Free year of Amazon Prime for students

I was told about this promo Amazon is running. It’s too good not to share.

If you’ve got a .edu email address from your college or university, Amazon is giving away a free year of Amazon Prime to students who sign up. It’ll get you free two-day shipping on anything.

A short note on iBooks

I’m disappointed with the iBookstore and the “tens of thousands” of books that Apple is currently offering. I realize that Amazon started as a books company before becoming the veritable (non-evil) Walmart of the Internet. I expected Amazon’s Kindle bookstore to have mostly everything I’m looking for. And they do. (For those interested, I’m reading mostly business and sports books right now)

IBooks is a different story. When I search for the books I want to read it almost always comes up empty-handed. I’m sure it’s partially my fault. At the same time I feel like unless I want to read Malcolm Gladwell, iBooks doesn’t want me.