{"id":41237,"date":"2013-05-13T21:34:22","date_gmt":"2013-05-13T19:34:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/?p=41237"},"modified":"2025-07-02T01:26:49","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T08:26:49","slug":"amazon-coins-the-new-virtual-currency-for-the-kindle-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/amazon-coins-the-new-virtual-currency-for-the-kindle-fire\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon Coins, the new virtual currency for the Kindle Fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"amazon coins\" href=\"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/amazon-coins-the-new-virtual-currency-for-the-kindle-fire\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-41239\" title=\"Amazon MP3 icon\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/sft\/articles\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2013\/05\/Amazon-Black_512x512-300x300.png\" alt=\"Amazon MP3 icon\" width=\"125\" height=\"125\" srcset=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2013\/05\/Amazon-Black_512x512-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2013\/05\/Amazon-Black_512x512.png 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 125px) 100vw, 125px\" \/><\/a>Today, <a title=\"amazon\" href=\"http:\/\/en.softonic.com\/author\/amazon\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Amazon<\/a> announced a new virtual currency it&#8217;s launching on its <a title=\"kindle fire\" href=\"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/how-to-side-load-apps-on-the-kindle-fire\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kindle Fire<\/a> line of devices. The new virtual currency will give Kindle Fire users an alternative method for purchasing content like movies, music, and apps.<\/p>\n<p>Unlike the confusing Microsoft Points system, Amazon Coins will correlate with pennies. 100 Amazon Coins are equivalent to $1. Those who buy Amazon Coins in bulk will discounts of up to 10%.<\/p>\n<p>While Amazon Coins are only available on the Kindle Fire for now, the virtually currency could land itself on <a title=\"android\" href=\"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/t\/android\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Android<\/a> and <a title=\"ios\" href=\"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/t\/ios\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">iOS<\/a> in the future. Mike George, Amazon&#8217;s Vice President of Apps, said, &#8220;\ufeffWe will continue to add more ways to earn and spend Coins on a wider range of content and activities\u2014today is Day One for Coins.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-41240\" title=\"amazon coins\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/sft\/articles\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2013\/05\/amazon-coins.jpg\" alt=\"amazon coins\" width=\"599\" height=\"269\" srcset=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2013\/05\/amazon-coins.jpg 848w, https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2013\/05\/amazon-coins-300x134.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 599px) 100vw, 599px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Amazon developers will continue to earn their standard 70% revenue split with Amazon, even with Coins. Amazon states, &#8220;No Coins-specific changes are required for developers with apps and games currently in the Amazon Appstore.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>To celebrate the launch of Amazon Coins, the company is giving every Kindle Fire owner 500 Amazon Coins ($5) to purchase content with.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a title=\"amazon PR\" href=\"http:\/\/phx.corporate-ir.net\/phoenix.zhtml?c=176060&amp;p=RssLanding&amp;cat=news&amp;id=1818564\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Amazon Press Release<\/a> | <a title=\"amazon coins\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/feature.html\/ref=zeroes_surl_c_landing?docId=1001166401\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Amazon Coins<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, Amazon announced a new virtual currency it&#8217;s launching on its Kindle Fire line of devices. The new virtual currency will give Kindle Fire users an alternative method for purchasing content like movies, music, and apps. Unlike the confusing Microsoft Points system, Amazon Coins will correlate with pennies. 100 Amazon Coins are equivalent to $1. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/amazon-coins-the-new-virtual-currency-for-the-kindle-fire\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Amazon Coins, the new virtual currency for the Kindle Fire&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2033,"featured_media":41240,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[],"tags":[],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-41237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2033"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41237"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":332932,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41237\/revisions\/332932"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41237"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=41237"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=41237"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=41237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}