credit deposited straight into your Amazon account. One detail of note is that you can designate the condition of the item as "Like new," "Good," and "Acceptable," which are worth different amounts of money.

Amazon prepping dual-core ‘Coyote’ and quad-core ‘Hollywood’ tablets for 2011

Amazon, who practically confirmed to be entering the tablet market in the near future, isn’t planning just one device, but is planning on releasing at least two before the end of the year. Information is light, but the “entry” level tablet, codenamed “Coyote” will be based on the NVIDIA Tegra 2 platform. The big boy? That’s codenamed “Hollywood” and will be based on the NVIDIA T30 “Kal-El” which will bring a screaming quad-core processor with a 500% performance increase over the dual-core Tegra 2. No word on screen sizes at this point.