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Amazon Introduces Text Message Shopping Feature
(InvesTrend Via Thomson Dialog NewsEdge)
April 3, 2008 (FinancialWire) Online retailer Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) has
unveiled a new service that lets shoppers compare prices and buy things
with text messages on their cell phones.
Amazon s TextBuyIt launched late Tuesday and lets people text the name
of a product, its description or its UPC or ISBN to 262966 (which
spells "Amazon" on the keypad) from anywhere their cell phones work. If
Amazon stocks matching items, the service will return two results at a
time.
Shoppers can immediately buy one of the first two the selections by
texting back the number "1" or "2," or they can ask for more by texting
the letter "M."
New TextBuyIt customers will be prompted to enter the email address
associated with their existing Amazon account plus a shipping zip code.
The service then calls them and walks through the checkout process
using an automated voice system.
Amazon completed its acquisition of Audible on March 19.
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